What's it like to work with Lore?

While Lore earned their Certified Personal Trainer certification through the NSCA and has achieved many advanced embodiment-related certifications, your time with Lore will be different from any previous experience you may have had with personal trainers or other embodiment-related professionals in the past.

Their focus on empowered embodiment and consent means that your holistic needs will guide the entire process, rather than the prescriptive (and all too often ableist and sizeist) approach of many embodiment-related professionals.

Their role as an embodiment navigator means that you are always the one in control of defining the destination that you wish to move towards, as well as the pace of the work; Lore is there to lend their extensive experience towards helping you chart a course that will work for you.

They are excited to help you use curiosity and radical acceptance as tools towards discovering empowered embodiment!

Your time with Lore may include:

• Somatic mindfulness practices, breathwork, and meditation from a consent-driven perspective;
• Discussions about how to use movement and/or mindfulness as tools towards experiencing gender affirmation and gender euphoria;
• Discussions about dismantling our internalization of -isms such as cissexism, sizeism, ableism, racism, heterosexism, and sexism;
• Movement coaching and exploration;
• In-depth explorations of yoga asanas;
• Education regarding the ways your body’s anatomy works;
• Reiki energy healing;
• Explorations of Tarot, green and hedge witchcraft, and approaches to intergenerational healing that arise from these practices;
• Conversations regarding herbal and plant-based medicines;
• Discussions related to growing, foraging, preparing, preserving, and/or sharing/distributing food and/or plant-based medicines;
• A combination of some or all of the above;
• Or something co-created between you and Lore that is unique to your needs!

Courses Lore can facilitate/lead include:

• Healing the Harms of Sizeism: Advancing Size Justice in Therapeutic Spaces (approved for 2 CEUs through the New York Mental Health Counselors Association)
• Undoing Fatmisia: Internal Work and External Action
• Social Injustice and Substance Use: A Critical Look at the History of Drug Laws and Treatment Paradigms in the United States
• Unlearning the Twelve Steps: Challenging the Paradigm and Reclaiming Autonomy Following Exposure to Twelve-Step Programs
• For All, For Real: Size and Gender Celebration within Movement Spaces
• The Physical Is Political: Queerness, Disability, and Accessibility
• What Did You Just Say?! Communicating Across Differences
• Herbalism, Inequity, and Body Justice
• Herbs and Ancestors
• Meeting the Relational Self
• Nothing Simple about Simples! (A presentation on the value of working with single-herb preparations in herbalism)
• Cooking, Baking, and Canning (A variety of specific recipes and topics available)

Lore has worked with a wide variety of conferences, organizations, schools, and companies at local, regional, state, and national levels to create customized courses and facilitated discussions.

Contact Lore directly to discuss how they can provide the educational presentation or facilitated discussion that best meets your needs!

What has Lore earned certifications in?

• MA in English/Creative Writing (SUNY: The College at Brockport)
• BS in English/Creative Writing with minors in history and journalism (Manchester University)
• 2022-2023 National Board of Certified Counselors MFP Addiction Counseling Research Fellow
• Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine: 1200-Hour Herbal Immersion Program
• NSCA-CPT 
• Yoga Instructor (YTT-200). Lead instructor: Jesse Amesmith of YogaVibe585.
• Reiki Master, with additional learning through Marika Clymer's previous work via the HARA Circle
• EBFA Barefoot Training Specialist
• Trauma-Informed Fitness Professional
• Body Positive Fitness Alliance Affiliated Professional
• Certified Original Strength Professional
• Oldetime Strongman University Alumnus
• First Aid/CPR/AED
• Certified Safe Zone Trainer

Some examples of Lore's scholarship include:

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• Social Injustice and Substance Use, Part 1: A Critical Look at the History of Drug Laws and Treatment Paradigms in the United States
• Social Injustice and Substance Use, Part 2: A Critical Look at the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Social Justice Implications of Substance Misuse in the United States
• Healing the Harms of Sizeism: Empowering Fatness with Narrative Therapy
• What Is Whiteness?

What is Lore's background?

Lore was raised on Myaamia (Miami), Peoria, and Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) land in what is currently called Indiana. They currently reside on unceded Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee) land in what is currently called Monroe County, NY.

Lore is descended from Germanic Anabaptist and Scottish lineages, and offers gratitude and acknowledgment to the folk traditions, magic, medicine, and ancestors who came before them... wherever it is due.

To learn more about the land you are living on, please visit Native Land.