Lisa Howell

Lisa Howell is a physiotherapist, author, speaker and creator of Perfect Form Physiotherapy, a specialist dance physiotherapy clinic in Sydney, Australia. She is the founder of The Ballet Blog, an online portal which has revolutionised how dancers think about their bodies, injuries and performance enhancement.

Her experience as a physiotherapist and seeing the common injuries in young dancers lead her to write "The Perfect Pointe Book". Looking back, this is the turning point in her career to shift her focus toward empowering dancers and dancer teachers through sharing knowledge globally. Since then she has gone on to write over 20 different programs that have been translated into more than 5 languages.

She is well respected both nationally and internationally for her work with young dancers, professional dancers and dance teachers. She has lectured throughout Europe, The United Kingdom, The United States, Scandinavia, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand on Dance Anatomy, Injury Prevention, Recovery and Performance Enhancement. She has also been a guest speaker at the annual IADMS conference which is an international group of dance professionals aiming to enhance the health, well-being, training, and performance of dancers by cultivating educational, medical, and scientific excellence.

Additional speaking appearances include Dance Teacher Summit (USA), Studio Owner University Conference (USA), Clint Salter's Inner Circle Retreat (AUS), RAD International Summer School (NZ), ATOD Come Together Conference (AUS), VDF Conference (AUS), IADMS (AUS, USA, CH, UK), Leading Edge Dance Summit (USA), Cecchetti Ballet (AUS), Pacific Northwest Ballet Intensive (USA), and Anything Dance (AUS).

Lisa started her own practice, Perfect Form Physiotherapy, in 2005 with the mission to create the highest quality physical therapy care for dancers in a nurturing environment. As well as developing the clinic, Lisa started The Ballet Blog in 2007 and has created an extensive series of workshops, online resources and dance education programs to educate and inspire young dancers to become the best that they can possibly be with an emphasis on returning dancers to an elite level of performance.

She is a leading voice in the world of injury management and shaping the way for more effective rehabilitation for dancers. She presents her own transformative workshops each year to high acclaim. Since 2015 Lisa has guided over 1000 dance teachers and health professionals through her 3 day Teacher Training workshop in an attempt to extend this reach even further.

“One of my aims is to change this lack of resources, by providing high quality educational courses to health professionals to increase the quality of the services given to dancers all over the world!”

Lisa’s focus is on education to prevent injury and maximise performance rather than waiting for injury to occur. All hard copies of her manuals are supporting resources to her online video courses that are available from The Ballet Blog.