We recently had the chance to connect with Natalia Pershina and have shared our conversation below.
Good morning Natalia, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: Are you walking a path—or wandering?
For many years, I was wandering across countries, identities, and inner landscapes, believing the path was somewhere I needed to find. Every new place felt like a mirror showing me another layer of myself. But over time I realized: I was never lost. I was the path all along.
Today, I walk not to search, but to embody. My art, performances, and the “Birdie” Movement are no longer about escaping or proving, they are about presence. About remembering that creation itself is the path: each word, each breath, each gesture becomes a ceremony of truth.
Wandering taught me to listen. Now, when I guide others through ritual theatre or voice work, I see that every person carries their own sacred map, it’s just hidden beneath the noise of the world. My role is not to lead them somewhere new, but to remind them: you are already home, you are already the path.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Natalia Pershina, and I’m a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and creator of “Birdie” Movement and “Ceremony of You”- projects that merge theatre, ritual, and real human stories into living art.
I began as a songwriter and actress, traveling across nine countries, exploring how art can awaken the soul. Over time, my work evolved from personal storytelling into collective transformation – from the play “I Am the Power” to “Birdie” Movement, where every performance becomes a ceremony of voice, truth, and remembrance.
What makes my work unique is that it’s not only about performance, it’s about presence. I create spaces where art becomes healing, where the audience is not just watching but participating in their own awakening. My approach unites poetry, movement, and sound in a ritual form that transcends language and culture.
Through “Birdie” Movement and “Ceremony of You”, I’m building a global platform that brings together artists, women, and visionaries who are ready to express their authentic voices. My current focus is expanding this work through live performances, residencies, and multimedia projects across the U.S., creating bridges between creativity and consciousness.
In essence, my brand is about reminding people that life itself is a ceremony, and every story, when told with truth, becomes art.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Before the world taught me to strive, achieve, and explain myself, I was pure presence – a girl who sang to the wind and danced in silence. I felt life as rhythm, as color, as breath. There was no separation between me and the world – everything was alive, listening, and responding.
Then came the systems: expectations, traditions, definitions of success. I learned how to fit in, how to impress, how to survive. But deep down, I knew I was meant to remember rather than learn. My art became that remembering of the voice before language, of the body before performance, of the woman before conditioning.
Today, when I create or lead a ceremony, I return to that original state – the girl who was one with life. She is still here. She just wears more light, more wisdom, and more responsibility now.
When did you stop hiding your pain and start using it as power?
There was a time when I thought strength meant pretending: smiling through uncertainty, keeping my story polished so others wouldn’t see the cracks. But life has a way of breaking what is false. My voice cracked first, literally, and that’s when everything began to shift.
When I created my first performance “I Am the Power,” it was born not from confidence, but from exhaustion: from years of silence and from beginning again and again in new places, learning to rebuild my voice each time. On that stage, I stopped performing strength and allowed myself to be seen in my rawness.
The moment I spoke my pain out loud, it turned into light. The audience cried with me, and I realized that vulnerability is not weakness, it’s transmission, it’s art. That night, I understood that every wound can become a song when you dare to sing it.
Since then, every project: from “Birdie” Movement to “Ceremony of You” has been about transforming wounds into wings. I no longer try to hide the cracks; I let the light move through them. That’s where real power begins.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. What’s a cultural value you protect at all costs?
I protect sacredness: the awareness that not everything must be rushed, consumed, or explained. In a world obsessed with speed and visibility, I stand for depth, silence, and ceremony. To me, art is not a product; it’s a prayer. Creation is not performance; it’s devotion.
The cultures that shaped me: from the poetic sensitivity of Eastern Europe to the spiritual traditions of India and the embodied wisdom of Bali – all taught me one truth: when you treat life as sacred, everything becomes art. Whether it’s a conversation, a meal, or a moment on stage, presence turns the ordinary into the divine.
Through Ceremony of You and Birdie Movement, I’m protecting this value by bringing it back into modern spaces, reminding people that beauty, truth, and tenderness are not luxuries, but essentials of the human spirit.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. If you laid down your name, role, and possessions—what would remain?
If I laid down my name, my roles, my titles – what would remain is presence.
The breath that listens before speaking. The silence between words. The love that moves through art and through the eyes of those who witness it.
I’ve lived many lives: actress, singer, writer, traveler, teacher, but underneath them all I’ve always been the same current: a reminder that life itself is sacred theatre.
When everything external fades, what remains is the pulse, that invisible rhythm of truth and beauty. That is the legacy I want to leave behind: a living memory that art is not something we do, it’s what we are
Contact Info:
- Website: https://ceremonyofyou.carrd.co
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i.am.the.path
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ceremonyofyou
Image Credits
Black-and-white photo: @schwarcz_photography used with permission
