LOTUS BLOSSOM
Wellness Center

Lisa Orkin-Passloff OTR/L

Lisa is a licensed occupational therapist and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University, Sargent College of Allied Health Professions in 1989. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor and completed this training from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1997. Lisa combines her medical knowledge as an occupational therapist with treating individuals who have stress-related ailments with yoga therapy. Lisa also completed a yoga therapy program at the Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation in Bangalore, India, in 1998. She provides yoga therapy for individuals with back/neck pain, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches and other stress-related problems.

Presently, Lisa offers private yoga sessions for individuals with health issues, group yoga classes for children and adults, and onsite corporate yoga classes. Lisa lectures on the benefits of yoga, the mind/body/spirit connection and offers workshops on these topics. In addition, Lisa has written articles on these topics for the Massachusetts Yoga Network and for Kripalu Center's Yoga Bulletin. Most recently, Lisa is featured in the July/August 2000 issue of Yoga Journal magazine with her own healing story.

Lisa and her Yoga for Youngsters Program was featured February 5, 2001, on Channel 56 WLVI 10 o'clock News on a "Fit for Life" segment. Lisa has also been interviewed by the Boston Globe for her Yoga for Youngsters Program.