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What Mentoring means to me...and to You
Mentoring, for me, seeks the cultivation of a presence and awareness that honors the dynamic fluidity of movement/life force within our bodies, ourselves, with one another, and in the world in which we are embedded.
I mentor through engaging you in “a conversation with your body”, bringing a newfound awareness of your unique gifts as a Teacher, setting you on a journey to growing yourself as an embodied elder.
It's all in there, in you, has been all the time – your authentic voice.
And, once the pursuit of “answers” and “knowledge” and “how-to’s” is sidelined, and, instead, you dive with me, into a vast, compelling, confronting, empowering inquiry of “what is at the heart” of embodied movement - you will discover the ocean of wisdom within.
The wisdom that is your authentic voice…of what makes a truly trustworthy guide and Teacher. For only when we find our authentic voice - through orienting and allowing ourselves to be held in the Earth’s embrace, meeting gravity, ground and space, as pre-movement to sensory perception - can we teach/mentor/guide another toward theirs.
As we move through our mentoring together, you will resource your own vision and voice. We will wonder and wander together, as we are shouldered by the wisdom I have gleaned from treasured engagement with 5 of our Pilates Elders, noted yoga masters and pioneers of somatic movement, Rolf Structural Integration, energy medicine, dynamic breathwork, human movement patterning and transformational bodies of work.
You will touch the intangible, and in this, your unique crafting of a language that invites collaborative, embodied sessions that enliven and nourish, both practitioner and client. Your sessions will come alive, as you greet the whole person in front of you, as an emerging living process in relationship, rather than just teaching exercises. This is a revolutionary way of teaching.
Through mentoring with me you will unearth your gifts, empower your voice, learn to rest into your whole self, and cultivate ways of meeting the joys and challenges of life.
Wendy is an international leader in embodied movement education, with a 45-year background in holistic health, and lifelong studies and collaborations with distinguished pioneers in Yoga, Pilates, Structural Integration bodywork, somatic arts and sciences, dynamic breathwork and energy medicine.
Inspired by the diversity of their teaching expressions, Wendy has studied extensively with our Pilates' Elders - Romana Krazanowska, Mary Bowen, Kathy Grant, Ron Fletcher and Lolita San Miguel. Along with her extensive yoga background, she credits her mentoring with pioneers in the art and science of somatic movement and ontological inquiry... Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Emilie Conrad, Susan Harper, Judith Aston, Tom Myers, The Guild for Structural Integration, Hubert Godard, Phillip Beach, Jaap van der Wal and Werner Erhard… for the profound revelations with breath, fascial and ontological awareness that have given rise to her own “biointelligent" voice.
Wendy’s vision has always been to illuminate and unify the universal core principal that underlie all great bodymind practices, enabling students and practitioners of any discipline to discover their wholeness through cultivating their own voice, through the portal and brilliant guidance of their biointelligent wisdom.
She is currently writing a book on the body of work that comprises her 3Core Connections® embodied perspective, scheduled for publication in the fall of 2024. BEYOND CORE: Your Inner Teacher’s Guide Through Whole Body Relationships