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I’m Lisa - an ex-ballerina and now a dance
and yoga instructor based in lovely (although
today very windy) Cornwall. I recently hosted my first ever
retreat - a dance and yoga one on the North Cornish
coast. I did this after looking to go on a dance and yoga
retreat (as opposed to just yoga!) and there wasn’t one
so I found my dream location and arranged my dream
retreat. It was last weekend and it was a huge success
with lots of lovely ladies enjoying the dance/yoga blend.
Lisa, by email
Inspirational teacher
I was so happy to see your interview with Mona Lisa Godfrey recently
(OM Meets: issue 78, November 2017). I attended a yoga class with her
earlier this year
and she was so
inspirational, as
well as fun and
down-to-earth.
I’ve been back for
more since then,
enjoying classes as
often as possible,
and am really glad
to see her getting
the recognition that
she deserves.
Paula, by email
Yoga newbie
I bought my first copy of OM magazine at the OM Yoga Show
in London at the end of October — and I love it! I’m just a yoga
newbie myself but have really embraced the practice since starting
out. Your magazine is exactly what I need to keep the good vibes going after
a class. It’s also wonderful to feel connected to a much larger community of
like-minded people out there too. Thank you OM - for the magazine and your
amazing yoga show.
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colourfulellie42om bodyMona Lisa
GodfreyOM meets...OM_78.indd 42 03/10/2017 11:34:om body43Originally from the former USSR, yoga teacher and lululemon ambassador Mona Lisa Godfrey grew up in Sweden and then California. Now a familiar face in
How did you firsLondon, she wants to help more people discover the magic of yogat get into yoga
When I was in my earcar accident on the freewaon a calm and sunny Sunly twenties, I got into a day, my car was y. Driving home
sideswiped at 70mpinto a concrete wall. Justbefore the accident happenedh and went straight under a month , immensely
desperate for monethe summer through Europlow paying marketing job aty after having travelled e, I accepted a a yoga studio.
I thought it was a joke peace out as soon as better. But after the accidentand was going to I found something , I felt
absolutely brokento show up to work, and that my doctor recommended. I had just enough in me it just so happened yoga - which
was suddenly free aany excuse. Alongsidbegan to practice gend too convenient for e physical therapy, I ntle styles every day
after or before work to aidalthough I’d done sobefore that whole incidentme random gym yoga my recovery. So, , I would say that’s
when my yoga journey truly began.How did you become a teAs life will have it, ironwork there for almost tically, I continued to hree years, during acher
which time I also completed myhour teacher training. Thme on a very different path than the one at accident put first 200-
I’d previously been on. It was aOnly many years lathe blessings that cameter was I able to see out of that very forest fire.
difficult situation.What does yoga give you personally
The initial practice of yoga meditation, that has Meditation has a constantbeen the biggest gift. residual impact asana led me to
on my everyday momentsthoughts, how I speak to other place from which I base my decisions, and - how I form my people, the
how I show up in life. The me the ability to hear (and listen) to the subtle whispers of my intuition. practice has given the courage to
It’s always a work in prmade many bold decisions thatogress, but I’ve bore exoticfruits – which I would encountered without the breath. I would be living a diffenever otherwise have guidance of my rent life, much
more ‘laid out’ foupon yoga.r me, had I not stumbled
How would you deteaching styleThe single most difficult tscribe your own hing that I’ve
had to learn over the yeattempting to dominain my classes, there is te my body. Therefore, a strong emphasis on ars is how to stop
moving in a quality of authfor the self. Force andthe consciousness that we aggression only omit enticity in caring are trying to
create through the practice– so whether I am teachior Power Yoga, or Yin Yoga, or Hatha – I try ng Vinyasa Flow, of yoga asana
and always keep the foand moving in a heFor me, the most poweraling and nourishing way. cus on the breath ful shifts seem to
happen when I am not tryior achieve anything, so I tryng to get anywhere and remind my
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