Dreaming about food is actually something I do on the regular. Not just in commercials😏 Love how this @tacobell spot turned out! ✨ Directed by: @hannahluxdavis Starring: @lilnasx DP: @carlosverondp Casting by: @dbcasting Best agents ever: @osbrinkagency 🤍
Pretty in pink👚👛🌸💁🏾♀️This was a fun one and this set was so beautifully done💕 Directed by: @mc_engstrom Starring: 🙋🏾♀️ DOP: @eriksohlstrom Casting by: @broad_cast.tv 🤍: @osbrinkagency #Commercial #TVCommercial #Pink #PrettyInPink #Women #Woman #Health #Sex #NonHormonal
My mind can process things quickly. The more I learn about my nervous system the more I understand that my body does not process life as fast as my mind. So in order to give it space and time to complete processes after certain events, challenges or just the end of a day, I’ve learned I have to SLOW DOWN. I do this pretty easily with meditation because that is a mind practice I’ve developed over the years. A somatic practice requires a different level of observing and surrendering than I’m used to. But I’ve been practicing listening in different ways and slowly learning. Our bodies are always informing us and always looking for ways to organize. Every movement and sensation we feel is an attempt at coherency. How often do we listen to our bodies the way we pay attention to all of the thoughts in our mind? Christmas was emotionally and physically taxing for me personally and I was left feeling extremely out of sorts for about a week after my family left my home. I found myself judging my systems pace at which it was trying to regulate, which was only impeding the process. So…I slowed down. I sat and actually held space for my body. Not to do anything until it gave a cue for me to curiously follow and to be ok if I didn’t get any cue. But I did. I didn’t approach this from a place of dance although it can be perceived as dance. Didn’t even know the song, just had music playing during my stretch before I sat down. I felt a lot arise through the mid line of my body and through my arms and hands. I didn’t need to make sense of it. I didn’t need to understand it. I just needed to feel it, move with it and let it do it’s thing. It went for 7mins. I didn’t feel 100% regulated right after and I wasn’t expecting to. But I felt different than when I began. And I felt more ok with no longer needing it to change. This was my first morning of 2022. Practicing surrendering to what is here. I think that’s a pretty good place to start the New Year 🙏🏽
Let’s get Spooky👻🎃 The extended version of the @audi spot you may have caught me in this year. Truly enjoyed and appreciated the atmosphere, energy and people working on this set🙏🏽 Directed by: @s45mpling DOP: @patscola Starring: @carlythomassmith @derek_mio @dominiquedomingo Casting by: @sonnenbergcasting HUGE Thank You to my wonderful commercial agency: @osbrinkagency 🤍 #HappyHalloween #TVCommercial #Audi #Spooky #Filmmaking #AudiCommercial #HauntedHouse #PreviousOwner #Ghosts #MovieNight
blue sky mind 💙 📸: @chrissykai✨
blue sky mind 💙 📸: @chrissykai✨
Wanted to feel into this combo one more time 👠 @ciscochoreography your choreography is it for me 🍯🙌🏾 Choreography: @ciscochoreography Song: “No Limits” @therealtank @lovealexisley
That time when all I wanted to do was act 😌 Took a step back from it when the world seemed to stop and haven’t revisited it since for some reason. Maybe I will again some day. This is a compilation of passion projects from a while back, that I was fortunate enough to be a part of. I’m not an editor by any means but I do enjoy the editing process of putting things together. So here is my version of a reel, made by yours truly. Is it giving movie trailer er nah? 😂
Why don’t we always just follow our intuition? When we feel that inner knowing that nudges us to choose what seemingly feels like the opposite of what our mind is telling us. And I don’t mean the small decisions but the big ones. To leave that comfortable job, say yes to that life changing opportunity, to move on from that relationship that’s good enough, create that boundary with the person you feel needs you, change careers, speak your truth, move your entire life to that place that’s pulling you…we feel the nudges. But why don’t we always follow them? To me the easy and obvious answer is the ego. It wants to stay in control and thinks it’s keeping us safe. Or simply fear. But I think there’s a piece to this that is slightly more nuanced. Fear of what exactly? As much as we may glamorize the term “follow your intuition,” as if it’s easy and makes perfect sense. And that by not doing so you experience the consequences of unnecessary pain or suffering, which is typically the case. I think that nuanced piece for not always choosing to follow our intuition, is that we (consciously or subconsciously) know that there are also consequences FOR following it. Following your intuition can initially be a messy, life altering, painful, unraveling that you don’t actually want to go through. But you know that you must choose it anyway. Following your intuition can feel “wrong” to your thinking mind. It requires an immense amount of courage and trust in yourself and source. It requires you to go beyond logic. To let go without knowing what happens next. Following your intuition is not often some magical feeling. In fact it can feel quite the opposite initially. [CONTINUED IN COMMENTS]
You’ll never survive if you don’t try to calm the waters on the inside…😌🌊💙 #Breathe #BeStill #Listen #GoGentle #Love
Co-Facilitated a Winter Solstice Breathwork session for 15 souls last night. Over the last year I’ve trained to become a certified Neurodynamic Breathwork Facilitator as well as a Reiki 1 & 2 Practitioner. I have so much reverence for holding healing space for people. Looking forward to holding more 🤍 Grateful to @karen.nitsche for asking me to be a part of the evening. We met during our 6 month online training course and it was really special to connect in person and hold space together✨ #Breathwork #Facilitator #SafeSpace #Healing #InnerJourney #SelfHealing #InnerGuidance #Trust #Surrender #Explore #Connect
Co-Facilitated a Winter Solstice Breathwork session for 15 souls last night. Over the last year I’ve trained to become a certified Neurodynamic Breathwork Facilitator as well as a Reiki 1 & 2 Practitioner. I have so much reverence for holding healing space for people. Looking forward to holding more 🤍 Grateful to @karen.nitsche for asking me to be a part of the evening. We met during our 6 month online training course and it was really special to connect in person and hold space together✨ #Breathwork #Facilitator #SafeSpace #Healing #InnerJourney #SelfHealing #InnerGuidance #Trust #Surrender #Explore #Connect
Co-Facilitated a Winter Solstice Breathwork session for 15 souls last night. Over the last year I’ve trained to become a certified Neurodynamic Breathwork Facilitator as well as a Reiki 1 & 2 Practitioner. I have so much reverence for holding healing space for people. Looking forward to holding more 🤍 Grateful to @karen.nitsche for asking me to be a part of the evening. We met during our 6 month online training course and it was really special to connect in person and hold space together✨ #Breathwork #Facilitator #SafeSpace #Healing #InnerJourney #SelfHealing #InnerGuidance #Trust #Surrender #Explore #Connect
Co-Facilitated a Winter Solstice Breathwork session for 15 souls last night. Over the last year I’ve trained to become a certified Neurodynamic Breathwork Facilitator as well as a Reiki 1 & 2 Practitioner. I have so much reverence for holding healing space for people. Looking forward to holding more 🤍 Grateful to @karen.nitsche for asking me to be a part of the evening. We met during our 6 month online training course and it was really special to connect in person and hold space together✨ #Breathwork #Facilitator #SafeSpace #Healing #InnerJourney #SelfHealing #InnerGuidance #Trust #Surrender #Explore #Connect
Dancing into December like…✨ The smile on my face in this music video is real 😁 I had so much fun on this gig thanks to the tone and energy that @jemelmcwilliams set from jump. Gratitude and good vibes makes a work environment feel like play. Thank You for having me Jemel! 🙏🏽 And Big Thanks to his assistant choreographers @craaaiig and @littletown.music for taking care of us, being wonderful human beings and also low key hilarious😏 #December #ChristmasSong #JohnLegend #YouDeserveItAll #Dance #Love #Play #TisTheSeason
Dancing into December like…✨ The smile on my face in this music video is real 😁 I had so much fun on this gig thanks to the tone and energy that @jemelmcwilliams set from jump. Gratitude and good vibes makes a work environment feel like play. Thank You for having me Jemel! 🙏🏽 And Big Thanks to his assistant choreographers @craaaiig and @littletown.music for taking care of us, being wonderful human beings and also low key hilarious😏 #December #ChristmasSong #JohnLegend #YouDeserveItAll #Dance #Love #Play #TisTheSeason
Dancing into December like…✨ The smile on my face in this music video is real 😁 I had so much fun on this gig thanks to the tone and energy that @jemelmcwilliams set from jump. Gratitude and good vibes makes a work environment feel like play. Thank You for having me Jemel! 🙏🏽 And Big Thanks to his assistant choreographers @craaaiig and @littletown.music for taking care of us, being wonderful human beings and also low key hilarious😏 #December #ChristmasSong #JohnLegend #YouDeserveItAll #Dance #Love #Play #TisTheSeason
Dancing into December like…✨ The smile on my face in this music video is real 😁 I had so much fun on this gig thanks to the tone and energy that @jemelmcwilliams set from jump. Gratitude and good vibes makes a work environment feel like play. Thank You for having me Jemel! 🙏🏽 And Big Thanks to his assistant choreographers @craaaiig and @littletown.music for taking care of us, being wonderful human beings and also low key hilarious😏 #December #ChristmasSong #JohnLegend #YouDeserveItAll #Dance #Love #Play #TisTheSeason
Because I’m free…🕊
My brudder caught me tuning in after playing in the ocean 💙 Maui has such a special place in my heart. Being here right now feels so right. So much has been shifting internally. Releasing, integrating, healing and changing. To be surrounded and supported by nature in this way right now feels incredible✨
Monday night, I went to an in person dance class for the first time in two years expecting to feel joy, and instead drove home unpacking & sitting with some big feelings. Through my personal journey as a dancer, somewhere along the way I stopped approaching dance from the love of it. I stopped listening to my body. I stopped moving from a place of honesty. Not all of the time but a lot of it. I became conditioned to performing for the audience, performing to look good, to book the job, to deliver no matter what I was going through or physically feeling. Pushing past pain, injuries and my body’s limits because I was being paid to, or performing harder to overcompensate when choreographers treated me less than while on the job. All of these things were slowly changing my relationship with dance. I’ve subconsciously been pulling away from the dance industry for a while so I’ve been aware of these feelings to a degree but couldn’t quite make sense of them. It finally clicked that constantly feeling the need to perform over the years has inadvertently affected my connection to my body. And I know this because of how it feels when I dance from my awareness now. What used to be joy, over time, morphed into temporary highs from being chosen, validated and rewarded in one way or another. It’s why I felt so conflicted in class. That type of “joy” no longer resonates with my mind and spirit anymore but I didn’t understand that my physical body is actually still conditioned to move from that place. That disconnect is where the big feelings came from. I’ve been pulling away from dance because most of the time I can feel all of the ways my body still thinks it has to push, prove, pretend or shrink. And it feels really uncomfortable now. The next day, my body felt extremely heavy. Didn’t move much. A lot of sadness and anger were present. But that night I felt a gentle nudge to move. Continued ⬇️⬇️(in comments)
Celebrating this special soul whose initial friendship was the first to teach me what it truly meant to accept another. Thank You for always being you. It allowed me to be me. This little diddy couldn’t have captured the essence of our friendship any better 🤍 Happy Birthday seester✨You already know how deep the love goes😘 @noreenthemachine
