About Lise Prewitt
Helping Women Embody the Inner Work They’ve Been Doing for Years
Through Pilates-based movement, breathwork meditation, and relational mentoring, I help thoughtful, accomplished women bridge the gap between understanding their patterns and actually living differently.
Therapy gives you awareness of your mind—you understand your patterns. Physical work gives you awareness of your body—you feel stronger, more connected to yourself physically.
But neither bridges the gap between intellectual insight and embodied transformation. And that's where you're stuck: understanding what needs to change but not being able to actually live differently.
Through Pilates-based movement, breathwork, and relational mentoring, I help you integrate what you know into what you embody—so your years of inner work finally translate to your outer life.
What women are saying
"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.
Why This Work Matters Now
We live in an increasingly fast paced and stressful world, which increases stress on us.
For decades we treated the mind and body as separate, therapy for emotional healing, pilates for physical fitness, spiritual practices for inner growth. But what we’re learning from neuroscience, trauma research and somatic psychology is that real transformation requires integration across all dimensions.
Your patterns aren't just mental constructs. They live in your nervous system, your breath, your muscle memory, your automatic responses.
You understand why you react a certain way with your kids or your partner. But when the moment comes, you still react the same way. You still struggle to set boundaries. You still can't prioritize yourself.
Understanding alone doesn't change the pattern.
I’ve watched too many accomplished, self-aware women spin in the gap between knowing and doing.
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 you inner work out of you head and into your body, your nervous system, your daily life.
That’s what this work exists to do.
My Background
I'm Lise. For over 25 years, I've been helping women reconnect to themselves through pilates-based practices. In the last five years I’ve begun integrating breathwork meditation, and relational mentoring to this movement practice. I work with therapists, coaches, educators, and professionals—women who've done inner work but struggle to integrate it into their daily lives. Women who are building meaningful careers while managing motherhood, partnership, and their own continued growth.
At 28, a car accident left me with a traumatic head injury that changed everything. Before the accident, I was deeply connected to my body, mind and spirit through dance, somatic practices and intellectual pursuits After, I spent years feeling like I wasn't the same person—navigating deep physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing.
That journey brought me to Pilates, to understanding trauma not from textbooks but from the inside. It taught me what my clients now need: that healing isn't just about understanding what happened—it's about sensing what your body needs and feels and the connection between your thoughts, emotions and your body sensations.
For many years, I helped clients primarily through physical practice—Pilates, movement, helping people feel more embodied. I was good at it. Clients stayed with me for years. But I kept noticing patterns: women who didn’t understood their stress, their boundaries, their needs—and couldn't seem to prioritize themselves. Who kept pushing through instead of listening to their bodies
How I Arrived at This Work
My path to this work has been anything but linear. I came to it first through necessity.
Then in 2014, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Facing mortality clarified everything. I realized that the physical practice alone—while valuable—wasn't addressing what was underneath. The chronic stress. The inability to prioritize oneself. The disconnect between inner knowing and outer living. The patterns that, left unaddressed, can literally make us sick.
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.
What Make 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
40+ 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
My Educational Foundation:
Pre-medicine degree (University background in biology and chemistry)
Comprehensive Pilates certification (25+ years of practice and teaching)
Pilates based rehabilitation training
Pilates Educator for Teacher Training, Ellie Herman, Balanced Body
MELT training
Yoga certification
Breathwork meditation certification
Decades of somatic movement training (dance, trauma-informed practices)
Study with trauma specialists and nervous system experts
How I Think About This Work
I believe you’re whole and you’re ready for integration.
Start with yourself for outer change
Integration over compartmentalization
Grounding to feel calm, focused, embodied and resilient
Creating safety for real transformation
Root cause over symptom management
Alignment with values and actions
From mentally understanding to embodiment
Not waiting for a crisis to fully embody yourself
At a high level, my process looks like this:
Bring presence and awareness to your self through grounding and embodiment practices.
Integrate yourself using somatic and pilates -based exercises and therapeutic breathwork- releasing old outdated unconscious beliefs and patterns and creating more resilience in your nervous system.
Articulate you values and begin taking action in these values as you use tools to calibrate your nervous system, signaling safety.
How I Work With Clients
“I trust myself better. Lise gives me the space, encouragement and comfort to trust myself better.. This work with Lise is sacrosanct to me.”
L.W., client
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
Who I’m a Fit For
You've been in therapy and done personal development work—you’re starting to understand your patterns intellectually
You're exhausted from knowing what you need but not being able to consistently do it
You're a therapist, coach, educator, or professional building your own career while managing motherhood, partnership, and your own growth
You're 35-65, open to growth, and recognize that what you've been doing isn't fully working anymore
You value both spiritual depth and practical groundedness—you're skeptical of surface-level approaches
You're ready to work through your body, not just your mind—and you understand that working somatically can access what talk therapy can't
You're willing to invest time and resources in yourself (even though it's hard to give yourself permission)
You're ready to address root causes, not just manage symptoms
You want integration—all dimensions of yourself working together, not compartmentalized
I’m Not a Fit For You If:
You're looking for a quick fix or a 12-week program that "solves" everything
You want someone to tell you exactly what to do without doing your own inner work
You're not open to working through your body—you only want talk-based approaches
You're seeking surface-level stress management techniques, not root cause transformation
You're not ready to prioritize yourself or invest in deeper work
You want a cookie-cutter program where everyone does the same thing
You're looking for someone to fix you (you're not broken—you're ready for integration)