I am here for the precious, tender beauty and magic living within us. I am here for the greater belonging. I am here for a different kind of party.

can I get a shout out for . . . darkness integration and (e)sensual worthiness. aka Bringing Perspective and Embodied Optimism to the creatives with big dreams and a whole lot of rejection and systemic bull shit disrupting connection and earthly awe. 

Call me mentor, space-holder, healer and intuitive creator . . . whatever helps. I am attuned to subtlety and scope, investing in a leadership style birthed of body and belief.  

As a professional dancer/choreographer revealed mystic, I have been facilitating softening of spirit, activating presence, designing intimacy, and traversing spaces of body grief and injury for a long while.

In one breath I could say I belong to chronic illness and in another I am a prophetess. The language and affiliations both hinder and open doorways. What shall we choose today?

Since I began dancing at age 3 - and picked up a camera at age 5 - I’ve been creating and grappling within the worlds of performance, sensuality, safety, chronic pain, and expression. My journey has yielded poetic energetics and embodiment that both sustain my body and creative endeavors while connecting me to intuitive ways of organizing group dynamics.

I’ve been coaching people to move beyond their limits and into their exuberance since I was little. Perhaps I was a bit bossy or a femme dom in the making, back then in my 5 year old velvet leotard situation, a choreographer you’d say. Either way. I’ve been unimpressed and tickled, on the outside directing illumination and gathering before career was a word to reckon with. Vulnerability and Grief became beacons of study in my early twenties while my dance career became a hidden treasure trove of both sacrifice and transmutation.

Lady Deryn emerged as an identity to hold my intimacy + photographer expertise in the world, leaving Natalie Deryn Johnson (my full name) for my own inhabitance. Orienting my life towards experiences of closeness, authenticity, and truth has led to a deep knowing of how to witness and facilitate transformation - on and off the stage - in front and behind the camera -

from my bathtub to yours.

I look forward to the beauty unfolding.

you are pure MAGIC. 

Nitty + Gritty + Gorgeous.

Let’s commune soon, Natalie