Gender Euphoria… Excerpt From a Memoir

First year of a Bachelor of Arts in Performance Studies…a two minute class exercise… perform an everyday activity in two minutes. This class was focused on playing with the interconnected dynamic between performer and audience, posing the question: who is looking at...

Duality, Nonduality of Panic & Resilience

Have you ever felt panicked or anxious? What story do you tell yourself when you’re in the middle of it? When you dig into it, you’re likely to discover it’s usually an ‘I’m not good enough’ story. In Kinesiology, we work on every aspect of self. So what happens...

Embodying Presence

Ten years ago, around this time of year, I was presenting my graduate performance choreography, “In The Absence of Presence” for my Bachelor of Arts in Performance Studies. It was a challenging time as my then partner and I were at the same time planning to move back...

Shame Resilience: My Mother’s Day Experience

For me, Mother’s Day reminds me of two things. My feelings towards my own mother and my feelings about not being a mother. This is not the same every year, but this year, these feelings have taken over. The feelings I get the majority of the time when I am...

Year of the Monkey, bringing the fun in!

For about the last 6 weeks in Kinesiology sessions with clients, insights and messages keep flooding in about finding ways to bring more humour to situations or issues in our lives. Things like the energy of mischievous gnomes, thinking of an uplifting song, a funny...