Lisa Marks
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*.
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"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."
Lisa can be reached at
Sentient Body
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2009