What We Offer

We are a collaborative of highly trained educators, doctors, professors, and innovators working at the conjunction of ancient medicine and modern science, distilling practices that teach healing, without harm. Our mission is to help people become the most healed, the most whole, the most connected, successful, joyous, EVOLVED, versions of themselves; to help people find harmony in body, mind, heart, and with their surroundings. We offer professional trainings, healing retreats and one-on-one healing sessions.

Life Changing Retreats

Breathtaking views, lush landscapes, pristine beaches, delicious food and extraordinary opportunities to ground, grow and balance await you on your week long journey into deep exploration and wonder.

Certifications & Classes

Offering immersive experiences with the finest teachers in their fields at our educational center in Costa Rica, in conjunction with our partner studios across the globe, in person, virtually, and online.

Individualized Sessions

Working personally with every unique body, structural bodywork to release adhesions is combined with muscular balancing and neurological re-awakening to give clients freedom from pain and restrictions.

Life Changing Retreats

Where Vacation meets Transformation!

Breathtaking views, lush landscapes, pristine beaches, delicious food and extraordinary opportunities to ground, grow and balance await you on your week long journey into deep exploration and wonder.

We offer retreats for individuals, couples, and families. Whether you are looking for relaxing adventure, holistic self-care, or professional development, we have options to suit your needs.

Retreat offered include:

Family Adventure Camp
Goddess Awakening Retreat
Dr. Katina and Michelle's Chiro Camp
Back Care Retreat and Training

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Holistic Wellness and Self-Care

Awake to organic fresh juices and locally sourced coffee then head to the ocean front yoga platform for yoga with panoramic views of the Pacific. Then enjoy a delicious locally sourced breakfast, indulge in spa services, walk the beach, swim, horseback ride or surf; whatever your heart desires.

Retreat locations offered include:

Captive Island, Florida
Ashville, North Carolina
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Pacific Coast of Nicaragua
Tinamastes, Costa Rica
Bali, Indonesia

Certifications & Classes

The professional trainings being offered by Evolution Training are the result of Michelle's search and study to find a practice that heals the body instead of hurting it, while balancing the mind and emotional body.

The trainings will educate participants in a deep immersion into yoga and personal health, while also training them to be an excellent teacher with the ability to work with people of all ages and all levels of fitness, in class and private settings.

Transformational Yoga Teacher Trainings and Orthopedic Yoga Therapy Certifications

These programs are the result of 20 years of experience as a yoga therapist and over 40 times directing therapeutic yoga teacher trainings, 20 years of seeing and experiencing so many yoga injuries and so many imbalances being driven deeper into students’ structures through uneducated asana. It emerged out of my search to release myself from the constant pain I was told I would have to live with at 29 years old and my intense study of human anatomy with my amazing teacher Tom Myers of “Anatomy Trains” fame. It works on three synergistic levels: educated movement, informed touch and neurological re-connection.

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200 Hour Transformational Vinyasa & Orthopedic Yoga Therapy Level 1 Yoga Teacher Training

Next in person and live online session begins October 12, 2022

6 month program, one class per week and one weekend per month

At our partner studios, live online and by recording

Graduates leave this course, fully prepared to teach all levels of yoga classes ranging from sweaty and exhilarating power classes, to gentle and slow therapeutic flows. All levels of intensity are instructed to enable participants to graduate knowing how to support and protect all students in every situation, even those with common injuries.

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Individualized Sessions

Bodywork & Structural Integration

"Following my stem cell transplant and chemotherapy treatment, I was left with a pain in my chest that was residual from my tumors there. My doctor said that it was the “new me” and something I would get used to. I heard about Michelle’s transformational bodywork, and after one session my pain is 100% gone. I want other people to know, so that hopefully they too can be freed from their pain."

-Amy Webb, founder of Webb’s Pro Fitness

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Evolution Trainings

“Seeing Michelle and getting relief after only 1 session was truly miraculous and meant the world to me. Her time and expertise offered such a unique perspective and specialized healing modality made all the difference. ”

Janine
Evolution Trainings

“As I dug deeper into the program and compared it with others, what I found was a miraculously organized yoga teacher training. Michelle has designed the program to include required classes as well as offering flexibility in the elective courses.”

Tiffany Taves

President, TST Designs
Evolution Trainings

“Between being immersed in the culture, daily excursions doing ziplining or just walking the beach, this trip exceeded all my expectations.”

Jennifer Garvey Mahoney
Evolution Trainings

“The bodywork Michelle performed on me was MIRACULOUS! She made me feel so comfortable talking about my past and current medical history, discomfort I have been feeling, and really listened to what I wanted to get out of the experience. ”

Caitlin Morrison
Evolution Trainings

“The challenge from the environment as well as the program pushed me to see just what I was capable of! And the results we got with our clients at the end of the training were spectacular. ”

Nikki Lanoue
Evolution Trainings

“What caught my eye most about Michelle’s program was the emphasis on anatomy and the human body, as well as the wide variety of elective options she has come through her studio.”

Nikki Lanoue
Evolution Trainings

“I am very grateful and appreciative of the unique quality evaluation and healing tools you have and I am lucky enough to experience.”

Patricia Mazza
Evolution Trainings

“As a mother of an adolescent young woman I can tell you that you have absolutely made a positive impact in her life.
She first came to the Yoga for young women for the summer yoga camp in 2015.
After that week with you I felt that I had my daughter back. ”

Tracy Tassinari

Michelle Fleming

Michelle found yoga and it saved her life. She stumbled into an Ashtanga class one afternoon and found it was the first thing that made her intense anxiety and depression dissipate. After tearing a ligament in her knee during a class - and finding that her scoliosis was worsening with the practice - she began to delve deeply into the anatomy behind the poses in an effort to find a safe and effective way to retain the exhilarating flow she loved so much.

She has since become a Yoga Therapist, a Thai Bodyworker, a Nerve and Artery specialist and a Board Certified Structural Integrator in the lineage of Ida Rolf. It was through these complementary practices of wellness that she healed her body - and from there Orthopedic Yoga Therapy was born.

These days she trains teachers and students to find a fluid pattern of movement that protects and nourishes the joints while stretching the muscles and connective tissue and quieting the mind. She is the owner of Sanctuary Wellness Studios, Director of Orthopedic Yoga and Transformational Yoga Therapy and founder of Equilibrium, a non-profit dedicated to bringing breath, movement and nutrition education to young people with anxiety and mood disorders.

After living and learning all over the country, she now teaches internationally, bringing her unique style of yoga to students of all levels, ages, shapes and sizes. She has been teaching for almost 20 years and training teachers for over 10 years. She believes it is a blessing to be able to bring people the gifts of a strong body, a quiet mind and a blissful spirit.