Meet Morgyn:
Healing Artist

“Healer, heal thyself."
My story and studies began as a “wounded healer” whose professional studies, training, and experience have also required self-healing from trauma and mental illness while teaching others from that experience.

My commitment as a wellness practitioner, conscious performer, and choreographer is to model and embody this healing with the intention to support and encourage others in their recovery.

Self-love,
spiritual practice,
a holistic/active lifestyle,
and creative expression
have been foundations of my toolbox for recovery as well as professional specialization.
We incorporate them in manageable and effective ways.

I always tell my clients and students:
“The best plan is the one that we use and that works for us.”

I've developed my multidisciplinary approach for the past 25+ years:
dance movement & performance as a healing art
fitness/core rehabilitation-to-strength
breathwork
meditation
bodywork
to support (primarily) women of all ages to embrace their whole selves and dancer spirits in the divine feminine way…
trauma
abuse
core and pelvic dysfunctions
low back & hip pain
scar tissue
digestive issues
disconnection from the belly, body, and the self

We incorporate these healing elements to encourage creative expression in daily life
as well as my 1:1 coaching program, workshops, classes, and interactive performance.

In 1995 at 27, I began professional studies in both spiritual and physical healing.
At 28, I started performing bellydance teaching it as a healing art for women,
incorporating guided breathwork meditation into my classes and workshops.
I’m a certified Dance & Embodiment Coach (YogaFaith)
My studies included Integrated Internal Organ Massage,
a Chinese Taoist healing art and “Unwinding the Belly” with Allison Post:
belly massage
breath work
energy work
I went on to become a licensed massage therapist (2004) incorporating many modalities and certifications.
Personal Trainer Functional Fitness certification (NASM),
Corrective exercise/Core & Diastasis Consultant certifications (2010, 2013) with James Goodlatte of Fit for Birth
Thai Yoga massage (2009).

I do not claim to do the healing.
We must be open to activating our own self-healing and
Creator will do the healing.
I believe in magic and the infinite power of love.

My job is to be a clear channel for this loving, powerful force and allow people their own healing and growth process. I am there to share my skills, tools, techniques, information, support, and to “hold sacred space” from the heart for each person’s own unfolding.

My other personal passions include music, nature, warmth and sunshine, quality time with friends and family, bicycling, yin yoga, swimming, hiking, writing, reading, travel, languages, cooking, eating, and sharing good food, thrift shops, interior/furniture design, comedy and just laughing, gardening, and all things connected with the ocean and warm water. 

READ about my own mental health recovery journey and work as a trauma recovery & dance advocate.

“Dancer, you must dance.
It’s your lifeline and medicine to share.”
-Spirit

I was born to dance; it has always been my “lifeline” along with my love for Mother Earth and the unseen spiritual realms. I saw my first bellydancer as a little girl and was completely mesmerized (I also loved the food!). The experience planted the seed for a lifetime passion for the mysterious, mystical power of bellydance and all healthy, natural feminine movement and energy.

Are you a dancer spirit on a healing path?

Born in 1968, I'm a child of the 1970’s and still a free spirit. I was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, a vibrant and prominent “cradle of jazz”. My father was a jazz musician and Latin dance instructor in the 50's and 60's and both of my parents were avid, unbridled dancers and artists. We also celebrated our ancient Celtic & British Isles roots.

I loved to dance to rock (my British mother was the greatest Beatles fan), funk, and disco and always naturally danced and moved from my hips. Like so many U.S. Americans and people throughout the world, my relationship to dance was deeply influenced by the creative brilliance of African-American culture. 

I never thought I'd want to study ballet. I hated it as a little girl for many reasons. It felt unnatural and rigid. My little body was stiff from holding sexual abuse trauma, no instructor supported or encouraged me, and, even then, my body type didn't fit the accepted image of a thin body and legs with straight lines. Then our community center offered a class for "creative free dance" where we danced in circles and ran around with scarves moving with joy and imagination. THIS was my class!

Dancing at parties as a teenager in the 1980's and then clubs in the '90's, the Latin dance forms of salsa, merengue, and Mexican cumbia blew me away with joy and opened another amazing and organic door of freedom through hip movement, rhythm, and social connection. 

I didn't seriously take dance classes until my 20's. It was then that cabaret bellydance gave me a gentle re-introduction to balletic influences. Ultimately, it was the kind, unwavering support of my spiritual teacher in the 1990's and that embrace of bellydance in my 20’s that gave me the confidence to call myself a “dancer” and the dance vocabulary and style to help me find my voice as a performer and dance instructor. It allowed me to heal as a woman and feel my strength. It became a foundation to expand and explore dance in general.

Eventually my body wanted to do modern dance which was a great complement to my taste for avant-garde creative expression as well as strength training/functional fitness movement. I am always exploring creative movement and love fusion.

Anything can become

a dance.

My deep passion is to go out in nature to dance and pray. I often dance as I walk because it makes me happy and helps to reduce stress and regulate my mood. I find places in nature and city parks to practice and choreograph; my “studio time". This is the foundation for my dance therapy practice.

I love to experiment with movement and exploring my inner world and personal healing process which have become choreography for performance at mental health conferences, healing centers and events. Hours can go by like minutes and it feels like there’s never enough time to drink from this well of creative expression. 

It was a blessing to study with bellydance teachers Kathryn Ferguson in Tucson, AZ and then teachers Emma Holder, Joie Grandbois, and Rosa Noreen in Portland, Maine. I pursued a long-buried fascination and intuitive connection with modern dance with Jessica Lockhart in Portland as an added layer to the fusion of styles that feel so natural to me. I also had the honor there of studying and performing “Entertainment Hula” and other Polynesian dances with Victoria Boucher who shares her Samoan family tradition. 

I seek to live within and explore vibrant and dynamic communities brimming with creativity among fascinating individuals and collectives. I would like to see society: the streets and buildings, sidewalks, parks, mountains, and beaches lined with people dancing and living in harmony, joy, love, and freedom.