IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist (CYT)
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
E-500 RYT Yoga Teacher
Ayurvedic Health Educator (AHE)
Certified iRest Meditation Teacher
Certified Seven Homecomings Meditation Teacher

Michele Vinbury’s approach to supporting people who have experienced trauma has evolved over 25 years of direct-contact work with survivors of complex traumas and with people navigating life stressors. In working with Michele, clients explore their healing with a practitioner who holds space for their innate capacity to learn, heal and grow.

Michele’s approach is collaborative, relational, and guided by the client’s pace. As a yoga teacher, meditation teacher and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, she integrates somatic awareness, mindfulness practices, and parts work to support a deeper connection to the self. In sessions, Michele helps clients tune into their own unique images, metaphors, sensations, and messages; a process that is known to shift stuck patterns, integrate past trauma, and soothe frayed and frazzled nervous systems.

As a practitioner, Michele places a strong emphasis on honoring inner wisdom, recognizing nervous system patterns, and offering deep, attentive listening. She definitely takes life’s pains, trials and traumas seriously, and too, Michele loves to laugh. This means that in sessions, along with compassion and skill, you can expect some light-hearted humor too! With years of experience as a yoga therapist, she is now in her final year of master’s level clinical counseling training at Northwestern University.

What Else to Know

Michele owned one of the largest yoga and wellness centers in the Midwest (Yoga on High) for almost 10 years and is the creator of an evidence based, trauma informed, resilience training (EMBER).  In 2013, she was honored with SARNCO’s Community Supporter Award (Sexual Assault Response Network of Central Ohio). She has been helping clients and students to resolve issues of stress and trauma for many years and is also deeply committed to engaging in her own personal process of healing and growth (that means she goes to therapy too!).  In addition to private sessions, Michele teaches workshops, trainings and retreats locally and abroad. Michele has a passionate commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, along with an unwavering drive for social justice and change. She is happiest when outside, and finds great joy as a life-partner, mother, stepmother, dog-mom, friend, oldest sister, auntie and goofball!

Formal Education/Trainings

Michele has studied Somatic Therapy through Somatic Experiencing International, is a Yoga Alliance registered E-500 yoga teacher and a registered Yoga Therapist through IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists.)  She completed her studies as an Ayurvedic Health Educator through the California College of Ayurveda, has advanced, master level training in hands-on energy healing, and is also a certified iRest Yoga Nidra and certified Seven Homecomings Meditation Teacher.  Michele completed her undergraduate degree at Salisbury University, graduating (summa cum laude) with a BA in Philosophy (minor in Psychology) and is currently working toward a master’s degree at Northwestern University.