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About Body Wisdom Academy - Subtle Body Work™ for Trauma Release
Body Wisdom Academy specializes in Subtle Body Work™, a comprehensive trauma release methodology developed by licensed acupuncturist Leslie Huddart. Unlike traditional talk therapy that addresses only the mental layer, our approach works with the complete mind-body-spirit system where trauma is actually stored.
What is Subtle Body Work? Drawing from Chinese Medicine, Vedic traditions, and modern somatic therapeutics, Subtle Body Work™ teaches you to decode your body's unique language. Trauma isn't just a mental experience—it's encoded in multiple layers of your subtle body system, creating persistent anxiety, imposter syndrome, relationship patterns, and emotional triggers that conventional therapy often can't resolve.
Who We Serve: Empaths, healers, therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, and spiritual practitioners who've completed certifications and therapy but still feel stuck. Our clients report releasing lifelong trauma blocks in months rather than years, experiencing lasting inner peace, clarity on life purpose, and freedom from generational patterns.
Our Programs: 16-week certification training, Coach Practitioner training track, individual coaching sessions, and community support for both personal healing and professional development. Learn repeatable techniques to dissolve triggers at their source—not just manage symptoms—using evidence-based methods rooted in ancient wisdom and clinical practice.
Empaths. Healers. Seekers.
You Already Feel the Call.
Healing is a sacred calling—and your subtle body may be the missing key to true transformation.
"Your subtle body is either your superpower or your biggest block."
Therapy, Yoga, Coaching…
Still Feeling Stuck?
You've done the trainings, certifications, and energy work—but something still feels off.
Most healing methods miss the subtle body, the system where mind, body, and spirit actually integrate. Without it, results remain partial.
Is This You?
You're not broken. You're ready for next-level transformation.
You've Done Therapy
And found it helpful, but it didn't quite get you to where you want to be
You've Done Training & Certifications
Life coaching, yoga teacher, nutrition, reiki... you name it, but are still struggling with some things
Your Life Looks Good From the Outside
But you feel like an imposter, like something is missing or not quite right
Real Transformations From Real People
150+ Verified Training Results from Therapists, Healers & Empaths
"I had tried therapy for over 10 years with no huge life-changing results... I finally, for the first time, feel free from lifelong issues that were holding me back."
Holistic Health Coach
"Now when triggers come up, I'm able to easily work through them and let them go, instead of it being the thing that I do for three days."
TEDx Organizer
"Leslie is a true healer... no one else can do what she does."
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Healing Truths
Podcast Interview: Subtle Body, Trauma and the Mitochondria
Have you really gotten over your past experience? How do one get over the past? So often when I'm working with someone, we'll be engaging with the subtle body, noticing what's happening on the body, ... ...more
Healing Truths
August 28, 2023•1 min read
How To Get Over The Past | Healing truth
Have you really gotten over your past experience? How do one get over the past? So often when I'm working with someone, we'll be engaging with the subtle body, noticing what's happening on the body, ... ...more
Healing Truths
August 27, 2023•3 min read
Sneaky Trauma | 3 Things To Know About It
Little T Trauma Is Just As Real As Big T Trauma Don't Identify With Trauma But Also Do Not Dismiss It Trauma Is Only A Layer Over Your True Identity Greetings, dear inner explorers! We're going to be... ...more
Healing Truths
August 21, 2023•6 min read
Meditation for Healing Trauma? Natural Health
Does meditation help us with trauma and healing? The short answer is kind of, but not often. The reason that I say that is what most people call meditation and your ability to go into more meditative ... ...more
Healing Truths ,Natural Health
August 15, 2023•2 min read
Everything Arises For My Benefit | Healing Truth
"Everything is arising for my benefit" This is one of the truth that I teach in my self mastery trainings and it's very important thing for healing and personal growth. This idea that everything is... ...more
Healing Truths
June 30, 2023•3 min read
Vulnerability is True Courage | Reasons and Explanations
Vulnerability is true courage. It's kind of addictive. The more you drop into getting vulnerable with yourself and telling the truth, you see how liberating it is. There are great people like Dr. Bre... ...more
Healing Truths
June 23, 2023•5 min read
Guide for Empaths
Healthy Conflict | What To Do When You Upset Someone
I'm going to give you three key things that you need to not only deal with conflict, but maybe even prevent it. The benefit of knowing this information is that you can finally be calmer as you're goi... ...more
Guide for Empaths
August 10, 2023•6 min read
How to deal with difficult people | Empath's guide
One thing we know about people is that they can be difficult, sometimes really difficult, especially people that you live and work with. So how do we deal with them? As we go through healing processe... ...more
Guide for Empaths
July 25, 2023•12 min read
How to Stop Taking on Other People’s Energy | Empath’s guide
Any person, no matter if you are a man or a woman, regardless of your sexual orientation, has a combination of masculine and feminine or Yin and Yang energy. It's not about gender. What it is about ... ...more
Guide for Empaths
July 23, 2023•7 min read
Anger Management | Dealing with Anger | Empath’s Guide
Anger is a strong emotion and one that we often have a difficult relationship with. In this week's blog, we're answering a question from Paul who had a great comment under one of my YouTube videos on ... ...more
Guide for Empaths
July 21, 2023•8 min read
Being Authentic | Empath’s Guide
When we know that we have this habit or maybe a trigger that is in our system and we want to make a new path, we wanna act differently outwardly. But at the same time, when we go to do that, we have t... ...more
Guide for Empaths
July 19, 2023•6 min read
Dating for Empaths
How to Embody Yin Energy?
Any person, no matter if you are a man or a woman, regardless of your sexual orientation, has a combination of masculine and feminine or Yin and Yang energy. It's not about gender. What it is about ... ...more
Dating for Empaths
June 19, 2023•6 min read
Chronic Pain
Is Herbal Tea Safe? | Natural Health
Tea is healing! As a natural health nerd and Chinese medicine herbalist, I know that herbs are healing and tea is one great way to bring more herbs into your life. I first really realized this firsth... ...more
Chronic Pain
August 16, 2023•4 min read
Spiritual Perspective of Fibromyalgia Pain
Fibromyalgia and chronic pain are a big deal. Most people that aren't dealing with these symptoms don't have any clue how much of a life-altering condition this arrangement of symptoms can be, but wha... ...more
Chronic Pain
August 15, 2023•9 min read
Spiritual Perspective of Fibromyalgia Pain
Fibromyalgia and chronic pain are a big deal. Most people that aren't dealing with these symptoms don't have any clue how much of a life-altering condition this arrangement of symptoms can be, but wha... ...more
Chronic Pain
August 09, 2023•9 min read
Spiritual but Not Religious
Do you have Church PTSD?
Unfortunately, many people grew up with their only experience of spirituality being that of organized religion. That tends to land for people somewhere along the spectrum of feeling not very helpful t... ...more
Spiritual but Not Religious
August 23, 2023•2 min read
Positive Thinking Can Be A Spiritual Blockage
"It's all good." Love and light, puppies and rainbows. Your positive thinking might be holding you back! We're going to talk about how positive thinking can actually become a block on your personal... ...more
Spiritual but Not Religious
August 02, 2023•7 min read
How to know if someone is energetically ‘In their power’
It's a little bit hard to define because, in our power is a little bit of a new agey phrase. Oh, am I in my power or not? But there is an energetic basis for this. What I would say is that there's sev... ...more
Spiritual but Not Religious
June 28, 2023•3 min read
Stop Spiritual Bypassing | Dangers of New Age Spirituality
So in the realm of what I would call new age spirituality, there are many good things. Often it's the place that people go after they're starting to recover from church PTSD. Maybe you grew up going t... ...more
Spiritual but Not Religious
June 26, 2023•3 min read
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term). NABS stands for New Age Bulls#!+. I... ...more
Spiritual but Not Religious
June 21, 2023•5 min read
Natural Health
My Go-To Sore Throat Remedies | Natural Health
I'm at home today nursing day two of a sore throat and thought you might like a peek at my favorite sore throat remedies. As a Chinese medicine doctor, you may have guessed that I have a large home ... ...more
Natural Health
August 29, 2023•7 min read
How to Use Sage | Natural Health
Sage is one of my favorite space clearing tools. The practice of burning sage (and sometimes other medicinal herbs like sweetgrass ) can be referred to as "smudging" and is a great way to calm the mi... ...more
Natural Health
August 29, 2023•6 min read
Cell Renewal – Your Body Wants You to Change
Ever felt like you need a cosmic do-over? The truth, is that your body is helping you to do just that. Your cells are constantly changing and renewing. You are LITERALLY not the same set of molecu... ...more
Natural Health
August 26, 2023•2 min read
How To Make Ginger Tea at Home | Natural Health
I'm always recommending to people to make a fresh ginger tea so I thought I should make a blog about it. This is a common remedy for all sorts of digestive complaints and ginger is one of the stronges... ...more
Natural Health
August 17, 2023•5 min read
Meditation for Healing Trauma? Natural Health
Does meditation help us with trauma and healing? The short answer is kind of, but not often. The reason that I say that is what most people call meditation and your ability to go into more meditative ... ...more
Healing Truths ,Natural Health
August 15, 2023•2 min read
Uncategorized
Vision Board vs Year Tarot Reading?
Whenever we start a new year, people naturally start to think about their vision for the year to come. This is the time of the year when people go crazy for vision boards. Now don't get me wrong. I'm... ...more
Uncategorized
August 23, 2023•2 min read