Origins
I don’t have all the answers but I have found in Soulletting an arts practice that has helped me to gain greater freedom from negative inner aspects and meet new allies within myself that I never knew existed.
This practice has supported me in creating provocative work based in physical movement and raw expression that has helped heal and transform myself and others.
I am passionate about transforming my own lived experiences into art that adds meaning to the world, and inspiring others to do the same.
My life has been a journey of returning home again and again to my body and realizing that the very experiences I have fought to escape are, in fact, my portals to freedom.
For 10 years I worked as an exotic dancer while supporting myself as an actress. After getting clean from a teenage drug addition and mostly on the other side of an eating disorder, I was still finding ways in the clubs to dissociate from my body and my feelings. Eventually, self-harm resurfaced. Bulimia returned and ramped up to a fever pitch.
I quit dancing.
Since then, I have written and performed six movement-based, autobiographical solo shows and co-written and -performed two ensemble plays exploring grief and renewal. These shows have been produced throughout the U.S. as well as Great Britain and Europe.
Over the past 15 years I have also worked as an arts educator for a variety of organizations in New York City and Los Angeles, bringing elements of Soulletting—movement, acting, artmaking, improvisation, expressive writing and storytelling, puppetry, and more—to groups from K-12 to creative aging communities.
No matter the primary medium used or the demographic, in all of my work I integrate ritual, movement, writing, and performance—summoning the soul and awakening the body.
With consistent practices of movement, writing, art-making, meditation, and dreamwork, I believe each of us can discover a deeper way of tending to our inner lives and realize parts of ourselves that we have never known, but longed for.
The word “Soulletting” came first as a whisper in a dream. I did not know what it meant. Over time, I have come to understand it means this: to Soullet is to allow the soul to express itself fully and fiercely—move, grieve, create, breathe, and roar until our soul’s true voice rings not only throughout our own being, but in the beings of those among us.
