Deidre Keating

Deidre is an embodiment lover who is excited about the intersections of all things body. A certified and experienced counsellor, instructor, and facilitator, Deidre engages a feminist-relational-somatic lens with her clients and students, and happily invites all into a deep appreciation and curiosity of the body. She is the owner/creator of Vibrancy, an agency that explores the intersection of body-nature-spirit-self-community, the creator of a somatics program called The Body Experience, as well as a co-founding member of a lower-barrier counselling clinic called Liberate. Most recently, Deidre is a co-creator of Embodiment is for Every Body, which will be discussed in our workshop. Deidre is skilled in facilitating body love and body empowerment groups and workshops for children, youth, and adults (including a Body Positive Embodiment Circle as part of this conference) and has been a very active member of the body positive community for the past decade. She is a writer and researcher in the field of mental health and somatics, a retired (for now) burlesque dancer, and a body positive advocate in the fitness community. In all, Deidre is fascinated by bodies – all bodies – and aims to make the magic of embodiment accessible to all.