Michelle Teasdale (she/they) MA, is a 500+hr yoga teacher, with advanced training through The Shala in London, and certification through YogaLondon. She is a 600hr Ayurvedic Health Counsellor and Wellness Coach with The Shakti School. She is a qualified Facilitator of Feeding Your Demons and the Mandala Method through Tara Mandala. She is also a qualified Sound Bath practitioner through the British Academy of Sound Therapy, and has undertaken the Pause Place Practitioner Training,
A former NHS clinical nurse specialist in women's health with a Master's degree in Buddhist Studies, they now run TEND, an online sanctuary for seasonal embodiment and community, where they share yin and restorative yoga, somatics, nidra, and monthly sharing circles, including a reading group.
She is a queer, lay-ordained Vajrayana Buddhist based in Brighton, UK. She home educates her son and works part-time so that she can enjoy a slower, more spacious way of living. She enjoys reading literary fiction, knitting, drumming and walks by the sea.
They are passionate about making wellness accessible to those who really need it, and they work through an anti-capitalist, trauma-informed, queer-friendly, intersectional and trans-inclusive feminist lens. 