Location: 953 Mission Street, san Francisco What it is: Learn to dance with fire while engaging in a developmentally focused community. The classes are just as much about a non-judgemental learning philosophy, getting in touch with your body, self-expression, and relaxation (being in flow) as they are about dance.
Location: 2323 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA What it is: Gosh…InterPlay is one of those experiences that defies description. But I’ll try anyway, if you promise to do your best to imagine what I’m talking about! By definition, InterPlay is a community-based, improvisational arts practice. Gather a bunch of regular-ish people in a dance studio and invite them to play together…being as silly or serious, goofy or silent, as they care to be. Mix together some clearly led structures for storytelling, movement, and singing, and you get…InterPlay!
What it is: The 4 Hour Workweek is a book about designing your lifestyle to inform your job as opposed to your job informing your lifestyle. It outlines strategies for delegating, streamling and outsourcing tasks (yes to India or China) to free up time and stress so that you can do the things you really want to do. Central to the premise of this book is that free time to do what you want (be it to start a nonprofit, or learn to dance the Tango) should be the goal, not accumulation of material wealth.
What it is: At GrowthPop we think it’s important to try new things and have fun doing it. We found this video of a new therapy technique that we thought was fun…don’t try this at home, it’s for professionals only.
What it is: ‘The Game’ chronicles 2 years of the life of Rolling Stone columnist, Neil Strauss, as he infiltrates a society of Pick Up Artists and transforms his skills with women. Strauss goes from a self-described “chick repellant”‘ to, well, the self-described “best pickup artist in the world.” Through his tales, readers learn the outlook and techniques of so-called PUA’s as they seduce their way into controversy and infamy.
What it is: The Secret is based on a concept called, “the law of attraction” and teaches its principles through interviews with various authors and experts in the fields of psychology, metaphysics, finance, and personal development. The Secret’s basic tenet is that by changing the way you think and focusing on what you really want, you can have anything. Thoughts become things.