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Michelle credits Yoga, Mindfulness, Therapy and other forms of Wellness for her ongoing recovery from depression and anxiety.

She is a yoga teacher and  lead trainer at the Internationally Accredited: Om Shanti Belize School of Yoga and Wellness, which she founded and has collaborated with Yoga Schools worldwide.  She is trained in Traditional Hatha, Ashtanga, Trauma Informed, Children’s and Restorative Yoga as well as Yoga Nidra. She is a Vedic Thai Yoga Therapist, an Usui Reiki Master and a Meditation Shiromani.

Michelle is also the founder of:

• Om Shanti Belize YOGA, SPA & WELLNESS CENTER and MARTHA’s VEGAN/ VEGETARIAN CAFE,
• Rhythm of Change Belize (ROC) https://www.yogahealsbelize.com 
  “The Power of Yoga”, a documentary highlighting some of ROC’s programs and produced by Great Belize Production, recently garnered special mention in the BEST documentary category at The Caribbean Broadcast Union Awards:
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1BF_TH7l0&t=8s
  Through ROC, she works closely with domestic violence and human trafficking victims as well as children affected by gang violence, neglect, abandonment, sexual abuse and other traumas. She offers workshops designed to help caregivers working with trauma victims understand vicarious trauma and develop tools for their own self-care
• The Belize International Yoga Festival (BIYF)

Michelle’s work has been featured  internationally in  publications such as  The Shift Network/Uplift Connect and in The Elephant Journal. Locally, The Ministry of Education has featured pics from her work with children in the Belize Mindfulness School Brochure.

She is a contributing author on Wellness for the 20th Anniversary edition of Destination Belize Magazine; Belize’s signature publication – widely distributed around the world since 1995

Michelle was also appointed the COUNTRY COORDINATOR for The International Day of Yoga in Belize by The Indian High Commission to Belize in 2015.

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Jerry was first introduced to meditation by a Jesuit priest in 1984, when he was a high school teacher of Religious Studies at Claver College in Punta Gorda. A few years later, as part of his major in Psychology at Minnesota State University (1986-88), he took courses in Eastern Psychology. He also participated in a number of Vipassana Meditation courses at retreat centers abroad. These courses involve at least ten hours of meditation per day for ten days. In recent years, Jerry has been a strong advocate for Mindfulness to be taught and practiced in schools and workplaces in Belize. He has conducted introduction to meditation workshops for the staff of schools and organizations all over Belize, as well as for the general public through Om Shanti Belize. Recently he was appointed by the Minister of Education to voluntarily serve on a newly formed Mindfulness in Schools Task Force.  As a result, the first group of 30 teachers and counselors from schools all over Belize has begun training to become internationally certified as Mindfulness educators at their schools. Jerry is also a founding board member of Rhythm of Change Belize (ROC). He will guide an early morning meditation at the festival.

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