Hi, I'm Kajsa - and I believe your next level is already in you.
If you're a performer — or anyone committed to their own growth — and you feel stuck: plateaued in your craft, held back by habits you can't quite name, or performing a version of "fine" while quietly wondering what's missing, you're in the right place.
I help you psychophysically change the habits that stand between you and your next level — whether you're a performer, creator, leader, athlete, or anyone committed to your own growth. Not by pushing harder, but by learning to move, think, and choose in ways that actually work - on stage and off.
The result is what I call thriving ProPersonally: rising in your art, your skills and your life, without leaving parts of yourself behind to do it.
How I got here.
My method, Empowered Performance Transformations (EPT), wasn't invented in a vacuum. It grew out of my own experience of disconnection - of living and performing in a way that quietly stopped working. What I learned, through years of training and practice, is what we call "being stuck" is usually information: the body and mind telling us that something needs to change - a break from something that isn't working, or a reconnection with what we are here to do.
The Alexander Technique taught me how to listen to that signal instead of overriding it. EPT is what happened when I combined that with my life in theatre: a practical, embodied method for changing the habits that get in our way, and sourcing your inherent power instead.
What I believe.
Through being accepting of who we are, at any given moment, the ability to consciously become the change we desire, to move and be moved, and in the process let go of that which do not serve us anymore, is always available. Between stimulus and response, we make the descisions and create the habits that shape our lives. This is where we source our force for improved living, working and performing.
M.F.A. in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre, Dell'Arte International (CA, USA)
B.A. in Theatre and Professional Practice, Coventry University (UK)
Certified Alexander Technique teacher, trained with Cathy Madden (Seattle), in the lineage of Marjorie Barstow — F.M. Alexander's first graduate
Guest teacher: Stockholm University of the Arts, South Bank Alexander Technique Center (London), Fridhems Scenkonststudio, Lund Dans & Musikal Gymnasium
Actor/performer: UMO Ensemble (Seattle/Vashon Island, 2007–2014), recently seen in Lady Macbeth with TMR – Transmission Research
Creator of the ProPersonal Training approach and the newly launched program RISE ProPersonal Coaching program for Performers and Artists.
What Clients Say.
"Kajsa gave me valuable tools to deepen my physical acting work and raise my role performances with those important last percent... Invaluable insights I would not have been aware of without Kajsa's expertise." — Roman Stahlman, Actor
"Kajsa's empathy, sensitivity, and sense of humor made me feel comfortable and embraced... I became more aware of how my own thoughts on "how to do" interfered with the execution. Helpful and meaningful to my life." — Nidia Martinez Barbieri, Dancer
"Kajsa truly teaches the Alexander Technique by her own lived example... A student becomes the centre of their own learning... activating a genuine freedom of choice that is the key to getting off autopilot." — Claire Nichols, Alexander Technique Teacher
Why KAMI?
KAMI is my initials - and it means the force of nature: the spirit, the essence of a whole, unique and personal expression that, when allowed to be fully expressed, creates incredible movement in your own life and the lives of others. That's what this work is about.
Ready to Rise?
If you're ready to move from stuck to thriving — ProPersonally — I'd love to talk.
→ Explore RISE ProPersonal Coaching Program!
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