Kelly Shaw ~ Somatic & Mindset Coach. Dance Artist

🦋 It’s YOU who gets to decide the Manifesto of your life. . What you focus on expands — whether it’s your insecurities and self doubt or TRUST and POSSIBILITY. . Don’t sleep on your own choices. Your privilege. Your gifts. . Can you choose to love yourself enough to really go for it? Your life is happening NOW. . We are alive during complicated times, so if not now….? . What and who will matter most when it’s all over ♥️ . Which one resonates most for you?

37🎉 And not ashamed to admit: • 💸 Wish I had more savings and assets • 🧘🏻‍♀️ Still working on healthy body image & communicating my needs • 🛤️ Craving a clearer career path in this transitional season • 💔 Healing guilt & frustration from old relationship patterns . Shifting from my dance-focused life—a core identity for so long—feels scary and vulnerable. I’m grieving that foundation and anxious for more certainty and control. . But here’s the 🔥 SPARK: I’m inspired, healthy, aligned, and braver than ever! 🚀 . I’m coaching more clients, chasing big dreams, traveling, diving into love and more growth. Doing the work works! ❤️‍🩹 . Stay tuned as I celebrate this new year sharing more mindset, embodiment, relationship, and self-healing tools to fuel transformation. 🌱 Let’s step towards our upgraded selves together 💪 . This is a journey of grace, grit, & gratitude—who’s in? 💫 . Drop what you want to learn below👇 . #paradise #contemporarydancer #birthdaylove #selfhealing #selfesteem #holisticliving #somatichealing #holisticcoach #mindsetcoaching

I cried in the change room after and was certain I would never work again. 😇🥲 16 years of a professional career later: I often visualize this younger version of me and hug her so tightly. . Looking back now I see it all SO CLEARLY. . We cannot know what we know, until we do. . And THE TIMING of the learning is just as important as the learning itself. . Because our soul is on an expedition, that has to be timed accordingly for the evolution of our Self and contributions to the world. . If my deep insecurity and perfectionism hadn’t knocked me over on stage back in 2009 — I wouldn’t be the mindset and somatic coach I am today. I wouldn’t have the embodied and lived wisdom. . If I had gone out on stage and been effortlessly successful, launched into a career abroad in Europe with a full time company, without my chronic back pain and overly controlling, co-dependent and people pleasing tendencies: I wouldn’t be ME, with the dynamic career I have had and able to support the clients I do today. . If I learned anything earlier, my actions would have shifted - and my soul’s mission wouldn’t be fulfilled the same. . So next time you wish you “knew better” or “figured it out sooner” just remember it’s all FOR YOU to emerge in divine timing. The triggers. The fu*k ups, the lessons —If you had more control of your timing: you wouldn’t be on YOUR PATH. . I also used to worry about sounding too “woo” on here - and now, the timing is right for me to stop caring about that perception AT ALL. . Hands up baby! Enjoy the ride 🎢 . #somatichealing #contemporarydancer #selfesteem #holisticcoach #selflove #selfhealing #paradise #feeltoheal #feeltoheal #mindset #abundancemindset #visiondriven #madeformore #growthmindset

Barre jungle era 🌴 Last Saturday Power Barre of this season tomorrow at Invictus 8 AM Feeling grateful for all the moves, grooves, pulses & energy shared with the Invictus community 💚 Power Barre continues with @k22shaw on Wednesdays 10AM 💛⚡️ 📍 @invictusbodyflow 🔗 link in my bio to book or 💌 dm to rsvp - Super grip traveller mat by @bhalfmoon_official 🤍 Discount code KWIT15 💌

☝️IT’s CALLED “SURVIVAL BIAS” . Your brain actually thinks it’s PRESERVING energy when you loop on old negative thought loops or get stuck in a fear based assumption 🌀 It perceives familiar as less effort. . Your mind isn’t BROKEN, it’s just LOUD: It doesn’t care about keeping you happy, it cares about keeping you alive. . But the truth is, it may be keeping you alive and miserable…it may be keeping you from everything you actually want. . YES — it will take more AWARENESS and REFINEMENT in the moment to choose best case scenario or a thought of gratitude… . MOSTLY it just takes WILLINGNESS to notice when you’re on AUTO-PILOT 🚗 . AND it sure as Hell isn’t saving you any energy or brain cells to think OUTDATED, catastrophic, negative thoughts that assume the worst outcomes. . GOOD NEWS IS 🗞️ . You actually get to Choose YOUR thoughts and where you spend your ENERGY more wisely 🦋✨🎉 . It MIGHT just change your life. 😘 . (This video was a real time shift I did, when my mind really wanted to go into old negative patterns; I used somatic movement, music & thought pattern recognition FOR THE WIN : as you can see — It actually gave me MORE ENERGY 🏆)

❤️‍🔥 “I can do hard things” has been the theme of the week with clients. . You’re a perseverant, high achieving, DETERMINED spirit. . You have never NOT BEEN — Stop doubting yourself. . Grace and Grit 💪💫🧚‍♀️ . I gave myself permission to rest more this week, and noticed my all or nothing thinking 🥵 woof…What hard thing did you do!?

🧚‍♀️Where your attention goes, ENERGY FLOWS — And energy creates MORE ENERGY in that direction 🔃 . Everything is a miracle if you CHOOSE to believe it is. . Call me cliche or cheesy or “woo woo” : DON’T CARE. . Choosing to believe this changed my whole life. 🌅

Put down your stories, overwhelm, stress (bag of ROCKS) for 20 seconds and do this — you can pick it all right back up when you’re done if you want, but you’ll probably choose more wisely. 🪨 . I sent this reminder to my clients yesterday. ENJOY 😘 . Shoutout @othership for my fav sauna hat that I still rep in the Costa Rican Jungle 🧊🔥🌴

I’ve had a disordered relationship with my body, food and exercise since I was a teenager. . No surprises there: It is sadly common and pervasive…and then add professional dancer 😮‍💨 . In truth, it’s a bid for control, and feeling unsafe in my own body and experience — so in fact, I’m grateful for the coping mechanism and distraction that my brilliant survival brain and nervous system built for me. . Nowadays, as I’m still healing old patterns, any time intrusive, judgemental or restrictive thoughts pop in my head, I first say thank you for trying to protect me! “I see you” . Then I ask my Self : “Do I want to be part of the problem or the solution?” and this creates the space for a different more loving choice towards myself and my body…because it’s about something way bigger than me and my ego!!! —> . Do I want to perpetuate unhealthy standards and trends of low self worth? . Some days it’s easier than others, but I’m out here fighting the good fight. And not giving up until the only thing left is unconditional Love. . I invite you to join me today even for a moment, in offering yourself and your beautiful body a little more Grace and appreciation — hard as it may be. . Let’s become the change we want to see 🫂🫶

🦋Your body, expression and voice are your “not so SECRET WEAPONS”⚔️ . But we SO OFTEN get distracted and stressed and overcomplicate things. . In this age of technology, AI and analysis, we spin and spiral around up in our thinking MINDs alllllll time, when FEELING BETTER could be JUST one movement or sound away! . How about listening to your body and letting the energy PLAY and FLOW how it wants to?! 🤸 With no pre-determined outcome in mind — Especially my high achieving perfectionists out there… 👀 . 12/10 times it works to shift my mood, state and perspective. 🧠 . Practicing flowing FOR FUN here with my ride or die twinny, as we always do. Love you @kwit 🌊🦋 . Moving in the gorgeous home of @invictusbodyflow where we teach weekly and share our somatic strength training practices 🥲🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️

🫂 @mastinkipp wrote this perfectly — and I sent it to every client last week: Here’s why ✨ . As a sensitive child, your body wasn’t equipped for how big the overwhelm felt, when you perceived something as threatening to your safety or belonging. And it’s not anyone’s fault. . But that’s exactly why you still carry an open stress loop, internalized limiting beliefs, and that loud inner critic saying “I’ll never be enough” or “It’s not safe to mess up.” . Because your brilliant nervous system built false reasoning and armour to protect you…HOW SMART!? . and now it quietly, unconsciously recreates the very circumstances it’s trying to avoid. . because PLOT TWIST! : Your ego keeps collecting evidence to prove the old stories right. . Breaking the pattern requires brave, unfinished conversations with your younger self (and sometimes others). Not just thinking about it — feeling it. Letting your body finally get the memo. (Nervous system stuff) . It’s messy. It’s repetitive. . And it’s the most liberating work you’ll ever do. . I’m right here in it with you — on my knees, talking to little Kelly, surrendering control to God. . You’re not broken. You’re becoming free. Keep going. I’ll meet you there 🤍

🌎 Ain’t Earth school really about learning this OVER AND OVER again? . We spend so much time running from past hurt to avoid imaginary future pain… Until we realize that we are the writers of our own present moment story. . The past two weeks in the jungle have been INTENSE in every beautiful and challenging way: DAILY growth and awareness calling me into presence more than ever. Inviting me to NOTICE and see more clearly — to expand into Love over fear. . 🌴 Nature grows and changes so quickly here, it accepts whatever the elements bring - it doesn’t cling to old versions or expired beliefs - and asks me to do the same. . I continue to learn with and within this body as a movement artist. What a gift to be moved by life. . We are all dancers and LIFE is simply dancing THROUGH us. . One. Step. At. A. Time. . Slow down or you’ll miss the opportunity for Love and Life’s dance inside each moment. ESPECIALLY the ugly, crunchy ones… . 💫🥹💃🏻