Associates

ELISA LODGE

Elisa Lodge is an International stress management consultant, 'corporate energizer,' presentation coach and motivational speaker. She has taken her training program, The Physiology of Leadership throughout United States, England, Switzerland, Japan, Greece, Taiwan and China.

A group leader at Esalen Institute since 1979, Elisa has conducted workshops in, Unleashing Natural Genius, Expressive Intelligence, Strategic Improvisation, Developing a Powerful Presence and Communicating with Heart. She is a presentation coach with On Camera, a firm that mentors executives for media appearance and corporate communications. For five years she served as a professional trainer for Arica Institute, a human development corporation that conducted forty day trainings around the world.

Elisa has an extensive background in body/mind approaches promoting optimum health, fluid movement and emotive authenticity. She studied with master bodywork teachers, Ida Rolf and Mohse Feldenkrais and is a former teacher of Rolfing Movement Integration. Her program, Computer Fitness: Take the Aches and Pains out of Work, has been offered at Sun Micro Systems, Portal Publications and Oracle Corporation.

As a professional actress, Elisa has appeared in numerous television and stage productions including films with Jerry Lewis and Elvis Presley. She trained with Lee Strasberg of the renewed Actors Studio in New York, and has had her own performing arts company, Theatre of the Earth.

Currently, Elisa is a personal coach that inspires individuals to shift out of rigid patterns into fluid adaptability; all for the benefit of flowing with unpredictable change. She serves on the Maryland Task Force for Self-esteem, and on the professional Women's Task Force in Monterey, CA. She is the author of Expressive Intelligence: A Unifying Physiology of Consciousness.

For additional information, email Elisa at elisafit@aol.com.