Lisa Marks


Lisa

 

Lisa Marks, MA, LMHC is a Psychotherapist, Process Work Associate and Soul Motion® teacher. She has provided program development, coaching and consultation services to school districts, social service agencies, early intervention programs and mental health centers on the Olympic Peninsula since 1987. As a consultant, coach and psychotherapist, Lisa works with individuals and organizations, specializing in non-profits, education, human services and health care. She believes in creating sustainable work environments and agents of change in the workplace.
Her current focus is the sentient physical body and its relationship to the Earth and underlying wholeness. Studies in this area include Process Oriented Psychology, Authentic Movement, Soul Motion and Ecopsychology and other spiritual and movement practices. She has a certificate in Process Work Studies from the Process Work Institute of Portland.

Lisa has been developing and teaching workshops to reconnect with the Sentient Body, and has shared this work in Washington, Oregon, New Mexico and Michigan. She offers Sentient Body Explorations online through the Process Work Institute. Check the workshop section for current classes and feel free to contact her to bring Sentient Body trainings to your location. 
Living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Lisa takes her movement practice to the mountains, trees and beaches. Her passions include teaching, writing, gardening and performing with Yesango Marimba Ensemble.
Lisa is available in person, over the phone, via Zoom and Skype for organizational or individual consulting, coaching and sentient body sessions. For further information or to get on the mailing list contact her at the <lisa@sentientbody.com> or call *360*385*7760*.  

 

"Now I know what "sentient" means... It’s how you've guided me back to what my body is telling me. Its the only route to discovering my best self… and is also what gets left behind in today's world of stressors and commitments. Thank you, Lisa, for who you are and for being on the planet at the same time I am!” -Barb M. 

“I loved the classes; they reminded me to be awake to the signals in my body and the world that offers wisdom for living fully!  I also appreciate how you used movement to free up anxious or blocked energy.  Your teachings are offered with such empathy and love!” -Katherine, Port Angeles, WA 

“Lisa Marks is a guide: through her Sentient Body trainings, she offers to meet us, not interpreting the way for each individual but gently asking, through body movement and awareness, what we are feeling, what messages are flowing between our physical body and our inner atmosphere of intuition. Lisa’s classes are deeply quiet but powerful as she enables us to stop, listen, magnify and integrate a more encompassing awareness that will enlighten each of us on ourindividual, distinct path.” -Kathleen Kler 


" My deep passion is exploring the 'Sentient Body', the sensing internal experience of our physical bodies.  Inhabiting our bodies with profound awareness, noticing breath and subtle sensation, connects us with the underlying realm from which our physical world arises. 

Because our culture has traditionally been afraid of the body and its connection with the Earth, we are not trained in the skills to understand and navigate this connection. Sentient Body Explorations share tools for connecting with these deep levels through subtle physical experiences and movement. We welcome energies necessary to our development before they enter dreams, symptoms and relationship experiences.  I began studying Dr. Arnold Mindell’s Process Oriented Psychology in 1987. Process Work outlined the magic I was discovering in the movement studio and the rich learning unfolding in my work as a mental health therapist and consultant. He and Dr. Amy Mindell bring cutting edge ideas from the deeper dreaming into the global field of psychology. They have inspired and supported the Sentient Body Explorations and taking them into the world. www.aamindell.net To explore sentient awareness before the Mindell’s work included the essence level, I turned to Authentic Movement, studying and practicing with an amazing community of women who helped me understand Earth Dreaming. Many thanks to Lucia McKelvey whose brainstorming and support mentored this work into the world. Paul and Patty Richards have brought me back to the Energetic Reality behind the Sentient Body and are informing my next steps, for which I am deeply grateful. https://www.sentecenter.net I met Mayla Patricia Riley in the early 1980’s. She explored the unknown, following the lines of intent beyond the realms of imagining. Without her, this work may never have arisen out of the underlying matrix of probability. Our connection was an amazing gift."

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