Freefall
Freefall is a 2-day mini retreat where you release yourself from the need to perform and feel the joy of just being you.
August 15 & 16 | Brooklyn, NY
It's exhausting to perform.
It's like you can never get it right.
Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank text box trying to send a text but having nothing to say?
It feels like you have nothing to say, but you do know what to say… you're just trying to make what you say sound witty or interesting.
This is the sneaky way performing makes it into our lives, stealing our energy.
We don't notice that we're performing because it's become the subconscious way we just live.
The only thing we do notice is that we're tired all the time and that things just never feel enough.
Being seen triggers the need to perform
Performing means you are "appearing" instead of "being"
Being seen is the training ground where performing becomes visible.
You haven't noticed the extent that you perform because you live with it everyday and for years.
But when you get on stage you notice it. You notice how exhausting it feels to over prepare for a performance. How you'll spend forever choreographing it down to the last detail, and then rehearse it until you injure yourself. All to be perfect when you are seen.
You notice it when the nerves shoot through your body as soon as you're in the spotlight and how it gives you the urge to be perfect. How nothing you do feels good enough.
This is because being seen triggers the fear of rejection, a survival instinct that operates on a subconscious level.
When we're afraid of being rejected, we perform.
Performing stops when you start feeling and being
We can't change our survival instinct. But we can change the mental loop that causes us to perform.
Performing happens when you're afraid of the judgment of others. It happens when you need to control the outcome. It happens when you're afraid of how you might feel about yourself.
I used to think being seen was just about getting comfortable with visibility, but what I realized is that it's really about getting comfortable with yourself.
Because when you're comfortable with yourself, you can be judged by others. You can be ok with the worst case scenario. You can feel bad about yourself without letting it define who you are.
That is what sets you free.
Here’s how I get you there:
Center stage is a 2-day mini retreat designed to help you embody the two skills that will shift your identity from someone that feels the need to perform to someone that feels free to be who they are.
The focus of this immersive experience is to learn how to set yourself free from the need to perform—whether that’s in movement or in life—it’s all the same skill! Movement is where we create the lived experience of releasing the need to perform and showing up as ourselves because once we know what it feels like, we can do it everywhere else in our lives.
Located in Bushwick, New York.
Dance is the language that we learn this by, but you do not have to be a dancer!
Frequently Asked Questions
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No such thing! The focus of this mini retreat is to learn how to set yourself free from the need to perform—not on dancing better!
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2 full days, lunch each day, lifetime access to the digital guidebook
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The mini retreat will be held at a private location in Bushwick a few blocks from the L train Jefferson stop.