Liesje

To be alive, I want to be centered through myself-this journey of finding my way back to center when I feel a fall. I want to physically feel and sense my dance with balance-my suspension through space and my recovery with ground. That aliveness is a gift between me and life. We all can feel it. I want a lot of it and I want others to feel it too.

My Loves

I love to move and I want to be able to move well for many years to come. I depend on it. I bet you do too. I want to move effectively and efficiently that keeps pain, posture and performance in my attention.

I love to be around movement groups and curate spaces where people can sense that curiosity eventually creates safety and friendliness. Relationships are the world we live in.

I swim around in the originality of our existence for questions about why we’re here, how do we be kind and what does this body love? And what’s good information for working with it all? I aim to look at everything through the axis of my heart. My strongest working premise is that movement is our conscious reality because movement is life force and the fluid nature of everything. I like being in and exploring a more fluid reality (dance) and then talking about it.

I deeply appreciate the connections I have built through the years due to my journey as a somatic practitioner. I am grateful to so many teachers.

I’m most grateful to those who keep showing me courage.

I like to suggest to myself to stop judging others or myself, but instead reach for compassion and not have to decide the next step till it presents itself. I trust in pausing and “elegant pedestrian movement” to help clarify what’s complicated.

We are all challenged to “act” ro show up or be visible, especially with the demand to have a social media presence in order to find ways toward more social interactions. I like to express myself and prepare for viewing. I also like helping others prepare too. It’s huge now and challenging.

My Influences

Like many of us, when I was young, I noticed that I was very seriously drawn to movement. Dance, in particular, was what fascinated me. I loved dance. I learned how to dance and perform and I noticed that it made me feel good. I knew I was on a life journey when, after high school and a year traveling, I began my life continuing my childhood love for dance and artistic performance.

It was at the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) where I finally got to create what I wanted to! I wanted to create and perform dance pieces. I went all out; avant guard, dynamic heroism pieces with prodigy poets, beautiful talented dancers and my incredibly young and complicated short and troublesome life. Somewhere in the middle of it, I had my first minor brain injury in a car accident and before I knew what I had started, I began what is healing my life.

In those early years, away from home, I was confused, but I found a deep part of my soul, the moving dancer, show up in the spot light.

Through the somatic field of movement, consciousness and artistic performance, I started a deep and often confusing journey toward my own views of natural holism, which for me was revealed by trusting gravity as always workable.

Over the last 12 years, I have been in the world with a Rolfing practice that has grown to give people a combination of a lot of skilled touch for transformative change, as well as appreciating the need for teaching people about how tightness and limitations are happening in their bodies and how to begin to do something they may not have been advised to try before: preparing and experiencing movement. 

That small difference invites a chance for true perception to dawn; that our sensations are our awareness, which is the information that feeds thinking.

We’re invited to perceive. New choices can be reprogramed for lasting and effective outcomes with more aliveness and less pain and limitations.

My Approach

My practice weaves together structural integration (Rolfing Structural Integration®), energy medicine (SourcePoint Therapy® and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy®) and somatic movement education (Body Mind Centering® and Rolf Movement®) to offer an approach to wellness that places education at the center of one’s health and wellbeing.

I don’t see much purpose in perfection. Instead, I celebrate progress continuously.

My somatic movement classes, workshops, and private sessions are rooted in experiential learning—inviting students and clients into a lived, felt relationship with their bodies. I offer a foundational framework that supports people in learning how to help themselves, moving toward greater softness, ease, and agency in their embodied experience.

My work with individuals and groups is holistic, attentive, and individually attuned. I create spaces where people feel seen and heard, supported in their own unfolding process of healing, and empowered to participate actively in meaningful, lasting transformation.

My family

Favorite kind of movement: Contact Improvisation

One amazing childhood home

a favorite studio

Grateful to teach!

Teaching the developments of movement

Thank you!

I want to offer my sincere gratitude to my community and support circles who walk alongside me as I learn, grow, and build.

To my students and clients: you shape and inform my work. Your trust, curiosity, and commitment to your health and well-being are profound to witness.

My deep thanks to my teachers and mentors for their generosity, wisdom, and guidance. And to my friends, family, and the friends who grow and become family—you breathe life into me daily. I am so filled with appreciation.