Michéle has taught over 200,000 students over a 23-year career. She brought Hot Yoga to the UK by opening the first Bikram studio in 1999 and has personally mentored many of the Bikram yoga teachers in the UK. Her love is working with injuries and helping new teachers find their own personal voice.
"I wanted to offer a range of classes to fully meet the needs of the students that come to my studios, as well as those that haven’t yet felt we could serve them. My hope is that this system will support you at every age and stage of your life. My vision is that in 30 years from now the practitioner practicing Fierce Grace will be a new breed of older person. Gone are the Zimmer frames, walking sticks and aches and pains. This new breed of Yoga Elder will up a mountain in their hiking shoes at 80, teaching their grandchildren handstands or scuba diving on a beach in Goa. Yoga Granddad will be leading fitness revolutions. Yoga is not just for the young and fit. It is to make every age young and fit."
Michéle's extensive experience and qualifications in Bikram, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Rocket, Power Yoga and Martial Arts, as well as her decades of study in health and meditation have culminated in the Fierce Grace system. Her teaching team have backgrounds in Power Yoga, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Dharma Mittra, Jivamukti and Bikram, to bring a wide array of viewpoints, techniques and understanding.
Michele designed and created the Fiere Grace system, a series of interconnected classes that combine her years of study, practise and her teaching of over 250,000 students. This unique and evolutionary yoga system moves the body in every way possible, utilises classical yoga sequencing and combines cutting edge fitness techniques to deliver the best results safely and effectively. The classes allow the student to tailor their practise to suit their changing needs, and embrace every age and fitness level, from injured to athlete, from weaker to stronger, to bring balance to every body type. Fierce Grace has been hailed as the Number 1 Way to Get Get Fit by the Sunday times Style Magazine and "The Evolution of Hot Yoga" by Cosmopolitan.
Every year Michéle and her Fierce Grace team travel to India, Spain and Italy to run a series of seven-day yoga retreats. These spectacular escapes are perfect for inspiring your practise in the most beautiful of settings. Kerala, Tuscany and Malaga all feature on these annual escapes, which include daily yoga classes, gourmet delights and wonderful accommodation. Find out more about Fierce Grace retreats: http://www.fiercegrace.com/retreats
Fierce Grace boasts some of the best hot yoga teachers in the UK, and Michele is responsible for teaching these instructors at Fierce Grace Teacher Training courses, which take place in London and Tuscany.
You will learn to deliver 2 motivating general classes and over 65 key poses from Ashtanga Vinyasa, Power, Bikram, Classical Hatha yoga, and Yin with confidence. The Fierce Grace classes cross the divide between yoga styles and blend cutting-edge fitness wisdom with ancient yoga knowledge, while honouring classical yoga sequencing. You will learn to modify for injuries, perform hands-on adjustments, recognize body types and gain in-depth alignment knowledge and you will take your own yoga practice to new heights under the guidance of Michele and her senior team. Find out more about Fierce Grace Teacher Training courses: http://www.fiercegrace.com/teacher-training
