Lelavision facilitates playful learning for participants of all ages
with a goal of fostering personal development, curiosity and inventiveness.

Physical Music and Polyrhythms in the Body -

In Lelavision's unique genre Leah and Ela lead journeys that explore the connection of sound and motion
by combining instruments, music, and movement in simultaneity.

• Olympics of the Mind

Using the cultivation of imagination to source originality and invention, this workshop focuses on inventing
things to solve problems. Students come up with their own ideas for objects that can solve
real or imagined problems. We use brainstorming, brain teasing, and brain gym with group
excersizes in emergent forms, collaboration, and creativity to generate ideas. Current and historical material
on inventors and inventions that have changed our lives combine with modern notions of
crowd sourcing and scientific principles to inspire and educate.

• Creative Movement and Tumbling

Exploring developmental patterns with music, movement, yoga and tumbling for ages 3-5 and 6-8

• Improvising with Hope in These (R)evolutionary Times

Day-long or full weekend retreat for adults using improvisation as a tool to explore resiliency factors.

• Instrument Making From Ordinary Objects

Students are led through a process of creating their own instruments and learning to play them in a kinetic
and playful manner. Recyclables are repurposed for the use of making and playing for ages 6-12.

• Brainercize

Developmental movement, BrainGym, Brain Dance, and hand yoga are combined to facilitate greater mobility
and alertness for seniors living independently, in community, or in care centers.

• Science of Sound

interactive, playful lecture-demonstration with performance excerpts utilizing Ela's musical inventions
as examples of the scientific principles of sound.

Leah Mann – teacher, workshop leader, community facilitator

As a teacher / facilitator, Leah shares her passion for invention and improvisation as tools for personal development and as a playful approach to education. She presents fresh material on a broad range of topics to inspire her participants. Using kinetic, aural, tactile and spacial learning styles, Leah seamlessly weaves dance, art, science, poetry, history, and current events into fun, accessible experiences. Leah facilitates pre-school creative movement, teenage olympics of the mind, adult personal development retreats, and brainercize classes for people of an advanced age. Leah embraces and encourages life-long learning that follows the thread of compassionate curiosity for living, moving and enjoying fullness of being.

National Sacred Dance Guild Featured Presenter, 2009, New Haven, Connecticut, weeklong intensive

Vashon Community Care Center, 2005-08, developmental movement with Alzheimers patients

Vashon Artists In Residence, 2003-10, instrument making from ordinary objects, Literacy in Action program

Islandwood, 2002-04, recycling and understanding "source" through music and movement

Nature Consortium, 2001- 07, teacher on the themes of natural cycles, music, and movement

ArtsCorps, 2002-04, Instructor for this urban outreach program

RecycleArtists Program, King Co Arts Commission, 2000-01,

Moving in the Spirit, Urban Outreach Teacher and Program Director, 1988-93

Ela Lamblin – musician, sculptor, teacher

Ela's passion for creating surprising sounds from unusual things is infectious. Through the process of creating instruments and art, Ela teaches others to think creatively and invent solutions. Using sponataneity and playfulness to present artistic and scientific ideas, Ela's classes empower the student to think in a unique way.