Be the person you need.

Framework

Michele first created this small group meditation training in 2019 in order to invite students home to their untamed true nature. On a broad scale, it supports three layers of inquiry and healing: 1. self, 2. society and 3. nature.

1. Self. Monthly One-on-one sessions: Private mentorship meetings serve to address personal healing and integration. Sessions with Michele range from Reiki healing to somatic therapy to co-meditations or sound healing explorations. We’ll explore self and co-regulation.

2. Self & Society. Weekly Group Sessions: Practices and discussions in community to bring healing to us as social animals. On this level, we endeavor to create healthy connections and co-regulate with each other. We will spend time in rhythm and cycle, circle and flow learning about meditative states, nervous system regulation and the history of violent supremacy acted out by our culture over the last 10,000+ years. As we experience and learn to teach powerful meditation practices, we will heal in connection and begin to disrupt the hierarchical systems of oppression that hold us all back. We’ll be able to also explore co-regulation and social engagement in these sessions.

3. Self & Society & Nature. Get Outside: We will spend time in nature to help heal our wounds of separation from the natural world. It is imperative that we cultivate and nurture our relationship with the living, breathing world that is all around us. This layer is woven throughout the training and is highlighted during the silent retreat weekend and the nighttime bicycle ride. Friends, we’ll be deep in ecological engagement and co-regulating with our stone and plant family.

Woven together, these layers of practice will inspire healing, wonder, and likely, experiences of the loving Source energy found at the heart of meditation.

Curriculum

The Untamed Wisdom teacher training experience is designed to take you more deeply into your personal practice so that you can teach from a place of embodied knowing. You will learn to teach a trauma informed, sacred somatic style using an elemental framework (earth, water, fire, air, ether). Special attention will be paid (primarily, though not solely, through the lens of eco-feminism) to unseating systems of oppression.

These considerations will lay the foundation for teaching the following specific meditations:

• Yoga Nidra meditation

• Sacred Mandala of Support meditation (metta, benefactor and inner sanctuary)

• Guided imagery to include goddess, chakra and moon meditations

• Silent Seated meditation

• Partner co-mediation

Learning Tools

• Weekly classes

• Detailed training manual.

• 10-15+ meditation scripts.

• Expert instruction.

• A weekend outdoor silent retreat camping experience (this will be rustic, getting you into the wild and into your instincts).

• An evening bicycle ride with an outdoor yoga practice in Granville.

• Monthly private meeting with Michele. These might be simply to talk or might be a co-mediation session, reiki healing or somatic therapy session. Each meeting will be personalized to meet the specifics of your journey.

• Untamed Wisdom Mini Altar Kit.

• Unlimited membership to GIVE Yoga for the duration of the program.

• Practice teaching. You will grow into a skillful guide, sharing the benefits and blessings of the practice with others.

Together, we’ll open into the process of re-membering what each of us feels as our own unique,

yet intricately intertwined, wild nature!!