TESTIMONIALS
Teresa, Designer
Lynette Kessler's work should not be called "dance" nor "movement" though it uses both definitions texturally in the work. It is breath and movement used as a means by which to simultaneously enter one's body and enter the world in pure presence. It is a means to opening one's self by a practice of deep listening to our own bodies and honoring what we discover. I experienced profound peace in my body, and awareness of stored emotion I didn't know was there. I also experienced a breakthrough in my artwork after my first class. I highly recommend and acknowledge this work as an important tool for healing and growth.
Lia, Client since 1994
Considering my challenges with right-side paralysis, post stroke, Lynette helps me experience new ways to move safely and creatively. Her work helps me feel into my body with graceful and fun movement.
Andrew, Engineer
As I learn how to deepen into profound restful states with Lynette’s movement meditations the long term chronic exhaustion from a serious illness is becoming less chronic.
Janice, Physical Therapist
Lynette’s in-depth understanding of integrated body systems from decades of teaching Continuum and being a professional dancer is obvious. I have come away with new ways for teaching my own clients how to gain supple strength and decrease inflammation through movement and most importantly, all while de-stressing.
Mateo, Actor
As an actor I express through my body. Working with Lynette something I had lost was released in me and I was able to fully embody the character in a way I had not experienced before. People commented on the difference. In the midst of a trying time she helped me find joy in my work and I am so grateful.
Lisa, Psychotherapist
I’ve had lung problems since I was kid-allergies, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. Lots of old layers of gunk arose, and I was able to get deep into my system with Lynette's teaching. It also felt good to inhabit my body fully after shoulder surgery.
Child Counseling Center and Play Therapy Institute of New Mexico
Lynette Kessler presented an experiential webinar for counselors and therapists at our child counseling center and training organization. This training was open to the public, and therapists could receive continuing education hours from the State of New Mexico. Participants stated they were eager to put the somatic tools into practice personally and for those they work with. Attendees expressed appreciation for Lynette’s depth of experience in movement therapy. It was the first time one of our presenters received 100% on every survey.
Cynthia, Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Your work on awakening the pelvic region and moving the walls of the uterus was revolutionary for me. The next morning as I sat meditating, I connected at this new level. It has been amazing in ways I don't have words to talk about yet. The workshop opened me to a new level of consciousness for which I am exceedingly grateful. I am in my body more today than ever!
Robert, Film Editor
Doing Lynette’s meditative moving breath work is like a brain re-set to sharpen my focus and increase creativity in my work.
Dr. Nell, L.A.c., O.M.D.
Your input to move the fluids not just the breath was so valuable prior to my surgery.
Ishi, yoga teacher
I learned more about my body in one afternoon than I have over the last few years.
Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum Movement
Lynette brings a clarity and meticulous fine-tuning to her teaching allowing for a total body involvement.
Susan Whipp, Department of Dance, San Francisco State University
One could immediately tell the depth of Lynette’s experience and her gifts for teaching. While Continuum was a fluid, progressively deeper, integration of body-mind improvisational activity, Lynette referenced dance history, dance technique, and related release approaches. She connected powerfully to this student body, taking them carefully into themselves, producing beautifully kinetic work. At the end of her movement session, Lynette showed her recent dance-video and spoke about taking the Continuum work to the level of performance. I found her approach to be unique, refreshing, and insightful, and her manner with my students to be supportive yet challenging.
Allison, Management Consultant
My body was a mess when I first met you. I couldn’t walk, stand or sit for any length of time. Your work is the deepest, the fastest working and the most connected which allows my traditional body therapies to stick. Lynette is a master artist of fluidity.
Dr. Corey R., Chiropractor
This is living movement, it’s good medicine. I can see how this work can help heal trauma. I always feel better after doing your class. It’s like a miracle actually, my back pain is gone.
Linda Sue, Choir Director
We created our own village together through Lynette’s movement ritual where everyone was engaged from the youngest children to our elders. Lynette’s workshop integrated thought, emotion and movement really well for our community choir retreat.
Pat, Lighting Designer
Prior to taking your class I didn’t see the feminine as having much value, I thought of it as weak. I didn’t know how profound it could be. Through the power of the movements we did in Lynette's class, I was able to experience the visionary aspect of the feminine and I want to pursue that further. I felt very refreshed and nurtured
Speech therapist, Juvenile Court Community Schools,Los Angeles County Office of Education
I was impressed by the reactions of our students to Lynette Kessler’s weekly movement program. The group of young men, 14-17 years old in residence at the facility, was invariably respectful, cooperative and focused. They emitted a significantly different peaceful calm as they experienced movement meditation to connect mind and body. They quietly discussed the process with her instead of their usual clowning around which continued even as they moved out of the room. Other staff were also very impressed with the positive results and we often asked each other what is going on in there?! It’s so quiet. The guys reported more calm, less stress and better sleep –very important in a lockdown youth facility.
Retreat director, La Casa de Maria Retreat Center
I am so glad I joined Lynette Kessler's Continuum workshop at our inter-faith retreat center –it was profound! We have received great feedback from participants. I feel that it is so important to move Spirit into the body so that we can fully experience the Divine in our whole being.
Lucia, Leadership Consultant
This was a much deeper experience than mere sensation. Lynette's class went beyond what I experience in yoga. It was obvious to me that my movement was much more “staccato” than “fluid” motion!
Charles, Movement Ritual Participant
Lynette is a master teacher. She knows where every molecule of her body is and can transmit this information. I could feel her every movement and then more remarkably, my own. I looked around and everyone was moving. If the meaning of "sacred" is the sense of "awe" then what we did was Sacred. A real healing.
Quotes for Performance
Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times
Kessler creates dreamy land of surge and drift...not only superbly supple but remarkably prescient... Her concentration and mastery of positional nuance stay engrossing but the work’s deepest moments come in her statements of liquid, holistic integration: movement impulses rippling throughout her body with no seams or points of tension to slow or block them.
Allegra Fuller Snyder (1927-2021) Professor Emerita of Dance UCLA, Co-founder Buckminster Fuller Institute
Lynette is a rare dancing presence. Her body is a completely developed and mastered tool through which flows her creatively processed sensitivity to music, to sound, to space, to the environment as a whole. There is complete integrity in the experience she brings to us the audience. It is aesthetically nurturing, but, more than that, it seems to be almost pure being.
Mike Dworkin, Sports Training Specialist
Lynette’s performance was phenomenal. Amazing how graceful. At first I didn’t know how to enjoy it and then I was just into it.
Sylvia Silk, therapist
Seeing Lynette perform, I wanted to go there with her into that spacious void.
Quotes for Dance Media Work
Lara Owen, Author
Watching Lynette Kessler’s dance film, SHE SAID gave me a vivid experience of the connection between the human body and the natural environment. We hear about this intellectually but rarely is it shown visually. This is profound and important work: beautiful, inspiring and deep.
Jas Morgan, Founding Editor, Mondo 2000 (pre WIRED Magazine)
At Mondo we saw a lot of people and their work...seeing Lynette’s videos was seeing original work.
John Sanborn, Media Artist
At the end of a long, two-day selection process for the Mill Valley Film and Video Festival, where most videos are viewed for no longer than 30 seconds, Lynette’s video SHE SAID, ran its full six minutes. We all sat in silence after.
Joanne Kelly, Co-founder Video Free America, Founder New American Makers
Lynette’s collection of short films in her HEADLAND SERIES is breathtaking as the human form becomes an extension of the natural landscape.
Jennifer Cho, Producer
ANIMA is a stunningly beautiful dance media work... vital, whole, generous.
Quotes for Dance Camera West
Renae Williams, Dance Director, Los Angeles Music Center
Lynette Kessler showed all of us what was possible during her leadership at Dance
Camera West, making an important impact on Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times
No venue or series offers a more exciting array of major international
choreographers... Stunning in its variety... Powerful performances... Consistently surprising... Dance Camera West is funny, sexy and endlessly resourceful...
Steven Lavine, President, California Institute of the Arts
Lynette, through Dance Camera West, has played a critical role in keeping those of us in Los Angeles attached to the larger world of dance as well as expanding our view of how dance can live in a media rich environment.