Lisa Lansing is a former dancer and choreographer who has enjoyed a life-long dedication to and exploration of movement through dance, sports, movement arts, therapy and choreography. While primarily a dancer in her youth, Lisa's active family encouraged her to explore sports and other forms of movement as well as dance. Early on in life, Lisa was a swimmer, diver, gymnast, competitive figure skater, and sailor. She played soccer, softball, and volleyball for fun and mainly with her brothers. Once dancing took hold, everything else stopped. As a dancer, she was a ballerina and studied tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop, pop, funk, folk and improvisation. Lisa was a Principal member of the River Falls Ballet Company from 1983 - 1986, now defunct.

After two debilitating dance injuries, one requiring reconstructive ankle surgery and the other requiring two knee debridements, Lisa began her life-long quest to discover efficient movement for health and wellness. Losing the ability to dance was devastating, and finding new ways of moving was paramount. While Pilates reached Lisa's sensibility of alignment and proper body mechanics, the GYROTONIC® methodology addressed all the systems of her body in a way that continues to be deeply healing and powerful.

The GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® helped Lisa recover from the physical and emotional trauma she suffered after the death of her infant daughter due to a rare liver disease. This methodology helps people change movement patterns, open energetic pathways that are often blocked due to movement habits or emotional stagnation, breathe and use breath with healing and regenerative intention, and find greater circulation in the body.

In 2009 - 2010, Lisa had the great opportunity to work with Shaquille O'Neal while he was playing basketball with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He called Lisa, "Sensai," and tried to schedule every open evening he had for private lessons in the GYROTONIC® system that season.

Lisa's life work involves bringing greater love, healing and joy to the world through movement, energetic awakening and breath. Movement heals. Today Lisa is a GYROTONIC®, GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® Leg Extension Unit Master Trainer.

Inspiral Motion is a studio filled with lovely, generous instructors who share the love of movement and the belief that movement heals people and creates joy in their lives. We are here to help you find an added benefit in your life; a ray of light and joy - however it may manifest for you; a moment of reflection, strength in your body, and feeling fantastic, aesthetic changes. Whatever the case may be, Lisa Lansing opened the studio because she believes that joy, love and healing through movement is for everyone to experience.