Our Teachers
Femme! was founded by healer, thought leader, and entrepreneur, Bernadette Pleasant. Femme! now has more than 100+ certified instructors across the United States, Canada, China, the UAE and the United Kingdom. Explore the profiles and offerings of our licensed teachers around the world!
โMy life has always been about creating as many spaces for flight and liberation as possible โ especially for Black Women (like me!) and other marginalized peeps. As a healer/dancer/organizer/physician/creative. . .etc. ..etc. Femme! resonates with my ancestral roots and afrofuturist visions. Them drums yโall! and that sweet surrender. Queen Bernadette Pleasant has blessed us with this offering that will change the world.โ
โ Luella Toni Lewis, MD is a Family and Geriatric Doctor, Kemetic (African) Yoga Instructor, Healer, Dancer and Health Equity and Social Justice Strategist
Teacher Profiles
Wendy loves bringing women together in community ritual to explore, express and share what really matters. She's committed to exploring what it means to be embodied as female - how women are impacted by the ancestral, personal and cultural stories that show up in their bodies and either limit or empower. Learning to express her emotions has been an integral part of her own healing and she loves sharing The Emotional Tourโข with others.
Nikki Smith PhD(c) MSN, RNC, LCCE has been a professional nurse for the past 16 years. She hold a Master's in Nursing with a focus in holistic practices and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Nursing philosophy. Nikkiโs career in the medical field began as a clinical microbiologist in the laboratory. However, her desire to provide direct patient care inspired a career in nursing.
Oksana is from an amazing country Ukraine. She always had a spirit for adventure. This spirit took her to the Netherlands, to China where she lived 4 years, to Barbados and to Waterloo in Canada. While satiating her thirst for adventure she was also discovering her passions. Femme! is one of them. For Oksana every Femme! experience is a way to be herself, to be real - be childlike!
Kathy Gates has been empowering women for decades. She is a licensed trauma therapist, licensed Femme! instructor and a Mama Gena graduate.
Shannon Carson is a an Intuitive Empathic Healer, channel, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner, and facilitator of Wellness Workshops and Practitioner Trainings with over 30 years of experience.
Mercedes combines her intuitive chakra rebalancing skills with the soulful primal movement and emotional journey of Femme to help bring her clients in alignment with the soulโs expression in private sessions.
Jenn Baljko encourages people to discover the intersection where fierce awakenings and Joy Journeying meet so they can rebuild and resource more confidence, courage, freedom, resiliency, strength, and wonder.
As the founder of Always on My Way, Jenn combines movement, meditation, making/crafting, and mindful musing practices that help people (particularly women) recalibrate what compassion, contentment, playful creative expression, and curiosity look and feel like in their minds, hearts, bodies, and spirits.
She became Femme! Attuned in the fall of 2021. She facilitates this beautiful body of work with the hope that it will allow more people to follow their individual intuition, imagination, and inspiration.
Kafi London is a speaker, trainer and executive leadership coach who helps female leaders who feel stuck professionally or personally, regain momentum and create a better future for themselves. Kafi is the founder of the global brand, Smart Women on Fire, a coaching and training practice that educates and equips people with the tools and strategies to take back control of life and go after their big juicy dreams!
Equal parts playfully innocent and dangerously kinky, Shay Au Lait is a provocative, intoxicating Sorcerer hailing from the Windy City. She is a Queer, POC Producer, Performer, and Instructor specializing in Femme!, burlesque, cabaret, pole dance, go-go, and theatre.
After attending her first two Femme! Experiences in New York in 2017, Hev knew that she wanted to train to lead classes so that she could bring this powerful, empowering, enjoyable, profound, sensual, healing movement practice to Europe.
Aundrea Veney; Inspirational Speaker, Author, Department of Defense Analyst, and Mindfulness Meditation Practitioner. Ms. Veney has two daughters and two grand-angels. She's avid about domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and trauma victims advocacy. She is honored to be a licensed Femme! Instructor since 2018, sharing transformative Femme! Experiences within the trauma community, helping victims and survivors fully express their emotions in safe spaces. Aundrea is changing the world through meaningful interactions, societal reform, and loving community support.
Sai was born and raised by her Papa Jegathesan & Amma Shanti into a spiritual Hindu family in Malaysia where service to the needy was key. Her older siblings Anasuya & Jegatheva are her rock especially since the passing of her mother at 17 and younger brother Jeganaath at 22.
Anne-Laure is in constant transformation, in cycles every 7-10 years. From the corporate world to becoming an academic, and now flying on her own wings merging the two to develop more conscious capitalism. She is integrating embodiment, the power of emotions, and intuition.
Lisa Gonzalez is am a mom to 5 kids. They live on a homestead in the country and own a construction company. She has been a Femme! instructor for 2 years teaching in all parts of the state of Utah. Along with teaching Femme!, she also creates Goddess Retreats, Red parties, 1 on 1 sessions, and body care products through Onyx Rein.
Josette is a Sensuality Coach who serves mature married women fusing mind, body, soul & emotions. Josette guides them through the development of a mental makeup kit so they possess the tools to experience pleasure from the boardroom to the bedroom!