Kaylee Anna Gibson, b. 1990

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Kaylee Gibson is a multidisciplinary artist. She is a movement director, dancer, writer, and healing arts practitioner. She grew up on the Central Coast of California, where the Redwoods and Santa Lucia mountains meet the Pacific Ocean. The landscape instilled within her a deep sensitivity, highlighting the relationship between landscape, embodiment, and creative expression. She began studying ballet as a child and continued her training with the Joffrey Ballet in New York City. Her movement practice gradually expanded into contemporary performance, somatic inquiry and meditation.

In 2015, she formed The Movement Sessions, a project based performance series bringing together artists, dancers and musicians in unique spaces to explore ideas through presence. She has curated, choreographed, and performed immersive works in Los Angeles, Mexico City and beyond.

Her writing and interviews exploring culture, ecology, and the human relationship with the natural world have appeared in Autre Magazine amongst others. Her vision is to create works rooted in harmony, within oneself, one another, and our larger collective body, planet Earth.

Photo by Pia Riverola

Film by Hala Matar, “Poppies”

Kaylee began practicing yoga at thirteen alongside her mother in Carmel Valley, where she discovered practices that brought harmony to the body, mind, and spirit. She later studied Integral Yoga with Swami Asokananda in New York City and has continued to explore meditation and contemplative traditions through years of practice and study. A formative encounter with a Thai Buddhist monk during a three-day cross-country train journey inspired a lifelong commitment to meditation, which she later deepened through extended practice at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Her studies have also included movement therapist Dominique Sire, Sufi Sheikh Ihab Balha, and Indigenous elders.

Alongside her artistic career, Kaylee offers private sessions integrating meditation, yoga, breathwork, somatic awareness, and energetic healing. Drawing from years of study across contemplative, movement, and healing traditions, she creates spaces that support nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, creative renewal, and a deeper relationship with one’s own inner wisdom.

She has facilitated workshops and gatherings ranging from movement collaborations and performances to retreats, and embodied practice in California, Europe, and beyond. Whether creating a performance or holding space for an individual, her intention remains the same: to cultivate greater presence, awaken the intelligence of the body, and inspire new ways of seeing, relating, and being.

Training & Practice:

-Apprenticeship in Dance as Inquiry - Kauai, Hawaii (Mentor: Jovinna Chan)

-Assistant facilitator, Esalen Institute - Dance, Meditation & Sound Healing workshops

-250 hr certified yoga instructor

- Month long residence/student practice at Tassajara Zen center, 2012 & 2026

- Week long Silent Meditation retreat with Ayya Santacitta & Celeste B. Young, 2025

- Reiki Level II Certified (Lara Elliot & Tiffany De Leon)

- 100 hr Esalen Massage

-Decades of dance studies including the Joffrey Ballet Trainee Program

-10 years as a Movement Director, creating works at acclaimed spaces such as the Neutra VDL House

-Ongoing Studies & practice of Sufi Whirling - Konya, Turkey (Teachers: Ihab & Ora Balha)

An ode to teachers & inspirators:

Swami Asokananda, Wirot, Ora & Ihab Balha, The Ventana Wilderness, Tassajara Zen Center, The Pacific Ocean, Jovinna Chan, Siri Rishi Kaur, Dominique Sire, David Ghiyam, Cari Herthel, Lara Eliot, Deborah Meadow, Twila Cassadore, Zaga Josefina, Dōshin Mako Voelkel, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, Jane Hirshfield, Kumu Ramsay Taum, Pilipo, Ayya Santacitta, Celeste B. Young, Bobbi Jean Smith, Linda Gibbs, Marysia Miernowska, Paramatma Siri Sadhana, and beloved Friends, Peers & Family.

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