Visiting Workshops & Professional Study - Winter 2026
Winter and spring take Lisa to Northern Europe, teaching in Nordic countries as early as March. This catalog is intended for studios considering hosting and scheduling programs for their students.
The programs below represent adaptable teaching formats rather than fixed offerings. Each can be shaped in conversation with a host studio or organization, with attention to audience, schedule, setting, and intention. Content is adjusted to meet participants where they are, while maintaining the integrity of the work and the environment in which it is held.
Each category clicks to it's programming:
Feminine Embodiment in Ashtanga Yoga
3 hours ∙ Exploration & Asana
Explore Ashtanga Yoga through self-compassion and release of expectations & goals. Allowing soft & big ujjayi breathing, the lens of receptivity & non-attachment come forward to drive the experience in the slow lane. Work smarter, not harder.
The practice emphasizes subtle strength of intuition, patience, and discernment. Attention is given to how effort and awareness shape the mind over time, influencing both practice and daily life. Participants leave with a felt understanding of a more sustainable, grounded, and quietly powerful approach to Ashtanga practice.
Resilience & Vitality: Nourish & Regulate the Fire Within
3 hours ∙ Exploration & Asana
Physical, mental, & experiential digestion is regulated by our inner fire - our power of transformation. While digestion is often associated with food, this session expands the function to include the digestion of sensory input, emotion, and daily demands.
Participants are empowered through accessible discussion & intentionally integrated asana practice to understand and implement their own fire of transformation. The ability to "digest" experiences, sensations, & pace of life are skills to carry forward & enhance wellbeing.
Dark Asana Yoga
90 minutes ∙ Asana
Dark Asana Yoga is a vinyasa practice set to doom metal, sludge, and ambient soundscapes. The music creates a deeply immersive environment, inviting participants to explore altered perception, inner depth, and embodied clarity. Movement is deliberate and grounded yet dictated by each person’s intrapersonal experience.
This is a longstanding offering originating in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is well suited for participants drawn to non-traditional practice environments and music-forward experiences.
Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Bath
90 minutes ∙ Sound & Restorative Asana
Quartz crystal singing bowls produce resonant tones that support relaxation, sensory settling, and nervous system regulation. The session is held as a steady, supportive space that allows each participant to receive the sound in the way their system needs. Research on sound and vibration suggests that sustained frequencies can support parasympathetic response and reduced sensory overload, allowing the body to access rest and clarity.
Participants rest on their yoga mats, or the session may be structured as a restorative yoga class depending on available props. The experience supports deep rest and a return to internal steadiness.
Ancient Ayurveda for the Modern Householder
4 hours ∙ Experiential discussion & light asana
Ayurveda is a practical, adaptable system for navigating modern life. The focus is on applying Ayurvedic principles to real-world schedules, seasonal change, overwhelm, and shifting energy levels.
We’ll discuss Ayurveda’s bridge of theory into daily life. This session will stay with participants, encouraging self-support of vitality, health & rhythm through life’s constantly changing variables and seasons of life. Participants leave with an accessible, grounded understanding of Ayurveda as a supportive framework that meets them where they are. This is grounded in authentic Ayurvedic theory & practices, but designed for lived experience. We will leave behind idealized & often unreasonable routines to learn we are perfectly imperfect exactly how and where we are in life at any given moment.
Living Beyond the Element: Remember Who You Are
2.5 hour • Exploratory discussion
This experiential discussion explores trauma - experiences staying with us & instigating patterns of difficult affect - as a living force that shapes perception, identity, and behavior across generations. Through storytelling, reflection, & journaling, participants examine how personal and collective patterns influence the way they experience themselves and the world.
Drawing from yoga philosophy and psychological inquiry, this offering invites participants to recognize habitual tendencies and explore what it means to return to balance, clarity, and self-recognition. The work supports a shift in perspective around identity, healing, and belonging within a broader human context.
This is a reflective, adult-oriented exploration of western & eastern psychology as lived experience, held with care, depth, and discernment.
Seasonal Shifting | Spring Reset
2-day program (adaptable) ∙ 3-4 hours per day
Understand the theory and practice of Ayurveda’s seasonal cleanse methodology. Cleansing functions as a reset, using warm, nourishing meals, spices, and supportive daily routines. The program is grounded in traditional Ayurvedic methodology and supported by the manual written and taught by Lisa since 2015. Participants receive a framework they can reference time after time.
This knowledge is accessible regardless of whether a cleanse is undertaken. Participants learn Ayurvedic recipes, daily rhythms of dining, rest, routine, and nourishing care rituals. The work focuses on reducing heightened elemental qualities that have accumulated in the body during the previous season, supporting clearer inner rhythm moving forward. Ayurvedic cooking demonstrations may be included when kitchen facilities are available. An Ayurvedic cleanse is not pancha karma.
Professional education offerings designed to support yoga teachers and committed practitioners in integrating Ayurvedic intelligence into practice, teaching, and daily life.
Certificates for Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) hour compliance are provided. These modules are adaptable to compliment, integrate, & plan within the structure and curriculum of your program. Scheduling modules within your existing YTT programs is available, with Lisa offering up to ten hours as a guest educator within Teaching Methodology & Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle & Ethics for Teachers.
Option A: Foundational Integration of Yoga & Ayurveda
4-5 hours ∙ Professional Training Module
Designed for yoga teachers and serious practitioners, this foundational module offers a clear, practical introduction to weaving Ayurveda into yoga practice and teaching. Emphasis is placed on understanding why certain approaches support different students, seasons, and stages of life—rather than applying generalized techniques.
Participants explore how Ayurvedic principles inform class sequencing, cueing, energetic pacing, and self-nourishment. The training supports deeper discernment in both personal practice and teaching, strengthening the relationship between yoga and Ayurveda as complementary, interconnected disciplines.
Participants are introduced to:
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Ayurveda as a lens for understanding why it is yoga’s “sister science”
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Seasonal intelligence and daily rhythms
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Energetic alignment within asana
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Simple, adaptable methods for class planning
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Supportive, context-sensitive asana cueing
Option B: Professional Training Day — Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers
8 hours ∙ Professional Training Module
A full-day professional training designed for deeper integration and practical application. This option includes all material from Option A, with expanded experiential learning and additional focus on regulation, rhythm, and teaching discernment.
Agni—the physiology and intelligence of inner fire—is introduced as a functional principle informing anatomy, energy management, and sustainable teaching practices, without entering medical territory.
Additional areas of focus include:
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Practice-based experiential learning
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Expanded seasonal teaching strategies
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Therapeutic awareness of pacing, tone, and sequencing
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Pranayama and meditation alignment
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Self-regulation through Ayurvedic rhythm
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Case studies addressing students, seasons, and tendencies
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Asana practice
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Q&A and studio-specific integration
Option C: Two-Part Model — Teacher Training + Public Workshop
8 hours ∙ Professional Training Module & Public Workshop
A hybrid format combining professional training with a public offering.
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4-5 hours — Closed YTT session
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Long lunch break
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2–3 hours — Open enrollment workshop
The public session focuses on Seasonal Intelligence for Practice and Life, allowing studios to serve both teachers and the broader community while maintaining appropriate depth and boundaries for each group.
Inquiries & scheduling: