About me
Meghan Michals, RYT-500 and C- IAYT Yoga Therapist, began her yoga journey just south of Chicago in 2012 because she was intrinsically drawn to yoga philosophy. She lives by the Rumi quote, “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” During the completion of her 200-hour hatha yoga teacher training, she discovered the therapeutic benefits of yoga, and she began studying yoga and other healing modalities as they related to mental and emotional wellness, specifically as a way to heal past trauma. Her studies included Yoga to Transform Trauma, Yoga and Mental Illness, Mindfulness and Body Image, and Subtle Energy. Additionally, she became a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Reiki Master. Then in 2020, she was drawn to kundalini yoga. Although COVID canceled her plans for a month-long immersion in India, she found Yoga Farm Ithaca, where she completed a 300-Hour Spiritual Warrior teacher training, which combined kundalini with enneagram, moon cycles, and psychology as well as prenatal yoga teacher training and additional kundalini yoga teacher training. Most recently, she completed her Yoga Therapist certification with Purusha Yoga School.
For over a decade, she has been committed to bringing yoga and alternative healing modalities to the general public as well as underserved communities. In addition to yoga studios in the Chicagoland and Triangle areas and private clients, she has taught yoga to teens and teachers in high school settings and to adolescent and adult women in residential treatment facility settings. She is a trauma-informed yoga teacher who specializes in hatha, slow flow, kundalini, restorative, yin, and prenatal. She is also skilled in guided meditations, breathwork, mantra, crystal singing bowls, and has been trained in Thai Yoga Body Massage. Meghan is deeply committed to the power of yoga in her own personal practice as well as using it to help people reach their full potential. She believes that as each individual heals and raises their vibration, that they effect positive change in the collective.
