Understanding Us™

Tree of Personal Growth Beta Group: Roots to Fruits

Find purpose, integrate mind, body and soul; get to the next level of growth personally, professionally and spiritually.

Many of Leslie’s clients have expressed to her their desire to create a personal daily practice (sadhana) that will take them to the next level on their growth path. But, they are getting stuck in that they don’t have time to organize it. They have also expressed a desire to connect with a like-minded community.

We are all aware that a routine and a consistent practice where we check in with the Self is the critical ingredient of personal growth. Leslie has done many hours of footwork in creating a sadhana blueprint so that her clients can begin advancing to the next level right away. She has put hundreds of hours into researching and notating best practices from breathwork to yoga asana to somatic work to simple movement exercises. As a beta test participant, you will get to try these out AND receive support from Leslie and 9 other participants who are doing the same at a deeply reduced rate.

As many of Leslie’s clients are in the Healing Arts field (coaches, yoga instructors, somatic practitioners, etc.), the tools and practices you learn here may be used for your clients as well!

If this resonates deeply for you, let’s do this…together! Read on for specifics.

The Details

  • A 10-person cohort that will test and give feedback to Leslie regarding the Understanding Us curriculum, specifically moving from The Transitional State to the integration state (see Roots to Fruits diagram).

  • Meeting once a week for approximately an hour beginning Wednesday, August 7th

  • $108 paid via Paypal: (760) 900-1487, Venmo: Leslie-Boyd-2, or Zelle: consulting.lboyd@gmail.com.

  • Modern psychology, biology (emphasis on most current evidence-based physiology), somatic integration, ancient yogic practices, attachment theory and relational trauma.

  • In exchange for the deeply reduced cost,* participants will be beta testing the soft launch of the Understanding Us Personal Growth path.

    Participants will be given tools and practices to get to the next level, The Integration State (see diagram).

    Participants will receive:

    ⁃ a packet of diagrams for visual learning and deeper integration of concepts

    ⁃ a packet that includes forms where participants will create a personal daily practice (sadhana) description

    ⁃ videos that explain the tools and practices

    ⁃ connection to a like-minded community who are at the same point on the path

    ⁃ a weekly group Q & A session with Leslie. Participants will ask questions, share and discuss during these meetings

    ⁃ Support and encouragement from a facilitator (Leslie) as well as from a conscious-minded community

    *Cost will increase by 3 or more times at official launch in Fall of 2024. We have just 10 spots available for this opportunity!

  • 1. Identify with being in the Transitional State as outlined in the Tree of Life Personal Growth diagram.

    2. Participants are seeking to move to the Integration State (see diagram) as to improve personal and professional relationships.

    3. Highly motivated: these individuals are seeking to go to “the next level” personally and professionally.”

    They are wiling to:

    - watch a weekly “tools and practices” video; facilitated by Leslie, 30 - 45 minutes

    - meet once a week for group Q & A meetings (about an hour)

    - devote 30 minutes to an hour in a personal sadhana practice.

    - provide feedback to Leslie at the end of the 6 week session.

    4. At least one year of working privately with Leslie or another therapist.

    5. Have knowledge of and applied tools and practices of somatic work.

    6. This group is not for those identifying with The Stuck State: meeting 4 or more of the 11 descriptors (see the "Tree of Personal Growth" diagram).

    A program for this group will launch soon!

The Understanding Us™ Curriculum

Understanding Us is a curriculum developed by Leslie Boyd, MS. It is an amalgamation of Leslie’s 24 years of empirically gathered data as a professional counselor, as well as evidence-based approaches stemming from education in psychology, biology, somatic integration and ancient yogic teachings.

Understanding Us is a personal growth pathway that provides a map for those seeking tools and practices that engender a learning of the True Self over conditioned personas. The pathway is called Roots to Fruits with the “roots” being the learning of one’s biology, then moving up through different stages, through spiritual expansion, the “fruits.” Participants are led through the process of development that Leslie garnered from her 10 years of private work with clients, observing and taking notes along the way.

This curriculum emphasizes understanding over pathologizing. It seeks to give participants a lens through which they can see disordered thoughts and behavior (of Self, others and the world) as an adaptation to survive that can be changed through renegotiation, rather than an organic disorder that is permanent. To this end, this curriculum is not only a path to better the Self, but it is also a path to social justice. Only through understanding ourselves and others can we come to a place of compassion; collective compassion is the route of lasting world change.

About Leslie:

Leslie Boyd, MS is a somatic-based therapist. She has been a professional counselor for 24 years and has seen clients privately for 10 years. She specializes in resolving relational trauma, with an emphasis on attachment. She holds the belief that most traumas develop between 0-2 years of age due to a lack of attunement and healthy bonding. Additionally, she has been a yoga instructor for 10 years and weaves in the ancient teachings of the yogic tradition in her practice and events. She holds regular educational events for clients and professionals, yoga sessions as well as immersions, state-side and abroad.