Prayer in Motion

I am a NLP practitioner and Spiritual Mentor. For close to a decade I have been helping people achieve what they want without saying sorry. I offer one on one sessions and groups helping people clarify their desires, move through their limiting beliefs and helping them create more choice and freedom.

During this time it feels important to create access to my work for larger groups of people. This program is both affordable and accesses all of the tools I have been gathering for the past decade.

I am excited to weave the magic of NLP and Spiritual Mentorship together teaching people to clarify their desires, create authentic practices and rituals that meet these times.

Michelle is known as a walking miracle. She experiences life as an embodied prayer in motion. She has spent more than three decades as a dedicated yoga practitioner, student, teacher, mentor, therapist, ritual and ceremonial facilitator. As a devotee to healing as a sacred art, she infuses an eclectic mandala of teachings in her work. She draws from her vast life experience, formal education and teachings from Indigenous elders to share with her students and clients.

Her foundation in yoga began in Iyengar yoga with Rodney Yee in the 80‘s.

 As a student of Anthropology & Art at The Evergreen State College, she followed her passion for experiential learning through world travel. She embarked on a pilgrimage to Asia to complete her program. She found her spiritual home in Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana meditation, Hatha yoga, Balinese dance, and cross cultural healing practices.

Upon return, she integrated her awakened spirituality into her life purpose as a teacher and therapist at The Heartwood Institute in CA. Michelle created and taught classes and intensives, such as Ritual Movement, Sacred Art, Intuition for body workers and Life Exploration. While there she completed her Transformational Therapist & Alchemical Hypnotherapist certifications, studied yoga with Gayna Uransky and attended ceremonies with Native American elders.

In 2009, a life-changing car accident brought her to the edge of life. On her pathway to regain mobility she worked with master Viniyoga therapist Mirka Kraftsow. She was so grateful for the miracle of her mobility through the brilliance of Viniyoga, she was inspired to share it. She attended the 500 hour teacher training with Gary Kraftsow while still on a cane. Michelle has completed over 2,500 hours of training and mentorship with Mirka to this day. She has been teaching yoga since 2010.

A deep bow of gratitude to Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, Rod Stryker, Kia Miller, Gabrielle Roth, Anodea Judith, ArnoId Mindell, Richard Beyer and a grand bouquet of others who have deeply influenced her life as she continues on her lifetime spiritual pilgrimage in service to creation.

Michelle offers classes and private sessions in her QuanYin Temple home studio in Sebastopol. You may also receive sessions in the comfort of your own home in and around the Bay Area. 

She NOW offer’s classes and private session’s Livestream via zoom !