Lisa Pedersen is a certified pre/post-natal yoga instructor and founder of Mindful Beginnings. Lisa uses a unique and comprehensive approach with clients, combining 20 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with a private counseling practice, a birth doula, childbirth educator, yoga teacher trainer and writer. An added 3 year post-graduate training as an Integrative Body Psychotherapist (www.ibponline.org) which utilizes aspects of yoga, reiki, and other body modalities, has enhanced Lisa’s teachings of how the mind-body connection relates to the journey of conception, pregnancy, labor and parenting. Lisa has been featured in several news and print articles and welcomes the opportunity to travel to help yoga teachers cherish the time they have when a pregnant woman enters their class. As well, she loves training yoga teachers on how embodying their presence adds to teaching others. Her most important job, however, is being a mom to 2 spirited boys.