​Michelle Arcigal, M.S., is a Yoga Alliance certified, Kripalu Yoga 200-hour teacher and a member of the Kirpalu Yoga Teacher’s Association.  She is also a Yoga Alliance certified children’s yoga teacher and completed her Children’s Yoga teacher training and mentorship with Little Flower Yoga.  Michelle first discovered Kripalu yoga as a teenager and immediately felt the power and benefit of yoga.  She has been practicing Kripalu Yoga for 20 years. 

 

Michelle is also a Master Reiki Practitioner attunened in the Transcendental lineage, a branch of the Usui System of Reiki, offering private healing sessions, by appointment.  Before moving to Putnam County, Michelle attended the College of New Rochelle and earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in School Psychology. 

 

A lover of all things nature, yoga, meditation and health, Michelle can be found spending her pre-dawn hours on her yoga mat or running on the local trails and streets in town, her days elbow deep in toddlers as a work-at-home mom, and her evenings up to her eyebrows in books on meditation and yoga.  Michelle currently lives in Nelsonville with her husband and four children.

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