Lesley Ann Wernsdorfer
My monthly newsletter, delivered often with humor and always with love, offers simple, straightforward tips and tricks on how to be bodiful, a term I coined to capture the essence of what I teach. It’s the physical equivalent of being mindful: You pay attention to how your body is moving and how it feels to move that way, and if it doesn’t feel good, you learn how to move a different way. Helping folks find peace through movement, meditation, and massage feels like the most natural work in the world to me. I like especially to work with people who make or appreciate beautiful things and are having trouble doing the activities that otherwise fulfill them. My aim is to help folks feel like they feel after a massage using movement, stillness, and breath. My mode is first and foremost the physical body, but I work with the understanding that it is a manifestation of mental, emotional, and spiritual/social states. My students learn to build rich and detailed inner sanctuaries where they can feel comfortable and easy, even beyond the container of a session.