"A true master of movement in dance technique and rehabilitation. Lisa Marie not only brings her dance background to her teaching, but also her experience in training and lecturing groups of diverse levels of proficiency. Her wide range of skills makes her an authority to students and teachers alike." 

Marie-Josie Lawrence,

Director
Long Beach Dance Conditioning

Lisa Marie Goodwin

Director / International Master Trainer GYROTONIC® / GYROKINESIS®

Lisa Marie is an international  Master Trainer of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® as well as a GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer and a certified Master Trainer of all Specialized GYROTONIC® equipment.

She was introduced to GYROTONIC® body conditioning during her career as a professional ballet dancer.  As a dancer she performed nationwide with various companies beginning with the San Francisco Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, LA Classical Ballet and Helios Dance Theatre. She became certified as a Pilates instructor under the tutelage of Marie-Jose Blom-Lawrence at Long Beach Dance Conditioning where she co-managed the studio for 7yrs.

1996 to current:

Lisa Marie founded her own company, White Crane Movement Arts, from which she has been running a successful movement program and teacher training courses. Lisa Marie was a co-owner of LA Body Kinetics and currently directs the new Angel City Body Kinetics GYROTONIC® program with Marie-Jose Blom-Lawrence. Lisa Marie is currently part time faculty at Loyola Marymount University as a teacher of classical ballet.

Lisa Marie travels extensively internationally conducting courses for the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® and Pilates. She also teaches specialized seminars focusing on injury prevention for dance schools and institutes such as California Institute for the Performing Arts, Inland Pacific Ballet, and Pasadena Ballet. She was Director of the Children's Division of Long Beach Ballet Arts Center and has set up Pilates and GYROTONIC® studios for ballet schools and corporations. She is currently in her third year of Medical Chi-Gong, combines healing with essential oils, and continues to embrace with grace and light the development of her studies in her career as a movement educator.