About Michelle

I work inside The Gap Between the Gap™ — the quiet physiological space where breath, body, space, and presence begin to reorganize into coherence.
My work has always lived at the intersection of the visible and the invisible: the breath beneath the words, the posture beneath the story, the tone of a room, the field between horse and human, and the deeper intelligence moving through a moment before the mind fully understands it.
For decades, this listening has expressed itself through yoga, meditation, breath-centered practice, embodied alignment, environmental design, and nervous-system work. These were never separate paths for me. They were different expressions of one living language: how the body remembers, how space holds history, how breath changes what is possible, and how presence alters the field around us.

Long before nervous-system language became common, I was studying and practicing the art of inner regulation through breath, meditation, and daily embodied discipline. Breath was never simply a technique. It became a way of listening — a way of meeting the body, the room, the horse, and the moment with greater honesty.

Earlier in my career, my environmental design and feng shui work in Washington, DC was featured in HillRag Magazine, where I was described as a “house whisperer.” That recognition reflected one expression of a deeper thread: the understanding that spaces are alive with information. A room carries history. A body carries history. A horse feels history before it is spoken.

To me, the inner and outer environments are inseparable.

My work listens to both the micro and the macro.
The micro is the smallest visible shift: one breath, one softened rib, one unclenched jaw, one quieter hand on the rein.
The macro is the larger field that begins to change around that shift: the room settles, the horse exhales, communication clears, and the moment becomes more coherent.
This is the foundation of my work today.
Through The Gap Between the Gap™, I support riders, athletes, caregivers, elders, and humans in transition through somatic breathwork, nervous-system regulation, and subtle embodied awareness. The work is not about forcing calm, fixing the body, or performing presence. It is about creating the conditions where breath can lead, the nervous system can settle, and the body can begin to trust the moment again.
In the equestrian field, this becomes especially tangible.
Horses feel who we are before they respond to what we do. They read breath, rhythm, tone, posture, hesitation, clarity, and coherence long before the rider picks up the reins. When the rider’s nervous system becomes steadier, communication often becomes clearer — not because the horse has been corrected, but because the field between horse and human has changed.
My work supports riders in becoming more aware of the internal state they bring to the horse, so partnership can deepen, performance can become more consistent, and communication can arise from presence rather than pressure.
This is also the foundation of what I call 3rd Ear Wisdom: deep listening to what is being communicated beneath words, beneath posture, beneath performance, and beneath the visible surface of a moment.
It is the language of synchronicity — spoken through breath, body, space, horse, and field.
I come to this work as a former competitive athlete, long-time yoga and meditation practitioner, certified trauma-informed breathwork facilitator, and lifelong student of the body’s intelligence. For over three decades, I have lived inside the practice of regulation — not as a concept, but through daily dedicated practice.
My role is to hold a steady, regulated presence where the nervous system has permission to soften, reorganize, and remember itself.
Not through force.
Not through performance.
But through breath, presence, and the quiet intelligence of The Gap Between the Gap™.

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