Pilates was referred as corrective exercise by its creator Joseph Pilates. Pilates is great to support injury, the aging body, athletes, and most everyone to feel stronger, more flexible and balanced in their life and activities.

Yoga helps calm and balance the nervous system and mind as well as help with flexibility, balance and strength of the body.

I’ve been teaching pilates since 2001. I have my comprehensive pilates certification and many rehabilitative certifications.

I offer 1:1 sessions in Oakland Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

I offer a pilates based movement class on Zoom Wednesdays at 8am PST, $35 for the class. This class is a slower paced class geared to create stability, perfect for someone after an injury, surgery, or an aging body.

Rates are:

1:1 $140/session

duets $90 each/session

Temescal Pilates and Bodywork, 5427 Telegraph Suite B, Oakland, CA 94609

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Why I Focus on Integration

I've watched too many accomplished, self-aware women spin in the gap between knowing and doing.

And they're exhausted from understanding themselves but not being able to change.

This gap—between intellectual insight and embodied transformation—is where I focus. Because you don't need more information. You need integration. You need to bring your years of inner work out of your head and into your body, your nervous system, your daily life.

That's what this work exists to do.

About

Lise Prewitt

How I Arrived at This Work

My path to this work has been anything but linear.

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Then in 2014, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

I stopped "putting out fires" each session and started following a thread through the work—addressing root causes, not just symptoms. I began incorporating breathwork meditation, essential oils to work with the limbic system, nervous system regulation practices, and deeper relational mentoring.

That's when everything shifted. Not just for me, but for my clients.

Outcome:

You move from:

Understanding to embodying

Overwhelm to spaciousness

Controlling to trusting

Productive-but-not-present to genuinely engaged

Performing to being authentic

Doing it alone to having sustained support

You finally live what you know.

What Makes My Perspective Different

I bring a unique combination of scientific foundation and embodied wisdom:

Pre-medicine degree: I understand physiology, neuroscience, how the body actually works

25+ years of somatic practice: Pilates, yoga, dance, breathwork—I've been deeply in my body since I was young

Lived experience of trauma and healing: I've walked through the fire myself—head injury, breast cancer, rebuilding from the ground up

Trauma-informed training: I've studied with trauma specialists and understand how the body holds what the mind can't process

I balance masculine structure with feminine flow. Evidence-based practices with intuitive attunement. Science with soma.

That relational safety is what allows the deep work to happen

Experience & Credibility

25+ years working with women navigating stress, transition, trauma, chronic illness, and the journey from disconnection to embodied presence.

Very high client retention rate: Many clients work with me for years, not months. This tells me I'm doing something right—creating sustained transformation, not quick fixes.

Clients consistently report:

Feeling "very seen" on all levels

Having a "sacred space" to come to

Receiving something "very specific to them"—not cookie-cutter

Finally bridging the gap between knowing and doing

Building resilience, safety within themselves, and deeper connection to their own value

Educational Foundation:

Pre-medicine degree (University background in biological sciences)

Comprehensive Pilates certification (25+ years of practice and teaching)

Pilates based rehabilitation training

Pilates Educator for Teacher Training, Ellie Herman, Balanced Body

Yoga certification

Breathwork meditation certification

Decades of somatic movement training (dance, trauma-informed practices)

Study with trauma specialists and nervous system experts

Client Profile: I work primarily with:

Therapists, coaches, and helping professionals building their own practices

Corporate professionals in leadership roles navigating transitions

Mothers balancing demanding careers with family life

Women ages 35-65 who've done significant inner work and are ready to integrate it

What Clients Say:

"I have a very keen awareness to be able to see them on a whole level." — This is what clients experience: being witnessed not just physically, but emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

"I don't know how you do what you're doing—I feel so supported by you even though you're going through all this." — Said by multiple clients during my cancer journey, showing that authenticity and vulnerability create deeper holding.

I don't believe you're broken. I believe you're ready for integration.

Most of the women I work with have spent years—sometimes decades—in therapy, reading, learning, understanding themselves. They're not lacking insight. They're lacking embodiment.

My approach is rooted in these principles:

Start with yourself. All transformation begins internally. Before better relationships, aligned careers, or balanced lives—you must connect to your deepest, truest self. This is the foundation everything else builds on.

Integration over compartmentalization. Freedom isn't about external circumstances—it's an internal state that comes from being grounded in yourself and living authentically. When you're grounded and authentic, you can take inspired action rather than obligation-driven doing.

Safety creates transformation. Relational safety allows you to do the deep work. When you feel seen, held, and genuinely safe—you can access what's underneath and transform. This is why my work is deeply relational, not transactional.

Root causes, not symptom management. I'm not here to help you manage stress better. I'm here to help you understand why you're stressed in the first place—and address those underlying patterns. Real change is sustainable because it addresses what's underneath.

From understanding to embodiment. Intellectual understanding isn't enough. The body holds what the mind can't access. Working somatically—through breath, movement, nervous system practices—allows unconscious material to move and integrate in ways talking never could.

Don't wait for crisis. You shouldn't have to get diagnosed with a chronic illness to finally prioritize yourself. Prevention through self-connection matters. Your body is speaking to you now—through overwhelm, exhaustion, disconnection. Listen before it has to get louder.

What I Prioritize

Whole-person integration: Physical + emotional + mental + spiritual (never just one dimension)

Nervous system regulation: Building capacity to be present, not just managing symptoms

Personal boundaries and energy protection: Creating resilience from the inside out

Relational safety: You feeling genuinely seen and held throughout the journey

Organic, resonant pacing: Work flows naturally, attuned to where you are—never forced or formulaic

Long-term sustainability: Not episodic fire-fighting but a thread moving through the work

What I Intentionally Avoid

Quick fixes and surface-level solutions: If you're looking for a 6-week program that "fixes" you, this isn't it

Cookie-cutter approaches: You're not everyone. You get work specific to you.

Hype or pressure tactics: This work requires readiness. I won't convince you—I'll meet you where you are.

More information without integration: You don't need another book to read or framework to understand. You need to embody what you already know.

Compartmentalized approaches: We don't work on "just" your body or "just" your stress. We work with all of you.

My Decision-Making Framework

Everything I do must feel organic and resonant. I don't follow trends—I follow the "red thread" of what feels right through my own healing journey and what serves my clients' deepest transformation.