Elisa Lodge

Elisa Lodge has been teaching expressive arts practices, movement, dance, drama, sound healing, and bodywork for four decades. She is the creator of Wowzacise – Growing Young on the Ball and author of Primal Energetics – Emotional Intelligence in Action. Can you have an endless supply of youth, vitality and unstoppable energy at any age? At 74, Elisa ‘Wowza’ Lodge‘ fully embodies her message. Her keynote presentation, Ageless Vitality: Perpetual Renewal in Action, reveals three secrets that shift stressful sedentary tendencies into fluid flexibility, passionate aliveness and unstoppable energy regardless of age or physical condition. An international speaker with four decades teaching experience in the human potential movement, and an actress trained at the famed Actors Studio who has appeared in many TV shows, plays and films – her lively, interactive talks are guaranteed to entertain. Audiences will leave her breakthrough presentations bursting with renewed energy and the motivation to live a, fit, enlivening lifestyle. New growth and productivity is not about sitting still and playing it safe. The author of Wowzacise: Growing Young on the Ball, Wowza is known for integrating balls for chairs in several companies in Mainland China. Static posture, monotone speaking and repetitive modes of behavior support rigidity of perception, of feeling and of cognition. Her speaking presentations and seminars On the Ball – Learning in Motion reveals the secret that keeps a team energized, passionately involved and motivated. Wowza physically demonstrates how exchanging balls for chairs supports action oriented teams to play at their creative edge with full-bodied expression. Factoid: People get 28% more oxygen to the brain when balancing on a ball than sitting on an unyielding chair. Wowza has been a leader in the human potential movement for four decades. She studied with master bodywork teachers Ida Rolf and Moshe Feldenkrais and is a certified teacher of Rolfing Movement Integration. Her programs, The Physiology of Leadership and Computer Fitness: Take the Aches and Pains Out of Work, have been offered at Sun Micro Systems, Portal Publications and Oracle Corporation. A sought-after speaker, she has addressed many organizations around the world, including the Social Research Corporation (Japan), Skyros Institute (Greece), and the C. G. Jung Institute (Switzerland). Since 2000, Wowza has taught an on-going Gestalt Therapy Training and Freedom of Expression workshop in mainland China, and she has been a group leader at the world-renowned Esalen Institute since 1979. A former spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Industry in the U.S. and Europe, Wowza is a popular talk show guest who once appeared on the early-mo ing Today Show and late-night Steve Allen Show on the same day! She’s the author of The Humming Book, Primal Energetics: Emotional Intelligence in Action and Wowzacise: Growing Young on the Ball.