23/09/2026
Since last year my body and my mental health have both been struggling….and there’s been so much shame in that. As a healer, a mother, a sister, a friend… if I am sick nobody will want me because my worth is wrapped in being “well”.
Somewhere in the middle of it, I enrolled in a somatic activation healing teacher training. I knew dance needed to be part of my own healing container, not just for me, but for what I bring to my patients & community down the line.
Dance has been saving me since I was a bullied teenager-dancing in my living room alone-practising my routines, getting lost in the music. I’ve never stopped dancing, but now, I am doing it as if my life depends on it because it does.
Holding myself as WHOLE and COMPLETE and WELL while my body and my life were falling apart has been one of the most profound things I’ve experienced. It’s changed how I see my practice and how I see the wellness space itself.
I’m decolonizing my life…and my acupuncture practice. More than ever I understand what presence actually means, with myself, with others, with my patients. To be present you can not subscribe to the capitalistic rat race rules that are held in place ( and keeping many of us sick). We must un emesh ourselves and return to the body. Presence liberates the body and mind and reminds is we are well, no matter what our symptoms may be.
Holding someone as whole -right where they are, even when they’re carrying chronic pain, grief, mental it physical illness, or a hard season of life. Being present to that complexity ,not collapsing your or anyone’s else’s identity to a cluster of symptoms or a diagnosis. Asking not what’s wrong with you but instead asking what happened to you is the most healing place to start.
FYI: You can look symptom-free on the outside and be nowhere close to well. Period.
Therapeutic dance has given me this wellness and I am so grateful for my teachers. If you are interested in healing through dance, I can send you some teachers and videos that I use. Maybe even someday we will do a somatic healing together.! 💃🕺🪩
