Teagan Rose
My name is Teagan.
I am an Embodiment & Voice Activation Guide, Artist and Actor.
I have been fascinated with human nature since I was 12, when the art of acting found me and I began exploring this journey of life through different creative lenses.
I was always a high creative—drawing, writing, singing, imagining other worlds—and have now been a professional performer for 15 years. I have mostly worked in the theatre, performing in plays in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Indianapolis, but have dabbled in TV and film during my time on the LA scene from 2015-2018.
Although I was trained in musical theater as well as acting, I truly fell in love with dance about 6 years ago when I entered an ecstatic dance space for the first time, and on the same day had my first ever contact improvisation dance.
That day changed my life.
Since then, dance and movement have been 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 to myself daily.
It was through movement, dance, my creative spirit, and a very supportive community of family and loved ones that I call family, that I found myself waking up to myself and the human experience in a whole new way.
I am endlessly passionate and curious about emotional well being, somatics, vocal alchemy, childhood education, the creative arts, and human connection as a whole.
Supporting others and myself in continuously coming home to the body, to truth, and to creativity,
is the fire of my soul.
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.
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 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 years and holding all your sound inside you?
Many of us have been brought up in a society that has denounced expressive emotional sound. I'm of the belief that the shaming of sound-making has restricted humans' ability to experience the depths of sensation and emotionality that are available to them. I'm here to support the liberation of vocal freedom.
ON ACTING
Acting and Performance provide the opportunity to explore the Self within the body and psyche of the many different characters of existence (including the many characters living within us!).
I have often said, "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 in portraying this character, where I feel liberated, and so on. It is so important 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 understanding to patterns of human behavior. We may never know our own brilliance, power, nature, wisdom, unless we risk trying something new, strange or uncomfortable.
Through acting/performance, we can explore ourselves 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 Play of Life.
TRAINING/CREDENTIALS
Embodied Dance Temple Keepers 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 15 years.
Dance and Contact Improvisation 6 years.
A member of Actor's Equity and SAG-AFTRA.
I am an Embodiment & Voice Activation Guide, Artist and Actor.
I have been fascinated with human nature since I was 12, when the art of acting found me and I began exploring this journey of life through different creative lenses.
I was always a high creative—drawing, writing, singing, imagining other worlds—and have now been a professional performer for 15 years. I have mostly worked in the theatre, performing in plays in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Indianapolis, but have dabbled in TV and film during my time on the LA scene from 2015-2018.
Although I was trained in musical theater as well as acting, I truly fell in love with dance about 6 years ago when I entered an ecstatic dance space for the first time, and on the same day had my first ever contact improvisation dance.
That day changed my life.
Since then, dance and movement have been 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 to myself daily.
It was through movement, dance, my creative spirit, and a very supportive community of family and loved ones that I call family, that I found myself waking up to myself and the human experience in a whole new way.
I am endlessly passionate and curious about emotional well being, somatics, vocal alchemy, childhood education, the creative arts, and human connection as a whole.
Supporting others and myself in continuously coming home to the body, to truth, and to creativity,
is the fire of my soul.
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.
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 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 years and holding all your sound inside you?
Many of us have been brought up in a society that has denounced expressive emotional sound. I'm of the belief that the shaming of sound-making has restricted humans' ability to experience the depths of sensation and emotionality that are available to them. I'm here to support the liberation of vocal freedom.
ON ACTING
Acting and Performance provide the opportunity to explore the Self within the body and psyche of the many different characters of existence (including the many characters living within us!).
I have often said, "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 in portraying this character, where I feel liberated, and so on. It is so important 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 understanding to patterns of human behavior. We may never know our own brilliance, power, nature, wisdom, unless we risk trying something new, strange or uncomfortable.
Through acting/performance, we can explore ourselves 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 Play of Life.
TRAINING/CREDENTIALS
Embodied Dance Temple Keepers 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 15 years.
Dance and Contact Improvisation 6 years.
A member of Actor's Equity and SAG-AFTRA.