Lisa Engles


A graduate of Cal Poly University San Luis Obispo, Lisa holds a degree in Kinesiology and is certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and American College of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer. In addition to being a certified USA Triathlon Coach, Life Coach and Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner, Lisa is a board member of the National Alliance for Emotional Health.  She also studied movement based healing arts at Tamalpa Institute in Marin, California (tamalpa.org) and is currently in a 3-year musical and polyrhythm teacher training program called Ta Ke Ti Na (taketina.com). 

InnerState© is an evolutionary approach to coaching that Lisa developed over her 15 years of guiding athletes, personal training clients and fitness professionals toward realizing their highest vision of themselves.  Using a powerful combination of inquiry, energy psychology and compassionate communication, her clients are able to shatter limiting beliefs that have been blocking them and emerge fully empowered to create and live their dreams.  Lisa has presented for USA Triathlon, educating their coaches on how to help their athletes attain their highest potential through the InnerState© model.

Lisa recently retired from her position as the head coach of the Silicon Valley Triathlon Club, which she served from 2002-2007 to focus exclusively on coaching her clients’ inner state.  She has spent over 15 years as a professional personal trainer and coach, has run fitness and motivational camps for women, is the spokesperson for Progio mobile fitness device (www.progio.com), and co-facilitated an international Holistic Leadership Program for health and fitness professionals.