Michele Medina

Coming to Yoga through the personal path of recovery from a chronic pain condition, I teach from a position that Yoga can, and will, provide the practitioner with a new lease in life and that it is never to late to begin a personal Yoga practice. As a mental health provider, Yoga has opened new avenues of wellness for my clients through a simply designed Mindfulness group model that includes grounding exercises, breathing exercises, gentle restorative Yoga and guided Yoga Nidra meditation. I am so grateful to be blessed to have the opportunity to be forging this path, in a community mental health agency, which serves a significantly under-served population who otherwise could not afford the holistic Yoga services that they are receiving. I have been teaching Yoga since 2009 and have been a member of YA since 2012. I have been blessed to share Yoga in the avenues of fitness centers, schools, private sessions, Yoga studios, and our local community mental health facility. I have also provided training services to mental health staff, law enforcement, Yoga students, and educators. Most recently, I have been provided the honor of expanding and overseeing the growing Yoga program within the community mental health agency which I was fortunate to start in 2015. As a student of life, and continual student of Yoga, I am excited to see what the next season in this beautiful journey is, and I am continually open to God's leading and direction while sharing the gift of Yoga provided to me years ago which restored me back to a place of health and wellness in my own life.