I have a couple of Storyboards in my view that I would like to trigger from the ViewModel if possible. Is there a simple way or elegant way of doing this. Here is what I am trying to do.

Person Clicks on a Button-->RelayCommand (In the ViewModel), the Relay Command should then play the storyboard. Also one more thing, I would like to also trigger the storyboard animation by itself in the ViewModel without any interaction.

    <i:Interaction.Triggers>
 <i:EventTrigger EventName="MouseLeftButtonDown">
    <cmd:EventToCommand Command="{Binding ButtonPress}"                                                     CommandParameterValue="RedButtonLight">
    </cmd:EventToCommand>
         </i:EventTrigger>
          </i:Interaction.Triggers>