Play Intention

Play Intention Welcome to Play Intention! A program for adults to inspire mindful fun, wonder and well-being. Sign up for our weekly classes and pop-up events.

We create immersive and embodied activities that add a spark of playfulness to everyday life.

What if your morning didn’t have to be productive?Pause & Play is a morning retreat built around something adults rarely...
08/25/2026

What if your morning didn’t have to be productive?

Pause & Play is a morning retreat built around something adults rarely give themselves enough of: space to settle and enjoy making something without worrying about the outcome.

We’ll begin with the quiet, flowing practice of neurographic art, then turn up the music for Paint Happy & Free, where movement and expressive painting take over and perfection gets left at the door.

🪷 Join us for Pause & Play: a morning retreat
📅 Saturday, August 29
🕕 9:00 - 11:30 am
📍 Play Intention

Come exactly as you are. No art experience needed.
Just a morning to get curious and remember how good it feels to play. 💙
REGISTER TODAY TO SAVE YOUR SPOT: https://www.hisawyer.com/davis-studio/schedules/activity-set/1993411

Burlington, it’s time to put something ridiculous on your head. 🎩🌺Hat Bop is back for its 3rd annual Hatwalk at Art Hop,...
08/24/2026

Burlington, it’s time to put something ridiculous on your head. 🎩🌺

Hat Bop is back for its 3rd annual Hatwalk at Art Hop, and once again, we’re kicking off the SEABA Strut with a fashion show devoted entirely to hats.

Make it huge. Make it weird. Make something you never imagined wearing in public, then wear it down the runway anyway.

Hat Bop is less about fashion rules and more about what happens when people give themselves permission to go all in on an idea.

👒Want to walk? Sign up to create your own hat or headpiece and join us on the Hatwalk. We’ll also be hosting hat-making workshops before the event for anyone who wants a little inspiration, company, or access to an irresponsible amount of hot glue.

Saturday, September 12
South End Art Hop, Burlington
Participants arrive at 4:45 pm
Hatwalk begins at 5:30 pm
All the info: https://www.hisawyer.com/davis-studio/schedules/activity-set/1985883?day=2026-09-12&view=cal&source=all-activities

08/21/2026

Grief and love are teachers. Let’s listen to them.  
This fall, we’ll be gathering for 5 weeks to explore the ways they can help us reorient to change. 
 
Together we’ll: 
01 explore sorrow, awe, belonging, and the practices that help us stay connected to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. 
02 engage with multiple ways of knowing, creative expression, ritual building, and system regulation while we explore the dual citizenship of grief and joy, the Five Gates of Grief, making and unmaking, building and breaking. 
03 gather to deepen our ecologies of love, grief and creativity, build community, solidarity, and trust, all to devastatingly disrupt the systemic violence of separateness and apathy. 
04 find, build, collect and forage for joy, make space for uncertainty, and sit with the things that are sometimes hard to name. 
 
Join us for When The World Feels Heavy, led by Hadley Mueller

5 Weeks • Mondays at 6pm • Sept 21-Oct 19
Burlington, VT

Registration opens soon 💛
 
If you are navigating grief and are curious about creativity and community as resilience practices, this course was made with you in mind. 
 
Participation is limited to 10 people with tenderness and connection in mind. DM us if you’d like to be the first to access registration.

✨ Hope to see you? 
 

Burlington, something new is about to drop. 🎧💗This fall, Play Intention and DJ Love are launching DJ School for Women—...
08/13/2026

Burlington, something new is about to drop. 🎧💗

This fall, Play Intention and DJ Love are launching DJ School for Women—a first-of-its-kind, five-week, in-person experience created for women who love music, feel curious about the decks and are ready to turn up a whole new side of themselves. ✨

This is a joyful, beginner-friendly circle of just 10 women where you’ll learn to curate playlists, mix tracks, create transitions, build your own DJ set and discover your unique DJ identity—guided by Vermont's very own Catherine Hamilton, aka DJ Love.💟

If you love music, value being in a community of supportive, inspiring women, and are looking to bring more aliveness into your life, this is for you! You don't have to want to become a professional DJ, this is about giving yourself permission to play, explore and find a collective vibe that lifts us up.

Enrollment opens Monday, August 17 at 12 PM ET.

Five weeks • Burlington, Vermont • $425
Only 10 spots available.

Save this post, set your alarm and send it to the woman you want beside you at the decks. 💿

There’s a DJ in there. Let’s turn her up.

Have you ever left a gathering and felt transformed?That buzzy, bubbly feeling is innate, it's an instinct, it's an inv...
08/06/2026

Have you ever left a gathering and felt transformed?

That buzzy, bubbly feeling is innate, it's an instinct, it's an invitation, it's a reminder: We need each other to thrive.

Our bodies know the value of community, and our spirits do too. Shared joy is a kind of collective health, a reminder that we are meant to gather, move, play, celebrate, and feel the electricity of being alive together.

This moment is begging us to come together, to feel each other's humanity, to greet our own.

I can't wait to move with you soon 💜
--Hadley, Dir. of Outreach & Community Engagement

Awe may be one of the most powerful forms of play.At Play Intention, we're expanding and exploring what it means to play...
08/03/2026

Awe may be one of the most powerful forms of play.

At Play Intention, we're expanding and exploring what it means to play as an adult. It can look like wandering through a rain-soaked forest with music in your ears, your senses fully awake, discovering the beauty that was there all along.

Our first Silent Disco Into the Forest reminded us that awe has a remarkable way of shifting us. It invites us into the present moment. It softens our nervous systems. It awakens curiosity. It expands our perspective and deepens our connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the beauty of the earth around us.

It rained... but the rain became part of the experience. Part of the wonder, the invitation to notice, to breathe a little deeper and to remember that we belong to something much larger than ourselves.

These are the experiences that stay with us. That help us reset. In this rapidly changing, often chaotic world, we need this now more than ever. These are the moments that help us return to ourselves.

🌿 Join us for our final Silent Disco Into the Forest
📅 Tuesday, August 4
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 Rock Point, Burlington

Come wander, listen, move, and experience the forest in a whole new way.

🎧 Reserve your headphones through the link in our bio.

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916 Shelburne Road
South Burlington, VT
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