It's been a minute since I've written, and I've missed you.
I've been deep in something — a training that has felt less like learning and more like remembering. And I wanted to share it with you now that it's complete.
Last week, I became a certified teacher/facilitator of the Non-Linear Movement Method® (NLMM), a somatic practice developed by Michaela Boehm. NLMM is exactly what it sounds like, and also nothing like you'd expect: it's an invitation to slow down, turn your attention inward, reconnect with your inner landscape, and let the body move the way it actually wants to — not the way you've been told it should.
It's not choreography. It's not exercise, or a pose from your yoga class. It's a practice of restoring intimacy with your own physical experience — sensation by sensation, moment by moment.
It’s something I’ve been doing my whole life, but what I didn’t know was that all along, I had been tending to my nervous system.
A little context, for those of you who are newer here:
Before I became a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, before I built my work around women's health, I spent twenty years as a professional dancer. Movement was my first language — the one I spoke before I had words for what I knew. I later owned a thriving Pilates studio in Seattle for years, training bodies, witnessing transformation, learning to listen to what a nervous system is actually communicating through the architecture of someone's posture, breath, and tension.
When I transitioned into functional nutrition, I brought that body-first orientation with me. But I kept searching for a way to bridge it more intentionally — to weave somatic intelligence into my client work in a way that was attuned and alive.
NLMM is that bridge.
Why this matters for the work we do together:
The nervous system is at the center of everything — your sleep, your hormones, your resilience, and your capacity for joy and pleasure. You can optimize your nutrition, lift heavy in the gym, and sleep in a cool dark room, and still feel like something essential is missing if you're not in relationship with your body.
That's what NLMM provides. Not as a workaround. Not as a warm-up. As a practice in its own right.
I'm weaving it into my Strength, Sleep & Sensuality program — my signature offering for women moving through transition at any age, and especially in midlife and beyond — where it lives most naturally in the Sensuality pillar. But honestly? Its roots run through all three. A body that knows how to feel is a body that can rest. A body that knows how to rest is a body that can build strength. It's all connected.
What's coming:
I'll be offering NLMM sessions as part of my 1:1 work and in group settings. I've also developed full-day immersive workshops and retreat experiences within my Strength, Sleep & Sensuality program — which I've already begun presenting in limited capacity. At a recent event, women told me it was the highlight of their weekend — and the one they couldn’t stop talking about. I'll be sharing opportunities to join me soon.
If you've been curious about working together — whether through functional nutrition and lifestyle, the Strength, Sleep & Sensuality program, or just a conversation — I invite you to book a free 30-minute discovery call. It's a relaxed, no-pressure conversation to explore what might serve you most right now.
I believe the body is not asking to be fixed. It's asking to be met — in a new way, with a new lens, with a kind of curiosity that most of us were never taught to bring to ourselves.
That's what I'm here for. That's what this wild and wonderful adventure of self-discovery is all about.
Thank you for being here. It means more than I usually remember to say.
I'm Lisa Thompson, a Functional Nutritionist (FNTP), somatic movement facilitator, and women's health practitioner based in Los Angeles. With twenty years as a professional dancer and a background spanning Pilates, functional nutrition, and nervous system regulation, I work at the intersection of science and embodied experience — helping women (and men) understand their bodies more deeply and live with greater vitality at every age.
I hold certifications in Functional Nutritional Therapy (FNTP), Menopause 2.0 with Dr. Stacy Sims, Non-Linear Movement Method® with Michaela Boehm, Stott Pilates (All Equipment/All Levels), and a 200-hour Yoga Alliance teaching credential.
I'm currently welcoming new clients. If something in this email stirred a question, I invite you to book a free 30-minute discovery call.
Reach out at: lisa@lisamarlenethompson.com