After diving deeper into both partner and solo dance over the years… I kept hearing the same thing:

People want deeper connection and aren’t sure how to create it.

• They want to feel more confident expressing themselves.
• They want to feel deeply seen, heard and understood.
• They want to connect more authentically in relationships and community without fear, self-judgment or overthinking getting in the way.

So… I started asking myself: What are the most important things that help or hinder connection?

That’s exactly what we explore in today’s podcast episode with dance instructor and community builder Nii Ashikwei Tetteh,

Whether you’re a dancer or not, if you’re craving deeper connections in life, this podcast episode is for you!

Local to Baltimore and want to experience first hand how dance can help you connect with yourself and others?

Join us for CONNECT on June 20th! RSVP here: 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/4frlrav

IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:

• The fears and judgments that block connection and how to overcome them.
• Partner dance: a playground for vulnerability, trust, communication, and presence.
• How shifting from “What can I get?” to “What can I contribute?” transforms relationships.
• Active listening, curiosity, honoring boundaries and receiving “no” with grace.
• Why you don't need to force connection: how releasing fear, shame, and overthinking helps it flow.

MORE ABOUT NII:

Nii Tetteh is the founder of DanceFlowHaven, a Washington, DC–based movement organization dedicated to helping people build stronger connection, communication, and confidence through partner dance. Nii has trained in styles including salsa, bachata, kizomba, UrbanKiz, and Brazilian Zouk, and taught at festivals, workshops, and community events locally, nationally, and internationally. Known for his thoughtful and structured teaching style, Nii helps dancers understand not just what to do, but how to listen, adapt, and communicate through movement. Through DanceFlowHaven, he explores dance as a pathway toward deeper awareness, healthier relationships, and stronger communities.

STAY CONNECTED WITH NII:

WEBSITE: https://www.danceflowhaven.com/
IG: @danceflowhaven

MORE ABOUT GINA:

Gina Casbarro is a certified Life Designer® coach and feng shui expert who empowers her clients to blaze their own path and design the life and space of their dreams. Gina’s passion for coaching began as a manager at lululemon where she spent more than eight years coaching hundreds of people to develop as leaders and crush their goals. Her love of nature, symbolism, and intuition led her to feng shui. She now weaves these passions together to support her clients in aligning their mindset, their lifestyle, and their environment with their truest goals and values.

STAY CONNECTED WITH GINA:

Website: https://ginacasbarro.com
Instagram: @gina_casbarro
YouTube: @ginacasbarro

Curious how to deepen your connection with yourself so you feel more trusting, guided and empowered on your path?

I created an intuition tool to help you listen to your inner guidance, even when the path feels uncertain. 💫

Take a deep breath and pull a card here: 👉🏼 ginacasbarro.com/intuition

Music: https://www.purple-plan

Have you ever had the opportunity to invest in something that felt deeply valuable… and yet your brain immediately sounded the alarm?

What if this doesn’t work out?
What if I regret this?
I can’t possibly spend this money.
What if it’s not the right decision?

Whether it’s investing in a coach, a program, a retreat, or another step toward the life you want, fear can get loud and sometimes even disguise itself as intuition.

So, how do you tell the difference?

In today’s episode, Abundance Coach Scarlett Stanhope and I share a powerful conversation about intuition, fear, self-trust, money, and how to make aligned choices even when uncertainty is present.

If there's a choice you're trying to make (particularly if it's related to money!) and you want to move forward with more clarity and confidence, this episode is for you.

IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:

• How to tell the difference between fear that’s trying to protect you and intuition that’s guiding you toward growth.
• Why investing in yourself can feel terrifying, even when something deeply resonates as a “yes.”
• Questions and embodied practices to help you build self-trust and make aligned decisions with more clarity.
• The hidden ways scarcity, overthinking, and fear can keep you disconnected from the life you actually want.
• What becomes possible when you stop waiting for certainty and start moving toward your vision anyway.

Ready to strengthen your intuition and receive clear messages and guidance?

Give this oracle tool a try to discover the intuitive practice that would serve you most! 👉🏼 https://ginacasbarro.com/intuition

MORE ABOUT GINA:

Gina Casbarro is a certified Life Designer® coach and feng shui expert who empowers her clients to blaze their own path and design the life and space of their dreams. Gina’s passion for coaching began as a manager at lululemon where she spent more than eight years coaching hundreds of people to develop as leaders and crush their goals. Her love of nature, symbolism, and intuition led her to feng shui. She now weaves these passions together to support her clients in aligning their mindset, their lifestyle, and their environment with their truest goals and values.

STAY CONNECTED WITH GINA:

Website: https://ginacasbarro.com
Instagram: @gina_casbarro
YouTube: @ginacasbarro

1:1 SUPPORT

Craving time to talk through your dreams, uncover what gets in the way of following them, and get clear about the tools and practices that could support you most?

Book a free Clarity Call to learn how coaching could support you on your path. 👉🏼 https://ginacasbarro.com/claritycall

MORE ABOUT SCARLETT:

Scarlett Stanhope, aka The Biz Hippie, teaches coaches to conquer their finances and own their worth so they can be fully supported by the work they love! Scarlett harnessed the power of money to break free from her workaholic career path and pursue her dreams. She uses a combination of tangible money management strategies as well as a variety of coaching techniques to help her clients transform their mindset and relationship to money, allowing them to strategically achieve their goals and live their best lives.

STAY CONNECTED WITH SCARLETT:

WEBSITE: https://thebizhippie.com
PODCAST: https://thebizhippie.com/podcast
IG: @thebizhippe

Music: https://www.purple-plan

Instead of looking externally for something to believe in, whether that's to governments, authority figures or societal norms...

what would shift if you strengthened your belief in YOU?

In today's podcast episode, we explore what becomes possible when you boost your self-trust, release grasping and begin opening up to the flow of Nature and the flow of your life. 💫

If you've been feeling stuck, overwhelmed or putting pressure on yourself...

give this episode a listen to see what inspiration, insight or relief might be sparked!

Craving support to help you tap into the vision that's calling your forward and believe in your ability to follow it?

Book a free Clarity Call to explore how coaching can help you build confidence and courage internally so you can bet on yourself and blaze your own path.

https://ginacasbarro.com/claritycall

IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:

• How to dance with both Self and Soul: what can help you trust the flow as you aim towards goals.
• Why "adjacent possible" small next steps are more supportive than trying to take giant leaps.
• The ways we've been conditioned to look externally for answers and what can help you start building self-trust.
• Simple, embodied practices that can instantly bring you back to yourself when you feel overwhelmed or disconnected.
• How embracing endings, uncertainty, and even emptiness can unlock the next chapter of your life in a way striving never could.

MORE ABOUT MARTHA:

Martha McAlpine is first and foremost a student. Raised abroad she returned to the US for college, studying comparative literature at Princeton and experiential curriculum design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. These two disciplines, reading and designing experiences as a means of learning, knowing, and becoming, influence all her work and even her homelife. As a corporate information architect, a homeschool mama, or a teacher of yoga philosophy and movement, learning and then crafting practice to put it into action is her passion. Currently, she is a catalyst for hire; working for individuals, groups, and companies to amplify their aims and move them faster towards the fulfillment that they seek. Student, practitioner, teacher, are all just means to find the freedom of a life well lived.

STAY CONNECTED WITH MARTHA:

WEBSITE: https://www.marthamcalpine.com/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/marthamcalpine/

MORE ABOUT GINA CASBARRO:

Gina Casbarro is a certified Life Designer® coach and feng shui expert who empowers her clients to blaze their own path and design the life and space of their dreams. Gina’s passion for coaching began as a manager at lululemon where she spent more than eight years coaching hundreds of people to develop as leaders and crush their goals. Her love of nature, symbolism, and intuition led her to feng shui. She now weaves these passions together to support her clients in aligning their mindset, their lifestyle, and their environment with their truest goals and values.

STAY CONNECTED WITH GINA:

Website: https://ginacasbarro.com
Instagram: @gina_casbarro

TOOLS TO STRENGTHEN YOUR INTUITION AND TRUST YOUR PATH:

Discover the intuitive practice that would serve you most right now 👉🏼 https://ginacasbarro.com/intuition

Music: https://www.purple-plan