I have spent my life studying the body.
Eventually, I began listening to it.
Leah Wolf Hearst is a writer, occupational therapist, yoga teacher, personal trainer, ergonomist, mindfulness coach, and the founder of The Wolf of Wellness.
A life spent
paying attention.
I came to the body first through movement… injury, and the desire to understand how things heal.
At fifteen, I fractured my femur. Recovery turned the body from something I simply lived in into something I wanted to understand how it moves, how it adapts, what makes it stronger, and what happens when it asks us to stop.
That curiosity became a career spanning sports medicine, occupational therapy, yoga, mindfulness, ergonomics, strength, and movement. For years, I worked closely with people trying to feel better, move better, recover, perform, and return to the lives they wanted to live.
But over time, I became interested in something less measurable.
What does a body know before we have language for it?
Motherhood brought that question somewhere new. Watching my sons encounter the world reminded me that attention begins long before expertise with appetite, sensation, questions, mess, movement, and wonder.
Writing became another way of listening.
Today, my clinical work, children’s stories, and writing for adults may look like different paths. To me, they are all part of the same inquiry:
what becomes possible when we stop treating the body as an object to improve and begin paying attention to what it is telling us?
The work has always been about attention.
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Ergonomics
notices the relationship between a body and its environment.
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Mindfulness
notices experience before judgment.
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Occupational therapy
notices how people actually live.
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Strength training
notices capacity and limits.
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Writing
notices what ordinary language misses.
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Children’s stories
protect the instinct to notice before it is trained away
Experience & Practice
For more than a decade, Leah has worked at the intersection of sports medicine, workplace wellness, and human behavior. Occupational Therapy · Yoga · Mindfulness · Ergonomics · Strength · Movement
A practice grounded in the body
Her work brings clinical knowledge into the places where people actually live and work through movement, ergonomics, mindfulness, education, and embodied practice.
Leah has created and delivered experiences for organizations including J.P. Morgan, Uber, the Department of Transportation, and Guide Dogs for the Blind.
From individuals to organizations
Beyond the qualifications
Leah lives near San Francisco with her two sons. Motherhood brought curiosity back to the center of her work a reminder that attention begins long before expertise, with sensation, questions, movement, and wonder.
Through books, stories, workshops, and embodied experiences, the invitation is the same: pay attention to what is already here.
There are many ways into the work.