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About Lisa

About Lisa

Lisa grew up near the top of the jersey shore in New Jersey, in a Roman Catholic family. At a young age, her mother put her into ballet and tap. This was her first taste of physical fitness and she always enjoyed it. She wasn’t an athlete growing up. Lisa dabbled for a very short period of time in high school with running, but running didn’t appeal to her like it did to others, so she stopped and went back to dancing. She moved to Washington, DC when she went to college to study accounting. Lisa had always known she was going to be an accountant. With a growing interest in health and fitness, throughout college, she took health and fitness classes to fill in some of the non-accounting requirements for the CPA exam. She first started to explore yoga and meditation in her Strategies of Stress Management class during her senior year of college. On and off over the next few years, she would practice yoga at home using videos to guide her or try to utilize the deep breathing exercises she’d learned to help her sleep. In that same period, she found herself in the gym doing cardio and weight training as tools to help with stress management and weight control.

As the stress of work and life increased, Lisa decided to return to the mat and see if a consistent yoga practice could help her reduce her stress and stay fit. She found clarity of mind, relaxation, and community, with the added bonuses of a physically fit and toned body and a reduced stress level. From that moment that she stepped on her mat again, she knew a lifelong change had occurred and a new passion had been found. Lisa found her yoga home at Tranquil Space in Washington, DC, where she connected with the fluidity of the vinyasa style they teach. Having a strong desire to share her passion for yoga with others, she completed Tranquil Space’s 200-hour teacher training in the winter of 2011 and became a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She now teaches a regular weekly class at Tranquil Space and subs for other teachers at the studio, as needed. Lisa also looks for opportunities to share yoga with the broader community and use yoga as a means of giving back to others. Lisa has taught free classes that help bring yoga to the community at-large and has taught donation-based classes to raise funds for charities.

Lisa completed her 500-hour yoga teaching training at Tranquil Space in December 2012.

Off the mat, Lisa has a bachelors of science degree in accountancy and is a certified public accountant. During the day, she works in auditing standards-setting. She is also an auntie of 2 adorable little boys and a beautiful little girl, a knitter, an amateur photographer, and an active alumni in her business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi. And Lisa visits her family, including those adorable nephews and niece, in NJ as often as possible.

About Her Teaching

Lisa teaches vinyasa yoga. Vinyasa is the synchronization of breath with movement, generally taught as one breath, one movement. Lisa aims for her classes to be vigorous, fun, playful, and challenging, filled with modifications and variations to help her students tailor their practice to their needs. She encourages her students to listen to their bodies and find their edge each time they come to the mat. Lisa teaches classes for yogis of all levels – newbies to advanced.

Music is an important element of Lisa’s yoga classes. She likes high energy music that matches the flow and pace of the practice from centering through savasana (final relaxation). Lisa likes her music to be fun and creates playlists that relate to the time of year and holidays.