Adaptive sessions tailored to your unique needs
One-on-one personalized yoga tailored specifically to your body's needs and goals
Small group sessions that provide personalized attention in a supportive community setting
Experience transformative yoga from the comfort of your home via Zoom
Specialized techniques to enhance alignment and restore posture
Therapeutic movements designed to alleviate chronic pain and discomfort
Guided meditation and stress management techniques for inner peace
Discover the transformative benefits of personalized practice
Here are some of the powerful benefits you can experience with Michelle's yoga:
Research shows yoga can ease long-term pain, including low back pain, while also enhancing mobility and daily functioning.
Yoga can lower stress and anxiety, help regulate mood, and support self-awareness — providing you tools to better cope with life's ups and downs.
Through mindful movement, you'll build sustainable strength and increase your flexibility, which supports better posture and reduces injury risk.
Yoga helps you develop better stability and alignment, making everyday movement smoother and safer.
As part of a rehabilitation approach, yoga contributes to healing by enhancing mobility, reducing pain, and supporting emotional recovery.
Yoga has been associated with reductions in inflammatory markers like TNF-α and stress hormones — fostering a healthier internal environment.
Therapeutic yoga programs have been shown to improve sleep, helping you rest more deeply and wake up feeling refreshed.
In building awareness of your body and breath, yoga helps you to develop greater equanimity and cultivate presence, and very often results in profound healing.
Yoga not only supports immediate symptom relief but also enhances long-term recovery and quality of life when integrated into a holistic wellness plan.
Beyond physical relief, yoga has been shown to increase overall quality of life, positively impacting mood, function, and social and emotional health.
Michelle tailors each session to your unique body, making yoga accessible, safe, and effective for a wide range of needs — even if you're managing chronic conditions like arthritis or back pain.
Certified wellness professional with multi-disciplinary expertise
Years of study with renowned masters
Michelle's unique teaching style has developed through years of multi-disciplinary study and practice, learning directly from these masters and more through hands-on trainings:
Yapana is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning "the support and extension of life." This restorative hatha yoga practice consists of simple movements to warm up the body, followed by dynamic and relaxing poses held for extended periods with the support of yoga props, ending with final relaxation. The practice meets people where they are and is designed to encourage self-inquiry, reflection, and change. Props allow practitioners to hold poses longer and deepen their healing effects, making yoga accessible to all body types, phases of life, and physical abilities.
A specialized application of Yapana Yoga principles designed to support individuals with scoliosis. This therapeutic approach uses props and modified poses to help address spinal curvature, improve posture, and reduce discomfort associated with scoliosis while promoting balance and alignment in the body.
Viniyoga provides a methodology for creating individualized yoga programs adapted to each person's unique condition and needs. This therapeutic approach emphasizes the appropriate application of yoga tools, including asana, pranayama, meditation, and philosophy, to support healing and wellness. The practice moves from form to function, showing how sequences of postures can alleviate ailments throughout the body's systems.
Restorative Yoga offers the body a chance to rest deeply and revitalize. This practice uses props to support the body in poses held for extended periods, allowing for profound relaxation and healing. Rather than stretching, it focuses on opening to the breath and creating space for the nervous system to restore balance. The practice counteracts chronic stress, lowers blood pressure, stabilizes mood, and supports overall well-being.
Power Yoga is a dynamic, flowing practice based on Ashtanga Yoga that combines strong postures with rhythmic breathing to create a high-energy workout. This practice builds strength, increases endurance, and improves flexibility while developing concentration and reducing stress. The choreographed sequences create heat in the body and offer both physical conditioning and mental clarity.
Ashtanga Yoga is a traditional eight-limbed yoga system that includes a vigorous series of postures practiced in a specific sequence. This dynamic practice synchronizes breath with movement to produce internal heat and a purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation, flexibility, stamina, and a calm, focused mind.
Ohashiatsu is a holistic bodywork method that goes beyond traditional shiatsu to create a mutual exchange of energy between practitioner and receiver. Based on Oriental medical principles of meridian energy manipulation, this nurturing touch therapy relieves tension, releases blocked energy, and promotes deep relaxation of body, mind, and spirit. The practice emphasizes both the wellbeing of the giver and receiver.
NeuroKinetic Therapy is a sophisticated assessment and treatment modality that addresses the cause of pain and dysfunction by testing muscle coordination and communication patterns. This system identifies compensation patterns in the motor control center of the brain and resets dysfunctional patterns to restore proper movement and eliminate pain.
The Integrative Movement System provides a comprehensive framework for assessing and correcting movement dysfunctions. This approach focuses on restoring optimal movement patterns through corrective exercises that address postural imbalances, muscle imbalances, and faulty movement strategies to improve function and prevent injury.
The Compassion Key is a transformative healing method that helps release emotional pain and trauma stored in the body. This gentle approach uses compassionate presence and somatic awareness to support deep healing, allowing individuals to process and release past hurts while cultivating self-compassion and inner peace.
This healing modality addresses trauma patterns that are passed down through generations. The method helps individuals identify and release inherited trauma responses, breaking cycles of pain and suffering that may have affected families for generations. This work supports deep healing at both personal and ancestral levels.
Healing from the Core integrates body awareness, craniosacral therapy, and conscious breathing to awaken the body's innate wisdom and healing capacity. This approach helps individuals connect with their core and develop a felt sense of inner strength, resilience, and wholeness. The practice supports deep healing by accessing the body's natural intelligence.
The MELT Method is a self-treatment technique that addresses the body's connective tissue (fascia) to eliminate chronic pain and counteract the effects of aging. Using specialized soft foam rollers and balls, MELT rehydrates connective tissue, releases stuck stress, and restores balance to the nervous system. This gentle approach reduces pain, improves flexibility, and enhances overall performance in just minutes a day.
Yamuna Body Rolling is a self-healing practice that uses specially designed balls to release muscle tension, improve alignment, and increase range of motion. By rolling along the body's muscles and bones, practitioners can address the root cause of pain and dysfunction, stimulate bone health, improve organ function, and create lasting structural changes in the body.
Real transformations from our amazing community
Michelle Blake is a 'body whisperer'. Her level of expertise far exceeds any other fitness professionals I have worked with. No two sessions are completely the same.
Michelle's Yoga instruction and class is without a doubt the best I have ever experienced. She is calm, engaging, knowledgeable and has an uncanny way of turning 100% of attention to the practice. My mind, heart and body feel rejuvenated and calm after her class. She's a 10 across the board!
MichelleBlakeYoga is superior to EVERY other yoga class I have taken. She combines a fusion of yoga / Pilates / bodywork / meditation that is tailored to a participant's individual needs in every session. Highly recommend!
Michelle is an excellent yoga instructor! She is very knowledgeable about how each move affects the body. She is patient, accommodating, and encouraging. I have learned so much from Michelle over the past 5 years!
Michelle helped me strengthen my core and my mind prior to back surgery. This was a tremendous help in my immediate post-op recovery. Now I'm happy to be back in small group sessions and look forward to getting stronger every week!
Yoga practice with Michelle has been an incredible experience. She is knowledgeable, friendly, and creates a community environment where everyone feels comfortable. Her approach is thorough, with great attention to detail.
I've been taking classes with Michelle for over 5 years. Her classes are fun and always changing, and they have improved my flexibility. She always finds solutions to improve flexibility and function.
Michelle's classes are absolutely wonderful and an integral part of my day. I have been taking yoga from her for over 10 years and it just keeps getting better and better!
Michelle is awesome! Sessions with her are unique and she takes care of any physical issue or pain. Helps you to bring up your immune system and grow your awareness on all levels, body & soul.
An hour of flow with Michelle Blake leaves me calmer, taller and stronger.
Michelle Blake Yoga is not just yoga. It's a superior workout for improving your agility, health and overall well-being. I can absolutely guarantee you'll love her classes. Today I cannot imagine not taking her classes that are so vital to your overall well being. Not only physically but mentally, as she closes every class with a meditation segment guided by her mindfulness healing voice.
Michelle has been teaching me yoga and pilates since 2005. I follow her everywhere she goes, because she is a very good teacher—I cannot find anyone that cares about your physical as well as your spiritual the way she does.
When you join a session with Michelle, she gives everyone her attention and you feel you are important. She worked to help me sit tall and straight. She is courteous, sincere, and she goes out of her way to help answer your questions.
I've been taking Michelle's classes since 2010. As a former Division One football player who is now a senior citizen, I know the importance of taking care of your body. Michelle's instructions have proven to be an invaluable resource for me. She has helped me improve my flexibility, gain better control of my breathing, and gain understanding in having a mind- body connection through her yoga and Pilates instruction. I count it as a blessing to have had Michelle as an instructor over the years.
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