I was playing small in all the ways. I made myself wrong for being different.
I believed I had to overachieve and be perfect in everything I did. I was terrified of writing posts on Facebook.
I attached my self-worth to accomplishment and never felt like enough.
· Teaching beginning at age 14 - HipHop was my thing - 30+ years later, still here.
· Working two years at the Danish Royal Theater thinking that was going my way followed by studying dentistry for two at the university.
· Leading kitchens, fitness clubs and movement organizations.
· Starting my own company to share new ways of movement modalities
· Opening my studio in the heart of Copenhagen and ran it for 11 years.
· Traveling the world teaching my work and (co-)leading at teacher trainings.
· Decades of trainings including; QiGong, Chinese Medicine. Nia, Soul Motion, Ayurvedic Yoga Massage, Somatic Relationship, Self:Cervix.
· Creating Embodied Permission - a somatic approach to living, loving and leading with pleasure and play on purpose.
The more I achieved, the more not enoughness I felt, all of it was created from the ground of unworthiness.
I never played as small as when I was trying to play big.
My Story:
But I never played as small as when I was trying to play big.
I had my own amazing dance studio, I was invited around the world to share my work. I ran faster than I could follow.
The more I achieved, the more not enoughness I felt, all of it was created from the ground of unworthiness.
In the beginning of 2020 I traveled to the US thinking I was to go bigger and it became a whole different journey.
In a meadow at the foot of a mountain in Northern California I literally and metaphorically sat myself down.
It took the world being pressed on pause for me to see I was exactly where I needed to be. For the next four months I surrendered, I was broken open.
In the nothingness everything appeared. Not enough became I am worthy.
Like a volcano no longer willing to be tamed I took 20 years of teachings apart, added what I felt was missing and created what I myself needed, Embodied Permission - a somatic approach to living, loving and leading with pleasure, play and purpose.
The door to living a life smaller than I am was closed. I stepped into an entirely new level of boldness. I am living proof that when everything falls apart it is a detour in the right direction.
Rooted in my sovereignty the only person I needed permission from was myself.
What I have seen in my own life and the lives of so many that I have worked is that when we give ourselves that permission so much is possible; your truest desires and biggest dreams are spoken out loud coming into reality, you find your courage to claim your unique gifts, take the steps to the bold vision of yourself. In seeing and being seen you grow wider in all areas of your life and work.
I’ll meet you there - in a field of love wildly sourcing through the fertile soil of your body. Led by pleasure and ease, turned on by life, you and I can do our soul’s work we came to do.
It is here you can be yourself, the vibrant beautiful being that you are - out loud. Your worthiness is bodyfied.
I bow to so many to have influenced my life and work. Clayton Ainger, Alexandra Weir, Michael Molin-Skelton, Lori Saltzman, Vincent Griego Martínez, Carlos Rosas, Fan Xiulan, Pete Longworth and many more. I continue to nourish myself and attend workshops and courses to keep my listening refined and my curiosity nourished.
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“I chose to embrace and love that there will always be more: more life, more creation, more experiences to have, more to journey into, more to discover. This open curiosity becomes an unzipping of our soul - I call it a Lovevolution.”- Camilla
“Being around her is being in the presence of clear and fierce life force."
“Camilla truly is a living breathing embodiment of permission, to be yourself, fully alive with what is moving you. Being around her is being in the presence of clear and fierce life force, ready to embrace and move with whatever this moment brings."
- Ida Helmers,
Somatic Relating
"Embodied Permission gives me the permission to be me."
That is freeing, liberating and scary at times because it means for me to leave old patterns behind and daring to truly become myself. Not the version adapting to what I assume the expectations of others are. I enter a delicate and intriguing space of now.
- Anne Stilling,
Psychologist & Movement Teacher
"First time meeting Camilla it was like coming home."
"I felt truly seen and experienced a permission to be all of me, even the parts I’d rather hide. Being on a floor with Camilla is fun, sensuous, expanding and also challenging in the best of ways."
- Magdalena Perers,
Embodiment Teacher
"It is coming home to myself, my body, the bigger "we", to being human."
"Being and moving together keeps widening my heart, it melts me into tears to fumble and stumble with words and emotions with less shame.
- Lisa Moser,
Soul Motion Teacher
"Camilla changes people’s lives simply by stepping into their field."
"I've seen it again and again. As soon as she enters the room everything changes"
- Pete Longworth,
Creator of Content That Matters
"I don't have to think about what is allowed or not, there is just a permission."
"I have a permission to slow down. I get to practice here then to go into the world with more confidence not needing validation.
To have someone here is such a fruitful ground for practicing."
- Anna-Riikka Kärnä,
Coach
"I allowed myself to be the size I am without trying to me smaller or less visible."
"Nothing is required and you get just as much out of it as what you put into it.
I found a new joy in movement and dance and my honest emotional expression"
- Marko,
Business Manager
"I am coming out of hiding and coming home. "
"With Camilla's guidance, practices and the community she created in Embodied Permission Training is a thrilling journey that I am still on, and truly as she puts it, a journey of a lifetime!
- Anne Stilling,
Movement Teacher & Psychologist