Lisa Murphy
Lisa teaches yoga as the gateway to the ultimate mind-body connection
Lisa Murphy spent the past three years teaching yoga in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in the Middle East. While living in Dubai, Lisa had the opportunity to develop a unique blend of all the yoga styles she has studied: Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Bikram, Sivananda, Iyengar, and Anusara. After Dubai, she spent three months of 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey as a guest teacher in residence at Yogasala, the city’s premier yoga studio, teaching a wide variety of international students.
Before her travels, Lisa lived in Kansas City for 14 years, starting her yoga practice with Anusara yoga. After learning much about alignment and discipline from this style of yoga, she enhanced her practice by studying other popular styles such as Ashtanga, Bikram, and Vinyasa. These unique teaching and learning experiences enabled her not only to share her yoga knowledge with others, but moreover helped her recognize the true meaning of yoga on a personal level. While her joy in the asana practice will never diminish, she appreciates that the physical benefits are only the gateway to realizing the ultimate mind-body connection.
