Larry Witzleben - Health Motivational Speaker & Health and Wellness Practitioner - "You Are Extraordinary... By Design!"

My journey to teaching you How to Build Portfolios for Vibrant Health™ has taken me from working as an aerospace missile defense project planner to my current mission as a fired-up motivational speaker.

We now have the ability to stop making disease. Each of us. All of us. We can Just Make Health™!

Each of you can build the vibrant health you were designed to enjoy. Uncommon, extraordinary fitness and vitality can be your daily norm! Did you know that...

• Through diet you create disease or you create health;
• Through exercise you turn on constantly renewing vitality, or through inactivity you turn on your own decay;
• Through transformed beliefs, you can unleash your natural joie de vivre.

Throughout my life, I have led, taught, encouraged, inspired, and entertained. It’s what I do. My dream became to do so on a bigger stage. I studied voice, dance, and classical guitar, performed in community theaters, hosted and emceed parties for friends, and envisioned stirring people to full authenticity – all the while working the corporate life.

Following a serendipitous change of diet, I ended years of allergies and once again looked forward to the scent of orange blossoms each spring. Five years later, through the process of Rebirthing, I realized I could transform my own internal, body-mind terrain and become more than “That’s just me.” In 1989, while on an aerospace assignment in Montreal, I began seeing a Polarity therapist and knew at once that this therapeutic, energy art and science, for me, beat being on stage! (Not knowing it would be the opening to a bigger stage!) I began the formal study of Polarity Therapy, eventually studied massage and became licensed in the profession, and never looked back.

I’d been hearing about a practice known as Chi Gong – it was similar to Tai Chi but simpler – and about ten years ago, started practicing with a group of new friends at Lake Eola. It was idyllic! Beautiful Sunday mornings, relaxing Oriental music, rustling bamboo, and a calm that lasted all week. After six years of practicing different forms, I became an instructor of Chi Gong so that I might teach others yet one more skill-set for truly restoring and building their health. My real love was indeed emerging: Teaching and inspiring people to become as fully self-generating in their health as they could.

The final piece of the picture was my own, deeply personal experience with forgiveness, and seeing quickly its vital importance to vibrant health, deep well-being, and joie de vivre. The science is in: Our beliefs create disease, or our beliefs create health. Our beliefs underlie what we do, how we do it and, ultimately, what we create. Our health, for example! Forgiveness is key to transforming beliefs limiting any outcomes we might wish were different. Forgiveness may be the ultimate freedom! When we forgive, a new and giant space opens up, called “our lives!” We want to eat better, exercise and play with more gusto, and embrace life and our fellow humans more fully. That’s health!

All my life experiences have brought me to this moment: The understanding that we are extraordinary simply by design. We have within our reach the ability to stop making disease; we can Just Make Health! I want to help build a culture of health creation. Health is freedom! This is my vision and my message.

Let’s Just Make Health! Let me show you how.

Biography

Larry is a Licensed Massage Therapist in private practice in Orlando, and is associated with Florida Hospital. He has been a practitioner and presenter in the field of bodymind therapies for more than 20 years and with Florida Hospital’s Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Department since 2005. Larry blends traditional massage with the deep effectiveness of Orthopedic Massage and the profound relaxation of Polarity Therapy. He is a practitioner and teacher of Chi Gong.

A Florida native, Larry received his B.A. in Economics from Rollins College and enjoyed a 20-year career in government and aerospace. During that time he began his study and practice of Polarity Therapy, learned massage therapy, and then entered the healthcare profession on a full-time basis. Larry knows well the patterns of stress we all share! He was the pioneering practitioner and teacher of Polarity Therapy at Orlando’s former Getting Well Program, a residential, mind-body behavioral medicine program, the first of its kind in the country.

Larry has been a regular writer for Central Florida’s Natural Awakenings Magazine, including his signature piece "Health: Personal Responsibility = Freedom!"

Presentations and Classes in Central Florida

• “You Are Extraordinary by Design: Build Your Portfolio for Vibrant Health!”
• “The Energy Model of Health: Blueprint Within for Living an Authentic Life!”
• “Massage and Polarity Therapy as Primary Health Care”
• Classes in Chi Gong: classes open to the public as well as in private corporate settings

Certifications

Polarity Therapy

• Health Skills Institute, Montreal, Quebec – 1989
• Florida Polarity Institute, Sarasota, Florida – 1989
• Florida School of Massage, Gainesville, Florida Certification – 1991
• Columbus Polarity Institute, Columbus, Ohio, Advanced Studies – 2005-06

Massage Therapy: Florida School of Massage, Gainesville, Certification – 1992

Gestalt Therapy: The Gestalt Center, Gainesville, Florida – 1992

Qigong: Supreme Science Qigong Center, Miami Beach, Florida, Certification – 2006

Affiliations

• National Speakers Association, Associate, Central Florida Chapter
• Florida State Massage Therapy Association
• American Polarity Therapy Association