“In consulting with Lesley I now have an immediate practice that I use in teaching, and in high stakes relational scenarios. Lesley’s process of questioning, listening, attuning, and discerning, provide profound insight and practical tools that can be applied across personal and professional contexts. Lesley has a gift for translating the wisdom of osteopathic principles into accessible pathways of transformation.” – Claire Turner Reid, movement artist and educator
“Working with Lesley is a bit like alchemy, I don’t always know what will emerge but something inevitably transforms or unfolds in surprising and beautiful ways.” -Marika Heinrichs, somatic practitioner and educator
in-person appointments
osteopathy, cranial osteopathy (cranio-sacral therapy), movement education
each appointment is unique to the needs of the person and of the day.
typical osteopathic appointments include time to listen to your concerns and priorities, perform an assessment, facilitate a dialogue and collaborative process where we work together to create an effective plan to support your learning and growth.
a large portion of the appointment time is focused on non-invasive hands-on work, guided attentional practices to optimize your capacity to know and to cooperate with your own system, and where indicated, movement practices/education to further support you in exploring the intelligence of your body on your own.
appointments covered by most extended health insurance plans
virtual appointments
osteopathic consultation
most aspects of in-person appointments are available through virtual osteopathic appointments but offer a unique opportunity for focused learning about your body and its language. in other words, how to listen to and cooperate with it.
this includes time to listen to your concerns and priorities, perform an assessment, facilitate a collaborative inquiry and planning process where we work together to support your learning and growth.
this may include self-treatment education where you are guided in hands-on care of your own body, attention practices to optimize the self-organizing/self-healing capacities of your own system, and movement practices/education to support you in exploring and cooperating with the intelligence of your body.
virtual osteopathic appointments are covered by most extended health insurance plans
cross-disciplinary consulting
my osteopathic research is focused on an osteopathic perspective of listening that emphasizes non-verbal listening to the complex system that is the body. i teach processes that are supported by current neurobiological research and intended to facilitate cooperative dialogue with body (Nature) and optimize the self-organizational capacity of complex systems.
osteopathic consulting consists of 1:1 or small team knowledge sharing sessions individually designed for those seeking to adapt concepts of listening and osteopathic principles into their work/art practices.
as examples, cross-disciplinary consulting has supported;
film directing
poetry, research and literary writing projects
teaching and curriculum building
small business decision making processes
movement research
you are welcome to contact me to propose an idea and have a conversation in order to discern if and how cross-disciplinary consulting could support your work.
peer mentoring
1:1 or small group professional support, knowledge sharing, and self-directed education for bodyworkers, movement educators, researchers and arts practitioners seeking to adapt research supported concepts of listening and osteopathic principles into their personal and work practices.
“Lesley’s mentorship has supported me to articulate a process of embodied inquiry that I have brought into many aspects of my practice including writing, movement, teaching, and bodywork. Lesley is skilled at bridging the space between direct embodied experience and language. Our work has supported me to explore this realm in spacious and open ways, while also having some structure and form to work from.” -Marika Heinrichs, somatic practitioner and educator