Move through life with more comfort and ease.
Learn how to use movement, meditation, and massage to maintain a full, engaged life.
Be Bodiful is 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.
It really can be that simple.
The Be Bodiful Approach
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Movement
We’ll rebuild movement patterns by reducing yoga poses into their components and practicing with comfort and ease.
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Meditation
We’ll explore a variety of meditations that rebuild body-mind-heart-soul connections, beginning with simple breath awareness.
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Massage
We’ll practice home massage for self and family as another way to foster connection with and compassion for self and others.
Ground. Center. Lift. Rise up.
You’ll fit right in if …
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We’ll start slow and small with our movements. We'll add speed or effort when it feels safe to do so, and not a moment before.
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You might not believe it just yet, but there’s a little thrill that comes when you isolate a movement to its purest form. This work is relaxing and exciting!
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Having to limit your activities can also limit your social support. Let’s get you back to your friends! And you’ll find some new ones in the Be Bodiful community.
Welcome. I’m Lesley Ann.
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 are limited by pain, weakness, or fear while they’re engaging in activities that otherwise fulfill them and that make the world beautiful and better. My aim is to help folks feel like they feel after a massage, on their own, anywhere and anytime. My mode is first and foremost the physical body, but I work with the understanding that it is a manifestation of mental, emotional, spiritual, and social states.
STUDENT TESTIMONIAL
“This yoga has turned out to be transformational.”
“After just my first session this course had already paid for itself by tackling some longstanding pain issues that Lesley Ann was able to remediate by showing me the movements and positions needed as an antidote. Tools for a lifetime. And that was just the beginning!”
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Find ease in your body.
Be Bodiful is a comprehensive program that will help you learn to move with more ease and efficiency so you can maintain an active life doing the things that fulfill you.
When you learn to move more easily and efficiently, you’ll begin to strengthen muscles, reduce or even eliminate pain, and regulate your central nervous system.
Strengthen. When we eliminate compensatory movement by reducing the size or speed of an action, we isolate the muscle responsible for that action, affording it an opportunity to strengthen.
Reduce or Eliminate Pain. When the connection between bones, muscles, nerves, and brain is clear and strong, movement is easeful and coordinated (not painful and chaotic).
Regulate the Nervous System. By learning how to feel, interpret, and respond to the signals your body is sending to your brain, you’ll reset neuromuscular connections, helping to regulate your central nervous system so you can return to a state of true relaxation when work is finished.
You’ll receive steady guidance from an experienced teacher, and you’ll practice in a supportive community with other folks who are curious about and committed to learning how to be bodiful.
Want to learn how to be bodiful but aren’t ready to commit to the full program? Try my monthly newsletter. Besides simple, straightforward tips and tricks on how to be bodiful, delivered often with humor and always with love, I also share links to free seasonal sleep meditations and to the newsletter archive. As a thank you, you’ll get access to a seven-minute body scan you can do right at your desk at the beginning or end your work day, or any time in between.
Join the Be Bodiful community.
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