Lisa Munger

Lisa Munger is a Midwest-based writer, yoga, Pilates and barre instructor and Ayurvedic practitioner. She works with these tools to help individuals connect with their innermost wisdom to move toward fruition.

She has studied and taught yoga for 12 years. She is trained in several styles of yoga, including Ayurvedic, vinyasa (flow), pre-natal, core yoga, power yoga, Yin, restorative, as well as Inner Power Yoga. As an Inner Power Yoga teacher trainer, she teaches Ayurveda to groups seeking their yoga teacher training certification. Lisa serves on the board of directors for Yoga World Reach, a non-profit organization seeking to educate, motivate and empower yoga teachers to broaden the possibilities of yoga as service in local and global communities. She taught internationally in 2012, as Yoga Director in-residence at a festival for contemporary musicians in Italy. Additionally,  Lisa was featured in nationally-distributed Origin magazine in 2013 as one of "120 Yogis We Love."

Lisa has studied Ayurveda, often called a sister science to yoga, for more than 10 years. Ayurveda teaches us to find balance in our minds and bodies, attuning to our natural rhythms through lifestyle, movement (including yoga) and by using food as our best medicine. She has trained in Ayurveda at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque under the guidance of Dr. Vasant Lad, her primary teacher, and the Wise Earth School.

Lisa is also a STOTT Pilates®–trained instructor. Often referred to as the “Ivy League” school of Pilates, STOTT Pilates® provides practitioners with the depth of knowledge and programming to teach group or personal training programs to people of any age or fitness level—from post- rehabilitation patients to elite athletes.

Additionally, she is a certified BarWorks® instructor. BarWorks®, developed by dancers and yogis in California, combines the best of yoga, ballet, and Pilates using specific alignment principles derived from the yogic tradition. With the support of a ballet bar, practitioners increase balance, core strength and flexibility using simple and precise movements. Lisa works with practitioners, both new and seasoned, to help them find a movement or Ayurvedic practice that works well for them in their lives. In these sessions, she guides students toward developing a lifestyle, including elements of diet, movement (exercise), adjustments to one’s daily routine to move toward balance in the mind and body and toward the achievement of the client’s individual goals.

Besides her training in yoga, Pilates, barre and Ayurveda, Lisa also holds a master’s degree in journalism. A native Nebraskan, Lisa also works as a journalist for magazines, websites and newspapers, writing about topics ranging from yoga to international affairs, derived from her travels to Egypt, Qatar, Bolivia and beyond.