Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement & Somatic Movement Educator, Dancer

“Your use of the term ‘being met’ gives me the idea that this somatic work is unwinding through an exploration resonates with me very deeply. I want to meet myself and give myself permission to be and also to express.”-D

Liesje has held a private bodywork practice for 26 years. She offers structural bodywork and somatic movement therapy with an emphasis on injury treatment and prevention through hands-on sessions and guided movement repatterning. She works primarily with muscular tension, skeletal alignment, and fascial tensegrity, and functional movement but also practices visceral manipulation, joint mobilization, craniosacral therapy, scar work, embodied anatomy. Liesje integrates movement reeducation within hands-on sessions and movement education, empowering clients with the skills to find their own pathways to healing.

You can now receive online virtual services in SourcePoint Energy Medicine, Rolf Movement Integration and TAG Method, Somatic Trauma Repatterning with Liesje, look for the OnLine option in the booking selections.

Liesje’s training includes her basic training of Rolfing Structural Integration with Duffy Allen, and Rolf Movement with Kevin Franks, Caryn McHose, and Per Haarland, Aline Newton and Rebecca Mills(2020-2024), as well as her ongoing Advanced Rolfing training and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Duffy Allen, Ray McCall, Carol Agnessess, John Martine and Ron Murry. She studied Embodied Ethics with Christiane Pelmas (2022) and received her advanced training in SourcePoint Energy Medicine from Bob Shrei and Donna Thomson (2015). She’s received training in trauma resilience from Lael Keen (Somatic Experiencing and Rolfing) and Katherine Allen and Maria Bowen (TAG Method). She also has studied Continuum Movement with Bonnie Gintis, Susan Harper, Rebecca Lawson, and Robin Becker. She’s maintained a deep practice in somatic embodiment and embryology with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She’s a graduate from Moving On Center, studying with Martha Eddy and Carol Swan among others (1999-2024). Liesje taught somatic movement at Community College of Vermont (2008-2011) Middlebury College (2019), Main Street Landing and Being/Body Somatic Arts (2024).

In 2022, her vision of health expanded by creating Being/Body Somatic Arts, a studio space in the Chace Mill in Burlington, Vermont, for collective learning, growth, and exploration of embodiment practices. In the winter and spring of 2025, she is working as a full-time Rolfer in a busy clinic at Thrive Intragrative Medicine in Athens, Georgia. While she’s away, Being/Body is flourishing with other practitioners who are offering somatic classes and coaching. More information is coming soon.

Liesje maintains and deepens her knowledge through mentorships, workshops, and teaching. Known for her grounded presence and warmth, Liesje continues to inspire others through her passion for social healing, connection, and fostering peace and vitality in the world.

You can view her qualifications more deeply here.

I have been receiving online SourcePoint Distance Sessions from Liesje for the last few months and it has been such a profound and nourishing experience. It’s amazing how connected I feel to Liesje, and how clearly I can feel the work she is doing ‘on’ me, even though we are sharing a virtual space. Her presence and dedication provide me with the opportunity to share, and receive, and be fully supported. Her voice leads the way, almost like a guided meditation, shepherding me through new landscapes and territories. The sessions themselves feel rich and valuable, and I notice substantial shifts in the days that follow ~ sometimes in body or mind or spirit, or all three. I highly recommend trying the distance (online) version of SourcePoint Therapy. It’s something I plan to continue in addition to my in-person Rolfing/Movement Sessions. They bring something new, and much needed, to my experience of wellness and health. -J