This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Kelsay Meyers and Dialogical Persona!
I founded Dialogical Persona Healing Arts, LLC on February 24, 2020, to serve those unfolding in their lives and relationships. I offered Soul-based Coaching, transformative inquiry, and energy work while finishing my doctoral program, practitioner training, and personal embodiment process. Little did I know that an international pandemic would change the world in a matter of weeks and lead to many people needing online support through the embodied arts. In the past two years, my business, skills, embodied practice, and personal growth has flourished.
The integration I’ve experienced through The Academy for Soul-based Coaching and the Tamalpa Institute Life/Art Process by moving, writing, drawing, and embodying the symbols and metaphors of my soul have allowed me to trust and have more confidence in myself than I imagined was possible. I have learned to be okay with uncertainty and not knowing what’s ahead at a time when we all were thrown into a state of not knowing what was happening in the world.
Trust, surrender, and being okay with not knowing was not easy for me as a Korean adoptee relinquished at birth. I’ve been trying to learn about who I am and what my place in the world is through reading, writing, art, philosophy, psychology, spirituality and openness, and curiosity for looking at myself and into myself. These qualities have formed the core of my identity from a very young age. But it wasn’t until I learned how to be in my body and move with what it has been holding for more than thirty years that I felt like a whole person. And, by whole, I mean a person who is in touch with and attuned to what they feel in addition to what they believe; a person who experiences sensations, tingles, warmth, numbness, coolness, bubbles, gooeyness, and energy shifts in different parts of her body, sometimes simultaneously, and sometimes still nothing at all.
What I’ve learned is that embodied multimodal arts are essential to the process of integrating the multifaceted parts of the self, and that integration is not linear. I’ve experienced the process as flowing in, out, and between ideas of solidarity, connection, empowerment, self-expression, and the many qualities they also contain. It’s been a journey in and of itself that is cyclic and living. And my own offerings and ways of serving my communities keep expanding and renewing in response. In addition to Soul-based Coaching and Reiki, I now offer two signature coaching programs: Write, Embody, Heal, and Mirrors of the Soul; two self-paced online courses in expressive arts and embodied writing, and a group program for other Korean adoptees to experience the Tamalpa Life/Art Process.
Being immersed in my own healing process for the past six years has shown me that I am truly passionate about trauma, healing, and restoring connection to ancestral roots and wisdom. The mission of my work is to hold space for the full expression of a living, vibrant and multifaceted self through the embodied arts. I’m looking forward to all the new opportunities that continue to unfold as my clients and I do. As I celebrate this second full year of my business, I am so grateful for my teachers, mentors, guides, friends, and the conscious dance community! Thank you for all that you do, and if any of this resonates with you or you want some extra support in your own process of unfolding, please reach out to me through www.dialogicalpersona.
In light and liberation,
Kelsay
