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She holds a Masters Degree in Mythology and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and has completed a 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training in yoga psychology. With more than 11,000 hours of yoga teaching experience, Machelle is a long time student of Paul Grilley, founder of Yin Yoga and who brought comparative anatomy in yoga asana to the forefront of modern yoga culture. Machelle guest lectures in YTT 200 and YTT 300 hour programs teaching anatomy, Yin Yoga theory and practice, and Meridian Theory of moving energy in asana practice. Committed to serving students in a way that best fits their unique abilities and anatomic structure, Machelle combines anatomy, storytelling, archetypes, poetry, neuroscience, psychology, and Five Element Meridian Theory across a variety of yoga styles in a way that is aimed at facilitating a creative and grounded approach to self-development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe256cce690de527a4b034f/1610909651893-66Q64SK3CHTSEP67ZF1O/00100dPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20190226145808717_COVER-1.jpg About Yin Yoga is a contemplative practice that utilizes muscularly relaxed poses performed on the floor that are held for 3-5+ minutes each. This approach stimulates connective tissue throughout the body utilizing modest traction and compression to benefit fascia throughout and ligaments in and around joint capsules. Yin Yoga is especially effective for the densely wrapped joints such as the hips, sacrum, low spine, and knees. The Yin repertoire of poses is based of ancient Yogic and Taoist principles to support the body tissues for health and meditation. Paul Grilley, is father of “Yin Yoga” the expanded upon these concepts and made more accessible an understanding of the structural, chemical, and energetic qualities of these poses that have endured through the ages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe256cce690de527a4b034f/1609178340223-P9P3V4Q3IVD0L8U4WU42/60433638_881446738899051_6122616287223873536_n.jpg About Vinyasa is a combination of two Sanskrit words. Nyasa implies "to place" and vi denotes "in a special way". Vinyasa is an ever evolving form of Hatha yoga that synchronizes breath and movement into a dynamic flow of postures. The practice is rooted in the classic Surya Namaskara (sun salutations) and frequently links a creative flow of poses through chutterunga, updog, downdog transitions. 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