Kellita attends Original Voice intensive with Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Kellita studies Medical Constellations with Stephan Hausner at Bastyr University

Kellita teaching & performing in Tokyo & Osaka for Showgirl Awakening Japan tour

Kellita headlines BAPS Japon Burlesque Festival in Osaka, Japan

Kellita leads first Your Life Is Your Work of Art Mentorship (aka WOAM)

Kellita receives Masters certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming from NLP Marin

Kellita teaching & performing throughout Western Europe for Showgirl Awakening tour

Kellita headlines the Munich Burlesque Festival in ‘Hollywood Havana’ as a special guest of the Jigglewatts

Kellita studies Systemic Constellations with Elena Veselago from Moscow

Kellita is certified to practice Neuro Linguistic Programming from NLP Marin

Kellita headlines the Texas Burlesque Festival (& serves as a judge)

Kellita receives Family Constellations Certification at NLP Marin

Kellita leads first Burlesque from the Inside Out (BIO) program

Kellita leads Possibilities Awakening MasterMindBodySpirit Mentorship (precursor to WOAM, aka Your Life is Your Work of Art Mentorship)

Kellita creates first One Woman Show via Martha Rynberg’s SPW program

SF Chronicle has reporter shadow Kellita & her students for several months & posts culminating article

Kellita interviewed for ‘The Goddess Project’ film (film released in 2016)

Hot Pink Feathers dances live to B.B. King at Bimbo’s in SF

Kellita receives advanced certification in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) from the Sophia School of Living Arts

Hot Pink Feathers earn “Absolutely Fabulous” award in SF Pride Parade by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Kellita featured dancer in independent film ‘Burlesque Assassins’

Mysterious virus precipitates massive autoimmune illness flare while in Buenos Aires; spends months recovering; the Awakening Showgirl visits Kellita during recovery and gives shimmy-filled marching orders for conscious development of Showgirl Awakening

Hot Pink Feathers named Best Dance Classes in SF’s 7×7 magazine

Kellita headlines the Windy City Burlesque Festival

Kellita performs at Burlesque Hall of Fame on Legends night

Kellita voted “Most Sensual” at the New York Burlesque Festival (shares title with Peekaboo Pointe)

Kellita headlines Toronto Burlesque Festival

Kellita performs at Burlesque Hall of Fame on Titans of Tease night

Four-Fold Way Year-Long Circle Work & Vision Quest with Angeles Arrien

Kellita tours the the US West Coast with Tease-O-Rama roadshow

Kellita competes as a finalist in the duet category at the Burlesque Hall of Fame with King of Carnaval SF 2008

Kellita becomes Queen of Carnaval San Francisco

Hot Pink Feathers voted Best Dance Company in SF by SFBG’s Best of the Bay

Hot Pink Feathers has monthly Carnaval Cabaret Jazz Cabaret at Cafe Van Kleef in Oakland with Blue Bone Express New Orleans Jazz Band

Hot Pink Feathers make the semi-finals in America’s Got Talent

Hot Pink Feathers compete in troupe category as finalists at Burlesque Hall of Fame

Kellita & Hot Pink Feathers featured in Margaret Cho’s Sensuous Woman cabaret at The Plush Room & Bimbo’s in SF and El Cid in LA

Kellita leads first “Expression, Craft & Delight” performance lab & workshop (precursor to Burlesque from the Inside Out)

Awarded First Place in Original World Fusion Dance in SFGCP

Kellita leads Hot Pink Feathers in Carnaval SF Grand Parade (continues annual participation to this day!)

Rococo Risque voted ‘Best Theater Company’ by the SF Weekly

Run DMC opens for Hot Pink Feathers at the Cow Palace

Resident dancer-turned-company member of Rococo Risque Theater Company

Kellita voted “Best Derriere” at the New York Burlesque Festival (she shares the title with The Evil Hate Monkey)

Kellita featured in film ‘Broad Daylight’

Kellita earns “Little Miss Aftershock” title  at the MEW contest for her outstanding shimmy-shake (she shares the title with Miss Indigo Blue)

Attends the Miss Exotic World Pageant for the first time & competes for the title (it’s also Kellita’s first public striptease ever!)

Attended first Tease-O-Rama in New Orleans (mind blown! context found!) Performs as a soloist & with HPF in all subsequent TOR’s

Kellita Founded Hot Pink Feathers

Works as a Psychometrist part time; 6 years in Kaiser Psychiatry, then in a private practice

Four-Fold Way Year-Long Circle Work & Vision Quest with Angeles Arrien

Discovers Brazilian dance & perform in Carnaval for the first time (hooked!)

Trains English as a Second Language teachers at Transworld in SF

Discovers Life Purpose & swiftly expresses debilitating autoimmune illness

Interplay Leadership Certification with Cynthia-Winton Henry & Phil Porter

Astrology apprenticeship with Jessica Murray

Kellita plants in San Francisco (arrives with 2 suitcases, no money, no job & no home; still here 23 years later); consciously aware that she’s looking for education in the intersection of Embodied Art, Psychology & Spirituality

Teaches ESL to high school students and adults around the world

Kellita graduates from UCSD with a BA in Romance Languages & Literature

Kellita looks for herself in Paris, Cuernavaca, Budapest, Sao Paulo & Pushkin (she wasn’t there)

Spiritual Awakening mistaken for illness (hospitalization and medication mask the awakening)

Sexual trauma precipitates dissociation (Kellita’s spirit heads for the hills)

Kellita born in a lettuce patch in Steinbeck country on a Tuesday in October.