Michelle Fournier

Expertise:

RYT200; Y12SR (Yoga and the 12 Steps of Recovery)

Experience:

March 2025 to Present (Baptiste inspired hot power yoga)

Why Yoga?

Yoga is my greatest guide to continually discovering who I am as a spiritual being having a human experience. Yoga has allowed me the space to learn how to trust the process and how to truly connect with my body and breath. The only constant is change and while my practice has changed over the years, I show up with a heart of desire, a mind open to the impossible, and a willingness to explore the hard things. Yoga… a small word, a small mat, but an unquantifiable experience.

What inspires you about the HOY community?

HOY is a community of people showing up authentically and within a safe space to explore their bodies and their minds while in the flow with other like-minded humans. Whether my cup is overflowing or half-full, that floor and the energy of the Oms brings me back to center. My face gets fixed, my heart is lifted, and my body feels lighter from everything I let go on my mat.  I am welcome as is.

Why do you Teach?

To lead students through a journey by synching their breath with body movement and to inspire mindful practices both on and off the mat.

What fires me up off the mat?

My pottery wheel, the AT, and living healthfully and authentically.