Playfulness with Ailon

Who says your spiritual practice needs to be serious?

Who says your spiritual practice needs to be serious? What if playfulness could become a pathway towards self-discovery and wholeness? Well, don’t take our word for it – come and explore these drop in sessions where grown up adults can reconnect with their often buried sense of childlike play.

We will draw from the worlds of clowning, improv, mime and dance as well as spontaneous silliness and generalised irreverence. Together, this unlikely cocktail will leave you feeling joyous, open-hearted and flooded with endorphins.

What’s it all about?
It’s an exploration of the idea that playfulness, silliness, irreverence and exuberance are fundamental for our wellbeing and mental health.

So if you are curious about a practice that will help you feel at home in your body, energised emotionally, clear in your mind and zinging with aliveness, then we invite you to come and try these drop-in classes !

It will be a safe space with no pressure ‘to perform.’ Rather the aim is an encouraging supportive nest from which you can launch yourself into your innately exuberant and playful aspect and discover qualities such as spontaneity, silliness, misbehaviour, imagination and totality.

‘I lost three things from your self-discovery workshop. A stiff body, a numb heart and a disease called seriousness.’
‘Literally like being drunk without any alcohol.’’It’s such a cliche, but tonight you proved that Laughter really IS the best medicine. Thank you.’
Playfulness with Ailon

Ailon Freedman

For the last 30 years, Ailon’s professional life has been devoted to the synthesis of spiritual practice with creative self expression. In 2001, he set up The Lotus Exchange -London’s first corporate yoga service, and since then he has worked as a yoga teacher, bodyworker and corporate facilitator as well as an artist, comedian, clown and drumming teacher.

Many of these elements  were brought together in his trainings Speak from the Heart, Free your Inner Artist and Clown Healing as well as the corporate wellbeing and team building programmes that he delivered for The Lotus Exchange.

Ailon is now developing the Mandala Centre curriculum ‘Mandala of You’ at Colet House.