The BodyLove Journey
for people living with
Chronic Health Conditions
A 4-WEEK WORKSHOP SERIES WITH TYESE WORTHAM
October 28 - November 18
5 pm PT (8 pm ET)
As a black, invisibly disabled woman navigating chronic health issues,
I will offer you a spectrum of embodied practices rooted in body liberation and cultural wisdom.
In this judgment-free space centering queer, trans, and BIPOC communities, you are encouraged to meet your body exactly as it is, while exploring gentle movement practices, reflective journaling, meaningful community connections, and restorative exercises that support whole body healing.
Your Takeaways:
Practices You Can Carry Into Everyday Life
When you join us for the full 4-week journey you will walk away with…
A new understanding of what's possible in your body. Discover what body liberation can look and feel like without pushing through pain, forcing change, or waiting until you're "healed" to live fully.
A personalized roadmap for your next gentle steps. Explore a 3-step framework to Reclaim Your Body, Rediscover Your Joy, and Rejuvenate In Community while honoring your body's unique needs, capacity, and rhythms.
Practical tools to support your nervous system and everyday well-being. Learn accessible practices you can use right away to create moments of safety, ease, and connection even on your most challenging days.
Embodied practices rooted in movement, culture, and joy. Reconnect with your body through gentle movement, breath, rhythm, and culturally grounded practices that nurture self-trust, resilience, and possibility.
A renewed sense of connection, community, and belonging. Experience the power of being seen, heard, and supported by others who understand what it means to navigate chronic conditions, ongoing pain, and mysterious symptoms.
Join me and take your next gentle step toward living a fulfilling, loving, and thriving life despite your diagnosis, conditions, or symptoms.
Explore the 4-Week Journey
(75-minute sessions)
WEEK 1: Reclaim Your Body
Come back “home” to your body as you explore the full spectrum of movement––from stillness to gentle shifts to fuller expressions of flow.
WEEK 2: Rediscover Your Joy
Gently shift your body out of chronic survival states to create space for pleasure and new possibilities by interrupting painful brain patterns.
WEEK 3: Rejuvenate In Community
Experience the restorative power of connection in a supportive, judgment-free community to rebuild trust and strengthen your circle of care.
WEEK 4: Integrate Your BodyLove
Create your personal BodyLove roadmap with gentle, sustainable practices that honor your needs, capacity, and rhythms.
One Workshop Can Create a Shift.
Four Weeks Can Help You Build on It.
Each workshop offers meaningful practices, new perspectives, and tools you can begin using right away.
But when you experience all 4 weeks together, you have the opportunity to go deeper.
You'll move from reconnecting with your body to rediscovering your joy, cultivating community, and integrating these practices into your everyday life.
Rather than collecting individual tools, you'll begin creating your own personalized BodyLove practice—one that honors your unique needs, capacity, culture, and lived experience.
Join us for the complete BodyLove Journey or drop in for the experiences that speak to you. Come as you are. You belong here.
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
Each session is 75 minutes.
Week 1: Wednesday, October 28
Week 2: Thursday, November 5
Week 3: Wednesday, November 11
Week 4: Wednesday, November 18
5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT
**Bring a friend and get two for the price of one**
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.
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.”