LesLee Ames

Welcome to my Website....Dance-On.Net. I have built this Site thru Site-Build-It (SBI) in order to share my Passion for Movement, particularly Dance and Yoga, as a means of Individual and Community Health and Happiness. SBI is a unique way to go beyond just building a business foundation website: I am able to present you with the topics of interest that are in great demand. I am excited about this because it means more great information about my favorite subject reaches more people - keeping Dance Alive and on the Cultural forefront.

Basic Teacher-Integral Yoga Institute ∙Advanced Teacher Training-Asheville Yoga Center ∙Pilates Certified - Bodyworks, Durham, NC ∙ Reiki Master

Member International Association of Yoga Therapists, Trained as Critical Incident Stress Foundation Responder 2008 - equipped to service individuals who are healing from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder including Veterans (Offering Stress-relief and Deep Relaxation at the Ralph Johnson, VA Hospital, Charleston, SC)

This class is a breath of fresh air for me. There has not been a move I could not do, there has not been a moment of self-doubt—and yet each class quietly and painlessly pushes me to the next level and gives me a sense that I can progress.

LesLee Ames began her international study of Yoga in 1996 by traveling to the Sivananda Yoga Centers located in Nassau, Bahamas and Val Morin, Canada. She then certified at the Integral Yoga Institute with the method approved by Dr. Dean Ornish. She has 12 years of teaching experience, including Advanced Teacher Training from the Asheville Yoga Center. She recently was an Adjunct Professor for the Physical Education Department at the College of Charleston. Currently, LesLee volunteers in the Charleston County School District and holds ongoing yoga and pilates classes, both semi-private and private sessions, at The Center for Holistic Health, and at the Ralph Johnson, VA Hospital in Charleston.

She received her initial Pilates training at the Pilates institute in Boulder and her certification at Bodyworks in North Carolina. She taught at Praxis and the Medical University of South Carolina, where she began a thriving alternative program at the Student Center in 1999. Ms. Ames is also a Reiki Master with 10 years of various levels of experience. LesLee has studied all forms of dance and gymnastics since the age of 3, and she was certified in Nia technique in 1999. She knows movement and the benefits of physical and mental training and creates and develops her work from her own personal practice and healing from trauma.

LesLee is proud to be the founder and director of WorldBeat, a non-profit collaboration begun in 2003, to share valuable practices of Health through movement and music with inner-city Youth.

"When the body is completely relaxed and the mind quiet from the chatter, one is left with utter confidence and awe at how divinely capable and loved we really are."
LesLee Ames

article posted below...Gartland, Michael. “Yoga can ease the spirit, provide balance in life.” The Post and Courier 5 December 2004: F3.

Charleston, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Summerville, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Moncks Corner

LesLee Ames

Yoga Reiki Pilates