Improv for the Healing Heart
with Elise Voigt

Discover how the art of intuitional creativity through cathartic improv aligns us with our power and greater selves. Come into a safe container and let go of your planning, thinking, rational mind and enter into the world of play, imagination and relationship with others.

This single day workshop is intended to open channels of listening and flow through improvisational techniques combining theatrical and movement based practices to nurture the art of play within ourselves and explore the subtle layers of emotions that exist within the human heart, craving to be witnessed, experienced and transformed.

Improv is a fantastic tool for self exploration, tapping into divine flow, and building trust and openness through community. Sign up with a friend!

About the facilitators:

Andrew Elijah Edwards is an artist who navigates the realms of dreams, magic, and emerging digital creativity. A true believer in the twinkling power of intuition, experimentation, improvisation, and play, his work fuses embodied performance and virtual worlds, exploring humanity's evolving relationship with simulation and the virtual imaginal, a testament to our love affair with the fabricated and the fantastical. With a background in theater, performance art, filmmaking and new media, Andrew holds an MFA in Emergent Digital Practices from the University of Denver and teaches New Media at Southern Maine Community College, leading people of all ages through storytelling, animation, digital alchemy, performance, and channeling the imaginal.

Elise K. Voigt is a classically trained actress and has performed throughout the state. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in theater and studied abroad at the conservatory program of the British American Drama Academy in London. From Shakespeare to modern theater to producing new works, it’s the spirit of improv that is at the core of her love of performing.

Also a mother and an educator, she homeschooled her three daughters and has been leading theater workshops with students for the past 15 years. In 2021, she co-created with Andrew Elijah Edwards “Imaginarium”, a container that lead children in devising their own story for performance through improvisational exercises and handcrafted backgrounds, sets, props and costumes. She continues to do freelance children’s theater workshops in the Midcoast area.

Her love of performance art and teaching is reflective of her love of personal growth and self understanding and she is passionate about making theater arts accessible to all. She believes deeply in community rooted healing and the idea that unity grows out of individuality and embracing one’s wild authenticity.