My Story
I've Lived a Few
Lifetimes in One Body.
At 5, I was dancing. As a teenager, I started practicing Pilates just to keep my body strong enough for ballet โ long before it was ever a job. By 18, I was a professional ballerina with the New York Theatre Ballet, performing Antony Tudor's Little Improvisations โ Tudor is ranked alongside George Balanchine as one of the two choreographers who transformed ballet into a modern art form. The New York Times once wrote: “The sprightly Felicia Terlecki led the Chinese Dance.”
Then I pivoted โ two decades at Colgate-Palmolive, climbing from admin to leadership in marketing, supply chain, and IT, earning my business degree at NYU at night, until the company offered me early retirement. I went on to found Live Dance Live, a not-for-profit for dance, and a personal development and success mentoring company.
I know the grind. I know reinvention. I know what it feels like to be underestimated โ and then blow past every expectation.
But here's the truth: none of that compares to the transformation that happens when women in midlife reclaim their power.
And here's something most people don't know โ dance is one of the most powerful things you can do for your brain. Learning choreography fires up your hippocampus, cuts through brain fog, sharpens memory, and floods your body with serotonin and dopamine. It's not just movement. It's medicine.
Even Joseph Pilates knew this world โ he built his method in a New York studio that shared a building with New York City Ballet, refining it on Balanchine's own dancers. I've simply carried that lineage forward: ballet precision, Pilates strength, and the soul of Bali, in a practice that celebrates who you are now.
Because this isn't the end of your story. It's the encore.
