Showgirl Awakening summer school 2026
EMERGENCE
a Mystery School offering for highly sensitive, neurospicy women ready to unmask and reclaim their radiant self-expression and self-possession
2 online cohorts to choose from (to make accessible to all timezones)
Mondays July 6 - August 10 @ 5-7p PT
OR
Tuesdays July 7 - August 11 @ 10a-12p PT
I am thrilled that The Awakening Showgirl herself has tapped me to offer a Mystery School class for the first time since 2023.
We're standing at the peak of an extraordinarily rare evolutionary moment, one not seen in our lifetimes and only echoed loosely at the dawn of the last Renaissance in the early 1500's.
This is a rare threshold of emergence and becoming.
Thus, we meet for ::
Showgirl Awakening: EMERGENCE
a 6-week embodied portal into unmasking, reclamation and radiant self-expression and self-possession
An invitation to become more fully inhabited by yourself, your full spectrum aliveness, and your soul that longs to live more fully through you.
This journey weaves together astrology, constellation work and embodied expression and witnessing (the same foundational practice that undergirds conscious burlesque and supports us in becoming more fully inhabited, expressive and ecstatically alive).
“It’s like a decolonization for your eyes. The world has taught us to look at things from a particular lens, and this is the antidote to that lens. So much of our lives we have been gaslit, sometimes to the point where we think to ourselves ‘the experience that I feel, do I even feel it? Is it really mine?’. Kellita's work is the antidote to gaslighting, it is learning how to self-trust, to take off those glasses of judgment and misguided perfectionism, and learn how to see yourself and others, anew. It's a life-altering playground to explore new states of being, to make choices about them, and to include them when and as we would like -- it's the alchemy of experience.” - Lady V
“This is a place where whatever is going on for you will not only be acknowledged but welcomed! I have never known any other space where I can turn up and say exactly what is on my mind, and no one tries to fix it, or tell me I shouldn't feel that way, but instead I am received exactly as I am. From that place of pure acceptance a true freedom arises. It's difficult to capture in words, it truly has to be felt for yourself. ”- Suzanne C
While I’ve become well known for my Burlesque from the Inside Out (BIO) work, what is less known about me is the amount of time (and money) I’ve spent learning from other teachers who are leaders in the field of how “humans actually work,” how they genuinely integrate change, heal from trauma, and create what they desire. all in accordance with the cycles of the cosmos.
I’ve long noticed that, at the end of Burlesque from the Inside Out (BIO) programs, participants longed for the container to continue; for a space and time to take the tools, concepts, and practices further. And most of all for a way to continue, holding space for and seeing each other in the special way that we do in Showgirl Awakening circles.
All of these experiences are what lead me to creating Mystery School.
Showgirl Awakening itself is a culmination of the 20+ years of practice not only of dance, art and conscious burlesque, it’s also simmered together with all of the following work with organizations that I consider to be, themselves, thinly veiled mystery schools.
We combine everything I’ve learned while facilitating deep and lasting transformation through the teaching of body-based art and communication, infused with teachings I’ve received from:
Wisdomkeeper Angeles Arrien who has respectfully synthesized indigenous and perennial wisdom practices from around the world to become accessible for folks not born into them.
Jessica Murray of Mothersky who taught me not predictive astrology but rather, how to decode the archetypes of the stars as the way to see deeper into the Mystery of exactly who a person is – and who they are evolving to be.
The founders of InterPlay who taught me their concepts of Body Intellectual and the Physicality of Grace that allows me to access my own body’s wisdom, and facilitate others’ accessing theirs all the time.
Ane Axford of Sensitive Leadership proposed that Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is reversed for Highly Sensitive Persons which blew my mind and has tracked SO well with my and my clients’ experiences.
Sonya Sophia’s School of Living Arts where I learned Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and was invited to share her mission of healing child abuse and neglect, and the war between sexes using this instrumental technique.
NLP Marin – a mystery school in its own right – facilitated my ability to SEE myself and others by truly unlearning and relearning how to be human.
Carl Buccheit, Carla Camou, Elena Veselago, Michelle Masters and Sarah Peyton mentored me in the art of Systemic and Family Constellations which is the quantum and physical place where personal, interpersonal, intergenerational and systemic change occurs. This has allowed me much more direct access to acknowledge the unspoken and unseen so I can help facilitate the change and healing in even the most painful human predicaments.
Sarah Peyton of Empathy Brain gifted me with her approach of applying interpersonal neurobiology in a practical sense that rests on her knowing that the path to healing our brains is to greet our bodies and experience with resonance.
I could go on and on; I have been on this journey for decades and have encountered many teachers and participated in other thinly veiled mystery schools - and I’ve created my own container to bring these teachings to YOU so you can embody your radiant essence and create (and experience) the life you desire.
“I want to name the embodied experience of the circle and the support in being in our authenticity and how I experience this. How I experience just being seen and witnessed. It’s been really potent. There’s an alchemy in this Mystery School that I have trouble describing, and that I so appreciate.” - Sandra V
Through EMERGENCE you will begin to:
Experience your life like an interactive event, rather than something that happens to you
Feel the joy of allowing yourself to acknowledge your own preferences & express yourself, with Confidence
Allow yourself to be seen--by yourself & the women who share this journey with you
Enjoy – perhaps for the first time ever – the experience of belonging to yourself & having friendship with yourself
Access genuine Intimacy with yourself & others
Feel Confidence & Freedom to reach out to Life, and have what you want without feeling guilty or ashamed
Feel Calmness & Centeredness no matter what is going on in life. Women typically report feeling present and in control despite chaotic external events occurring at work, in public, in relationships, and in the world
Feel Sensual Pleasure & Play within your body. You’ll experience what it truly is to feel expressed as life in a body
Enjoy Connectedness & Communitywith like-minded and like-hearted women on the path of self-discovery and personal growth
Know how to enjoy the Power & Creativity inherent in existing a human being, as being Life in a body
Access both your Agency& your innate sense ofBelongingso you can make decisions that support you and feel at peace about it
Know how to – incrementally & respectfully – transform conditioning that has kept you editing yourself to not rock the boat of your family, social, love &/or work life, while honoring yourself & all your relationships
Learn how to love yourself
Enjoy being you
You are warmly invited to join :
EMERGENCE
Mystery School is a living, breathing, emergent program that responds to who is in the group and what feels juicy as we go along.
Seven Key Things You’ll Get When You Sign Up ...
1. A sisterhood of up to 12 luminary women (plus me, so 13! a veritable coven ;)
This kind of alchemy needs an intimate and dedicated circle. With an experienced and trustworthy guide.
2. Live, Video Meetings: 90-minute sessions twice a month
During these sessions we:
Express Embodied Intentions (much like we do in BIO)
Practice witnessing others and being SEEN ourselves
Deepen your practice of the 3 R’s of Showgirl Awakening
Do constellation work to resolve stucknesses + traumas, including intergenerational
Engage in exercises that will help you notice and receive information as well as process and heal through the experience of your body
Explore practical applications of neuroscience, metaphysics, and the Venusian arts.
Use the raw material of your life to improvise and create art
Learn how to use your body as an oracle to know what to do and how to be
Discover the 12 SGA Frames and how to apply them to all areas of your life
And much more! - it’s impossible to convey all of the beautiful and healing work we do together.
3. Access to the Mystery School App
In the app you’ll receive moments of inspiration from Kellita as well as communicate with other members allowing you to continue to share, reflect, and receive as you embody your learning in your day-to-day life.
4. Unlimited Access to SEEN Workshops ($900 value)
You’ll have complimentary access to our monthly live SEEN workshops.
5. Showgirl Awakening Oracle & Learning Deck (not for sale elsewhere, so priceless!)
A sweet companion on this journey as you’re practicing transformational movement, learning about archetypes, and living into the 3 R’s and the 12 frames. As of right now the only way to get a copy of this beautiful 52 card deck is through Mystery School.
6. First Dibs on Showgirl Awakening retreats and programs
As a member of this inner circle you’ll have first-dibs on seats in Burlesque from the Inside Out (BIO) and retreats and other offerings.
7. Access to book 1:1 coaching with Kellita
I don’t book 1:1’s outside of a program. Participating in Mystery School makes you eligible for 1:1’s if you so desire!
Now is your time to decide - are you being called to this work?
Right now, you are standing at a pivotal crossroad in your life.
The moment where you decide if you are going to continue to wear your mask, over-edit yourself, and submerge your radiant essence in the expectations of others, or if you’re going to grab your artist’s palette and create your life as your own custom, handmade work of art!
If your answer is a resounding – or even a timid – “Yes”, then your next step is to join the reservation list.
When you click the button below you’ll be taken to a short application so I can get to know you a bit more.
“The Showgirl Awakening Life Practice (aka thinly veiled mystery school) feels like the most nourishing thing I've probably ever come across. So many things that I've done before have helped prepare me for this. I've done EFT for a really long time, and been exposed to constellation work and shamanism and a lot of Feminine Empowerment kind of stuff, lots of dance. I feel like this is so potently bringing all of these separate things together. And also the sisterly community. My experience of having my sweetness ensconced in a way that it can really gently blossom is nourishing me on a really deep level.” - Amy P
What Do I Mean By ‘Showgirl’?
My definition of a showgirl:
As I see it, rather than a showgirl being a dancer who wears fringe and feathers, she is a woman who generously reveals her unique, radiant essence – which may include her wearing fringe and feathers in a show.
And how does she reveal her radiant essence? By actually being AT HOME in her body, regardless of what she’s wearing and however she’s moving or not.
And why is it generous to reveal her radiant essence? By being present in her body and naturally radiating her unique essence – she inspires her sisters to do the same.
For much of my life, I’ve been consciously aware that something precious lived at the intersection of Embodied Performance Art, Psyche and Spirit.
Boom Boom Trauma vs Drip Drip Trauma
When we think of trauma, most often we’re consciously referencing boom boom trauma, rather than drip drip trauma. These terms beg definition:
Boom Boom Trauma is when something happens that has a date and a location. For example, my house burned down on April 2, 1992, in Seattle. Or, I was sexually assaulted on the, on the 19 of December, 2001 in Santa Rosa (both made up). It’s clear. Life was one way, something happened, and life was noticeably different afterwards. That’s boom boom.
Drip Drip Trauma is when every second of every day, it’s not safe to BE you. It’s very hard to track because it’s the whole forest that doesn’t see you. It’s very hard to put your finger on. It sends me, it sends us, into this really trance-y area. But it’s the trance that we don’t know we are in until we leave it. Until then, we can’t see how UNSEEN we are.
How do our instincts become injured in this way that prevents us from seeing how unseen we are? From unacknowledged, unintegrated, untransmuted generational trauma and dis-ease/disease.
When babies are born they love their parents – and all their ancestors, regardless of whether they know their names or not, including the most scoundrelly of them. Children tend to be the clearing house for all the pain, loss, suffering, longing, grief, terror, rage, loneliness, hopelessness, censorship and despair of those who they come from, those who came before them. And guess what the success rate is of that mission? Zero, that’s right: Zilch.
Babies have a choice: try to win a sure-to-lose battle to soothe and relieve their parents’ and ancestors’ above named medley of agony or claim their birthright to live as a fully expressed human. When we’re focused on option A – which at first we all are – we tie our hands from realizing option B. When we move towards Option B, which involves individuating not only from our immediate family, but also individuating from our ancestral lineage, it ironically is the only way we can truly honor those very ancestors and take what they have given us: Life.
All humans have the authority, capability and right to live in rapport with Life, to fully experience and express their radiant, never-to-be-repeated, stardust essence living in a body. Claiming our right to exist and right to need is a guilty state, and we so desire to be innocent. It’s only by accepting the guilty state of existing, of needing and of desiring and living into our vision for ourselves that we ironically do honor our ancestors and honor Life.
What does creating a burlesque solo from the inside out have to do with healing intergenerational trauma? Everything. It’s one avenue, one practice that I know from my own experience and that of my mentees over the last two decades, that can provide this elusive marriage of Full Human Self Expression and Freedom, with Safety and Belonging. Being seen and mirrored on our own terms by those capable of seeing us is a key element in this movement. We begin to recognize that we do not die when we allow someone else to see our Radiant Essence, and we can allow even more of ourselves to show up.