You can understand the pattern

and still repeat it.

Stress, pain, and old reactions don’t always change through insight alone.

Somatic inquiry helps you understand how emotions are experienced in the body and how they shape your feelings, reactions, and behavior, offering a practical way to navigate your inner world with greater awareness and choice.

Private Somatic Sessions + Live Online Yoga

Two Ways To Work With Me

PRIVATE SOMATIC SESSIONS

Individualized, body-based support for stress, pain, overwhelm, dis-ease and patterns that feel difficult to shift.

LIVE ONLINE YOGA

Hatha, restorative, yin, and back care practices to build strength, mobility, body awareness, and greater ease in how you move and feel.

Private Somatic Sessions

Somatic Inquiry is a body based way of understanding what is driving your reactions from the inside out.

In 1:1 sessions, we work with the felt experience beneath the pattern: sensation, breath, tension, emotion, and the body’s immediate response.

Instead of analyzing the reaction or trying to make it go away, you learn to stay with what is happening long enough for something different to become possible.

The goal is not to control what you feel. It is to become less controlled by it.

Live Online Yoga Classes

A consistent practice for strength, mobility, self-awareness and deep rest.

My live classes combine intelligent movement, alignment, breath, props and restoration, helping you become more present in your body while building strength, stability and ease.

Yin Yoga

Sunday
4:30pm - 5:30pm PT

7:30 pm - 8:30pm ET

Deep Stretch + Restorative Practice

Back Care Basics

Wednesday
9:00am - 10:15am PT
12:00pm - 1:15pm ET

Strength + Stability + Spinal Support

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Hatha Yoga

Saturday - Sunday
9:00am - 10:30am PT
12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

Strength + Alignment + Creative Sequencing

What Clients Are Saying

“I've studied under and been treated by Michelle for almost 15 years, and still continue to be amazed by her skill, empathy and most of all, fantastic results. Her intuition about how your body and mind are or aren't working with each other is unparalleled. Simply put, she is one of a kind.”

Richard Koffler

“I survived a brain hemorrhage about a year before I started seeing Michelle and she has helped my recovery enormously. I am not sure exactly how to describe the work we do together, but she has a way of sensing what I need at any given time. I have participated in many different therapies to aid in my recovery, and the work I do with Michelle has not only been extremely effective, it is also one of the most enjoyable healing treatments I do. I always feel much better after our sessions than before they start.”

Melissa Bomes

“Michelle's presence creates an immediate sense of safety and love. She allows you to open up in ways you may never have before. Our work together helped me soften my body and my mind, release tension and trauma, and experience myself in a different way. It was one of the most valuable gifts I have ever given myself.”

Carly Hirsch

“A deep understanding of the body, energy and the healing process. Michelle was instrumental in my life transition in such a loving and positive way. It's been quite a journey and what a blessing to have had Michelle by my side at critical moments, which she intuitively felt.”

Michelle Bechard

“Michelle is a transformational yoga teacher. Her instruction combines precise physical direction with cues to move the energy in your body in ways you never imagined. She is a gifted teacher because she never stops being a student, continually honing her skills with new approaches and insights.”

“Michelle is a transformational yoga teacher. She has brought my practice to a level unsurpassed by any other instructor. Her teaching combines precise physical direction with an awareness of how energy moves through the body. I have studied with her for years in classes and retreats, and what continues to distinguish her is that she never stops being a student herself, continually refining her work with new approaches and insight.”

June Sobel

“Thanks to Michelle, I now understand what yoga actually is and why it is so amazing for the body. She makes most yoga in the U.S. seem like a perversion of the real thing because Michelle is the real deal. Having trained with the gurus in India, Italy, and all over the U.S. her entire life, she can read your body and fix your alignment like no other instructor I have ever met. Michelle teaches you how to integrate body and mind, and I have never felt so strong and energized than after working with Michelle. It is a rare opportunity to do yoga with Michelle. She incorporates the best of so many techniques, she never repeats a class, and whether I am in her group classes, a private, or on a retreat with her, I am making breakthroughs thanks to her expertise and intuition. Truly the best instructor, you will never want to go to anyone else.”

Katherine

“Michelle has an exceptional ability to assess what I need in the moment, whether we are working together on Zoom or in person. That level of individual attention is what makes her stand out.”

Sandra B.

“Michelle's work goes far beyond teaching yoga. She encourages a direct involvement with life and the self, with the present and the eternal.”

D. Paul Yeuell

A field of wildflowers, mainly pink, on a gentle slope under a cloudy sky.

Healing is not the elimination of experience; it is the restoration of relationship with experience.