LEE KLINGER LESSER
Experiences of Workshop Participants
"As a Zen teacher I have for many years been impressed with sensing as the most effective method of deeply involving students in the ancient Buddhist practice of mindfulness. The Mindfulness Sutra begins with mindfulness of the body, with breathing, standing, sitting, walking, movement, but without much detail as to how to practice these things. I believe it was the special genius of Charlotte Selver to have independently uncovered the deepest aspects of these practices, and to do so with consummate playfulness and openness. What Charlotte and her husband and co-teacher Charles Brooks taught had almost all the advantages of Buddhism and none of the drawbacks! Now that Charlotte and Charles are gone, their successors continue the work. And none of them are more talented, more humane, or more true to the spirit of sensing than Lee Klinger Lesser. Her classes and workshops are always tremendously satisfying and full of wonder. She has taken what she received and made it her own."
~ Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Zen Teacher and founder of Everyday Zen
"Lee showed me how to open my heart, how to move towards the contact, towards what is happening and experience it. She inspires through her extraordinary generosity and her way of teaching sensory awareness.
Lee is fresh, responsive, nondemanding and she knows something I need to know."
~ Frances Khanna, Gestalt therapist
"I have been a student of Sensory Awareness for many years and in recent times, I have participated in Lee's workshops in Maine and Mexico. In her classes, Lee lovingly includes whatever happens to present itself in the moment and she follows it with a simple zeal. Her interest in how life knows its own way of unfolding has affected me deeply. Through this, I am becoming more of who I am. More expressiveness and joy are so sweetly seeping into my daily living."
~ Ray Fowler, Father, Orchestral Conductor, Sensory Awareness Leader
"To say I enjoyed your workshop would be missing the mark. It was transforming. I felt as if I was flying, as if I had permission to let go of all the usual trappings before one can be intimate with another. And it was wonderful."
~ Yvonne Shanks
"Sensory Awareness launched me safely and successfully into the realm of Vipassana Meditation, providing a fantastic base for grounding mind into body. Lee Klinger Lesser offers a precise and accurate way to guide us back, to invite our mind that is constantly strung out in the world to notice our living process."
~ Ruth Denison, Vipassana meditation teacher
"We especially want to thank Lee Klinger-Lesser for agreeing to marry us and midwifing the creation of our ceremony with imagination, wisdom and beauty. She’s an ally and teacher in this mission to heal the world and the reflective spaces she’s naturally created over the years helped us grow as individuals and as a couple. We owe so much to her. One of our guests called her a female Gandolph and we couldn’t agree more. Because of Lee the entire process was a richer and deeper experience."
~ Mario and Dona