“No matter what we have survived, I believe it is possible to alchemise our trauma and life experiences through breathwork, somatic movement, and the expressive arts.
I believe it is possible to transmute fear, rage, hate, doubt and loss into love, compassion, joy, clarity and purpose.”
Lesley Asare
Driven by her quest for truth, her ability to deeply listen and by the belief that we all have the ability to heal ourselves, Lesley’s wellness practice honours the spirit of play, intuitive knowledge, the healing power of the creative process, the life force within the breath and the wisdom within sacred archive of the body.
She creates safe and sacred containers for people to courageously come home to themselves through the breath, the body and the expressive arts. Within these spaces participants give room to what is alive within them and consciously call more love and understanding into their lives.
Lesley holds 1:1 Somatic Movement Coaching sessions, 1:1 Conscious Breathwork Experiences and leads Somatic Movement and expressive arts workshops in the UK and Ghana. She has had the pleasure of working with Chalewote Arts Festival, Fact Gallery, Our Naked Truths, Fuel Theatre, Masaaki London, Milton Keynes Gallery, The V&A and Black Minds Matter UK, the On Balance Community and Siedeh Foxie.
Lesley holds a BA and MA in Costume Design from London College of Fashion, over 12 years’ experience as an artist and facilitator. She is a Tamalpa Teacher Training graduate and a certified Trauma-Informed Conscious Breathwork Practitioner (100 Hour).
“It is our birth right to live softly, intentionally and playfully from a free and heart centred space.
When we move from our hearts, we move in truth, peace, love, balance, ease,
spaciousness, clarity and joy.”
Lesley Asare
How my wellness journey began…
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How my wellness journey began… 〰️
My wellness practice developed from a twofold desire to:
Personally, come home to myself, and tune out the noise of external influences in order to hear the call of my heart and inner wisdom.
Professionally explore how I could use my multidisciplinary artistic practice as a tool for healing.
In my quest to find a training program that would maximise my background in costume design, visual art painting and illustration, sculpture, performance and installation art, I came across art therapy, dance and movement psychotherapy, music therapy, play therapy and drama therapy. None of these options felt right because picking one meant I’d have to pick a lane. This felt limiting because in my experience the truth of our life experience doesn’t have just one voice, it can’t be sung with just one note.
In 2016, a dear friend shared the work of the Tamalpa Institute with me, and for the first time in my search for a training programme, I felt an aliveness in my heart - this programme felt like it could encompass the entirety of my experience.
The Tamalpa Institute is an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that offers expressive arts training programs and workshops for healing, education, and social transformation. The Tamalpa Life/Art Process®, which combines movement, dance, drawing, and writing, has influenced the fields of dance, environmental design, theater, movement therapy, and art-based psychology. [Their] approach is based on the theory that people’s own life experiences are the most meaningful sources for artistic expression and social change.
After attending a Tamalpa Experience weekend workshop at Tamalpa UK in Sandgate, Kent, I was sold. I signed up for the first level of my training in 2017 and began the journey to becoming a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist.
I am currently a Tamalpa L2 Teacher Training Graduate and will be completing my final L3 Fieldwork project between 2022-2023.
“Given the time and space, as the intuitive beings we are, I believe all that we need to heal ourselves lives within our bodies.”
Lesley Asare
In 2022, I completed a 100 hour trauma informed Conscious Breathwork training through Siedeh Foxie’s Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Breathwork Training and Mentorship program.
Find out more about Siedeh’s important work and support the BIPOC Breathwork Training and Mentorship program here.
“When we heal ourselves, we are like the pebble that is plunged into water. As the nucleus of a ripple, our healing expands from our hearts to that of our loved ones, our community and world.”
Lesley Asare