Event

InterPlay Life Practice Program Seattle 2025-26

Take the Lead in your own Life
Sharie Bowman, Janice Eng, and Kawika Harold Costa
Seattle, Washington
Change Your Life! Change Your World!
Opening Weekend - October 24-25
Monthly Saturdays Nov 15-May 16
Are you ready to live with more joy, ease, and connection? The InterPlay Life Practice Program is an experience that introduces transformative tools, helping you cultivate greater freedom in movement, voice, storytelling, and stillness.

Through this program, you will:
• Learn playful and practical ways to reduce stress and cultivate resilience.
• Deepen your self-awareness and trust the wisdom of your body.
• Build meaningful connections in a supportive community.
• Develop tools for creativity, artistry, and personal growth.

This is ideal for anyone seeking personal renewal, professional enrichment, or a deeper sense of connection—whether you're an artist, healer, leader, or simply someone longing for more ease and expression in life.

Join us on this life-changing journey and discover how InterPlay can bring more play, presence, and possibility into your everyday experience!

The Elements of the Life Practice Program

Opening Weekend - October 24-25 (Friday and Saturday 10 am-6 PT)
This weekend will give us the opportunity to build our connection with one another, give you an introduction to the program and plant the seeds of intention for our journey.

Monthly Playtime - 7 Saturdays (10 am-5 pm PT)
Nov 15, Dec 6, Jan 17, Feb 28, Mar 21, Apr 18, May 16
These monthly gatherings are the heart of the program - where we connect, tune in and explore together. We will play with the various InterPlay forms and tools and engage in personalized focus sessions. This is where we get to intentionally weave the wisdom of our body into our lives.

Other elements of the monthly gatherings include:

• Engaging in reading and creative approaches to apply InterPlay insights to your own life.
• Receiving a Life Practice Booklet, including a Self-Study Booklet containing several elements of the InterPlay system that allows for a deeper understanding of how InterPlay works.
• Access to digital texts: Having it All-Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together at Last and The Wisdom of the Body for more information on the InterPlay system and philosophy.
• A Body-Spirit Celebration during the final Saturday to play with the InterPlay forms and share them in a celebratory and honoring way.
• Three focus sessions with personal support to access your body wisdom, learning new tools and skills to apply in whatever situation you desire.

For more information, visit: InterPlay Life Practice Program.

Racial Equity and Transformation
Diversity is a great gift in the InterPlay experience. Based on our commitment to Racial Equity and Transformation (read our statement here) and our understanding of other structural and systemic inequalities that exist, Body Wisdom is committed to making our programs financially accessible.

Life Practice Program Attendance
Community building is an integral part of the InterPlay system. To receive the most from the Life Practice Program, we recommend that you attend all of the sessions. This immersion program into the forms and tools of InterPlay is most effective when the group can stay together over time. If you are considering becoming a Certified InterPlay Leader, participation and attendance for the full 55 hour program Life Practice Program is the first step. If you have questions about this please visit: InterPlay Leader Training Program.

Continuing Education Credit
Up to 55 CE credits for various healthcare and allied healthcare professions are available for this program for those practicing throughout the US and for educators only practicing in Illinois. CE pre-registration is required before the start of your event. Email Jane Siarny directly at interplaychicago@sbcglobal.net (not the office) to APPLY for CEUs. There is a charge of $40 per program. CEUs are offered through Continuing Education Institute of Illinois

Repeating the Program
Anyone who has previously completed the Life Practice Program is eligible for the repeater rate of $1,100.

Financial Assistance
Financial support and flexible payment plans are available. For more information, please email office@interplay.org (or call 510-465-2797), or feel free to speak to one of the leaders of this program.

Please complete this form, I’m Interested before registering for this program.

Cost: Cost: $2,250 / $1,100 for repeaters
To Register: Registration/Financial Assistance questions: office@interplay.org
General Questions: Sharie at interplaynorthwest@gmail.com
Venue
St. Paul United Church of Christ
6512 12th Ave NW
Seattle, Washington
stpucc.org
Leaders
Sharie Bowman
253-740-8209
shariebowman.com

Sharie Bowman, MA, LMHC is a Mental Health Counselor and also InterPlay's Regional Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest.  In 2006, Sharie completed her training as an InterPlay leader and also received her degree in mental health counseling, so InterPlay and counseling have been woven together in her bodyspirit from the start.  She finds InterPlay to be foundational in building and maintaining her personal resilience, as well supporting her work with clients.  In her private practice she regularly weaves InterPlay’s life-enhancing forms and philosophies with counseling wisdom to help individuals and families thrive.

Prior to 2006, Sharie worked as a high school math teacher and found InterPlay to be the best Teacher Training she ever received.  The improvisational skills that she developed immediately brought more play, creativity, and expression to her teaching as well as to classroom management.

Now Sharie finds great joy in bringing her organizational and instructional skills to the InterPlay classroom, and she often leads the foundational InterPlay Life Practice Program and mentors new leaders. She relishes sharing the joy of InterPlay far and wide, and supporting each participant in integrating InterPlay into their own lives!

Janice Eng
2067061895
janiceeng.com
As a massage therapist for over 30 years, Janice became aware of the stories, emotions, unexpressed truths, and trauma that people can store in their bodies. When she was introduced to Interplay, she found it to be a unique, fun and empowering way for people to unravel and access these stories the body's wisdom. We are bodies in motion, bodies in relationship, and bodies in community. We have a spatial and kinesthetic intelligence that informs our inner knowing. Interplay is a creative, un-intrusive, and affirming way to process and explore what is true for oneself and for what is possible. Janice has taught Nonviolent Communication in the community for over 20 years, 10 of which she also taught in Washington State prisons, through an organization she helped found, the Freedom Project. She facilitates restorative circles in organizations through A Center for Restorative Solutions. Janice has a passion for racial equity and transformation and served as part of the Interplay Racial Equity Team for two years and the Conflict Resolution team for one year. For the last two years Janice has been working with substance use disorders and uses Interplay practices in all of her workshops.
Kawika Harold Costa
206-200-0185
playbacktheaternw.org
Rev. Kawika (Ka-Vee-ka) Harold Costa first joined InterPlay in 2018 and loved it. As of Feb. 2024 he became a certified InterPlay Leader. He is also a licentiate minister with the Center for Spiritual Living and the President and Co-Artistic Director of Playback Theater Northwest since 1994. He rebuilt the entire troupe in 1996. He was born and raised in Hawaii and is a graduate of the University of Washington in Business Administration. He has been involved with theater since 1975 and his acting credits include many stage plays, movies and TV extra roles for Paramount, Warner Brothers, FOX and NBC. Kawika now lives in the Sandpoint area of Seattle and is known for his warm heart and Polynesian smile. Kawika is grateful to have two incredible children, two stepchildren and four grandchildren. He loves to build community and has a deep inclusive spiritual background. Kawika has already lead InterPlay in his travels to Hawaii and Egypt (Kemet). He plans to continue to combine both InterPlay and Playback in performances and private contract shows. He is also on the InterPlay Sounding Circle in Seattle and the Winkles in Time performance group. He also hopes to work with senior centers and wherever else Spirit leads him. In May, Kawika will be leading a Sunday InterPlay group online called “Awakening The Master Within” on the first Sunday of the month at 10:30 am PST. The first session will be on Sunday, May 5th. Contact him for Zoom link details at: RevKawika@gmail.com