About

Lisa Mathison is a Gyrotonic Master Trainer and bodyworker specialising in rehabilitation, dance, and elite athletes.

With over 25 years of experience teaching movement, Lisa trained as a professional ballet dancer with the Hamburg State Ballet School and later joined the Komische Oper Ballet Company in Berlin.

Lisa holds a 600 hour Certification in Classical Pilates under Romana Kryzanowska NYC. She also worked for Brooke Siler's Pilates studio 'RE:AB 'for 2 years in NYC

Lisa first worked with Juliu Horváth in 2000, and from 2000–2004 lived in New York to train directly under Juliu and many of his original "White Cloud" teachers — experiencing his most original work firsthand and watching the Gyrotonic system evolve over time. Lisa went on to become the first teacher and Teacher Trainer to bring Gyrotonic to Sydney, Australia, opening her own studio in Paddington and running it for 11 years whilst continuing to train with Juliu in 5 other countries. Lisa has travelled to the Gyrotonic rehabilitation clinics in Bad Kruzengen, Germany where she observed the teaching of Gyrokinesis in water.

She has trained many teachers in Australia, some of whom have themselves gone on to become Pre trainers and Master Trainers themselves.

She has run many successful Retreats incorporating Gyrokinesis into her 'wellness weekends'.

Her practice extends into deep bodywork: she is trained in Myofascial Release, Level 2 Cranio-Sacral Therapy, and Thai Yoga Massage, and in 2022 became a certified Energy Codes facilitator.

She has presented at the prestigious IADMS (International Association for Dance Medicine & Science) and mentored and taught as faculty at NAISDA, Australia's leading dance Institution for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Lisa's highly skilled eye and deep knowledge of biomechanics allow her to tune into the subtleties of the body. She is a leader in her field with a particular interest in scar tissue and mentoring the next generation of instructors. Her ethos is to — treat each person as an individual, because each day calls for something different.