Embodied exploration through impulse and play
Inner Playground is an embodied working modality centered around impulse, play, and choice. It invites participants to listen to their bodies, follow what feels alive, and explore connection without predetermined outcomes.
The work is experiential and largely non-verbal. Rather than explaining or analyzing experience, Inner Playground creates conditions where learning happens through doing, sensing, and responding. Play is not performance, and movement is not choreography. What matters is honesty, presence, and choice.
Consent, autonomy, and self-responsibility are central. Participants are encouraged to stay connected to their own boundaries, to sense what is a yes, what is a no, and what is a maybe, and to let those signals guide their actions.
How Inner Playground works
Inner Playground works with impulse as a source of information. By slowing down and tuning into sensation, emotion, and movement, participants learn to notice what wants to happen before the mind steps in to decide.
This can include:
- moving, pausing, or resting
- approaching or creating distance
- initiating or declining contact
- playing alone or with others
There is no goal to achieve and no outcome to perform. The emphasis is on exploration, curiosity, and learning through experience. What emerges is shaped by the group, the moment, and the choices each person makes.
Inner Playground can take on different forms, depending on focus, group composition, and intention. Below are ways this modality shows up. Not all forms are offered at all times.
Forms within Inner Playground
Inner Playground: Impulse Play Fundamentals
This form zooms in on the foundational skills of non-verbal and embodied relating.
The focus lies on listening to individual impulse and building trust in one’s own signals. Participants explore play with themselves and in pairs, learning to sense desire, hesitation, and boundaries without external pressure.
Themes include self-responsibility, curiosity, and allowing play to emerge without performance. For some, this form is an entry point into the work. Others arrive here after experiencing other formats.
Inner Playground: Group Play Fundamentals
This form focuses on playing with others, in constellations of three or more.
Participants explore how impulse moves in more complex relational contexts. Attention is given to initiation, response, timing, and withdrawal, as well as to navigating proximity, distance, and shifting group dynamics.
This form supports learning how to stay connected to oneself while being in relation in more complex contexts, where multiple impulses, needs, and signals coexist.
Inner Playground: Guided Open Space
The Guided Open Space combines a guided landing with time for free exploration.
The session starts with orientation and grounding, after which the space opens into different areas. These may include playing fields, cuddle corners for rest and connection, and a creativity station for drawing, writing, or making. Like always, the ‘on-my-own-zone’ is there.
Within this structure, participants follow their impulses and learn through interaction, reflection, and integration. Guidance is minimal once the space is open. This form suits people who feel comfortable taking responsibility for their own process while being part of a shared field.
Inner Playground: Unguided Freeflow
Unguided Freeflow takes the freedom of the walk-in phase of Inner Playground events and makes it central.
This form offers a low-structure practice space where people familiar with the work can meet, explore, and connect without a predefined arc. It is a place to show up in community, never knowing in advance what will unfold or who will be present. Facilitation is minimal. Shared responsibility, attunement, and self-regulation are key.
Embodied Solstice Celebrations
At seasonal turning points such as midwinter and midsummer, Inner Playground can take the form of a ritualised gathering.
A guided open space weaves into a shared fire ritual. What shows up during the open space serves as a mirror and source material to intentionally transition. Together, we create a moment to reflect, let go, invite in, and share collectively.
Inner Playground: Impulse Play for Relational Transformation
This form works with relational dynamics through the body.
It can be offered for couples or in constellation-like settings, where impulse, movement, and spatial positioning reveal patterns around closeness, distance, responsibility, and repair. Conversation may follow embodiment, but does not lead it.
Inner Playground: Embodied Power Play
This form explores power as a non-verbal, embodied experience.
Participants investigate placing and being placed, leading and following, orienting towards space and towards others, and playing with focus, attention, and direction. Words are intentionally limited. The emphasis lies on sensing, responding, and negotiating power through the body rather than through explanation or agreement.
This form invites curiosity around agency and surrender, while staying rooted in choice, awareness, and consent.
Inner Playground: Kinky Open Space
In this form, Inner Playground opens to sensuality and kink.
Impulse play is explored with expanded permission, including the use of a single rope. Sensuality is invited but never required. Strong attention is given to consent, pacing, and autonomy.
Because this form lives within the Inner Playground modality, embodiment and choice remain central.
A note on participation
Inner Playground invites a wide range of experiences. You are always free to participate actively, to observe, to rest, or to spend time in the on-your-own zone.
Following your own pace and capacity is considered part of the work. Each form has its own focus and level of complexity, and event descriptions will clarify what is offered and what familiarity with the work is expected.
Inner Playground is offered in different forms throughout the year. You can find upcoming dates and current editions via Upcoming Events. If a particular format sparks your interest, or if you would like to invite this work into your community, you are welcome to reach out by sending me a message through Hipsy. If you are drawn more toward inner listening, voice, and integration, you may also want to explore Inner Echoes, a related modality centered around presence, resonance, and shared listening.
