Lisa Gifford

As a former dancer when Lisa hung up her point shoes, she was drawn to the movement practice of yoga (asana), but soon felt the profound shifts of her being with the practice and realized there was so much more.

Lisa has been practicing yoga for 22 years. She is a seasoned practitioner in the yoga disciplines of Astanga, Baptiste, Bikram, Gentle, Iyengar, Restorative and Vinyasa yoga. She completed Baptiste Level 1 teacher training lead by Baron Baptiste, a 200 hour YTT with Yogaview in Chicago, and a 500 hour Advanced YTT with Jason Crandell. Other influential teachers of hers are Erich Schiffmann and Alie McManus. She has been teaching yoga for 12 years. She enjoys teaching strong flow Vinyasa classes, but also loves teaching gentle or restorative classes. She loves the duality of yoga..ground to enlighten, energize to soften, center to expand.

Yoga is a practice which facilitates more ease in our existence in this world. Lisa aspires to share the physical asana practice with other yogis in hope that they step off their mats and embody the breath, meditation and movement practice to create more harmony and peace in their daily life and harmony and peace for other living beings.