Flexy Michelle is a yoga, barre, flexibility, and pole fitness instructor in East St. Paul/Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has always lead an active life style and discovered yoga at a young age in 1999. In 2006, she was in an almost fatal car accident in Cozumel, Mexico. She was in a coma for three days, her speech was temporarily affected, she lost most of her hearing in one ear, and developed epilepsy as a result of the head trauma. Yoga was her main rehabilitative activity and became her new way of life. Although she had been practising before the accident, it wasn’t until after wards that her practise became her religion.

Flexy is known for her events, workshops, and obviously flexibility! She has hosted many yoga and fitness epilepsy awareness fundraisers. She has been teaching at Deer Meadow Farms for the last six summers, everything from goat yoga to yoga in the sunflowers with a sound bath, even lamb yoga! She frequently offers relaxing yoga classes with sound bath partitioner, Chantal Ramos of Sanative Sound Bath.

Flexy Michelle has also taught at resorts and yoga centres in Tulum, Playa del Carmen, and Cozumel, Mexico. She has also attended amazing yoga retreats in Costa Rica and Peru lead by the amazing, Dawn Stillo from Los Angeles, California. 

Flexy was also a competitive pole fitness athlete and has performed in many shows and competed internationally. She now pursues pole for fun and fitness! Her pole fitness journey also introduced her to contortion. While she still maintains exceptional flexibility, she gets flare ups of residual nerve pain from her car accident that restricts certain movements. She has also developed arthritis in her spine, neck, and shoulder. “Genetics and injuries are humbling,” she says. She credits her aches and pains for making her a better yoga instructor. It wasn’t until the last few years where she started offering gentle yoga classes. Her Yin Yoga and Self-Myofascial Release workshops have become very popular - especially accompanied by a sound bath.

Checkout her schedule to find her next class, workshop, or event!

Certifications

• 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

• IBBFA Silver Ballet Barre Certification

• CPFA Flexibility & Myofascial Release Therapy

• CPFA Beginner Pole Fitness

• Respect in Sport & School Activity Leader

• Basic First Aid, CPR C & AED

• CanFit Pro Member

• TESOL certification to teach English, Yoga, & Fitness abroad

• Undergraduate BA University of Winnipeg

• Insured up to $2 million