Lisa Fehrman, who began teaching Pilates in Austin in 1997 as partner in Timberline Fitness, provides a flexible, personalized approach to fitness and health. Building on her knowledge of dance, Pilates, GYROTONIC®, and Z-Health® Performance, Lisa works with people across a range of abilities and goals — the elderly, the injured, and elite athletes.
DANCE HISTORY
Lisa has an M.F.A. in choreography from The University of Arizona and a B.A. in Dance Education from Southwest Texas State University. She began teaching dance at age 18 and built her career running a dance company, dancing for other choreographers, and teaching. She founded Stillpoint Dance and was Artistic Director from 1993-2006.
PILATES HISTORY
Lisa was introduced to Pilates as a student in the 1980s, and Pilates was instrumental to her technical training as a dancer. In the 1990s she decided to pursue teacher training in the classic Pilates method and completed the 600-hour training program multiple times. Over the next five years Lisa taught pre-training and the comprehensive program for Goodbody Pilates and then for Peak Pilates. She decided to develop a comprehensive mentoring program in the traditional Pilates approach and started Stillpoint Pilates Teacher Training.
GYROTONIC® HISTORY
Lisa’s interest in GYROTONIC® grew out of a desire for more complex movement patterns to increase coordination, help both sides of the brain connect with cross-patterning, and unify the body moving as a whole.
As owner of the first GYROTONIC® Studio in Texas in 1999, Lisa has been certified in GYROTONIC® Level 1 and Level 2, GYROKINESIS®, GYROTONIC® for Dancers, and Lotus Blossom. She was a certified Pre-Trainer in GYROTONIC® from 2003-2005.
Z-HEALTH® HISTORY
Lisa turned to Z-Health® Performance Solutions in order to add to her training repertoire a number of techniques not directly addressed in other movement systems. Z-Health® is a neurologically based movement program designed to enhance performance, correct faulty patterns, and decrease pain.
Starting in 2004 Lisa was among the first to be certified in the Z-Health® specialties known as R-Phase, I-Phase, S-Phase, T-Phase, and 9S-Sustenance.
ISOPHIT™ HISTORY
After reading extensively about the benefits of Isometric training and then learning the popularity with elite athletes using Isophit, Lisa added this modality to her training repertoire. In 2024, after consulting with a Orthopedist about a possible hip replacement, she began a targeted Isometric program to address the pain arthritis was causing. Now pain free, she is an advocate for Isometrics for strengthening tendons without surgery as just one of the amazing benefits to this training. You can read many articles of the athletic teams and Olympians utilizing this technique to get an edge on their opponents at Isophit.com