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Camp 2019!

8/20/2019

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Thank you creative campers for 3 wonderful weeks exploring the depths of our imagination with daring movement, pantyhose, hoops, weird words, wacky characters and anything else we could play with.
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Camp 2018!

7/25/2018

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Another beautiful mess - August camp 2017

9/11/2017

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What a beautiful mess! - July camp 2017

7/28/2017

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We made and played and had a great escapade. These young bunch of humans let loose and created with abandon. Thank you for inspiring me. Now, I will steal all of your ideas.
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Warts and All

3/12/2017

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Opening to Joy, a workshop coming May 20th is a beginning journey to your clown. It's about nothing to find something that is ready to be free in you. 

For me, discovering my playful soul, has been the most life-affirming experience, allowing as Robert Bly says in his book, A Little Book on the Human Shadow, my "360 degree radiance" and its brilliant, cowardly, stupid, gentle, murderous, selfish, graceful and clumsy self to be a
ccounted for. And when we give these shadowy parts of us permission to be present, then we open ourselves up to states of endless ideas and creativity. Our imagination comes back to us and brings with it new ways of experiencing our world. 

"...If work is playful it becomes pleasurable, and when you're enjoying yourself you get bolder and take more risks. Choices proliferate. Problems become more manageable because our perspectives change once the work becomes a pleasure." John Wright from Why Is That So Funny? 

So, come try something, nothing and everything!



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Camp happened here!

7/7/2016

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Thank you for a wonderful week of full body creativity and fun!
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Creativity happens here!

5/23/2016

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Why we love those furry gurus

4/25/2016

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I think it's because dogs are always ready to play. And you just can't play if you are thinking about something else other than what is happening right in front of you. Dogs do it naturally and we yearn to do it naturally, again. Unless you are a meditation master, real play requires your full body attention to the full present moment​. So come play like dogs at OOFA MIAOW, May 7th and 21st at the Paperboat and Bird Studio in lovely Stockton, NJ - home of eagles nesting, a big river flowing and amazing donuts being devoured at the Stockton Market!

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Mud is to spring, as playing is to...

4/8/2016

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breathing, eating, sleeping. Yup, I do believe playing is up there with those "staying alive" necessities. Because for me playing - getting into mud, laughing maniacally while eating mud or painting mud pictures on a car window is our body's reminder of our innate lighthearted being-ness. We all played in some shape or form when we were little and when we did we bounced or flowed from one problem to the next. As Karla McLaren states in her incredible book, The Language of our Emotions, "Being allowed to laugh, clown, fool around, and play allows children to flow into and out of struggles and to continually  replenish and resource themselves by moving fluidly between work and play." Shouldn't that statement be the same for adults and don't we all want that fluidity in our being? As the saying goes, "Life, when lived fully, dances lightly from test to test." So, all this is my way of jumping up and down on my bed while chewing gum and drinking pee-colored soda and yelling, "Come to Oofa Miaow," come and relearn the gift of play. OOFA MIAOW! MAY 7 AND 21.

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Meet Sarah...

3/15/2016

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And join her in Oofa-Miaow!
​May 7th and May 21st

For as long as she remembers, Sarah French has been interested in how people play. She created OOFA-MIAOW to extend this research, and share and promote discoveries with larger communities. Her approach to teaching is inspired by her adventures as a social worker, psychotherapist, English language teacher, elementary school teacher, TV actor, clown and clown teacher, museum docent, recorder player, and more. Since 2013, she has facilitated clowning playshops with Vivian Gladwell (nosetonose.info). Sarah has an MSW from NYU. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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