My journey with embodiment and exploring the nature of being began from the moment I was born and my sense of awareness began to develop.  As the daughter of immigrant parents who came to a whole new country for a better life for their family, navigating their diasporic identity was never the forefront - survival was.  As beautiful and blessed as my childhood was filled with community, picnics, cottaging and lots of dancing, there were pockets of uncertainty about my sense of belonging when I was around my schoolmates or in public.  Navigating a colonial, capitalist world as a young brown girl, growing to understand her space became convoluted with others ideas and expectations, felt scary and as I grew into my teens, even stressful.

As I began to take on masculine dominant energies and strategies to traverse my world, the weight of pressure, expectations, people pleasing and self sufficiency became heavy.  Looking back, I now realize I was not only navigating my identity and self, but also holding the generational mindset, trauma and wisdom that has been passed down to me - that can feel like a lot of self & society induced pressure on a young body with the knowledge that everything you do, is a reflection of your family. This stress along with various hormonal dependant shifts have led to an insecure relationship with my body, chronic infections, being physically and mentally unwell, and essentially attracting people in my life who reflected everything I wasn’t ready to face.

Now being in my late 20’s, I’ve come to a deeper understanding that life isn’t all about fitting in with society, or wearing the coolest clothes, or being so financially wealthy.  These early ideas of success and happiness were a mirage fed to me by a capitalist society.  When I learnt that my ideas of success and life can be re-imagined, I let my personal creativity and inspirations paint my sky with TRUE success and fulfillment.  To me, life is about community and wellness, it’s about being, and it’s experiencing the plethora of beautiful emotions the human experience has to offer - knowing that your ancestors and guardian angels are here to divinely protect you, not just haunt you and shame you (as I previously thought haha!).  Understanding the human experience and your purpose, is GIVING yourself purpose, and honouring all aspects of your life.

Through every ebb and flow of life, we are being called to move through the motions, to experience the emotions, to dance with life and, to dance closer to our dreams.  Embodying the human experience through the feminine lens to me, means having the courage to feel your feelings, to do the things that bring you joy, and to experience them with the people who make your heart smile.  And eating good food; LOTS of that.  I’m not just metaphorically saying moving either, I really mean it!   The body is this beautiful vessel of wisdom that we forget can help us heal, can guide us, and can bring us home.  Cultivating safety and security in the body through dance is what I hope to remind people is possible, because it changed my life.  I have learnt to navigate the perception of my reality, and how I feel about my reality through the pillars of embodiment and I’ve never FELT more free. Dance, to me, is a form of sensual liberation.  Performing and looking good while moving is one thing, but the self expression of this creative form and how it makes you feel, the heat in your body and the sense of freedom in your soul - is where living and aliveness happens, and that is the gift that I hope to share with you.