Michelle Thielen, E-RYT 500, YACEP/CYA-CEP, C-IAYT

She holds certifications with Yoga Alliance and The American Council of Exercise and the Christian Yoga Association.She is a certified yoga therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapist IAYT as a C-IAYT and has the only Christian Yoga Therapy School accredited by the IAYT.Michelle is an author and Master Trainer with OmStars, My Yoga Online, Gaiam TV, and trained thousands of students and instructors from around the world in her classes workshops retreats and teacher trainings.Her first book Stretching Your Faith is a blueprint for lasting transformation through Christian yoga, also shining a light on our modern day slavery epidemic and includes a class minute video for every level practitioner.Michelle has taught over years of somatic movement through dance and yoga. She was a dancer and choreographer for the NBA and WNBA. "I am passionate about sharing the wonderful benefits of embodied movement and the healing power of Jesus Christ to a lost and hurting world." Her life mission is to abolish modern day slavery in this generation.She offers donation based classes so that everyone can enjoy yoga but her prayer is that people will connect to Christ on or off a yoga mat. All class donations go directly toward the rescue and restoration of human traffick survivors worldwide. Students friends and partners have sent the ministry of YogaFaith to many third world countries over the years. Michelle believes that together these lives can be saved and restored. She looks forward to sharing the gift of yoga and Jesus the hope for all humanity to bring about true and lasting transformation in your life. Read her testimony out of depression suicide and hopelessness in Exit Wilderness A Road Map Out of Depression and Hopelessness