Showgirl Awakening summer school 2026
EMERGENCE
a Mystery School offering for highly sensitive, neurospicy, over-adapting women ready to unmask and reclaim their radiant self-expression and self-possession
Embodied Movement l Witnessing l Embodied Astrology l Constellations
Mondays July 13 - August 17 @ 5-7p PT
$395 early bird ; $495 full bird
$495 early bird ; $595 full bird (with an embodied reading of your own astrological chart–6 spots)
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).
What exactly will we DO in EMERGENCE?
Great Q!
The first hour will primarily be dedicated to witnessing one another.
This kind of witnessing is the foundation of being seen in a way that calls out your essence, your authentic self … your soul.
You’ll have full choice around if, when,and how to be seen. Truly. It will be on your terms.
This kind of witnessing is also the foundation of any kind of satisfying performance, including conscious burlesque. It’s really more of an UNperforming.
We’ll use music and brief improvisational exercises to help us embody what we’re discovering, rather than simply thinking or talking about it.
Then in the second hour, we’ll shift gears.
Each week we’ll witness one woman’s living astrological chart.
By living, I mean we’ll explore a chart that is actively unfolding right now. Some of you will embody planets, archetypes and other elements of her soul map. Together, we’ll witness – and participate in – her unfolding at this unique juncture in human history.
Through our time together, we’ll be cultivating a field that invites deconditioning, unmasking, authenticity, vulnerability, agency, aliveness, homecoming and the highest octave of love.
By the way, whether you’re brand new to dance, astrology, or constellations—or you’ve been immersed in them for years—you are warmly welcome.
If you’d like to have your chart be one of the 6 per cohort that we set up, choose the payment option corresponding to that choice.
“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
“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.
