Biography

Lisa Sanfilippo is a renowned Anusara Yoga teacher who lives in London, England and teaches in the UK, across Europe and beyond. Lisa is a friend of the Shakti family, having inspired and ignited Shakti staff and members with the first-ever Anusara yoga workshops in Kingston in April 2009. Lisa began the path to yoga in childhood through her family, and established a dedicated yoga practice in 1997. Lisa has taught since 2003 and has trained directly with John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga, and has learned the philosophy of yoga’s deepest traditions with leading scholars and teachers of meditation, enriching her teaching and practice with a deep well of insight and wisdom. She has a special love and talent for yoga therapeutics and biomechanical alignment which help the body to heal, thereby setting the mind and heart free. Lisa earned academic degrees from two of the world’s foremost universities and brings a wealth of experience from a prior career working with non-profit social justice organizations to her understanding of yoga’s potential for creating positive change in each of us, and in the world.

Lisa’s personality and teaching are liberally laced with enthusiasm, humor, intelligence, loving compassion and a desire to create positive shifts in the world we live in, making more beauty in the world from ‘the inside, out. ‘

Join this inspiring and fun workshop to free your shoulders, enliven your breath and curl open with a soaring spirit of celebration. Enjoy the rhythm of your heartbeat and melody of the breath as the music of life connects us all. Ease into backbends to help you laugh, love and move from inside out. Lisa’s inspiring, uplifting and lighthearted style expertly blended with detailed and safe guidance will take you to a natural high. Let’s get together and feel all right…

This workshop is suitable for all levels and focuses on the upper body to free your shoulders and upper back with back bending.

In Lisa's skilful, humorous and insightful teaching you will experience the deep power and potential of Anusara Yoga's Universal Principles of Alignment, it’s focus on dynamic community and it’s uplifting philosophy of intrinsic goodness to move you from the inside out!