Directory of Leaders

I was born in Barcelona in 1957. I hold a degree in Educational Sciences and am currently a Sensory Awareness Leader. I enjoy feeling integrated in nature and listening to and participating in life, learning moment by moment. I have worked with musicians, dance groups, expectant couples, and groups of all ages. I use Sensing as a working methodology in all my groups, including Conscious Gesture, and in the trainings I offer in Pelvis and Birth, Perineum—Integration and Movement, Synovia, and Respiratory Kinetics.

I came to Sensory Awareness at a time when my health was in a very fragile state, and this practice brought about a profound change in my life. Being present with my illness and listening deeply to my body and my being became the starting point for recovery. I am a Sensory Awareness leader, musician, music therapist, and experimental guitar teacher. In all the activities I offer, Sensory Awareness is present, with presence and deep listening as the point of departure.

I am a psychologist and psychotherapist, trained at the Erich Fromm Institute in Barcelona, and trained in Sensory Awareness with Krista Sattler. I accompany people in finding their path of awareness and their inner space of freedom—and whenever possible, I play and let my imagination and creativity take flight, creating small jewels.

Ellen Lima has been a practitioner of meditation and somatic education for over 20 years. When she discovered Sensory Awareness nearly ten years ago, the feeling of “coming home” was so profound that she eventually became an authorized facilitator of this work, which—for her—helps us live with greater openness, trust, and kindness. Her teachers are Lee Lesser and Enric Briguera. Ellen is a teacher of Mindfulness and Compassion, Therapeutic Yoga, and a specialist in Somatics and Meditation. She is Brazilian and lives in Barcelona, Spain.

He began his relationship with this work over 25 years ago, driven by an interest in observing sensations and the perceptual possibilities of the human organism. He offers Sensory Awareness workshops in many cities across Spain and internationally, including the United States, Mexico, Chile, Italy, India, and Argentina. Since 2013, he has organized and directed online Sensory Awareness courses in Spanish. Together with his wife, Núria Vives, he co-directs the L’Eix Center for Body Pedagogy in Palafrugell (Girona). He currently serves as President of the Sensory Awareness Leaders Guild.

He is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism in the Karma Kagyu lineage, having taken refuge in 1989. He is the creator of the MAD meditation courses and regularly facilitates Sensory Awareness classes and seminars. He leads summer retreats designed to reconnect with what is present in our lives and to create a space for regeneration, combining Sensory Awareness, meditation, and yoga as skillful means of returning to oneself. He is a kinesiologist and osteopath, which gives him a deep understanding of bodily processes and allows him to bring embodied presence into his teaching.

I first encountered Sensory Awareness in 1991. I worked with Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks. I also met Krista Sattler and Ute Strub and I participated in workshops with Carola Speads and Alice Aginsky. I did Holistic Gymnastics training in Dr. Lily Eherenfried’s center and I have been working with Lee Klinger-Lesser since 2004. I give Sensory Awareness sessions, Gestalt Therapy, and psychotherapy (“Liberation of the Cuirasses”). I accompany people who feel the need to know themselves, connect with their healing potential and reconnect them to who they really are.

She teaches and accompanies processes of body awareness, conscious and creative movement. A dancer, she has had Sensory Awareness present in her life and professional work for over 30 years, becoming an increasingly valuable ally. The deep respect for and trust in the human potential fostered by this practice led her to Authentic Movement and Craniosacral Biodynamics as important elements of her training and professional activity. She is deeply grateful to Lee Klinger Lesser, Krista Sattler, and the entire community of practitioners.

Mayte Criado is a yoga and meditation teacher, author of the book Yoga in Evolution (Kairós Publishing), writer, and musician. She is the founder of the International Yoga School. She considers Sensory Awareness to be the essential foundation of yogic practice, and its principles and pedagogy are fully integrated into the yoga teacher training programs she has created and directs. She began her Sensory Awareness work with Lee Klinger Lesser. She also accompanies people in the process of dying and offers Restorative Yoga and Sensing within this context

From a very young age, I felt the impulse to find my own way of learning how to live. Dance was my first teacher—I learned to inhabit awareness, the body, and the present moment. Later, I explored other paths more deeply: Dance Pedagogy, Postural Re-education, Zen Shiatsu, Chi Kung, Visual Re-education, and Anthroposophy. When I began practicing with Krista Sattler and later with Lee Klinger Lesser, two life teachers for whom I feel deep gratitude, it felt like coming home—to the essence. Sensory Awareness became the pillar supporting all my work and my life path. I researched and developed the Gremme Method, a conscious practice for visual improvement, cultivating sensory observation and reconnection with the twelve human senses through movement, to revitalize and open perception to a more vivid and free experience. I offer group sessions and retreats, individual sessions for children and adults, and professional training for bodyworkers, health practitioners, and educators.

Llegué al Sensory Awareness cuando me encontraba en un estado muy delicado de salud, y esta práctica supuso un gran cambio para mí. Estar presente en mi enfermedad y la escucha a mi cuerpo y a mi ser fue el punto de partida para la recuperación. Soy líder en consciencia sensorial, músico, musicoterapeuta y profesora de guitarra experimental. En todas las actividades que ofrezco la consciencia sensorial está presente y el lugar de partida son la presencia y la escucha a uno mismo.

I hold a degree in Physiotherapy (license no. 148) and am a certified osteopath (D.O.), with over 20 years of experience in private practice, specializing in pediatric and obstetric osteopathy. I am a member of the Sensory Awareness Leaders Guild and a student of Lee Klinger Lesser.

I discovered Sensing through Gloria Lerin and began to experience a different way of being and living—enjoying pauses and becoming more attentive to my perceptions. I trained in Holistic Gymnastics with Dr. Ehrenfried. Later, in 1997, I met Krista Sattler, and in 2011 Lee Lesser—my teachers, to whom I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to immerse myself more fully in what is essential within me. I manage a multidisciplinary center dedicated to serving people, where I lead body awareness sessions.

At the age of seven, I began dancing and later trained as a ballet teacher. I am a pedagogue and psychomotor therapist and worked accompanying children with difficulties. I studied and worked with Blandine Calais-Germain, author of Anatomy of Movement. Together, we co-authored Giving Birth in Movement, which has been translated into eight languages. I offer training in various countries on this subject. I discovered Sensory Awareness through Charles Brooks. For more than 30 years, together with my teachers Krista Sattler and Lee Klinger Lesser, my life and work have been forever transformed. Together with my husband, Enric Bruguera, I co-direct the Center for Body Pedagogy in Palafrugell.

Trained as a massage therapist and psychocorporal therapist, I encountered the work of Elsa Gindler and Charlotte Selver in the early 1990s through a book by Charles Brooks. In 2009, I began facilitating groups in conscious body practice, including Muscle Chain Stretching and Work with Bodily Potential. I connected with the practice of Sensory Awareness through Lee Klinger Lesser, whom I consider my teacher, continuing to explore how to live as a truly human being. It is an honor to accompany and support others on this path.