Play Intention

Play Intention Welcome to Play Intention! A program for adults to inspire mindful fun, wonder and well-being. Sign up for our weekly classes and pop-up events.

We create immersive and embodied activities that add a spark of playfulness to everyday life.

08/29/2026

New class alert! 💛✨

When the World Feels Heavy is a five-class series exploring grief, joy, renewal, and what it means to stay connected in times of rapidly changing conditions.

Through conversation, creative expression, simple rituals, grounding practices, and embodiment, we’ll make space for what we’re carrying while staying connected to joy as a resilience practice.

Together, we’ll ask:
✨What does your grief teach you about love?
✨How does naming your grief change it?
✨What is within your sphere of influence, and what is not?
✨How can we wrap our arms around the joy and grief that populates our lives?

This class is for anyone feeling the weight of the world, wanting to foster tenderness, or curious about creativity, community and joy as liberatory resilience practices.

Mondays, Sept. 21–Oct. 19 | 6–7:30 PM

5 classes • 10 participants • Enrollment is now open!
Link in bio for more info.

Facilitated by Hadley Mueller

When the world feels heavy, we don’t have to hold it alone. 🕸️

Hey Burlington, let's make life more playful.✨Dance on the waterfront. Make art to boost your mood. Learn to DJ. Play wi...
08/27/2026

Hey Burlington, let's make life more playful.✨

Dance on the waterfront. Make art to boost your mood. Learn to DJ. Play with words, cultivate calm or find a little lightness when the world feels heavy.

Our fall calendar is full of ways to reconnect with your creativity, your community and yourself. Come as you are, leave feeling lighter, more alive, and inspired.

Swipe through, save this post, share with a friend and tell us: Which experience is calling your name?

Details and registration through the links in our bio.

What if making a poem felt more like a treasure hunt than a writing assignment?đź““ Join us for Playing with Words: Poetry ...
08/27/2026

What if making a poem felt more like a treasure hunt than a writing assignment?

đź““ Join us for Playing with Words: Poetry Hidden in Plain Sight
đź“… Tuesday, Sept 8th
đź•• 5:30 - 7:30 pm
đź“Ť Play Intention
Register now: https://www.hisawyer.com/davis-studio/schedules/activity-set/1953690?day=2026-09-08&view=cal&source=all-activities

This workshop invites you to mess with the page a little. Take someone else’s words, cover most of them up, and see what strange, funny, beautiful thing was hiding there all along.

No staring at a blank page. No worrying whether you’re “a writer.” Just following what catches your attention and letting curiosity do the rest.
You might surprise yourself with what you find.

Come play with words and discover a completely different way into poetry.
Led by Ally Berthiaume, award-winning author, memoir coach, developmental editor, and founder of The Write Place, Right Time.

Before play became something you had to make time for, it was how you met the world.It taught you to explore, imagine, c...
08/26/2026

Before play became something you had to make time for, it was how you met the world.

It taught you to explore, imagine, connect, and belong. Growing up doesn't erase that fluency, but it does get buried beneath schedules, responsibilities, and pressures. When we stop playing, we start forgetting how to play.

But (good news) it comes back quickly: in a shared laugh, an imperfect brushstroke, a silly dance move, or a moment when you stop performing and let yourself come alive.

Play is your most natural way back to your creativity, your connection with others and yourself.

Drop into the chat: What kind of play makes you feel most like you?

What if your morning didn’t have to be productive?Pause & Play is a morning retreat built around something adults rarely...
08/25/2026

What if your morning didn’t have to be productive?

Pause & Play is a morning retreat built around something adults rarely give themselves enough of: space to settle and enjoy making something without worrying about the outcome.

We’ll begin with the quiet, flowing practice of neurographic art, then turn up the music for Paint Happy & Free, where movement and expressive painting take over and perfection gets left at the door.

🪷 Join us for Pause & Play: a morning retreat
đź“… Saturday, August 29
đź•• 9:00 - 11:30 am
đź“Ť Play Intention

Come exactly as you are. No art experience needed.
Just a morning to get curious and remember how good it feels to play. đź’™
REGISTER TODAY TO SAVE YOUR SPOT: https://www.hisawyer.com/davis-studio/schedules/activity-set/1993411

Burlington, it’s time to put something ridiculous on your head. 🎩🌺Hat Bop is back for its 3rd annual Hatwalk at Art Hop,...
08/24/2026

Burlington, it’s time to put something ridiculous on your head. 🎩🌺

Hat Bop is back for its 3rd annual Hatwalk at Art Hop, and once again, we’re kicking off the SEABA Strut with a fashion show devoted entirely to hats.

Make it huge. Make it weird. Make something you never imagined wearing in public, then wear it down the runway anyway.

Hat Bop is less about fashion rules and more about what happens when people give themselves permission to go all in on an idea.

👒Want to walk? Sign up to create your own hat or headpiece and join us on the Hatwalk. We’ll also be hosting hat-making workshops before the event for anyone who wants a little inspiration, company, or access to an irresponsible amount of hot glue.

Saturday, September 12
South End Art Hop, Burlington
Participants arrive at 4:45 pm
Hatwalk begins at 5:30 pm
All the info: https://www.hisawyer.com/davis-studio/schedules/activity-set/1985883?day=2026-09-12&view=cal&source=all-activities

08/21/2026

Grief and love are teachers. Let’s listen to them.  
This fall, we’ll be gathering for 5 weeks to explore the ways they can help us reorient to change. 
 
Together we’ll: 
01 explore sorrow, awe, belonging, and the practices that help us stay connected to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. 
02 engage with multiple ways of knowing, creative expression, ritual building, and system regulation while we explore the dual citizenship of grief and joy, the Five Gates of Grief, making and unmaking, building and breaking. 
03 gather to deepen our ecologies of love, grief and creativity, build community, solidarity, and trust, all to devastatingly disrupt the systemic violence of separateness and apathy. 
04 find, build, collect and forage for joy, make space for uncertainty, and sit with the things that are sometimes hard to name. 
 
Join us for When The World Feels Heavy, led by Hadley Mueller

5 Weeks • Mondays at 6pm • Sept 21-Oct 19
Burlington, VT

Registration opens soon đź’›
 
If you are navigating grief and are curious about creativity and community as resilience practices, this course was made with you in mind. 
 
Participation is limited to 10 people with tenderness and connection in mind. DM us if you’d like to be the first to access registration.

✨ Hope to see you? 
 

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916 Shelburne Road
South Burlington, VT
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