Moving Beyond Core invites readers to meet their Inner Guide and release the need for external validation. The author leads us on an adventure through the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary movement and bodywork practices-making this a valuable read for movement practitioners and clients alike.
Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle is an international leader in and practitioner of embodied movement with a 40-year background in holistic health and collaboration with distinguished pioneers in yoga, Pilates, Structural integration bodywork, somatic arts and sciences, dynamic breathwork and energy medicine.
Her extensive work with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Emilie Conrad, Susan Harper, Judith Aston, Tom Myers, The Guild for Structural Integration, Hubert Godard, Phillip Beach and Jaap van der Wal led to the creation of her 3Core Connections Embodied Perspective. This embodied approach to our living architecture is one in which practitioners of any movement or bodywork discipline discover their wholeness through the portal of their innate biointelligent wisdom.
A founding member of the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA), the Fascia Research Society, and International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI), Wendy currently directs the Pilates Center of Austin and mentors and teachers nationally and internationally. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Designed as an experiential journey, Beyond Core views wholeness as a portal to a new understanding of embodiment.
Wendy has gifted you and me with her lifetime search and practice of awakening to and embracing life from multiple embodied approaches and perspectives. This is a wonderfully engaging book if you also seek to navigate life with clarity of presence, ease of movement, and meaningful expression and communication with others. If that is you, you are in for a treat! -Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Founder of The School for Body-Mind Centering®
As a clinical anatomist and fascia specialist, I value Wendys visionary work offering a profoundly wise, embodied invitation to move beyond mechanistic training models toward a living, relational understanding of human movement. This book invites readers into a relationship with the bodys fascia matrix, where movement emerges through presence rather than performance. This book represents a vital contribution to somatic practice, fasciategrity, and whole-body awareness. -John Sharkey, MSc, Clinical Anatomist (BACA) & Exercise Physiologist (BASES)
This book is the result of decades of dealing with, living with, and guiding people in the deep wisdom the embryo can teach us, namely, how to be human beings as we are meant to be: intelligent organisms that know how to orient, adapt, self-regulate, self-heal, and, above all, love. Thank you, Wendy, for helping people experience the spirit within themselves and realize their potential. -Jaap van der Wal, MD, PhD, Embryologist and Phenomenologist
It has been an absolute joy to witness Wendys journey and contribution to the world of somatic awareness. Already a longtime yoga practitioner, Wendy emerged from The Pilates Centers inaugural teacher training program with Romana Kryzanowska with a passionate resolve to discern and illuminate the unifying principles embodied in all the great bodymind disciplines. Her deep dive beyond Pilates into Continuum, Feldenkrais, Aston Patterning, Body Mind Centering, Rolf Structural Integration, etc., has culminated in a truly unique body of work that awakens us to the interconnectedness of our mental, physical and spiritual selves (just as Mr. Pilates taught). This book will be a staple for movement and bodywork practitioners for decades to come. -Rachel Taylor Segel and Amy Taylor Alpers, The Pilates Center
