A 15 year Yoga Alliance Member, holds a 200 Hour Interdisciplinary Yoga certification from The Nosara Yoga Institute and a 300 Hour Advanced Certification. Ship has been teaching yoga in studio, gym, corporates and on retreat since 2007 and has facilitated eight X 200 hours RYT trainings- graduating over 80 yoga teachers. She has over 3000 contact hours of teaching in Canada, USA and Nicaragua.
Ship, a self confessed “yogaholic” began her yoga journey in 2004 with Paoula DiPaulo in Keswick, Ontario, with a heavy influence by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli and BKS Iyengar. She went on to study under world-renowned yogis, Don and Amba Stapleton Phd, at the Nosara Yoga Institute, in Nosara, Costa Rica. Her continuing education studies have included workshops and master classes in Yoga For Therapeutics with Todd Norian, Master Classes for Teachers with; Amy Ippoliti, Rod Stryker and in Yoga Medicine with Tiffany Cruickshank, Trauma Informed Yoga and Yoga for Pre and Postnatal certifications.
Ship offers an experiential approach to teaching yoga. She leads with the heart. Knowing the head holds all of yoga’s obstacles she encourages her students to look deep inside themselves to find the comfort of HOME as a metaphor for the body and the mind with exercises in journaling and meditation. She is thrilled by the “aha” moments her students discover every time they arrive on their mats. She is a stickler for alignment and in finding a connection with each practitioner in the room.
Michelle believes in yoga’s ability to reach ALL people and specializes in working with practitioners recovering from physical and mental injury, surgery and those who are coming to the practice at seasoned stage in life.
Michelle’s approach to teaching the Mothership Yoga clients is based on movement inquiry, alignment and spiritually oriented yoga, with a direction toward making all poses accessible. She is honoured by each and every one of her students who continue to teach her on a daily basis.
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