This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Dialogical Persona founder Kelsay Myers!
My name is Kelsay, and I am a professional writer, artist, and somatic movement educator living in Marin County, CA. I’m passionate about personal and social transformation through embodiment and expressive arts. I stand for self-expression in all of its forms: embodied, spiritual, written, and living.
Born in Busan, South Korea, and relinquished at birth, I was adopted by a close and loving family and raised in West Michigan. Often, I write and speak about being a Korean adoptee because it is the space I exist in at all times. It can be painful having one’s initial entry into the world be an unendurable sense of abandonment and loss: of a mother, a home, a country, and a culture, even of my original name, Jin Jung Mee. Sometimes, I can feel that sadness envelop me, and I will look down at my hands. All I can grasp is the emptiness as a lifetime’s worth of sorrow slips through the spaces between my fingers. Conscious dance, writing, soul work, and self-inquiry through the embodied healing arts have allowed me to claim a space for myself where I can feel whole again.
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