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About Lance Gries
From the Body into Possibility
I am passionate about helping people reimagine, recreate and revitalize their relationship with their bodies.
You learn to listen to what your body is telling you, and what wants to emerge. Through SOMATIC JOURNEYING, you explore anatomical awareness, sensation, movement, and somatic imagination as pathways to deeper connection and embodiment. EMBODIED MANIFESTING takes that exploration further, helping you bring emerging possibilities into the body and begin living into your vision. Together, we move from awareness to possibility, from possibility to embodiment, and from embodiment into inspired action.
My work has been informed and inspired by the Alexander Technique, the Feldenkrais Method, Release Work, Somatic Experiencing, Energy Alignment, coaching models and Parts Work.
I have also drawn deeply from neuroscience, consciousness research, quantum physics, Eastern philosophies, spiritual principles, meditation, mindfulness, Twelve Step work, and manifestation practices.These influences have given me a broad perspective on the relationship between body, mind, consciousness, energy, and creation.
A Personal Journey of Transformation
My lived experience as a person in recovery, as a gay man during the height of the AIDS crisis and the ongoing learning from sustaining a loving thirty-seven year old partnership - among other rich life experiences - has taught me to develop a more honest and compassionate relationship with myself. It has opened a continuing personal spiritual journey and a deeper exploration of consciousness, connection, identity and purpose.
I began my professional life as an award winning dance artist and teacher. Over the years, my work evolved into a deep exploration of somatic research and pedagogy. I developed and have shared my own methodology, teaching thousands of students to experience their bodies in new ways and to discover the possibilities that emerge through embodied awareness. That experience forms the foundation of my coaching and guidance.
A Life of Somatic Exploration & Transformation
My work as a transformational and somatic coach has grown from nearly four decades of exploring the body, consciousness, creativity, and human transformation.
What I Believe
At the heart of my coaching and guidance is a simple and profound belief: You are divinely created, uniquely created and filled with creative potential.
You are an evolving, creative, infinite being with the capacity to discover, create, and continually expand who you are.
My role is to create a space where you can listen and respond more deeply to your body and whole being, explore your experience, reconnect with your innate creativity, discover what wants to emerge; and then support you to live into that vision for yourself.
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