Meet Lee Veal
Chiropractor. Educator. Student of forty years of healing arts.
Chiropractor. Educator. Student of forty years of healing arts.
Lee Veal draws on more than forty years in the healing arts. Trained as a chiropractor with a focus in cranial sacral work, he first came to movement therapy the honest way — healing his own injuries. What he found became a life's work: a way of listening to the body that lets it unwind itself.
His path started far from the treatment table. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Biochemistry in 1976, Lee studied Sanskrit and meditation, discovered the Natural Hygiene movement and the art of fasting, and learned to use food as medicine. He ran a K–12 community cooperative school — principal, head of math and science, and author of its Board-of-Education-approved curriculum. He earned a black belt in tae kwon do. And in a spiritual community's nursery, caring for infants, he began the conversation with babies that has never stopped.
In 1986, Lee graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, where he trained alongside a cranial osteopath and built a cranial curriculum concurrent with his chiropractic studies. By 1988 he was in private practice, working entirely from a cranial perspective, and helped form Kansas City's first integrated healing center — practicing beside an MD, an acupuncturist, a Feldenkrais therapist, and a Rolfer. Community over ego, from day one.
Along the way he wove in Yoga, Contact Improvisation, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and Thai Massage — and trained with three Qigong masters from China. In 2002 he opened his own movement studio, blending Pilates and Qi Gong into a biomechanically sound training curriculum for instructors. In 2006 he turned fully toward research, development, and teaching cranial work to parents and their babies.
The result is a practice unlike any other: cranial sacral therapy integrated with therapeutic Pilates, contact improvisation, meditation, and the internal arts — simple movements, whole-systems thinking, and the belief that every person is more spacious than their symptoms. As Lee puts it, we are 'multidimensional, holographic portals to the entire cosmos.' His job is simply to help you move like it.
“Because babies are all one piece, a tight neck can unwind from the feet. People are like that too.”