y name is LeeAnn Mallorie, and I specialize in transformational movement and conversation. I work with people who want to bridge the body-mind-spirit divide in order to be more authentic, passionate and purpose driven. I can help you or your organization create a shift that leads to genuine, honest communication and dramatically increases your effectiveness.
It’s all about wasting less time on needless drama and being more present for the important people and projects in your life!
By the way, I also teach dance, which has always been a passion and hobby of mine. For me, body awareness is the most powerful way to deeply connect with the self. It’s a critical tool in my leadership training and coaching approach…
Where did it all begin?
In my first memory of this work, I am just seven years old. I remember clearly witnessing an awkward youngster being bullied by my peers in the hallway of our primary school. I was struck by the fact that these same children were members of the local church choir and were active youth group participants.
Something about that didn’t make sense. How could they be so incongruent? And could I too be guilty of the same behavior? I knew then that I was to become an advocate for something different….
Since that moment I have always deeply valued genuine, authentic interaction among people regardless of race, gender, class, line of work or social status. In order to collaborate, I believe we must be connected. In order to connect, we must have the guts to suspend judgment and the willingness to see ourselves through another’s eyes.
After completing what felt like a very intellectual graduate degree in Cultural Psychology at a research-focused institution, my passion and commitment for truth led me to rural Hunan, China. There, I spent a year teaching English and getting to know working class Chinese culture first hand.
From that year I understood that to really know a thing, it is necessary to do, feel, touch, witness and experience it in the flesh.
Then, around the same moment in my life, I met Richard Strozzi Heckler, took a coaching job with Learning as Leadership and participated in my first Nia Technique class.
Through my work with LAL I began to understand why we human beings take incongruent actions every day. My training in Strozzi Somatics and Nia opened my eyes to the “how” of creating change. Their unique body-mind-spirit approaches helped me remember what as a dancer I have always known: that physical movement and body awareness are the long lost “ways in” to healing our souls and becoming more fully ourselves.
These three methodologies have come together to form the perfect triad of deeply moving, highly effective training tools that now serve as the foundation for my writing, coaching and training approach. I am grateful for the giants whose shoulders I stand upon, and am honored to share this work in the world.
- Alan Cohen
By the way my mum – 20 year owner of a movement studio business – once decided to upgrade her income by taking a well paying admin assistant position. After two hours of sitting behind a desk, she handed in her notice and walked out. I guess you could say this stuff’s in my genes.