Why Isn't Everyone Dancing? Reclaiming Instinct, Joy, and Your Own Humanity with Jo Kelly

What if there is nothing about you that needs healing, and the problem is that you were never honored in the first place? This week on the Glow Up, Gyrl Podcast, Kyra sits down with Jo Kelly, an instinct and truth resetter who has spent close to thirty years helping people move back through their conditioning toward instinct, freedom, and their own humanity. She works with artists, creative leaders, and athletes, and she describes what she does simply: helping adults be kids again. Jo is also the director of the documentary Why Isn't Everyone Dancing? It started during her cancer treatment. She caught sight of herself in the mirror one morning, naked, about to shower, on her way to radiation, and dancing. She kept dancing. In the car with the windows down. Through the hospital corridor. In front of the radiation room door. When the nurses opened it, they told her they had watched the whole thing on camera, and she saw more joy on their faces than she had seen in weeks. In this episode: Why the pacifier is the first thing we hand a crying baby, and what that teaches How school trains children out of their own instincts Why the pressure to please falls harder on women Feelings are not to be fixed or healed, they are to be honored The tree with no branches, and what happens when a human gets the same treatment Being interested versus trying to be interesting Why cutting the weeds never works if the root stays Dancing through cancer treatment, and the instruction that became a documentary The strangers who joined her, and the ones who crossed the street Why twenty people end up hugging by the end of her first workshop day Presence instead of confidence, and why the difference matters Whether you have been performing rather than living, carrying feelings you were taught to swallow, or just curious what you were like before the world got hold of you, this conversation will meet you right where you are. Learn more: tobeornottoact.com Follow Jo: @tobeornottoact_jokelly Stay connected to Glow Up, Gyrl: Website: glowupgyrl.com | Email: [email protected] Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn: @glowupgyrl | Facebook: @glowupgyrlatl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices