Other Yoga teacher Alisa Matthews

Alisa Matthews is the 2008 World Yoga Champion and 2006, 2007, and 2008 US National Yoga Champion of the International Bishnu Charan Ghosh Cup. She is an NASM and NESTA certified personal trainer and senior Bikram yoga teacher and is on the board of the USA Yoga Federation to promote and form an international yoga federation to qualify Yoga Asana as an Olympic sport.

Alisa was a professional ballet dancer and teacher with, amongst other organizations, the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington DC, ARKA Ballet, and Colorado Ballet in Denver. After her ballet career she took up yoga and was subsequently certified as a Yoga teacher in the summer of 2004. She then spent the next 5 years as a senior teacher on the administrative staff directly under Bikram Choudhury for Bikram’s Yoga College of India International Headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. After she became the World Yoga Champion in 2008, she organized a tour to USA, Europe, and Asia to promote yoga by conducting private lessons, seminars, and workshops to teach, coach and inspire students to be the best that they could be in their personal yoga practice.

Alisa currently teaches yoga to students of all abilities and conducts yoga master-classes, seminars, workshops, and posture clinics worldwide. Her background as a former ballet dancer and teacher allows her to work closely with dancers and athletes using ballet and yoga techniques for fitness and flexibility. Her NASM and NESTA personal fitness training qualifications allows her to train all athletes to their full capability in their sports by using yoga combined with fitness training. Alisa is also CPR certified.

Teaching Experience: 20 years+ *
SNS Followers: 5k+ *

*As of Mar 2024

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