Holistic Hands Wellness Gallery, LLC 

Lesley Baker Bowen grew up in Toledo, OH, and attended Start High School. She moved on to get her BA in Russian, while also studying music (piano, viola, and classical guitar) and completing pre-med requirements at Wittenberg University. During her time at Wittenberg, Lesley was also on the volleyball team and rowed on the crew team. Lesley then continued with her Masters degree at The Ohio State University in Occupational Therapy. She has been an Occupational Therapist (OTR/L) since 2007. Occupational Therapy has been a perfect stepping stone for Lesley in reaching her lifelong dreams of helping others in any way she can. Always drawn to a holistic approach to wellness, she has since become a Reiki Master and CranioSacral Therapy Practitioner, and uses many other modalities in helping herself and others along their wellness journeys. Lesley is very much looking forward to bringing a long time vision to life. As the founder and director of Holistic Hands Wellness Gallery, she is beyond excited to be working with great minds and open hearts while serving UT and the community!

Rebecca M. Przybylski, MDiv. Becky lives in Temperance, MI with her husband Josh and their four children. Becky holds a BA from BGSU and an MDiv from Ashland Theological Seminary. To continue to deepen her work in discernment and accompanying others in transformational and personal development work she became a Certified Integral Professional Coach, a Certified InnerLife Skills Enneagram Coach, and has completed additional training in Ignatian Spirituality as well. A holistic approach to overall wellness and the Contemplative lineage inform her life and work. Her work focuses on creating and facilitating experiential retreats, workshops and trainings; spiritual direction, consulting and coaching; facilitating mindful art experiences; and she has also worked for over a decade as a fitness instructor/coach.

Shauna Gilsdorf E-RYT-500, CVMT, YACEP, MHP, Reiki Practitioner, discovered her passion for the spiritual discipline of yoga at a young age. Born into a family who believed in the power of the mind/body/spirit connection, she was intrigued and compelled to learn all she could. Shauna is an experienced Himalyan Institute 500 hour teacher and a certified Vishoka meditation teacher (CVMT). She has studied the path of yoga with respected teachers Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Rolf Sovik, Ishan Tigunait, Shari Friedrichsen, Sandra Anderson, and Judy Moulton. Her journey to the Himalyan Institute guided her to demonstrate the daily art of connecting to something bigger. Shauna believes the inner journey is the ultimate purpose of life and openly shares her wisdom while teaching from her heart. Her classes will be challenging mentally and physically in a genuinely caring and supportive manner. Shauna is a mother of four and is happily married to her best friend, Thad. Dedicated to a life of service, Shauna is a Mental Health Professional and works on an adolescent psychiatric unit. Constantly inspired by her teachers and students, Shauna continues her study of yoga as she believes the best teachers remain lifelong students.

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Jennifer was the kid who always got hit in the face with the ball in gym class. Convinced that she was an anatomical disaster, she first stepped onto a yoga mat in 2009 and was amazed to find that she wasn’t a complete klutz. Initially, she practiced asana because she hated all other forms of exercise and needed to feel successful, but over time she realized that yoga positively transformed her life beyond the mat in ways that she hadn’t anticipated. True to her undiagnosed neurodivergence, she became hyper-focused on the practice and decided to become a yoga teacher so that she could share her experience with others. Jennifer is a 2014 graduate of Marni Task's 200 hour Jivasara training in Cleveland and a 2024 graduate of Shauna Gilsdorf’s 200 hour Awakening Grace training in Toledo. Because her practice and training are inspired by the Jivamukti, Anusara, and Himalayan traditions, her classes interweave the physical and spiritual elements of yoga. When you practice with Jennifer, expect to focus on bodily alignment. At times you will flow with the breath, and other times you will melt slowly and intentionally into and out of each asana. In addition, expect her to share nuggets of wisdom that she has learned from the yogis who came before her. In her other lives, Jennifer has three neurodivergent children, one amazing partner who inspires her to be her highest self, and almost three decades of experience honing her craft as a high school English teacher. She is an amalgamation of her past experiences, she wakes up every morning slightly different than she was the day before, and she is constantly striving to find her Ananda and return to the person that she was meant to be.