Stefan is a Sensory Awareness leader and a former executive director of the Sensory Awareness Foundation. He offers workshops in the USA and Europe. Stefan has studied Sensory Awareness and related practices since 1980. He worked closely with Sensory Awareness pioneer Charlotte Selver during the last twelve years of her life. His many years of study and practice of Buddhist meditation and philosophy since 1983 inform his work and life as well. Stefan is working on a comprehensive oral history and biography of Charlotte Selver.
Charlotte Selver asked me to lead sensing over 20 years ago. It has been a great privilege and an unending responsibility. I am very happy that this work asks us to experiment without any authority whatsoever. This includes our own past experiences. Thus, we work together to explore the unknown joy of each moment. I have worked at the Omega Institute and other centers around Rhinebeck, NY and currently in Philmont, NY.
My sensory awareness practice is the playful, joyful foundation of my living process—informing my everyday life and my art-making. A meditation
practitioner since the 1988 in Advaita Vedenta, Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen lineage), I created the Bamboo Jacket Banquet in 2008, an immersive sensory dinner experiment. As a performance artist, I sense into movement and language, informed by a lifetime of study in Gindler’s lineage, somatic therapies, movement arts, theater, and poetry.
Eyal Yona Yamin | Acupuncturist & Chinese Medicine practitioner.
Walking on the path, exploring the edges of movement and presence.
Father of three and a partner.
Believe In Doing by Non Doing.
Living in the big city (New York), yet always finding a quiet place.
Stumbled upon Sensory Awareness by chance and stayed for a lifetime.
Megan lives in Brooklyn, NY with her partner, Ryan, and their two dogs, Yogi and Lorna. She began practicing sensory awareness in 2009, and has remained deeply connected to the practice ever since. What began as a personal exploration has grown into a meaningful part of how she moves through the world.
In 2019, Megan pursued leadership certification, and in 2026, she joined the Sensory Awareness Foundation’s Board of Directors. She approaches her work with openness and care, creating space for others to explore their own experiences with curiosity and compassion. She offers both private and group sessions.
Marsha was fortunate to have studied with Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks from 1974 till 2001, participating in several study groups and many workshops in Mexico, California, Maine and Germany. Her background experience as an occupational therapist and massage therapist blend beautifully with Sensory Awareness as well as in her offering of classes for Yoga students. Currently she is deeply involved in the compassionate movement to help preserve children’s bodily integrity and medical freedom in the U.S. and the world.
Terry Ray became certified to lead the work of Sensory Awareness through Charlotte Selver, with whom she studied for over 25 years. She is a licensed psychotherapist and was accredited through the first Community Dharma Leader’s program at Spirit Rock to teach meditation. Terry leads classes and retreats and teaches through the Insight Meditation Community and Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She been leading Sensory Awareness Classes and retreats and teaching meditation for over 45 years. Terry is the author of Embodied Presence, A Spiritual Memoir.
Denise was introduced to Sensory Awareness and the teachings of Charlotte Selver in the 1980s. This study also guided her to the practice and lineage of Suzuki Roshi and Soto Zen meditation. In 2008 she took formal Jukai at Hokyoji Temple in Fukui Japan with her teacher Taihaku Nichiren Priest. She became recognized as a Leader of Sensory Awareness in 2012 from mentorship with Lee Klinger Lesser. Currently living in San Diego California, she offers classes and is in collaboration with Pat Baxter and Micheal Richter for SALTI (Selver Awareness Leaders Training Institute) a two year, four module program.
Chester lives life with curiosity and advocates for others to do the same. He has been in private practice in Pasadena, California, since 1985 and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist, a Sensory Awareness leader, and a certified practitioner/teacher of Integrative Body Psychotherapy. Chester also uses street smarts and the influences of race and culture on our senses with individuals and communities. Since 1995, Sensory Awareness has been foundational to his practice and life. It is a portal to our heart, essence, being, and to experiencing renewed balance and aliveness.
