Imma Mallarch
Archives: Directory of Leaders
Mayte Criado
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
Núria Martí Lluch
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.
Ellen Lima
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.
Gloria Lerin
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.
Hannes Zahner
Claudia Caviezel
Edward (Ned) Dwelle
Nicole Wache
In 2018, I attended a Sensory Awareness conference on Frauenchiemsee and was deeply impressed by the presence, calm, clarity, and wakefulness that the work brought me—and still brings me today. From that time on, I worked with Lee Klinger Lesser and have been part of the Leaders Guild since 2024. Professionally, I work in my own private practice as a (licensed) craniosacral therapist, teach yoga, and offer Sensory Awareness classes. My heart also lies in herbal medicine, mindfulness (Thich Nhat Hanh), energy medicine, and alternative women’s health. Sensory Awareness forms the foundation for all of this—and for my life.
Helga Hoenen
Helga Hoenen studied pedagogics, languages and physical education and worked at different universities in teacher training mainly teaching dance, skiing and outdoor activities. She started to study with Charlotte Selver in 1983, completed a Feldenkrais training in 1997, accompanied many training as an assistant, and participated till 2011 in an Embodied Life program. Her way of offering the “work” to individuals and groups is a blend of these paths and related practices she got involved in. I’m grateful to have come into contact with different approaches that open up possibilities to come home to our true nature, to become more flexible and responsive, to sense more fully life within and around, to stay centered, grounded in midst of changes and challenges, to be curious, to feel joy and happiness – a rewarding way to uncover, unfold and sustain the life giving forces.