Lisa Marie Bio Page

Lisa Marie Goodwin

Director of In-Spiraling Movement Arts

Authorized International Master Trainer GYROTONIC® / GYROKINESIS® / Specialized Equipment

Lisa Marie is an international Master Trainer of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® as well as a GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer and a certified Master Trainer of all GYROTONIC® Specialized Equipment and specialized workshops.

She was introduced to GYROTONIC® body conditioning during her career as a professional ballet dancer. As a dancer she performed nationwide with various companies such as the San Francisco Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, LA Classical Ballet and Helios Dance Theatre, to name a few. Lisa Marie has practiced Pilates for over 20yrs and became certified as a Pilates instructor in 1992 under the tutelage of Marie-Jose Blom-Lawrence at Long Beach Dance Conditioning (LBDC) where she co-managed the studio for 7yrs and conducted some certifications for LBDC. For deeper anatomical studies she also mentored with Marika Molnar and Jean-Claude West.

1995 to 2006: Lisa Marie founded her own company, White Crane Movement Arts, from which she has been running a successful movement program and teacher training courses for over 10 years. She was Director of the Children's Division of Long Beach Ballet Arts Center and has set up Pilates and GYROTONIC® studios for ballet schools and companies.  Lisa Marie was a co-owner of LA Body Kinetics and directed Angel City Body Kinetics’ GYROTONIC® program with Marie-Jose Blom. Between 2000 and 2005 Lisa Marie is was part time faculty at Loyola Marymount University as a teacher of classical ballet and established a GYROKINESIS® for dancers class.

Current: Lisa Marie founded In-Spiraling Movement Arts with her husband Jessie Rice. She continues to travel extensively internationally conducting courses for the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM®. She also teaches specialized seminars focusing on injury prevention for dance schools and institutes such as California Institute for the Performing Arts, Pasadena Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet. She is currently in her third year of Medical Chi-Gong, combines healing with essential oils, and continues to embrace with grace and light the development of her studies in her career as a movement educator.