Coach, Retreat Leader, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Dancer, and Guide for Women in the Renaissance Stage of Life — and a woman who knows this territory from the inside. Celebrating 50 years in the movement and healing arts.
Meriah Kruse didn’t set out to build a framework for women navigating the Renaissance Stage of Life. She lived her way into it.
Over five decades, she has worked at the intersection of body, mind, and spirit in ways that didn’t always look connected at the time — but turned out to be exactly the preparation this work required. Movement, dance and somatic education. Massage therapy. Marketing and storytelling. Retreat leadership. Neuroscience and habit change. Creative writing, greeting card design, choreography, songwriting. Each chapter added a layer. Each discipline deepened her understanding of what it means to be a fully inhabited human being.
She isn’t a coach who built a brand. This isn’t a program she designed. It’s the natural outcome to a life she has lived — and is still living, fully, in the Renaissance Stage herself.
The thread that runs through everything
What connects Feldenkrais to coaching, movement to sovereignty, habit change to creative resurgence? The body is always in the room. The story is always being written. And the woman — wherever she is in her life — is always more capable, more whole, and more interesting than she has been led to believe.
That has been Meriah’s working conviction for fifty years. It shapes every retreat she leads, every coaching conversation she enters, every question she asks.
She is currently completing her formal certification in Health & Wellness Coaching — not because she needed another credential, but because the science of habit change and behavior transformation belongs in this work, and she wanted to bring it in rigorously.
A few well-kept secrets
You may already know Meriah as a coach, a retreat leader, dancer or Feldenkrais practitioner. But you probably didn’t know that while traveling in Kyiv, she once advised the leaders of a Ukrainian industrial concern on the art of forming joint ventures with American manufacturers — or that she taught African dance to children in wheelchairs and modern dance to football players in rural Kentucky schools — or that she was commissioned to choreograph a dance-theater piece for students with Down Syndrome to perform at the Kennedy Center.
A life, it turns out, is not a resume. It is a series of improbable yeses.
(With appreciation to Susan Harrow for this approach to personal storytelling.)
Who she is right now
Since entering the Renaissance Stage of Life herself ten years ago, Meriah has been erupting via every art form that gives her that sweet feeling of being both quiet and not quiet. She works with greeting car design, textiles and hand sewing. She writes short essays about older women and the life cycle. She pens simple songs, most designed for singing along — and has recently joined two local activist choirs, The Climate Choir and The Resistance Choir, writing songs for each.
She kayaks. She loves flowers and the giant catalpa tree growing outside her bedroom window. She has a weakness for old barns, Korean drama, everything Star Trek, and the small wild animals who live in her backyard. She’s a proud parent to her adult son — her personal tutor in all things British soccer — and a besotted grandmother. She has outstanding, exemplary neighbors.
She is, in every sense, a living example of the Sovereign Renaissance Woman. Not because she has it all figured out — but because she’s genuinely, actively living the questions.
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