MICHELLE’S LINEAGE
I have been and continue to be blessed with unbelievably wise, courageous, humble, forward thinking and hard working healers, medicine people, yoga teachers, masters, mystics, artists, entrepreneurs, wellness counselors, musicians, gardeners, nature lovers and common people that live the teachings with total authenticity. These beings have deeply influenced me.
As a yogi, musician, meditator, ocean lover and holistic practitioner, it resonates with me to honor these beings.The teachings are delivered as tools. The teachers are blessings pointing the way.
I thank the Motherland of India, Bali Indonesia as strong locations of influence in my life to remember and keep alive the devotional practices that pry open my heart.
To the numerous monks and nuns that live in caves in Rishikesh and Dharamshala, to the Tibetans that humbly recite Om Mani Padme Hum as (some of them) make it across the Himalayans to be in visitation with the Dalai Lama’s home, to the Dalai Lama’s direct visitations, I bow.
To the women of India who taught my Ayurveda is an intuitive connection to the elements for self healing, to the Sadhhu’s (holy men) that roam free of possessions that offered wise transmissions and mantra on the Ganga River, I bow.
To the well known Ram Dass, whom I met before he was graced by his stroke, and looked at me as though I were a Soul, I bow
To my beloved original Sivananda roots, who introduced me to yoga as a way of living and still living in the west, with conscious food, meditation, daily austerities, and the love of standing on my head, I bow.
To the many yogis, often many of them somehow becoming well known after yoga became well known in the 90’s, such as Sharon Gannon, David Life, Shri K Pattabhi/Sarath/ Saraswati Jois, Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, I bow. I feel blessed to have been a part of the initial initiation of yoga’s original practices in the west.
To the modern transmissions as meditation evolves to include neuroscience, trauma awareness and data that reveal the biological upgrades that come from meditation as we free ourselves of the energy of the past, such as direct contact with Dr. Joe Dispenza, I bow.
To the hardships and personal traumas that I choose to overcome and to no longer shape me, I bow.
To the emerald ocean of devotion, my abode of silent moments of contemplation on the white crystal sounds, made of the blasted dust of the Appalachian mountains that I live on, mesmerized by the wide open stars and horizons of living in the silence and simplicity of the ocean, my ever longed for home now made real, I bow.
TIMELINE
Namaste. I recognize the teacher in you.
Full Timeline:
1998 Certified in Sivananda 200 hour YTT
2000 Completed all 3 Levels as a Reiki Master
2001 Met Ram Dass, my first teacher
2002 Certified in the Jivamukti Yoga Method
2002 I have been self employed since this year
2003 Begin taking students on International Yoga Retreat Journeys starting in Costa Rica
2004 Became an Anusara Inspired Teacher
2005 Lost my home in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
2006 Began studying Kabbalah Tree of Life Program
2006 Became an Advanced Jivamukti Yoga Teacher
2006 Wrote a book on Bhakti music and mantras
2007 Became initiated in the Neem Karoli Baba lineage with Ram Dass
2008 Opened our first Yoga Studio in New Orleans, Swan River Yoga as the Founder
2008 Created Swan School Yoga Teacher Training & wrote a manual
2009 Completed Advanced Studies of Anusara Yoga
2010 Assisted the first donation based Yoga studio opening, Swan River Yoga Arabi
2010 Traveled to South America to sit with shamans
2010 Created the Swan River Yoga Reiki Program & manuals
2010 Created Sound Bath journeys with Crystal Bowls in New Orleans
2011 Traveled to India for first time & met Dalai Lama
2011 Met Radhanath Swami in India in Mayapur, India at ISKCON
2011 Created the Restorative Yoga program at Swan River New Orleans
2012 Tree of Life Energy Medicine Program
2013 Certification at Sunshine School in Thai Massage in Thailand
2014 Travel to Indonesia to learn Reiki from Shamans
2014 Travel to India to train in Sanskrit with Dr. M.A. Jayashree
2014 Travel to Mumbai India to train in Bhakti with Radhanath Swami & Sharon Gannon
2014 Accepted to train with Sarath Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Shala in Mysore India
2015 Certification as an Ayurveda Yoga Therapist CCA and in Yoga Nidra
2016 Certification in Ayurveda from David Frawley
2016 Certification in Restorative Yoga through Judith Lasater’s program in Bali Indo.
2017 Release of 2 CD’s in Mantra Music and Yoga Nidra
2017 Certification in Pranic Healing & Pranic Psychotherapy
2017 Completed Kirtan Camp with Jai Uttal
2018 Certification in Sound Therapy with tuning forks with John Beulauie
2018 Certification in Polarity Therapy Energy Medicine
2018 Certification Yoga Nidra Sivananda Bahamas
2018 Certification in Restorative Yoga with Judith Lasater
2018 Studied Medical Yoga with Advanced Iyengar students
2018 Completed The Judgement Detox Master Class with Gabrielle Bernstein
2018 Completed B-School with Marie Farleo, an International Consciousness Business School
2019 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Judith Lasater
2020 Moved to the beach
2023 Accepted to numerous Advanced Meditation Retreats with Dr. Joe Dispenza
2024 Certified as a Neuro Change Solutions Consultant on the team of Dr Joe Dispenza
2024 Created the Somatic Meditation Program
2025 Moved to the Bohemian artist’s beach village on 30A, Grayton Beach FL
2025 New Wellness Director of Raw & Juicy Grayton Beach
1996
Discovered Yoga at the Sivananda Ashram in Woodburn NY
1998
Certified in Sivananda 200 hour YTT
2001
Met Ram Dass, my first teacher
2002
Certified in the Jivamukti Yoga Method
I have been self employed since this year
2003
Begin taking students on International Yoga Retreat Journeys starting in Costa Rica
2004
Became an Anusara Inspired Teacher
2005
Lost my home in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
2006
Began studying Kabbalah Tree of Life Program
Became an Advanced Jivamukti Yoga Teacher
Wrote a book on Bhakti music and mantras
2007
Became initiated in the Neem Karoli Baba lineage with Ram Dass
2008
Opened our first Yoga Studio in New Orleans, Swan River Yoga as the Founder
Created Swan School Yoga Teacher Training & wrote a manual
2009
Completed Advanced Studies of Anusara Yoga
2010
Assisted the first donation based Yoga studio opening, Swan River Yoga Arabi
Traveled to South America to sit with shamans
Created the Swan River Yoga Reiki Program & manuals
Created Sound Bath journeys with Crystal Bowls in New Orleans
2011
Traveled to India for first time & met Dalai Lama
Met Radhanath Swami in India in Mayapur, India at ISKCON
Created the Restorative Yoga program at Swan River New Orleans
2012
Tree of Life Energy Medicine Program
2013
Certification at Sunshine School in Thai Massage in Thailand
2014
Travel to Indonesia to learn Reiki from Shamans
Travel to India to train in Sanskrit with Dr. M.A. Jayashree
Travel to Mumbai India to train in Bhakti with Radhanath Swami & Sharon Gannon
Accepted to train with Sarath Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Shala in Mysore India
2015
Certification as an Ayurveda Yoga Therapist CCA and in Yoga Nidra
2016
Certification in Ayurveda from David Frawley
Certification in Restorative Yoga through Judith Lasater’s program in Bali Indo.
2017
Release of 2 CD’s in Mantra Music and Yoga Nidra
Certification in Pranic Healing & Pranic Psychotherapy
Completed Kirtan Camp with Jai Uttal
2018
Certification in Sound Therapy with tuning forks with John Beulauie
Certification in Polarity Therapy Energy Medicine
Certification Yoga Nidra Sivananda Bahamas
Certification in Restorative Yoga with Judith Lasater
Studied Medical Yoga with Advanced Iyengar students
Completed The Judgement Detox Master Class with Gabrielle Bernstein
Completed B-School with Marie Farleo, an International Consciousness Business School
2019
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Judith Lasater
2019
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Judith Lasater
2020
Moved to the beach
2023
Accepted to numerous Advanced Meditation Retreats with Dr. Joe Dispenza
2024
Certified as a Neuro Change Solutions Consultant on the team of Dr Joe Dispenza
Created the Somatic Meditation Program
2025
Moved to the Bohemian artist’s beach village on 30A, Grayton Beach FL
New Wellness Director of Raw & Juicy Grayton Beach