Lisa Marie Howard
Calm your Body
Fortify your Spirit
Reclaim your Joy
Coaching with Lisa
A coaching session with Lisa provides space for you to get centered in your goals, access your innate wisdom, and fully connect with your power so that you can create the change you want to see.Coaching helps you move beyond barriers and access greater vitality, presence, and purpose.
Coaching is for:
Leaders who need to navigate uncertainty and constant change with grace
Professionals seeking tools for stress-management and resilience
Growth-seekers striving to integrate well-being practices into daily life
In coaching you are invited to:
Express yourself freely and fully in a compassionate space
Deepen your presence to access the intuitive wisdom of your body
Navigate through the stories to find what is true and most important
Identify limitations or barriers and determine clear action steps to success
Offerings
Practices
Heal the Now
Collaboratives
Build Connection
Training
Fortify the Future
Mindful Hiking
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.
More than just a hike, it's a practice
A guided hike can become a powerful mindfulness practice when we deepen our present moment awareness through our sensory connection to the land. Through this practice of presencing and noticing, we find relaxation and rejuvenation, and expand our capacity for resilience as modeled by the continuously adapting natural landscapes.
2025 Hiking Routes:
Flag Rock ~ Great Barrington, MA
Monument Mountain ~ Great Barrington, MA
Ice Glen & Laura's Tower - Stockbridge, MA
Olivia's Overlook to Kennedy Cliffs ~ Lenox, MA
All routes are offered year-round, weather permitting. Trekking Poles and Micro Spikes available. Additional routes and customized experiences available. Contact Lisa for Pricing.
Contact Lisa to schedule your customized hike or outdoor experience.
Experiential workshops
Lisa's dynamic, activity-based workshops are packed full of learning and leave you feeling more empowered and equipped for life's challenges.
RISE™: Kripalu's Evidence-based Stress resilience training
Rooted in Kripalu’s deep legacy of wellness practices and grounded in more than a decade of research and tested application, the RISE™ program provides a pathway to understanding the stress response paired with tools and practices that empower a more skillful, centered approach.
Adventurous Awareness:
The Power of Play
Find greater calm, clarity, and connection by leaning into your sense of adventure! In this playful, engaging, activity-based workshop participants will explore play as a wellness practice and gain deeper self-awareness along with accessible tools for resilience and self-regulation.
RISE™: Kripalu's Evidence-based Stress resilience training
Rooted in Kripalu’s deep legacy of wellness practices and grounded in more than a decade of research and tested application, the RISE™ program provides a pathway to understanding the stress response paired with tools and practices that empower a more skillful, centered approach.
Intro session: 90 - 120 minutes
Full program: 6 - 8 hours
Combination: RISE + Team Connection
Through accessible practices of meditation, breath, and gentle movement, learn how to:
Change the brain, making it easier to pay attention and stay calm
Build positivity, productivity, and mental clarity
Improve stress resilience in the moment and over time.
Finish the program more mindful and with experiences you can easily apply to your life.
Experience mindfulness tools and practices for self-regulation in the face of stress. Learn how to understand your own stress response and improve your ability to utilize skills and tools in moments of high intensity and challenge.
Contact Lisa for customized sessions at your site.
Adventurous Awareness:
The Power of Play
Find greater calm, clarity, and connection by deepening your self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. All while having fun in a playful, socially-supportive, adventure-based learning environment.
Have fun in an inclusive, collaborative, active-learning environment
Experience play as a wellness practice that strengthens mind-body connection
Learn tools and resources for increasing choice and self-regulation in moments of overwhelm
Contact Lisa for customized sessions at your site.
Join Lisa at Kripalu
Kripalu R&R
R&R is Kripalu's self-guided Retreat & Renewal experience located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.Lisa has been a part of the R&R faculty at Kripalu since 2022, when she joined the outdoor team. Since then, she has become certified in teaching RISE™: Kripalu's Evidence-based Stress resilience training, and added her own Adventure-based Awareness workshop to the R&R schedule. She also offers resilience and integration coaching for participants who want ongoing support in applying their learning into personal and professional life.
Follow the link for more details or contact Lisa to learn how you can bring these offerings to your site.
Yoga Summer Camp
Embrace your inner child and make new friends while in the restful luxury of a retreat center at this Summer Camp for Adults. Activities include playful community building, mindful hiking, kayaking, archery, arts 'n crafts, outdoor yoga, along with access to all of the Kripalu land and amenities.Summer 2025 Dates:
July 6–11, 2025
August 17–22, 2025
Retreat Integration Coaching
How can you make the feeling last? How can you take the transformation home? How can you integrate the experience into your daily life?Integration coaching helps you transfer the learning from your retreat experience into realistic, actionable steps that make lasting change.
Contact Lisa to learn more:
Meet Lisa
Special Education Certification - Immaculata University
M.Ed. Experiential Learning - Plymouth State University
High 5 Adventure Certified Trainer & Facilitator
Navigating Challenging Dialogue® Trained Facilitator
Yogaspirit Studios® 200 hr. Certified Yoga Teacher
Kripalu® Certified RISE™ Facilitator
Kripalu® Certified Restorative Yoga Teacher
In Training - Presence-Based® Coaching
Lisa Howard is an experienced coach, facilitator, and trainer who is deeply committed to fostering continuous growth and development for herself and others through intentional and insightful coaching and facilitation. She brings a warm, welcoming presence and intuitive wisdom that creates an engaging, open, and choice-filled environment where transformation becomes possible.Lisa's professional journey has been deeply guided by her decade of experience in teaching special education and unique knowledge and skill in Adventure-based facilitation. Over the past decade her work has been increasingly guided by her study and practice of yoga, presence, and mindfulness, and continues to be shaped by her ongoing learning in the field of human growth and development.Lisa's vision is to contribute to creating a more connected, empowered, and self-aware society amidst the constantly changing landscapes we live in.
Testimonials
What clients are saying:
"Within a few minutes in Lisa's presence, she is able to ground me and remove weeks of built-up stress. Her mindfulness and calm radiate through the screen. Before I know it, her presence and inquiry has led me down a path that enables me to think clearly about the challenges I'm facing, determine what I want the outcomes to be and create a list of feasible actions to achieve them. I'm so grateful to have met her."
~ Clare; Coaching Client
"Lisa Howard is the missing link in Berkshire County. She not only listens very well, she's a dynamic presenter and knows how to bring people together. She is a total inspiration."
~John Pritchard, President - Pritchard Digital Arts
"I feel a sense of relief when I think about my action steps and the control I have in the situation."
~ Julia; Coaching Client
"She listens without judgment or expectation. She has a unique ability to guide me to finding my own answers without leading me down a particular path. When I have felt like I was at a standstill or in a state of confusion she asked insightful questions that allowed me to process and come to decisions based on my own innate knowing and truth."
~Caitlin; Coaching Client
"In our group interaction, Lisa inspired an atmosphere of trust and mutual goodwill while communicating clear objectives such that participants enthusiastically collaborated to successfully accomplish what could not have been accomplished by any one individual. It was a sheer joy to work with Lisa!"
~ Howard Rosenberg, Owner - Anahata Schoolhouse
"Thanks again for all you did for our team last month. The training was great because you are great. You fit in so well with our group and you kept us on track which is not always an easy task with this group! Anyway, everyone was raving about it and we are already putting some of the strategies we developed into place. Thank you!"
~ Jonathan B. Project Manager
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Practices
Presencing Practices help fortify mind, body and spirit in the present moment so that we are ready for the challenges and uncertainty of what the future will bring.
Nature Connection
Experience for yourself the peace, restoration and vitality that comes from mindful, experiential connection with the sacred land in Southwestern Massachusetts.
All Levels
Groups or Individuals
Customized Experiences
The Power of Play
Experience for yourself the peace, restoration and vitality that comes from mindful, experiential connection with the sacred land in Southwestern Massachusetts.
Experience Play as a Wellness Practice
Learn by Doing
Mind/Body/Spirit
A selection of free resources, practices, and offerings to support you on cultivating your own personal presence practice.
Guided Centering
RISE practices
Journaling & Reflection
