Hey there, I’m Michaela!

I’m a Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist, Personal Trainer, and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.

I’m passionate about supporting women to feel empowered in their health and bodies throughout the various phases of their lifespan.

I’ve been learning about movement and wellness in some capacity since 2011 when I enrolled in my first yoga teacher training. Since then I have been on a journey to not only understand my own body and learn how to take control of my health, but to help others in doing the same.

I started yoga at 16 years old which sparked my interest in the body and health, but it all came to a head when I began to put the pieces together of various gut, mood and hormonal symptoms that were related to the birth control I started as a teenager. Going off the pill cold turkey and switching to a copper IUD didn’t give me the results I had hoped for. I felt like I couldn’t get the answers I needed from a conventional medical lens.

With a desire to build a deeper understanding of the body and how to support it, I decided to pursue a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Bastyr University. Over the course of many years chasing symptoms and desperately grasping for solutions my list of “acceptable” foods had narrowed significantly and I had become hyper focused on eating only what I deemed as healthy. This was, ironically,  taking quite a toll on my mental and physical health. Instead of pursuing the next steps towards becoming a Registered Dietitian, I pressed pause.

I spent the next two years working as a chef at a private school while continuing to teach yoga on the side. This is where my relationship with food and health shifted. Instead of looking at food only through a clinical lens of optimizing health, I began to see food as a way to care for myself, show love towards those I cooked for and as a form of self expression and creativity. Learning about implementing and sourcing seasonal ingredients from local farmers and cooking delicious, nutritious meals from whole food ingredients was the missing piece my body had been looking for. As I loosened my grasp around achieving a “perfect” diet, my capacity to handle the curve balls of life improved, I started to feel more like myself and as I nourished my body, it started to heal.

When my husband and I decided to move back to our home town in upstate NY, I decided to dive into teaching movement full time. Since then I have earned my personal training certification and grown my small business specializing in women’s health. I work with women to  synch their unique hormonal rhythms to their movement practice, to feel confident strength training and how to implement techniques to care for their nervous system. Together with my business partner, Sarah, we grew and developed a specialized program, OsteoVitality, to give women a way to manage or prevent osteoporosis naturally. Skills learned in class translate into feeling more capable in day-to-day activities: things like being able to safely lift heavy objects, improve stability and balance to prevent falls and moving with more ease and confidence. I’ve found that increasing confidence in daily life directly relates to the self-compassion and autonomy we feel to lead the lives we desire for the long-term.

Nutrition has always held a special place in my heart, but I knew I wanted to find a way to help others get to the root of their health instead of wasting time chasing symptoms as I had. When I found Nutritional Therapy I knew this was the missing link I had been looking for. As a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner I now get to weave together all the pieces of education and experience I have gathered over the last decade plus into a system that addresses your foundational needs through a holistic, multidimensional approach.

Through this winding journey, I have developed the skills, experience and understanding to help women, like you, transform the way they approach health and healing. Using movement and nutrition, I help women get to the root of their symptoms and take control of their health to achieve better cycles, improve fertility, support their bodies postpartum and navigate menopause with confidence and clarity.

Education & Trainings
200 Hour-RYT Certification in Bhakti Vinyasa Flow 
Bachelors of Science and Nutrition Didactic Program in Dietetics from Bastyr University
Yoga Medicine Ⓡ Therapeutic Specialist 500 Hours
• Chinese Medicine & Myofascial Release
• Hip Anatomy & Dysfunction
• Shoulder Anatomy & Dysfunction
• Yoga for Athletes
• Self Myofascial Release
• Yoga Anatomy
• Nervous System & Restorative Yoga
NASM Certified Personal Trainer
Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner