Lisa Carbone was introduced to yoga for personal well-being and stress management while in graduate school. This experience sparked her initial research interest in yoga and launched a personal exploration into her own mind-body connections. From there, she pursued yoga teacher training where she discovered many insights and affirmations of what she experienced through her teachers and her own practice. Today she is a registered yoga teacher and has been teaching since 2011.

Inspired by the tradition of hatha and ashtanga yoga, she is recognized as a specialist in the field of adaptive yoga and yoga therapy for returning veterans, servicemembers and others outside of the traditional student demographic in the field of yoga. In 2014, Lisa was awarded the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Faculty Research Development grant to conduct a study on how yoga and meditation can support the health and healing of veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This was the first study to investigate the effectiveness of the ancient practice on stress management and physical function through flexibility as a primary measure. In the last couple of years, she has developed a specialized sequence/protocol to address PTSD and other anxiety disorders for those in the military community. She presented this research at several professional conferences around the country, including the OMEGA Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. According to Lisa, yoga reminds her that everything is connected -we must live, act, dance, and breathe with awareness…

Lisa is a professor and administrator at the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education at NSU in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She holds a Doctorate of Education and a Master of Business Administration degree from NSU, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. She currently lives in Boynton Beach, Florida with her husband, two dogs, and 16-year-old cat, Oliver.