What if your sensitivity was actually your superpower?
In this episode of Playful Spirituality, Cara welcomes Natalie Neckyfarow—actor, producer, and embodiment coach—for an insightful conversation about the intuitive gifts we all carry and how tuning into them can shift everything.
Natalie shares her path from the high-energy world of performance to the grounded practices of embodiment and energy work. Through personal stories of navigating chronic health issues, discovering her clairsentience, and learning to set energetic boundaries, she offers a candid look at what it means to reclaim your inner wisdom—even in the most chaotic of times.
From pandemic pivots to life-altering choices, including divorce and creative reinvention, Natalie reveals how spiritual tools helped her transform both her inner and outer worlds.
Natalie is a graduate of Master Your Magic Intuitive Development School, and she shares how her study of learning energy work and uncovering her gifts with Cara impacted her life in every way.
This is especially true of her work, which has evolved to create something the industry has never seen. Her unique program, The Embodied Actor, was designed to help artists manage emotional currents and stay rooted in themselves while stepping into character.
Whether you're highly sensitive, intuitive, or simply curious, this episode is an invitation to trust your inner knowing and discover what becomes possible when you do.
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Natalie Neckyfarow is an Embodiment Coach who helps actors heal their own shit so they can finally manifest the roles they actually want. Also an Actress, Writer, and Producer, Natalie discovered Embodiment work when she was feeling stuck in her life as an artist. Her Life Coach and Energy Work journey was the catalyst for healing life-long patterns of overwork and overwhelm, old beliefs around lack and unworthiness, her autoimmune condition, and stepping into a new level of success in her career. In 2024 alone, she raised over $10K for her short film "The Spark" , now in post-production, was awarded a Seed & Spark Patron's Circle grant from Jason Reitman, attracted new representation, and moved to Los Angeles. The founder of The Embodied Actor, Neckyfarow has been featured in Backstage and on podcasts like Film Broads, See? and Millennials are Ruining the World. She has helped clients through her signature Embodiment Method manifest some incredible opportunities, including more auditions, callbacks and bookings, raising money for and producing their own work, and embodying deep trust in themselves and the universe.
Links:
Instagram: @natalieneckyfarow @thesparkshort
Website: www.theembodiedactor.com // Acting: www.natalieneckyfarow.com // Production Co: www.bucketfulofsunshine.com
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Episode Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction to Playful Spirituality
01:19 Meet Natalie: A Journey of Intuition and Energy Work
03:51 Discovering and Embracing Sensitivity
09:38 Navigating Energetic Boundaries
17:48 Impact of Energy Awareness on Life and Career
27:40 The Early Days of Auditioning
28:07 Challenges and Growth in Acting
28:36 Discovering Singing and Personal Struggles
29:51 Turning Points and New Tools
31:25 Life Changes and Divorce
33:33 Creating and Crowdfunding a Film
38:25 The Embodied Actor Program
41:23 Applying Energy Work to Acting
52:20 Future Projects and Personal Evolution
55:07 Final Thoughts and Gratitude