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Spirited Improv Transformational Playspace of the Heart. Improv as Spiritual Practice. Community Playshops to Be the Change. But you've been scared of failing.

It's time to do the purposeful work that satisfies your Soul. Likely you’ve been noticing all kinds of inklings, impulses, and visions urging you to step into a new direction with your work and life. It’s possible that you’ve been suppressing these deeper callings for months or even years. It’s likely that you have wondered if feeling more soul satisfaction and authentic joy will involve pioneering your own path--starting your own business or re-inventing your career. Worried about making a bold new choice and getting it wrong. What if-ing yourself out the whazoo about what others might think of you. Ending up cast as someone Bad instead of Good. And questioning your own abilities, whether you're even good enough to make this vision real. Deep down though you know it's time. Time to come out of hiding. Time to stop pretending or even lying. Time to stop letting shame keep you smaller than you are. You’re ready to break free of the boxes, roles, facades, expectations, and labels that suppress you. You know that the world does not benefit from you limiting your unique talents – as the work you’re being called to do will make such a positive difference for others. It's time to be who you were born to be. Let's make the most of this precious life. I'm here to support you. Let's do the inner work that is needed to usher in your most soul-satisfying chapter yet. It's time to unleash your full power, purpose, and potential. Only then will the world benefit from your greatest contribution. https://www.jessicachiltonspark.com

On Election Day, we want to exercise our right to Vote, AND dive right into creating the world our heart knows is possib...
11/02/2026

On Election Day, we want to exercise our right to Vote, AND dive right into creating the world our heart knows is possible...which is exactly what we'll be doing at Spirited Improv at 12pm, Nov. 3rd, and You're Invited.

Election Day brings so much to the surface. So we purposely are beginning a new Spirited Improv series on this potent day. We want a space where All are welcome, where we agree to practice heart-centered presence no matter our differences, and where we are free to explore what it is to be human, what it is to be an American, what it is to be a creative soul at this time.

In Spirited Improv, we respect that we each make our own choices, we each decide how we want to play. We agree to welcome every creative experiment in an accepting environment that feels supportive for everyone to speak, share, move, act, sing, and express freely. (Just as we value the freedom for All to cast their own vote.)

And most importantly, through playing in such a heart-centered way together, we experience the best of humanity. We experience how a group of people can show up and support one another to grow exactly how we're ready to grow. And how a shared intention of expanding our capacity to love can become a playground of authentic relating, expression, belonging, and community.

So on Election Day, we offer a creative way for you to "Be the change you wish to see in the world". We invite you to join us in a potent and uplifting playshop that summons the "better angels of our nature".

Whether you decide to come for the Try It Out Playshop only or for the whole 5-Week Series, we hope to be together tomorrow.

On Election Day, let's bring more Love into the world,
Jessica

SPIRITED IMPROV FALL SERIES PLAYSHOPSIf you're craving community, needing more laughter, or hoping for a place where you...
10/31/2026

SPIRITED IMPROV FALL SERIES PLAYSHOPS

If you're craving community, needing more laughter, or hoping for a place where your whole, messy humanness is welcome, it's time to find it.

Spirited Improv is for people who want to be fully alive together, in a radically accepting space, in their bodies, their voices, and their community.

Sometimes it's quiet and tender, sometimes it's hilarious, and sometimes you surprise yourself with how free you feel.

Our series gathers a circle of open hearts in Asheville for multi-week sacred play. It is the cumulative effect of playing together in such a heart-centered way that naturally brings connection, healing, transformation, joy, and love into your life and our world.

Many participants choose to continue from one series to the next and deepen into the Spirited Improv community over the years.
Each group has a mix of newcomers and experienced players. All are welcome in this radically accepting environment.

WHEN:
Tuesday, 12-2pm, beginning Nov 3 OR
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, beginning Nov 11th

COST/CONTRIBUTION:

Full multi-week series $180

“Try it out” for a 2-hour playshop. No commitment. Just come see for yourself. $40

Work Trade options available: details on our website

REGISTRATION:
On our website. Link in profile.

MORE INFO:
Join our email list for news of upcoming playshops and performances.

LED BY:
Jessica Chilton, creator of Spirited Improv, brings together 20 years of improvisational performing arts and 16 years as an expressive arts therapist and coach, all rooted in her lifelong spiritual journey. Participants describe her circles as the most radically loving and powerfully liberating way to experience improv.

"Spirited Improv is a safe, inviting, and playful place to embrace the mysteries of being human. The sharing of this experience with Jessica is such gift, as she is to be trusted due to her skills as a facilitator and her gracious spirit!" ~Brian

Jessica Chilton Forrest Green Christina Cannell Ruth Elliot

How many times have you felt a clear pull toward something: a person, a room, an experience, an opportunity?And then tal...
10/30/2026

How many times have you felt a clear pull toward something: a person, a room, an experience, an opportunity?

And then talked yourself out of it with a very reasonable list of reasons why not?

Our minds are so well trained to talk over our inner knowing.

Transformation tends to live in the choice that made your stomach flutter when you read the description.

One of our past participants said, "There's something about the spontaneity and the emphasis of trusting the Self and others felt like an invitation into true acceptance."

That flutter is your intuition, asking you to trust it.

If you're feeling it right now, consider this your invitation. 💛

Two new playshop series begin here in Asheville:

*November 3, noon- 2 pm

*November 11, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Come follow the flutter with us and see what opens.

Details and registration at SpiritedImprov.com

What has your intuition been nudging you toward lately?

For my spontaneous friends who love being warmly welcomed into a meaningful night of creativity, laughter, heart-centere...
10/28/2026

For my spontaneous friends who love being warmly welcomed into a meaningful night of creativity, laughter, heart-centered connection, and transformation...TONIGHT is our Spirited Improv “Transformance”—a performance that transforms! We have a great group All In for this co-creation and there’s still space for more. But no tickets at the door so you gotta reserve your seat at the link in the comments—sliding scale. 6-8pm Oct 28th—tonight!

It’s an improvisational showcase of the transformational playspace of the human Heart, and the audience is an important part of the magic. Your open Heart in the seats becomes the encouragement that fuels someone’s leap. You might laugh until your belly aches and then find tears on your cheeks a moment later. You might choose to stay in your seat and cheer others on or jump onto stage with us to play in front of the most supportive audience.

For me, this is one way we can bring more Love into the world right now and support each other during these transformational times.

We are hoping to see brand new faces, as well as experienced Spirited Improv playmates that know how to welcome newcomers into our co-creative community. Come settle into your seat and receive, or follow that tug and step into the play with us. Either way, you belong in this room… and I would so love to see you there.

What to Expect: Join us for an improvisational showcase of our transformational playspace. All audience members are aske...
10/28/2026

What to Expect:
Join us for an improvisational showcase of our transformational playspace. All audience members are asked to bring their full presence and be open to receiving from the collective experience. You choose whether you want to stay in your seat and witness the magic or step into improvisational play in front of a supportive audience. Either way, you'll be part of the joy, the courage, and the beauty of human connection.

You Are Welcome:
No prior improv experience needed, just a willingness to be in your heart and practice full presence as we all hold space for something beautiful to emerge. This is an Adult-centered transformative experience where the full spectrum of human expression is welcome. Show up exactly as you are…and discover what becomes possible in a radically accepting playspace centered in Love.

When and where:
Emberlight, 83 Sanctuary Road, Swannanoa, NC 28778,
Oct 28, 6 - 8 pm

Tickets:
Sliding Scale: $10-$50 / Person.
No tickets sold at the door. Tickets sold on your website. Link in bio.

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What to Expect:
Join us for an improvisational showcase of our transformational playspace. All audience members are asked to bring their full presence and be open to receiving from the collective experience. You choose whether you want to stay in your seat and witness the magic or step into improvisational play in front of a supportive audience. Either way, you'll be part of the joy, the courage, and the beauty of human connection.

You Are Welcome:
No prior improv experience needed, just a willingness to be in your heart and practice full presence as we all hold space for something beautiful to emerge. This is an Adult-centered transformative experience where the full spectrum of human expression is welcome. Show up exactly as you are…and discover what becomes possible in a radically accepting playspace centered in Love.

When and where:
Emberlight, 83 Sanctuary Road, Swannanoa, NC 28778,
Oct 28, 6 - 8 pm

Tickets:
Sliding Scale: $10-$50 / Person.
No tickets sold at the door. Tickets sold on your website. Link in bio.

We don't have to imagine this because we get to experience...every week at Spirited Improv. Come experience it yourself ...
10/27/2026

We don't have to imagine this because we get to experience...every week at Spirited Improv. Come experience it yourself at our Performace: TRANSformance on October 28, 6 - 8 pm. Pay what you want. Grab your tickets on our website.

I am loving that this is what “Professional” looks like in my life right now! Our goofy team had so much fun bringing ou...
10/26/2026

I am loving that this is what “Professional” looks like in my life right now! Our goofy team had so much fun bringing our improvisational spirit to the Taste of Wellness event this weekend and amplifying wellness wishes for the world. If this alternate reality appeals to you, I sure hope to play with you soon at Spirited Improv! (next performance is this Wednesday eve:)

10/25/2026

This Spirited Improv participant feels most at home alone in the woods, or sitting with one friend over tea. A whole room of people is where her guard goes up.

Then she stepped into the circle at Spirited Improv here in Asheville.

Week by week, the trust grew. Enough to sing out loud. Enough to let her body move however it wanted.

Now she has a wish for the world: more places where grown-ups feel safe with one another and remember how to play.

We’re building one of those places together in WNC, and there’s room for you in the circle. We invite you into our heart-centered audience for a performance that connects, transforms, delights, and brings more love into our world!

Spirited Improv Performance: “Transformance”
October 28, 6 - 8 pm
Tickets available on our website. Link in profile.
$ Sliding Scale Tickets

10/24/2026

Nina, a long time Spirited Improv participant, shares her experience about what it's like to play in the sand box during a playshop.

Spirited Improv only works because we're doing it together.Someone offers a gesture. Someone else builds on it. A whole ...
10/22/2026

Spirited Improv only works because we're doing it together.

Someone offers a gesture. Someone else builds on it. A whole scene rises out of people simply listening and responding with care. No one carries it alone.

We believe this is close to the heart of any real spiritual practice: showing up for one another, elevating each other, and trusting the circle to hold what we can't hold by ourselves.

Who has helped you feel held lately?

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Asheville, NC

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 2pm

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