Spirited Improv Emberlight Summer Series 2026

A 4 to 7 Week Series: This series takes place on 7 Wednesdays from 5:30-7:30pm on June 24, July 1, July 8, July 22, Aug 12, Aug 19, Aug 26.

Choose to sign up for 4, 5, 6, or 7 of the playshops depending on your summer schedule.

Registration: There is a price range of $190-$250 depending on whether you sign up for 4, 5, 6, or 7 playshops in the series.

Early bird pricing saves $40 until June 3rd.

$20 off for Emberlight Members Registering for all 7 Playshops with Code: CCLD

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*If you don’t currently have money to register, but you’re 100% aligned, request a work-trade Spirited Improv Support Role spot @ https://www.spiritedimprov.com/work-trade-roles

All Are Welcome: This Series is equally for total beginners as well as experienced improvisers who have already played in the land of Spirited Improv. Show up exactly as you are…and discover what becomes possible in a radically accepting group that is centered in Love.

Location: The Light House @ Emberlight, 83 Sanctuary Rd. Swannanoa, NC  28778

What to Expect at a Spirited Improv Emberlight Series:

A Spirited Improv Emberlight Series is an enlivening emergence of collective creativity, authentic expression, and community belonging. It’s an improvisational playspace for the human spirit with experiments in music-making, dancing, singing, acting, costumed silliness, story-telling, and ritual that deeply nourish the heart and soul. It offers a warm, playful, and safe container where laughter, tears, and connection flow freely.

You are invited to release judgment and practice radical acceptance of yourself and each human in the room, creating an encouraging space for each unique expression and the Oneness that holds us all. Whether you choose to simply offer your loving presence or step in to play, you’re woven into the collective experience. What unfolds is spontaneous and sacred, hilarious and healing, shaped by the energy of Love in the room guiding it all.

If you’re craving a unifying experience that restores your faith in humanity, Spirited Improv invites you to join us in remembering how beautiful it is to be human together.

Facilitated by Jessica Chilton, who brings over 20 years of improvisational performing arts experience and 16 years as an expressive arts therapist and heart-centered coach, weaving creativity, love, and presence into a safe, transformative group experience.

Why Spirited Improv at Emberlight?

Spirited Improv offers an embodied practice of Emberlight's vision, mission, and values: Every single Spirited Improv experience involves a lived experience of awakening to the power of love and service. Death visits as our teacher. Grief, and the full range of human emotion, expresses through our singing, dancing, storytelling, music making. Conscious Living is amplified. The art of improvisation invites us to embrace the unknown, surrender, trust, and return to love. And the 4 agreements of Spirited Improv that hold our transformational playspace are in full alignment with the Emberlight values.


Spirited Improv cultivates a deep sense of Belonging which deepens the Emberlight community. Some Emberlight members shared that the deep sense of belonging cultivated in Spirited Improv helps them feel even more at home in the Emberlight community. Spirited Improv supports individuals to experience each other from the heart, seeing with love, acceptance, compassion, forgiveness. It empowers each person to lead themselves and take personal responsibility. And it encourages the critical mind to rest while beginner’s mind experiences the moment with fresh curiosity, wonder, and possibility. All of these ways of being foster authentic relating between members within the Emberlight community.

The transformation, healing, liberation, connection, awakening that takes place in Spirited Improv ripples energetically throughout the Emberlight community.

Look at the overwhelming amount of testimonials on this webpage: https://www.spiritedimprov.com Know that most of these often life-changing experiences took place at Emberlight. REGISTER HERE