Flexy Michelle

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.

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 sound baths, 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 and teaches a little bit here and there! Her pole fitness journey is what 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 & Self-Myofascial Release workshops have become very popular - especially after a Flexy Fit class or accompanied by a sound bath.

Certifications & Credentials

  • 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

  • IBBFA Silver Ballet Barre Certification

  • CPFA Flexibility & SMR (Self-Myofascial Release) Therapy

  • CPFA Beginner Pole Fitness

  • CanFit Pro Member

  • Curated Speaker at Robertson College for Yoga and SMR Therapy

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

  • Respect in Sport & School Activity Leader

  • Basic First Aid, CPR C & AED

  • Insured up to $2 million by Arthur J, Gallagher

  • Undergraduate BA University of Winnipeg