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Spotlight on Personal Trainers: Lisa Blanchard
By Casey Leger therapy and instructs aspiring
yoga teachers. She is also a peer
ornwall native Lisa Blanchard support specialist with Community
Chas a very impressive Addictions and Mental Health
professional resumé. She attended Services.
the University of Ottawa and Wellness is a way of life for
graduated with an honors bachelor’s Blanchard.
degree in psychology and a minor
in English. She completed massage “I always felt there was an
therapy training and is a registered intimate connection between body
RMT in Ontario. She has extensive and mind. In the 90’s, there was
experience in Hatha Yoga, emerging science about the body
Kundalini Yoga, Yin Yoga, Trauma- storing memories and there was
Informed Yoga, and Yoga for talk about the vibrational field.
Chronic Pain Conditions. She trains We knew that the mind affects the
yoga instructors. She completed body, but what about the reverse?
the Chinese Acupuncture program Through yoga and meditation, I
at Dallas College of Oriental learned that to calm the mind, we
Medicine, and she is currently can focus on the breath and do
undertaking several more wellness body asanas - poses and postures,”
certifications. She is an instructor explains Blanchard.
of massage therapy: anatomy and She continues, “As time
physiology, myology, Orthopedic progressed into the millennium, I
Tests, massage techniques, saw that life was becoming very
nutrition, and pharmacology busy and that most people did not
know how to relax. As an anatomy
Blanchard is an owner of
Spirit Tree Yoga Studio, which is and physiology instructor with
celebrating a decade of operation, over 15 years teaching experience,
where she practices massage I knew that balancing the stress
response with the relaxation
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response of the nervous system For Blanchard, Spirit Tree
was imperative to optimum health. Yoga Studio is a special place. “I
Now more than ever we need think what sets me and my yoga
yoga and meditation. We need to studio apart is that we focus on
allow the body and mind time to the whole person, not just the
relax so our bodies have time to
body,” she says. “You can’t just
rejuvenate and renew from all the
focus on the body, and you can’t
stress. In yoga, we keep the body
just focus on the mind; all of it
strong, and we allow time for the
is essential for health, happiness,
body to renew itself. We allow
and wholeness. This is why I
time for the mind to refresh and
gravitated toward yoga. I see how
become calm. When we do this,
we can move past the chaos of the people are transformed from our
mind and really connect with our yoga classes. I see people come
spirit. I firmly believe that this is in crying, asking for help and then
absolutely necessary for a healthy, see them blossom from yoga. The
purpose-filled life.” transformation is remarkable!”
