MCYoga-Yoga & Reiki with Michelle

23/01/2026

Friday ramblings 🤍

This time last week I was travelling home from training in Bali.
Although I’ve been back in the studio from midweek, I’m very aware that I’m still downloading… still processing, still integrating all of it.

I’ve been consciously making time and space for that, reminding myself that this isn’t something to rush. I do love a training, and I have a couple more already booked for later this year ones I booked in last year and am really looking forward to but right now it feels important to sit with what I have. To let it land. And to slowly weave it through my own way of teaching, being, learning, practising and knowing. This phase of integration feels just as important as the training itself.

One reflection that’s been sitting with me lately is this: ( well not just lately it’s always been there)
I truly believe there isn’t just one way. One way of teaching, one way of practising, one “right” path. There’s no right or wrong way to practise because one size never fits all. I think it’s important to explore, to experience different practices, different teachers, different approaches. We learn so much from others, and from allowing ourselves to try things on, to notice what resonates and what doesn’t. Over time, you begin to trust your own knowing and find your own flavour. You might wander, you might circle back and that’s all part of growth. It isn’t always linear, and it doesn’t need to be. I’ll always encourage curiosity, discernment, and finding what genuinely feels right for you for your body, your mind, and your soul.

It was so lovely to be back in the studio this week seeing familiar faces, welcoming new ones, reconnecting with people I hadn’t seen since before Christmas (and a few more still to catch up with 😉). Being in practice, in shared space, in community is something I never take for granted.

The online mentorship for new teachers, or those newly out of teacher training, is live on the website have a look if you’re curious, and reach out with any questions.
Woke up this morning feeling grateful.
Today, that feels like enough.
Happy Friday 🤍

19/01/2026

✨ New Offering: Stepping Into Teaching
Integration & Mentorship for Yoga Teachers ✨

I’m so excited to share a new online and in-person mentorship for newly qualified or returning yoga teachers.

This session is designed to help you integrate your training, build confidence, and step into teaching with clarity and authenticity.

Many teachers leave training full of knowledge and inspiration yet still feel uncertain about how to begin, hold space, or trust themselves once they step into the room.

Imposter syndrome, nerves, and self-doubt are incredibly common and completely normal.

This mentorship offers a supportive, reflective space to:
🌿 Explore your teaching voice
🌿 Gain clarity about your next steps
🌿 Build confidence in holding space

During the session, we may explore:
🌿 Integrating your training into your way of teaching
🌿 Holding space without over-explaining
🌿 Finding your authentic teaching voice and personal flavour
🌿 Clarifying boundaries, scope, and responsibility
🌿 Normalising self-doubt and imposter feelings
🌿 Practical early-teaching questions

This mentorship is:
✅ A space to integrate, reflect, and build confidence
✅ Supportive, grounded, and experience-led
✅ Open to teachers trained with any school or organisation

This mentorship is not:
❌ A teaching assessment
❌ A CPD or sequencing course
❌ A place for manuals, scripts, or fixed class plans

This is your opportunity to pause, reflect, and step into your teaching in a way that feels safe, authentic, and sustainable.

A short pre-session check-in is included to help focus on what matters most for you, and a follow-up is offered if questions arise after the session.

📩 You can reach out via the website, email, or phone.
Appointments can be arranged to suit your schedule and tailored to meet your needs.

💫 Message me or click the link in my bio to book your session. Full details on my website 🤍🙏

19/01/2026

Monday morning, back on home soil 🤍
A full day of emails, admin and finding my rhythm again ahead of me. Sometimes returning even to things we love takes a little settling. And that’s okay.

Even after weeks immersed in training and practice, it honestly feels like such a long time since I’ve held space on the mat.
Five weeks… but it feels like more. I’m really looking forward to coming back together gently and mindfully this week, easing ourselves back into movement, breath and presence.

✨ This week on the mat:
• Wednesday morning 10.15
• Wednesday evening 7.15pm Yin (just a couple of spaces left)
• Thursday evening — Find Your Community, 7.15pm — we’re back 🤍

If you’ve been meaning to get back to your practice, let this be your nudge. You don’t need to be “ready” or caught up — just willing to arrive. The mat meets you exactly where you are.

I’ll be sharing some updates on what’s unfolding later this year once I work my way through the admin mountain ☺️
And for those asking for Reiki the appointment book is now open for the end of January and February. Anyone already booked will hear from me later today to confirm.

It’s really, really lovely to be back.
Wishing you a beautiful Monday, and I can’t wait to see some of your familiar faces on the mat this week 🤍

Michelle ✨

14/01/2026

As I finish up my training here in Bali today with one more day to go, and prepare to move into a few quieter days before heading home, I feel a deep sense of clarity and calm integration.

Sometimes we step into trainings or immersions and return home only to fall back into familiar patterns. This experience has been very different. I could feel a shift beginning before I arrived, and Bali has simply deepened and clarified it.

We’ve been working through trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive lenses — exploring the nervous system, rewiring the anxious brain, and engaging with deeper layers of awareness. Alongside this has been the learning of how to bring meaningful changes into our teaching and our own practice ,not by force, but through awareness, choice, and invitation.

There have been moments of resistance, moments of needing space, and moments of being all the way in. A powerful reminder that the work we believe we are doing for others so often asks us to meet ourselves first.

What can feel selfish on the surface taking time, resting into yourself, choosing depth is actually essential. This has truly been a fill-your-own-cup journey.🥰

I leave this evening feeling grateful, steady, and quietly confident in what’s unfolding next. I will really miss Bali and I know, without question, that I’ll be back here again.

Now, let’s get this last day on the road 🤍🙏

12/01/2026

Some mornings here I feel completely held by this place…
and other days I feel a little unsteady, like my nervous system is still finding its rhythm.

Last week , On my second day at .i.am.ubud.retreat in Ubud, during conversation with Maggie, I asked about the Shala , and she shared the stories behind the four images that look down over the yoga shala.
Something about hearing who they were and what they devoted their lives to really grounded me when I needed it most. Hopefully I remember it correctly as I knew some not all.

From left to right:

Neem Karoli Baba , known not for teachings as such, but for love. Guru to Ram Dass, he embodied devotion, service and the radical simplicity of loving awareness. His presence here feels like a reminder that compassion is the practice.

Amma, the Hugging Saint ,the only one still alive today. Through the most human of gestures, she has offered millions of hugs around the world, meeting people exactly where they are. It feels fitting to have her here in a space devoted to embodiment, safety and being met.

Ramana Maharshi , a quiet teacher of self-inquiry, known for guiding people back to the essential question: Who am I? His energy in the shala feels like an invitation into stillness, listening, and truth beneath the layers.

Anandamayi Ma , radiant, joyful, and deeply embodied. She taught not through doctrine but through presence, reminding people that awakening can be gentle, feminine, and full of grace.

There’s a quiet presence they bring to the space.
Not loud, not demanding , just a steady reminder of devotion, compassion, inquiry and grace.

I’m sharing this simply because I love reading little glimpses like this when someone is away somewhere sacred.
And maybe because today, I needed to remember that steadiness again.

🤍 🙏 beautiful Bali .

11/01/2026

Module 3 complete. Module 4 to come.

This week in Soma Talk training part of the module we’ve been working with deep nervous system regulation — pendulation, titration, balance.
But what’s really landing isn’t just what we’re learning… it’s how we’re learning to be.

Teaching through an invitational lens.
Listening for the body’s timing.
Letting language soften, widen, make room.

So much of this work happens internally first ,noticing our own edges, our own capacity, our own regulation ,before it ever reaches another nervous system.

One of those quiet aha moments where you realise:
the practice is the teacher.
🙏🤍🙏

08/01/2026

Day 5 of SomaTalk
Things are beginning to come together in a deeper, quieter way.

Today we explored FOCUS Yin , a practice that weaves Gendlin’s Focusing (developed in the 1960s) with the deeply somatic landscape of yin yoga. This approach invites us to slow right down and orient towards the felt sense that subtle, bodily knowing that holds more than words, and often more than we realise.

Rather than teaching only to the physical body, this work gently introduces the focusing process itself creating space to be with sensation, inner experience, and unfolding process. It offers a way to meet what’s present in the body with curiosity and care, particularly when working with complex or challenging material, without forcing resolution.

Through a structured yet spacious framework, the practice allows insight and integration to arise organically guided by the body’s own timing and intelligence. I’m really discovering the depth of this work, but I can already sense its quiet power.

We closed the day at the Pyramids of Chi with an ancient sound healing journey an effortless descent into deep relaxation. Rhythmic frequencies, powerful instruments and exceptional practitioners created waves of sound that moved through the body, supporting the nervous system and inviting release, healing and deep rest. A beautiful reminder of the body’s innate capacity to recalibrate when given the right conditions.

Now, a much-needed day off tomorrow. Time to let everything settle, to step out of learning mode and into Bali itself. Feeling tired, nourished, and deeply grateful.

So much more to share. 🌿
🥰🤍🙏

31/12/2025

Wishing you all a very happy New Year and the very best wishes for 2026 💛

After a very sick Christmas here 😷🥴our whole household wiped out with flu , today feels like the first day of coming back to myself.
On the other side of it now, please God, and so grateful for health slowly returning.

This time of year I’m usually preparing to be back in studio, back teaching, back seeing Reiki clients .
January is always such a beautiful, busy time as we ease ourselves back into movement, routine and care.
This year looks a little different, as I’ll be heading to Bali shortly to continue my training, which means a gentle delay before we fully return to studio life.

Thank you, truly, for your patience, understanding and ongoing support and for showing up throughout the year, whether on the mat, reiki , or from afar. I’m so grateful for each of you.

✨ What’s ahead ✨
• Weekly classes will be back in studio mid-January (Wednesday night Yin returns then and Find your Community both in
Wednesday Mornings return
• A special February class promotion is coming
• Reiki appointments for late January & February are already filling — please get in touch if you’d like to book
• I’m deeply excited about what’s coming this year, with further trainings both abroad and at home, and offerings I’ll be bringing back to you

You can always check the website for updates, and I’ll share more once I’ve landed and settled.

Wishing you a gentle, nourishing start to the year. Stay well, stay healthy and I look forward to seeing you back on the mat and in the studio very soon 💫

Michelle 🤍

23/12/2025

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas 🎄✨

As this year comes to a close, I just want to say thank you truly, from my heart.
♥️
To everyone who came to classes, Reiki appointments, retreats, private sessions, and consultations; to the familiar faces, the new connections, and everyone I met along the path this year — I am so deeply grateful to each and every one of you. Thank you for showing up, for trusting me, and for walking this journey alongside me. I honestly wouldn’t be able to do what I do without you, and I learn so much from every person I meet.

As we step into 2026, the Year of the Horse a time of energetic movement, courage, passion, and momentum to carry us into new possibilities ,may it bring you strength, joy, and deep fulfilment in all that you do.

✨ Just 2 spaces left on my Sunday Morning Reset Retreat
🗓 28th December | 10:15am–1pm
A perfect reset between Christmas and the New Year
Details on my website 🌿

Merry Christmas and the very best wishes for 2026 🤍✨🙏🎄🫶

21/12/2025

Winter Solstice ✨
The turning point of the year.
The longest night.
A reminder to pause, rest, and listen.

This year has asked a lot.
For me, it’s been a year of showing up while quietly navigating loss ,learning how to meet life, and my work, with more honesty and care. Not to dwell there, only to honour how much it has shaped me, softened me, and clarified what truly matters.

The Solstice invites us to slow down and tend to what needs care. That has meant boundaries for me ,practising the same kindness and compassion I encourage you to bring to your mat. It’s why I chose to wind things down a little earlier this year. Not an easy choice, but a necessary one.

I’m deeply grateful for every class, every retreat, every Reiki session. For your trust, your openness, and your willingness to make time for yourselves. And for the friendships that have deepened this year, through presence, honesty, and shared space.

As the light slowly returns, I feel a quiet clarity for what’s ahead and I’m here for it!😉😍

Thank you for walking alongside me this year.🤍🙏
Wishing you a beautiful Christmas and a spacious beginning to 2026.

With love & gratitude,
Michelle 🤍

(A few spaces left for Detox & Restore
Sun 28th Dec, 10.15am to 1 pm , Malahide. A gentle reset between Christmas & New Year.)

07/12/2025