After many years of study with Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks, and with Charlotte’s approval I began offering classes in this work in1988. I helped create the Sensory Awareness Leaders’ Guild and was its first president. I’ve also served as the Executive Director of the SAF and as the co-editor of Reclaiming Vitality and Presence. Now retired from a long career as a psychotherapist I now enjoy offering Zoom classes in sensing, gardening, writing poetry, taking care of my active grandson, and exploring the fascinating art of making three point basketball shots.
I joined the SALG in 2014 and acted as Director of the SAF in 2015 and 2016. I began the study and practice of Sensory Awareness in 1980. This work deepens and permeates the experiencing of everything, so all that has followed in my life has been profoundly enriched by it. I hope that has spread out to serve others. Now retired from an Intermodal Expressive Arts therapy practice, I live in the beautiful, high desert of southeastern Arizona with my husband, where we enjoy art making and quiet hikes.
Vanessa E. Meade is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) School of Social Work. She is a U.S. Army/Gulf War Veteran, a former Alaska State Trooper, and a licensed psychologist and clinical social worker in Alaska. She facilitates mindfulness-based retreats and programs, has studied Sensory Awareness with Lee Klinger Lesser since 2010, and is a recognized leader of Sensory Awareness.
