We are a collective of dancers with 20+ years in the mental health field and nearly four decades of professional ballet experience.
Our experiential approach fosters both mindset shifts and body awareness. We aim to normalize mental health, enhance accessibility, and remove barriers.
Dancers can access preventative tools, find support during challenges, and engage with courses, podcasts, workshops, coaching, seminars, and retreats.Â
Our Mission
Dance is an artistic pursuit with high demands and lofty, often unreachable, expectations that can create tension between the art form and holistic well-being. As a result isolation, perfectionism, body image issues, self-criticism, anxiety, and absolute thinking can manifest.
Although awareness is growing, mental health stigma persists in dance communities, often making support reactive rather than integrated into the dancer’s overall experience.
We offer an outlet to challenge these cultural pressures by fostering an embodied and authentic space, countering Western ideals of achievement, perfectionism, and external validation. Our aim is to help dancers (and high achievers) express themselves from a place of creativity, empowerment and wholeness.
How Are We Different?
Embodiment
We offer a unique approach to connecting with your body, focusing on relationship and inner experience rather than just the exterior.
Experiential
Our content blends scientifically backed practices with personalized services, such as meditations, body scans, breathing exercises, and journaling, to foster meaningful connection.
Psychoeducation
We provide evidence-based tools from mental health professionals who are also experienced dancers, combining expertise from both fields.
Flexibility
Whether you have time for a deep practice or just a five-minute break, our work is designed to be done at your own pace, on your own schedule, and from any device.
Who Is This For?
the bunhead
the student
the pre professional
the newly-professional
the ballerina
the danseur
the almost retired
the retired dancer
the studio teacher
the rehearsal director
the artistic director
"At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
–Lao Tzu
Meet the Founders
Kari Brunson WrightÂ
After almost a decade-long career as dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet and 12 years as a plant-based food entrepreneur and CEO, Kari discovered that what brought her the most joy and fulfillment was helping people grow personally, professionally and spiritually. In 2022, she became a certified coach and started a practice with a focus on “being well”. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two young children and spends her time cooking vegetables, listening to podcasts, reading fiction, and digging in her garden.
Rachel CoatsÂ
Rachel is a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Washington and a former professional ballet dancer of 15 years. She sees clients in private practice and has a passion for helping dancers navigate their art form in an expansive and healthy way. She enjoys traveling, spiritual practice, exploring the forests and waters of the Pacific Northwest, and experiencing the world through the fresh eyes and open heart of her young son.
Josh SpellÂ
Josh is a licensed social worker in the state of Washington and currently works in private practice in Seattle. Before beginning his practice, Josh worked in the field of eating disorders and generalized behavioral health settings. He was a dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet from 2001 to 2011 and danced with Kansas City Ballet for two seasons. In addition to his therapist and social worker identities, Josh is a plant enthusiast, world traveller, aesthete, and lover of the arts.
