Today's episode features Kellita Maloof, a trauma-informed, award-winning Performing and Teaching Artist and Conscious Burlesque Mentor, lovingly known as the Showgirl Shaman. Join us on this journey of joy, embodiment, creative expression and community!

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• Kellita's perspective on "the grind" and its systemic nature.

• How the grind had its grips on her even as a little kid with a worry list.

• How change requires feeling, which requires more time and space.

• How our feelings are our most current data and information in our lives.

• What sensations Kellita notices in her body when she's excited about something.

• The offering Kellita allowed herself to change her mind about.

• Kellita's journey towards dance and her shift in focus from her weaknesses to her joy.

• How joy and pleasure is a practice and can be easier to practice when in community with others.

• Kellita's "gateway drug" that led her to a career in creative and healing arts.

• Why Kellita believes in prioritizing relationality over instrumentality like production and output leads to a more fulfilling and sustainable creative practice.

• Stacy shares her experience of dancing in San Francisco's Carnaval parade last year and how the joy and connection far outweighed her initial fears and doubts.

• What orchids and highly sensitive people have in common.

• Your reflection questions: 1) Where do you notice feeling joyful? 2) What does it feel like in your body? 3) How can you infuse more of that into your life?

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Visit Kellita's website here.

• Learn more about dancing in this year's San Francisco Carnaval Parade with Kellita and the Hot Pink Feathers dance troupe.

• Find out what your Showgirl Archetype is by taking this quiz.

• Join Kellita's watch party intro events on Thursday, March 21st: register for her "From the Inside Out" documentary watch party or her TEDx watch party (or both!)

• Connect with Kellita on Instagram here (@kellitatheshowgirlshaman).

• Watch Kellita's TEDx or her short documentary.

• Read my blog about getting ready to dance with Kellita in the San Francisco Carnaval parade last year!

• Read my blog about how dancing in the parade honored my value of delight.

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