Play
Evolved For Play
Children don’t need to be told how to move, we instinctively used our body through play in every dimension and direction: seeing, breathing, hearing, touch, motion, action, voice, facial expression, gestures, imagination, interaction, co-operation.
Play Is For Adults Too
Kids have society’s permission to play, and most adults don’t. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most of us exchange play for work, and forget to play with the abandon and joy of childhood.
National Institute For Play
Play & Movement
As Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition. We are designed by nature to flourish through play.
The Need For Play
If you don’t understand human movement, you won’t really understand yourself or play. If you do, you will reap the benefits of play in your body, personal life and work situations. Learning about self movement structures an individual’s knowledge of the world – it is a way of knowing, and we actually, through movement and play, think in motion. For example the play-driven movement of leaping upward is a lesson about gravity as well as one’s body. And it lights up the brain and fosters learning. Innovation, flexibility, adaptability, resilience, have their roots in movement. The play driven pleasures associated with exploratory body movements, rhythmic early speech (moving vocal cords), locomotor and rotational activity – are done for their own sake; pleasurable, and intrinsically playful. They sculpt the brain, and ready the player for the unexpected and unusual.
National Institute For Play

Agata Commisso
Agata Commisso is a certified trainer, wellness practitioner and laughter coach with over 10 years experience in community education. For several years Agata lived and traveled broadly overseas and her love of culture, food and language enables her to connect with people from all walks of life. As a natural communicator with a trademark bubbly personality Agata’s classes always include fun, playful elements as well as valuable skills for living.
Agata’s belief in laughter as an antidote to life’s troubles extends over more than 20 years. At Lighten her work combines intentional play, laughter & movement to help clients reconnect with and develop all their abilities, rather than accepting and adapting to their limitations.