Liza has been studying yoga since 1991 and teaching yoga since 1999. She was first introduced to yoga when she was a student at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where she was studying fine arts. She explored many styles of yoga before committing to the study of Iyengar Yoga in 2003.
Liza is also a licensed Creative Arts Therapist, graduating from Pratt University with a masters degree in 2000. Other major appeals of Iyengar Yoga are the psychological and emotional benefits she gets from the practice and the science and creativity of sequencing asanas, observing how it affects the deeper layers of our being. As an art therapist who focuses on the body in therapy, Liza has a unique insight and sensitivity into what her students’ bodies are communicating about themselves and what would be beneficial to them.

Liza deepened her commitment to Iyengar Yoga by completing the teacher training at the New York institute and receiving her certification in September 2018.  She had the privilege of traveling to Pune, India for Iyengar’s 2018 Centennial Celebration in December.

She is deeply grateful for what Iyengar Yoga has given her as a method to enable her to understand and work with her own physicality and all its obstacles, imbalances, asymmetries, and struggles.

She took Karen Stephan’s therapeutic intensive in 2006 where Deborah Wolk taught the portion on scoliosis. She has worked over the years with all of her teacher’s to better understand her own scoliosis not only for her own body, but to better understand and help her students.