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Hi, I'm Lisa, the founder of the Yoga and Meditation Lounge. Welcome!
The Yoga and Meditation Lounge first opened in 2011 in Brisbane. At that time, the Lounge was the first commercially operated studio in the area, and today remains the longest serving studio in the Redlands! After a decade of providing yoga and meditation classes, courses, and retreats in Cleveland, I sold the operation in March 2022, leaving behind a wonderful community, and moved to the Sunshine Coast where the Lounge has been transformed into a new evolution - a comprehensive Formal Meditation School, and now called SelfCALM.
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Completing a degree in Sport Science (majoring in Excercise Science) at the University of NSW in 1991, I've been teaching movement my whole adult life. In fact, I actually started teaching gymnastics while I was still at school, and then spent 3 years teaching gymnastics full-time before heading off to uni at 21. At my current age of 54, I can say I haven't stopped teaching movement since!
In my time, I've been a lycra-clad aerobics instructor of the early 90s, a personal trainer (before personal training was a thing), a learn to swim teacher (which I took to when I had young toddlers of my own), a gymnastics club owner for over a decade (giving me the joy of coaching hundreds and hundreds of fabulous kids - all who would now be adults themselves - and a time which truly left behind the most fond memories), and finally, a yoga studio owner for over another decade.
Suffice to say, I have a lot of knowledge and experience in the scope of teaching movement from a biomechanical, anatomical and physiological perspective, BUT... this is truly just surface-layer stuff if it comes without a deeper experience of self-awareness. It's here that I bring to the table more than just movement in my offerings.
Having been a meditator from my early 20s and walking an intentional path of making the 'unconscious' 'conscious' for as long as I can remember, I naturally reach within to share teachings that go beyond just 'teaching techniques' and parroted learning, to offer you whole-heartedly a lived and breathed knowing.
I've completed lots of different trainings and courses in my time, and am a Psychosomatic Therapist, an Emotional Anatomy Practitioner and an Emotional Release Bodyworker. As a somatic practitioner, nervous system regulation is integral to all that I teach. My journey has blessed me in working with thousands of individuals in so many different capacaties, using a wonderfully vast array of modalities, and has brought me to where I am today - here with you, offering you all that has become a part of me. I welcome you join me.
In my time, I've been a lycra-clad aerobics instructor of the early 90s, a personal trainer (before personal training was a thing), a learn to swim teacher (which I took to when I had young toddlers of my own), a gymnastics club owner for over a decade (giving me the joy of coaching hundreds and hundreds of fabulous kids - all who would now be adults themselves - and a time which truly left behind the most fond memories), and finally, a yoga studio owner for over another decade.
Suffice to say, I have a lot of knowledge and experience in the scope of teaching movement from a biomechanical, anatomical and physiological perspective, BUT... this is truly just surface-layer stuff if it comes without a deeper experience of self-awareness. It's here that I bring to the table more than just movement in my offerings.
Having been a meditator from my early 20s and walking an intentional path of making the 'unconscious' 'conscious' for as long as I can remember, I naturally reach within to share teachings that go beyond just 'teaching techniques' and parroted learning, to offer you whole-heartedly a lived and breathed knowing.
I've completed lots of different trainings and courses in my time, and am a Psychosomatic Therapist, an Emotional Anatomy Practitioner and an Emotional Release Bodyworker. As a somatic practitioner, nervous system regulation is integral to all that I teach. My journey has blessed me in working with thousands of individuals in so many different capacaties, using a wonderfully vast array of modalities, and has brought me to where I am today - here with you, offering you all that has become a part of me. I welcome you join me.
