Professional Bender and Stretcher

Specializing in the art and joy of movement

Lisa’s depth of skill spans decades, and includes Classic and Contemporary Pilates, Massage Therapy, Functional Movement, Yoga, compassion, and humor. You’ll find she teaches from a foundation of physical safety, offering appropriate modifications and challenging progressions. She specializes in the art of teaching and coaching vibrant aging and joyful functional fitness.

Lisa has been practicing Pilates since 1998 and teaching professionally since 2003. She has an endless array of cues, imagery, and motivation to inspire you. Lisa enthusiastically teaches Pilates by offering professional wisdom, clear communication, sprinkles of humor and open-hearted abandon.

Her education credentials for Pilates include a 1000 Hour Certification with Romana’s Pilates of NYC and Master Pilates Teacher Dorothee VandeWalle of Seattle, 2003. She is currently working toward an additional 450 hour certification through a science-based Pilates program called BASI. Lisa has been teaching Pilates for two decades and has spent countless hours continuing her professional studies at conferences, seminars and with her peers.

Lisa standing on a grassy hill with a small white and brown dog on a leash, mountains and a partly cloudy sky in the background.

Massage Therapy is Lisa’s first professional passion. She received her education in Seattle with an 800-hour professional program and has been licensed since 1998. Continuing education and professional experience are reflected in her array of skills from Swedish Massage, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Therapeutic Massage, Mayan Abdominal Massage, Crystal Singing Bowls and more.

As a Certified Yoga instructor Lisa offers a mind, body and breath approach to movement. Her personal practice is influenced by Ashtanga and Vinyasa Yoga. The flow and breath of movement are key features in all her practices. Lisa received her education and certification in 2016 and began her personal practice in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.

Lisa has studied, lived & traveled abroad extensively and brings this curiosity and adaptability into her professional perspective.

She has a degree from CU at Boulder in Asian Studies, 1994. She studied and lived in China her senior year and then continued on to South Korea teaching English as a second language.

Although she spent decades in the Pacific Northwest, Lisa is a native of Colorado and has returned to the High Country and is in the process of re-wilding. She thrives in the outdoors, adores clean air, and finds anything that slides on snow or floats on water exhilarating. Lisa lives in Pagosa Springs with her adventurous husband Tom and their little shaggy photogenic pup, Otis the Auspicious.