Michelle Maha

Michelle is a mystic, Kabbalist, and yogini who has lived and taught in New York City (and internationally) for over a decade. She is playful, spiritual, authentic, and most happy when she is in community with dogs and other yogis. Her specialities are facilitating trainings in nidra and philosophy. She is the founder of Frequency Movement Yoga School in Brooklyn, New York and also teaches at local donation-based studio Baby Cobra Yoga.

Michelle’s passion for yoga has drawn deep inspiration from her teachers, most notably: Mariana Cisneros, David Kyle, Marcus Veda, Jared McCann, Sally Kempton, Yogi Charu, and Judith Hanson Lassater.  Before founding Frequency, Michelle was a teacher at Jared McCann’s Lighthouse Yoga School and served as a mentor and facilitator for 200-hour and 300-hour teacher trainings in Peru, Bali, and Guatemala for the School Yoga Institute and New York City for Y7 Studios.

In addition to her avid yogic studies, Michelle is a Reiki Master of the Holy Fire, attuned by the found of the International School for Reiki, William Rand, in Mount Kurama, Japan. Michelle has most notably achieved a Master of the Arts from Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute, where she focused the majority of her research on the intersections of yoga and clinical psychology.

Philosophically, Michelle is a mystic, drawing her deepest life lessons from her studies in Kabbalah, Vedanta, Shamanism, and the Tao.

Michelle’s Education

ROCKET (350)
100 hrs Rocket 1 +2 with Marcus Veda
100 hours Level 1 with David Kyle
150 hours Mariana Cisneros

ASHTANGA (210 hrs)
40 hrs Adjusting the Primary Series with David Swensen, London
100 hrs Primary Series Pure Yoga, with Jamie Bonelli  NYC
70 hrs Immersion with Mannu, Tulum

RESTORATIVE (220)
50 hrs Yoga for Back Care
170 hrs, Relax & Renew with Judith Hanson Lassater

MEDITATION (600)
500 hrs Meditation Levels 1, 2, 3 with Yogi Charu, NYC
100 hrs with Sally Kempton

VINYASA & HATHA (1,300)
150 hrs Backbends & Inversions  with Jared McCann, Sicily & Paris
300 hrs Advanced YTT with Jared McCann, NYC
100 hrs Mentorship at Pure Yoga with Loren Bassett, NYC
100 hrs Therapeutics & Ayurveda with Dana Slamp, NYC
100 hrs The Art of Sequencing with Kat Fowler, NYC
25 hrs Anatomy, Pure Yoga NYC
500 hrs: Sivananada Hatha x  Mystical Vinyasa with School Yoga Institiute, Peru / Guatemala

PRENATAL (110)
85 hrs PYT at Ishta NYC
25 hrs Yoga for Women’s Health, Yoga Medicine with Tiffany Cruikshank Austin TX

BODYWORK (125)
25 hrs Art of Adjustment w Phillip Askew, NYC
100 hrs Thai Yoga Massage 1+2 with the Lotus Palm, NYC

YOGA FOR SOCIAL EQUITY (50)
50 hrs Yoga for Divers,ity Inclusion and Respect, Zoom

Bachelor of the Arts, Spanish Penn State University

Master of the Arts, Psychology, Columbia University