• Are you...

    • Seeking transformation that is both meaningful and practical?
    • Tired of transactional spiritual dealings?
    • Longing for a wise guide, an elder who has already walked the path and done the work?

    Join me on an exploration of consciousness, restoration and sanctuary.

    Bridging soul with science, I offer you a space for the sacred pause. A place to tend to challenges with time, attention, illumination and healing. With Your Wise Woman, recover faith in your inner knowing and in humanity, creating personal and social transformation to:

    - Awaken and activate intuition, insight and creativity

    - Alchemize limiting beliefs into a power that liberates you

    - Break ancestral chains weighing you down

    - Build wild trust in your body’s healing capacities

    - Reclaim your deep wisdom

    - Restore balance and harmony

    - Reconnect to your allies: community, ancestors and guides of the unseen worlds

  • SERVICES & BOOKING

    in Mexico's Yucatán & Oregon

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    Plant Medicines

    Plants are our allies, offering us deep levels of understanding, awareness, healing and consciousness beyond what we may ordinarily attain on our own. Plant experiences can elevate and attune us - emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically - to being who we are truly meant to be. Learn how current research and science meet traditional and indigenous practices, all to prepare for a personalized, illuminating experience.

    Personal and Group Retreats, Ceremonies and 3-month Transformational Programs

    Expand your consciousness, cultivate community and liberate limiting beliefs with a custom retreat - with or without medicinal plants - personalized for you or your group, in the lush beauty of the Yucatán, or the expanse of Oregon's high desert.

    If you're ready to deep-dive, The Heal, Transform and Thrive Program is a personalized, curated 3-month deep dive that includes conscious coaching, 3 curated ceremonies, plant dieta, somatics and integrated activities, ideal for the aching places that call for deeper tending.

    Pricing and details upon request.

    Guided Personal Work - 75-90 minutes

    • Akashic Records Reading - Entering into the Akashic Records is like reading from the library of the soul. A reading provides access your highest consciouness, offering guided assistance, solutions and insights. Readings address topics such as relationships and patterns, physical illness, past lives, optimal steps forward, spiritual agreements and karma.

    Exchange for guided personal work: $250/session.

  • ABOUT MICHELLE

    Michelle is a ceremonialist, medicine woman and teacher. A mystic, and a midwife of the soul. She has been engaged in ritual work since her 20s, studying with a variety of teachers from both South and North America, receiving lineage transmissions in Mayan, Mazotec, and Andean practices. She received a masters from Stanford and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. An ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, she is a founding instructor in the Subtle Winds’ Psilocybin Assisted Therapy Teacher Training Program. She lives in Bacalar, Mexico & Redmond with her husband Martin.

    Teachers

    o Tayta Alejandro Cerda (Andino/Maya-Toltec/Guaraní)

    o Abuelo Carlos Jesus Castillejas (Maya/Anahuac)

    o Don Laurencio Lopez Nuñez (Oaxaca/Mazotec)

    o Don Oscar Miro-Quesada (Pachacuti Mesa)

    o Robin Wall Kimmerer (N. American Indigenous/eco-spiritual)

    o Sandra Ingerman (Core Shamanism)

    o Pema Chödrun, Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist)

    o Thomas Merton, Paulo Freire (Christian/Liberation)

    o Shane Martin (Lakota/Siletz)

    o Walter Ryce (Cosmic)

    o Starhawk (Neopaganism/Ecofeminism)

    o Quispi Freeman (Q'ero)

    o Fredy Quispi Puma (Q'ero/Mestizo)

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  • TESTIMONIALS

    Working with Michelle has been one of the most powerful and nourishing experiences of my life. As an elder and truly embodied wise woman, she has held space for me with deep integrity, humility, and love. Her guidance through plant medicine work and personal transformation has been nothing short of sacred—gentle yet profound, grounded yet expansive. Michelle has helped me move through some of my most vulnerable seasons with grace, strength, and clarity. She doesn’t just teach wisdom—she lives it. If you are lucky enough to work with her, prepare to feel deeply seen, supported, and transformed.
    - Willow Merchant, RN, FNP, founder Emerging Hearts
    Michelle is someone who easily exudes a loving presence, just by being. When I came to her interested in going on a journey, she thoroughly and graciously walked me through all my questions and gave me all the insight I needed to formulate a beautiful time. The journey itself was absolutely restful, healing, curious and delightful. Michelle provides a beautiful space where there is absolute freedom and acceptance.
    -Juls Elder, owner Smith Rock Coffee Company
    For the past 3.5yrs. I've been fighting a losing battle with a rare auto-immune disorder. I was hoping for answers and chief among them was "where is the wisdom I had as a kid?" My experience did not disappoint. My sense-of-purpose-angst, and my concerns about how to proceed are gone. I feel a part of something much larger than I ever imagined, and that provides calm.
    - Sean Scorvo, MD (retired)
    Michelle knows what she’s doing. She understands that different people need/ache for different things and that the way forward for each of us is not one and the same. I have talked to 50+ people about their journeys in the last two years; I’ve yet to hear anyone do a guided journey who thinks as highly of their “guide” as I do of Michelle.
    - TG, healthcare POA
    I experienced the extraordinary in a personal plant medicine retreat with Michelle. With her thoughtful, loving guidance and care in creating an all-round safe space physically, mentally, and emotionally, I felt free to surrender and commit to the journey. From the preparation, through the day of the retreat to the follow-up, there was and continues to be deepening self-awareness, unfolding and healing.
    -Marla Manning - producing artistic director, Silent Echo Theater Company.
    Working with Michelle is a profound honor. She carries deep wisdom and ancient medicine, weaving together her PhD, extensive studies in indigenous traditions, and a heart as vast as her knowledge. She is a truly insightful guide on the sacred inner journey.
    - Robbie Bianchi, myofacial therapist Whole Body Robbie
    I have such wonderful experiences with Michelle. She has incredible intuition in how to help guide you through your journey. This work has helped give me new perspectives into how I view myself and the world...experiencing healing that helped me process things passed down through my lineage.
    - KC, mental healthcare provider
    The level of thoughtfulness and care that Michelle took in crafting the experience was so beautiful. I experienced an unforeseen physical and psychological benefit from the experience. Previously, I had been dealing with some unwanted post-COVID symptoms (fatigue, feeling down and not "myself") and I was delighted to discover that the lethargy and "greyness" completely dissipated from my being over the course of the day with Michelle and never returned!
    -Samantha Morse, PhD, transformational coach and ceremonialist
    I had the pleasure of meeting Michelle in Peru during Shamanic training. After the most difficult night I had during ceremony, I was amazed at the care I received from Michelle the next day. She was very nurturing and kind and was really good with helping me return to a good state of being. I highly recommend anyone who follows the Shamanic path to work with Michelle for assistance in integration of your Journeys.
    - Antonio Lucero, accountant
    I am so grateful for the opportunity to have someone as knowledgeable and grounded as Michelle access my Askashic Records for me. I went in with a list of requests and some deep rooted emotional things that I haven't been able to clear out for decades. After an hour with Michelle I was able to close chapters that have been open for years. Michelle takes you into the mysterious and elusive "beyond" and helps you be a direct participant in it without judgment or confusion. She's the real deal.
    - Deena Kamm, founder and creative director at Voice Up
    Michelle is one of the most talented healers on the planet. Her sensitivity, grace, and connection with both her own and your divine is unparalleled and practical. Enjoy an amazing ride to deepen and transform you as you with with a healer of healers.
    - Christopher Barham, teacher and energy healer