Transformational speaker, coach, performer, author and teacher, Lea Bayles has helped thousands of people of all ages create vibrant health, happiness and creative vitality. An immune system breakdown in her early thirties led Lea on a quest to answer the question: “How can I create optimal health, vibrancy and vitality as I expand into my full potential of body, mind, heart and soul? “
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ith masters of energy healing, spirituality, yoga, chi kung and shamanism, as well as cutting edge practitioners of the modern sciences of psycho-immunology, quantum healing, brain research, human potential and transpersonal psychology allowed her to heal herself by partnering with the vast, healing intelligence within. Lea’s passion for unlocking this extraordinary, transformational power that lives within each of us led her to a master’s degree in psychology with an emphasis on mind-body healing and shaped her career and her life’s work. As she learned to heal herself, she was able to help thousands of other people heal themselves. In the last 25 years Lea has worked in a variety of positions including:
• Teacher of yoga, chi kung and transformational dance
• Director of an international yoga therapy master’s program
• Body-mind Therapist at an integrative medical clinic
• Coordinator of Employee Wellness for a large hospital system
• Holistic Wellness Consultant
• Facilitator of patient groups for an Internal Medicine Clinic
• Movement catalyst for RhythmAsana
• Transformational Life Coach, Mentor and Speaker
Lea has created:
• Relaxation Remedy Cd for Pain Relief, Stress Reduction and Inner Replenishment
• Co-Creating Heaven on Earth Tele-summit featuring leading visionaries
• Replenish Your Soul meditation series
• Numerous holistic wellness articles and hospital curricula
• Take Back Your Life: Moving from Chronic Pain to Lifelong Healing book
• Highly acclaimed retreats, workshops and classes
• Powerful spoken word performances
Lea’s playful, practical, compassionate and life-changing approach draws from her master’s degree in psychology and extensive experience with theater, dance, mind-body healing, energy work, shamanism, yoga, ta**ra and chi-kung and her personal challenges and joys with living in a body. Dealing with her own midlife challenges including divorce, loss of loved ones, chaotic hormones, insomnia, career change and empty nest and being happily surprised by the gifts of midlife such as freedom of time and choice, post-menopausal zest, heightened intuition, creative vitality and courage has inspired her to become a champion for the magic and magnificence of midlife. Since turning fifty Lea has passionately committed to her own flow of creativity and loves helping others activate their natural creative powers so they become more and more fully themselves, deepen in joy and delight and create positive change in the world. Lea lives with her husband, photographer David Paul Bayles, their cat and many wild animals on Dreaming Forest Farm in the wooded foothills of the Oregon Coast Range.
