ABOUT ME...
My name is Teagan Rose.
I am a Certified Somatic Therapist (CST-L1), Movement and Voice Teacher, Actor and Multidisciplinary Performer, Published Photographer and Author.
I offer weekly classes in Santa Barbara at the Power of Your Om yoga studio, Yoga Soup, and PALMA Colectiva. Additionally, I am the Staff Coordinator for the Sunday Conscious Dance in Santa Barbara, Dance Hive.
I have been fascinated with human nature since I was 12, when I started acting.
I was always a creative—drawing, writing, singing, imagining other worlds—and the art of acting was a way that I could understand the intricacies of life and relationships from inside the perspective of different characters. Of course, I wasn't fully aware that this is what I was doing at age 12—at that time, the theatre was simply a place where I felt free to express the bigness of the emotions I felt inside.
After working in short films and plays in the Boston area for a few years, I attended the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA (class of '11), and then went on to get a BFA in Performance from the University of Michigan School for Music, Theatre & Dance (class of '15). I have been performing professionally in theatre and television for 16+ years, between Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Indianapolis. I adore this art. It will forever be a part of how I see the world.
I entered an ecstatic dance space for the first time in 2015. That day changed my life. Though I continued to perform through 2018, my relationship to performance as 'my everything' started to shift—ultimately in a healthy way.
Ecstatic dance and containers like it gave me a new lens to feel through. I started recognizing that there were ways that I was hiding from myself through the characters I would play. From 2015-2020 I went on a quest to form a new relationship with my body, and how I wanted to be offering my gifts to the world. I had been teaching movement and voice to teen actors for a few years, and began to expand my vision on the healing benefits of theatre, movement and voice.
From 2018 on I was participating in trainings in embodied dance, holistic coaching, somatic trauma release, primal movement, and offering my own workshops. The merging of theatre, movement and vocal expression have become an inseparable part of how I unite my work in the arts with the health and wellness world, and an inseparable part of how I connect with myself daily.
Aside from my formal trainings, I can’t say enough how much is learned through living. There have been countless mentors, teachers, and guides that have been essential in my growth, whether they knew it or not. Relationships, experiences, places, people. While I can’t name all of you here, I can say, thank you from my whole heart for helping me become who I am.
I am a student of the body and of life. I continue to study to deepen my own personal practice and enrichment as a person, and my abilities as a space holder and guide for others. My current passions are in studying somatics therapies, aerial arts, acrobatics, and vocal techniques.
The more I learn, the more I return to this truth that the body is the teacher. This is the truth that guides my work.
I am a Certified Somatic Therapist (CST-L1), Movement and Voice Teacher, Actor and Multidisciplinary Performer, Published Photographer and Author.
I offer weekly classes in Santa Barbara at the Power of Your Om yoga studio, Yoga Soup, and PALMA Colectiva. Additionally, I am the Staff Coordinator for the Sunday Conscious Dance in Santa Barbara, Dance Hive.
I have been fascinated with human nature since I was 12, when I started acting.
I was always a creative—drawing, writing, singing, imagining other worlds—and the art of acting was a way that I could understand the intricacies of life and relationships from inside the perspective of different characters. Of course, I wasn't fully aware that this is what I was doing at age 12—at that time, the theatre was simply a place where I felt free to express the bigness of the emotions I felt inside.
After working in short films and plays in the Boston area for a few years, I attended the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA (class of '11), and then went on to get a BFA in Performance from the University of Michigan School for Music, Theatre & Dance (class of '15). I have been performing professionally in theatre and television for 16+ years, between Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Indianapolis. I adore this art. It will forever be a part of how I see the world.
I entered an ecstatic dance space for the first time in 2015. That day changed my life. Though I continued to perform through 2018, my relationship to performance as 'my everything' started to shift—ultimately in a healthy way.
Ecstatic dance and containers like it gave me a new lens to feel through. I started recognizing that there were ways that I was hiding from myself through the characters I would play. From 2015-2020 I went on a quest to form a new relationship with my body, and how I wanted to be offering my gifts to the world. I had been teaching movement and voice to teen actors for a few years, and began to expand my vision on the healing benefits of theatre, movement and voice.
From 2018 on I was participating in trainings in embodied dance, holistic coaching, somatic trauma release, primal movement, and offering my own workshops. The merging of theatre, movement and vocal expression have become an inseparable part of how I unite my work in the arts with the health and wellness world, and an inseparable part of how I connect with myself daily.
Aside from my formal trainings, I can’t say enough how much is learned through living. There have been countless mentors, teachers, and guides that have been essential in my growth, whether they knew it or not. Relationships, experiences, places, people. While I can’t name all of you here, I can say, thank you from my whole heart for helping me become who I am.
I am a student of the body and of life. I continue to study to deepen my own personal practice and enrichment as a person, and my abilities as a space holder and guide for others. My current passions are in studying somatics therapies, aerial arts, acrobatics, and vocal techniques.
The more I learn, the more I return to this truth that the body is the teacher. This is the truth that guides my work.
ON MOVEMENT.
Movement is an essential piece of life being able to thrive.
All plants and animals exist in a state of change—growing, learning, evolving, expanding—this is movement.
The more we, the human animal, can support and encourage the movement of nature within ourselves, the more we are able to manifest living in a thriving state. This especially includes exploring movement pathways that are unfamiliar, to keep the body and mind supple in its ability to change.
Free-form dance and movement can liberate the things we can't liberate with our minds.
The mind is essential to our experience of life—it is our problem solver. Where we can often get stuck is when we see our life, our body, and our emotions as a problem to be solved...
Rather than seeing our life, our body and our emotions as an opportunity to learn and play.
Non-linear movement, ecstatic dance, contact improvisation, embodied dance techniques, physical play, (and vocal exploration as it is an integral part of the body!), these are all ways we can become more fluent in the language of our bodies, and create a relationship with ourselves that truly feels like home.
All plants and animals exist in a state of change—growing, learning, evolving, expanding—this is movement.
The more we, the human animal, can support and encourage the movement of nature within ourselves, the more we are able to manifest living in a thriving state. This especially includes exploring movement pathways that are unfamiliar, to keep the body and mind supple in its ability to change.
Free-form dance and movement can liberate the things we can't liberate with our minds.
The mind is essential to our experience of life—it is our problem solver. Where we can often get stuck is when we see our life, our body, and our emotions as a problem to be solved...
Rather than seeing our life, our body and our emotions as an opportunity to learn and play.
Non-linear movement, ecstatic dance, contact improvisation, embodied dance techniques, physical play, (and vocal exploration as it is an integral part of the body!), these are all ways we can become more fluent in the language of our bodies, and create a relationship with ourselves that truly feels like home.
ON VOICE.
The voice IS movement. The voice is a powerful and primal method of communication and healing. It is one with the body and all the sensations in it.
When we are in moments of grief, pain, exhilaration, pleasure, hilarity, the voice creates extra vibration in the body to be able to move the energy of emotion and sensation through and out. Could you imagine dropping a weight on your foot and not making any sound at all? Or could you imagine seeing the person you love most for the first time in 5 years and holding all your sound inside you?
Many have learned through cultural norms and expectations to denounce expressive emotional sound. I'm of the belief that the shaming of sound-making has restricted our ability to experience the depths of sensation and emotionality that are available.
I'm here to support vocal, emotional and physical freedom.
When we are in moments of grief, pain, exhilaration, pleasure, hilarity, the voice creates extra vibration in the body to be able to move the energy of emotion and sensation through and out. Could you imagine dropping a weight on your foot and not making any sound at all? Or could you imagine seeing the person you love most for the first time in 5 years and holding all your sound inside you?
Many have learned through cultural norms and expectations to denounce expressive emotional sound. I'm of the belief that the shaming of sound-making has restricted our ability to experience the depths of sensation and emotionality that are available.
I'm here to support vocal, emotional and physical freedom.
ON ACTING.
Acting as an art provides the opportunity to explore the Self through the body and psyche of the many different characters of existence (including the many characters living within us!).
I learn so much about myself through becoming someone else. How I'm similar to the character, how I'm very different, where I feel discomfort and triggers in portraying this character, where I feel liberated, and so on. It is valuable to risk looking silly, strange, ugly or "out of character" in order to develop the muscles of self acceptance and self knowing, and to bring deeper understanding to patterns of human behavior. We may never know our own brilliance, power, nature, wisdom, unless we risk trying something new.
Through acting we can explore our psychology from the inside out, and we are able to do it with fun, silliness, and curiosity. This art has allowed me to see every life event as an opportunity to learn something, to grow, to stand in awe of the grand play of life.
I learn so much about myself through becoming someone else. How I'm similar to the character, how I'm very different, where I feel discomfort and triggers in portraying this character, where I feel liberated, and so on. It is valuable to risk looking silly, strange, ugly or "out of character" in order to develop the muscles of self acceptance and self knowing, and to bring deeper understanding to patterns of human behavior. We may never know our own brilliance, power, nature, wisdom, unless we risk trying something new.
Through acting we can explore our psychology from the inside out, and we are able to do it with fun, silliness, and curiosity. This art has allowed me to see every life event as an opportunity to learn something, to grow, to stand in awe of the grand play of life.
CERTIFICATIONS & CREDENTIALS
Certified Somatic Therapist through the Somatic Therapy Center in PA (CST L-1)
Embodied Dance Facilitator Training with Mana Mei
WildGrace Foundations Training with Sigourney Belle, Kathryn Rollins, and Saya Hayashi
Journeys of Wisdom Holistic Coaching Training with John McMullan
BFA in Performance from the University of Michigan
Professional Actor/Performer 16+ years
Embodied Movement Investigator 8 years
Dance and Contact Improvisation 7 years
A member of Actor's Equity and SAG-AFTRA
Embodied Dance Facilitator Training with Mana Mei
WildGrace Foundations Training with Sigourney Belle, Kathryn Rollins, and Saya Hayashi
Journeys of Wisdom Holistic Coaching Training with John McMullan
BFA in Performance from the University of Michigan
Professional Actor/Performer 16+ years
Embodied Movement Investigator 8 years
Dance and Contact Improvisation 7 years
A member of Actor's Equity and SAG-AFTRA
