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heartwork, Havelock North (2025)

11/12/2025

A few selects from our wedding back in September Spring. I was supposed to share earlier & then got overwhelmed with the sheer volume of incredible photos from the insanely talented .photography 💘
We were legally bound in union with the above & beyond ultra babe Thank you darling!
My sis in law did allll the gloss & curls, so lucky to have you
We mini-mooned in between vows & soirée at our forever favourite . Basically ate everything on the menu (we dined twice at their gorgeous restaurant for dinner) & played tourist in QT for about an hour before retreating to drink very good wine & eat very good chocolates a la accompanied by very bad tv in our room.
We rested up flew back home, Air NZ lost our bags - LOLS ( I was not chill - half my outfit for the ‘reception’ was in there!) Should I tag them? 😂
Thank you for finding magnolias as big as my head & also adoring is the most sumptuous beautiful florals it has probably ever seen - actually breathtaking 💘
And team for keeping us fed & watered. You have the BEST low-key-cosy yet grandest views in the Bay type of venue out!
And to my gal & your incredibly talented band, you guys brought the vibes. I don’t think there was a single person in the house that didn’t shake their ass to your music. You are a MF powerhouse on the vocals - holy s**t! for keeping that energy flowing as that dance floor continued to roll!
And to every other legend/love/family that joined us in celebrating our love - WOW to see you all in one room blew my mind & filled my heart with so much joy I could’ve popped! We are just the luckiest!
And when someone asked once, would we get married?
I said I’d be a sacred thing to be James wife. And yes it is! Here’s to love, here’s to finding it, holding it & being it 💛⚡️

02/12/2025

A glorious gathering of some of the darlings that have been in my world of heart~work this year (& before that). The most delicious nourishing eats, angel notes from .doula (is there anything this woman can’t do?!) A few teary eyes in stories shared. And lots of hugs! I love this crew of woman! Thank you, thank you, thank you & to for hosting 🌞

heart~work returns next year in a different way, I love how she shapes, moves & adapts. Focused on more of a container named Amplified In Ritual, like the AIR we breathe, may the things that keep us held become an everyday motion. This is where the good stuff is, the clarity, the energy, the safety in our body, the spaciousness, the grace & the capacity to hold that.

I can’t wait to tell you more soon, but for now I close heart~work for the year from what it was to what it’s evolving into 💛🌞

More soon - loving you

Kelly ✨

03/11/2025

Spend 30 seconds with me in my garden. Relax your shoulders. Relax your jaw. Take some deep breaths through the nose & out the mouth. An invitation to take a love bite in time, a break, a breath.
Because you deserve it. Repeat until you feel calm & share with someone you know who needs it too 💘

30/10/2025

✨ re:florescence — a revival ✨

Mark this day - 7 December.
& I are so honoured to be holding re:florescence - a revival.

Float out on a cloud before the rush of the season.
Take a breath before you dive in ☁️

With gentle somatic movement guided by Kelly, woven with the sonic embrace of Amanda’s intuitive sound bath and instruments - join us for a whole-being reset.
Here, softness is safety.

You’ll travel through sound and slow, integrative movement — regulating the nervous system, releasing through dance, and arriving back home to your body so you can bloom again.

Join the waitlist — ticket details dropping soon 💛

23/10/2025

I’ve changed ✨💛
And so has heart~work. A work in progress type evolution!

What began as a somatic dance class has become a living practice for embodiment, emotion, and evolution.

I’m Kelly — creator, guide & student.
I guide women who’ve been running on empty
from overwhelm, disconnection & self-sacrifice
to empowerment, embodiment & deep aliveness.

Through somatic movement, emotional release, and ritual, we tune in to the body & rise from there.

This is where healing becomes movement,
and movement becomes transformation.

This next chapter feels deeper, slower, more real. More streamlined & like I’m wholly stepping in. And I can’t wait to show you what’s on offer.

Welcome/welcome back 💛✨

Loving you
Kelly ⚡️

21/10/2025

I don’t do this work because of some holier than thou complex , I do it because me NOW is the person I needed then .

I was diagnosed with PTSD, then chronic fatigue after a long term abusive relationship resulting in me being the sole (soul) parent to my eldest child when he was 6 weeks old.
I stuffed down the sorrow, the terror, the heartbreak and ‘got on with it’.

It resulted in maddening & crippling anxiety attacks, I was so in denial that I had a heart monitor put on me at one stage, convinced that something was wrong with my heart, well it was but it wasn’t that!

It resulted in the numbing of myself, poor decisions, no boundaries, doing things that were out of character & punishing myself.

I wasn’t the person I wanted to become. As much as I tried to not be a victim, to give any more power to that person that tried to take it from me. I behaved like one. I felt entrapped.

I didn’t wear my trauma as a personality type but the unhealed version of me did. Textbook.

The PTSD then manifested into chronic fatigue, endometriosis & bouts of depression. The 3 hour long anxiety attacks shape shifted into these things getting louder and louder.

Something had to give because nothing else was working.

Finding EFT tapping 7 years ago & getting certified to help others - changed my life. It no doubt changed my life for the better. Along with somatic movement ( dance & system regulation ) keeps me primed for when I get rattled. The bounce back is quicker!

I haven’t cracked life yet by any means but dang it does just keeps getting better!

The thing is - I get it, I’ve been there. I think that’s why I lived a thousand lives in this life time in many different versions of myself to help me understand & empathise with others in this work.

I’ve been to the lowest lows & pulled myself back out of it - the will was good but the tools are better.

We don’t have to keep reliving the bulls**t. We don’t have to stay small.
We can amplify!
Want to know how? I’ll see you in my DM ✨💛

12/10/2025

10 reasons why it should be a part of your daily practice 💘
💛 Increases positive emotions and optimism
💛 Reduces anxiety, stress, and depression
💛 Improves sleep and lowers blood pressure
💛 Strengthens relationships and empathy
💛 Boosts resilience and ability to cope
💛 Activates reward and bonding brain pathways
💛 Enhances immune function and longevity
💛 Shifts focus from lack to appreciation
💛 Builds positive thought patterns over time
💛 Works best when practiced consistently & authentically
SO …
REPLY in the comments with emojis that show what you are grateful for, fell into it then let it flow.
LIKE someone else’s gratitude drop to lift the vibe even higher
TAG a homie(s) so that they can do the same

05/10/2025

‘This is abundance’ … I say this to myself about various things throughout my days. I show myself evidence of it daily in my life.
To me this feels like nourishment, plentiful nutrition & ease . Abundance doesn’t have to be thousands of dollars (although that is welcome too!) but looking for the signs of the evidence that it everywhere is something that I love to do.
Sometimes this can feel easy, sometimes a little harder. Reply in the comments of where you can see or feel abundance in your life right now…or in your future. You choose! This sweet little exercise me in check & in gratitude frequency ✨💛

29/09/2025

Who else is guilty of this? Saving the best to last but never quite making it there AKA putting yourself last.
The photo above is taken after my daughter Gigi had been asking to do my make up to which I was always saying that I was too busy. On Friday I sat my butt down & just surrendered. Yes the entire house was a mess, yep we were all still in pyjamas at 10am & the toddler was running rampant with my make up.
But I loved it & so did she. It doesn’t always have to be ‘sorted’ before you gifts yourself time…
If time out to dance & be with yourself this week sounds good. We will be online 9.30am Thursday & Saturday 10am. If you are in your pyjamas and you show up, know that I’ll love you even more 🤠✨💛

24/09/2025

This isn’t just some class that you turn up to each week, one foot in, one foot out. It’s not the class where you show up, sweat, groan, grit your way through then punish yourself again & again & again.
This is the MOVEMENT that you feel your way through, where you connect, where you remember, where your soul is stirred & you feel fu***ng ALIVE!
And once you start you can’t go back to what you thought you knew about ‘excercise’ or therapy for that matter.
This requires ALL of you! Mind, body, soul & emotions & those that do it, get it!!! It’s literally hitting you on every level, a truly holistic approach - that’s why it’s dance therapy! That’s why it feels so damn good!
I’m yet to find anything that makes me feel like this;
Energy instantly elevated
Clear headed
Emotions are balanced
Body worked in the most feminine way
Nervous system supported
A skin glow that money can’t buy
And guess what? You are invited too. Get in my world & find out for yourself!
Live online twice a week, Thu 9.30am & Sat 10am
(NZST)
For your weekly UPGRADE, DM me for the booking ✨

22/09/2025

Three things I am grateful for today upon waking today … I know school holidays can be a feat sometimes but take a minute 💘
Gratitude is a gift, a small practice to take us back to what matters, grounding & true .
✨COMMENT with emojis the things that you are grateful for ✨
✨Be sure to like other people’s gratitude emojis to amp up the love during this solar eclipse/spring equinox DELIGHT ✨

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