LIVE WORKSHOP WITH TYESE WORTHAM

How to

Reduce Your Pain

and

Boost Your Energy

for Body Empowerment,

Body Connection,

and Body Liberation

August 20, 2026 at 5 pm PT (8 pm ET)

As a black, invisibly disabled female body navigating chronic illness, I will introduce you to embodied practices rooted in body liberation and cultural wisdom.

Here are your accessible, gentle takeaways:

  • A new understanding of what it means to find liberation in your body, even in the midst of chronic illness, pain, or stress.

  • Greater clarity about where you are in your healing journey and the next gentle steps available to you.

  • Practical tools and

  • embodied practices you can begin using right away to support healing, build resilience, and reconnect with joy, possibility, and trust in your body.

Join me and take your next gentle step toward living a fulfilling, loving, and thriving life despite your diagnosis.

RESERVE YOUR SPOT

In honor of my August birthday month, I’m offering this workshop for just $11.

Use code LOVELY LEO for access.

(75 min) August 20th at 5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT

Photography: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Greetings!

I’m Tyese Wortham.

For the past 20 plus years I've committed my life work to cultivating safe, inclusive spaces for black and brown folks to thrive.

As a lifelong dancer, I nearly lost this vital part of myself during a chronic illness journey that began with a tick bite. After 25 years, I finally learned I had been living with Lyme disease. Drawing on more than two decades of equity work in the arts, I now shine a light on Lyme and other multi-systemic chronic illnesses in queer, trans, and BIPOC communities.

My approach weaves cultural movement traditions as medicine, community connections as care, and joyful practices as healing. By blending folkloric, spiritual, and performative traditions of the African diaspora with integrative and functional healing techniques, I created Thriving With Lyme—an alternative pathway to health that helped me reclaim my power and agency, and now support others in doing the same.

Learn more here.

What clients are saying…

Jetta Martin, East Bay, CA

“My level of exhaustion is so high. It’s been years of being really, really tired. [And during] your workshop, I realized that I need a reset or a reboot. It can be a gentle refresh for the things that you can’t see or don’t notice about yourself or your body. It was a very profound shift and I appreciated how gentle and held I felt.

Beatrice Thomas, Vallejo, CA

“When I don’t have this, I have more anxiety, pain, increased muscle tension. When I first started doing it, I was tired on Saturdays after class, but then I felt great and the next two days I had more energy.