‘Poetry started to pour through & out of me’

MY JOURNEY

I am a teacher and guide of heart-centered practices that empower others as the creators for bold and lasting transformation in themselves and their world. With 1,000+ hours of training in Tibetan Buddhism, Yin Yoga and Chinese Medicine, Sound Meditation and Reiki Energy Alignment, I work with those who are feeling stuck, who want to make a change and don’t know where to start, who know there is more and who want lead a more fulfilled and creatively expressed life.

Formerly a financial planner in the New York City fashion industry, I spent much of my life in rigid routine and structure, bound by anxiety, adrenal fatigue, digestive disorders and a serious eating disorder. I was disconnected from my inner needs and desires, and wildly under-expressed.

Finding yoga in 2016 woke me up to the potential that things could be different. I could be free. It shattered the limitations of my pain, reconnected me to my inner needs and desires, and offered space and permission to bring them to life. Working with the body in yoga was my first taste of creative expression and real transformation. It led me to even more subtle practices of mind and energy that continue to stretch edges of what’s possible.

When I began studying the Dharma, poetry and dance started to pour through and out of me in the most unexpected, non-linear, free-flowing fashion. This became my playground for expansion, continually shifting shapes and inspiring in the most stunning and unpredictable ways. This radical transformation towards truth is abundantly available for all of us, and my hope is to empower anyone ready for lasting change to see their own undeniable potential to be free. Body Poetry was born in Spring 2021 to offer just that.

QUALIFICATIONS

18-Foundational Courses - Monastic Tibetan Buddhism with Asian Classics Institute - Spring 2021
200-Hour Meditation Teacher Training with Three Jewels - Fall 2019
50-Hour Lovingkindness Meditation Teacher Training with IDP - May 2019

50-Hour Meridian Yoga Therapy with Science of Self - Sept 2020
50-Hour RYT Yin with Angela Jervis-Read - August 2018
300-Hour RYT Vinyasa Yoga with Sampoorna Yoga - Jan/Feb 2018
200-Hour Vinyasa Yoga with New Love City - Fall 2016

Reiki Master - March 2019
Reiki 1 & 2 - May 2018
Privately Attuned with Conor Alexander

Sam Wilensky
Founder & Creator, Body Poetry