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08/28/2026

We know so much about what we could be doing to support ourselves.

Breathe. Move. Meditate. Rest. Slow down.

But knowing a practice and being able to reach for it when we actually need it are two different things.

This is something I see often in my work. Sometimes what helps most isn’t another piece of information—it’s having the space to practice. To experience the tool often enough that it begins to feel familiar. Accessible. Something we know how to return to.

That’s why I believe so deeply in practice.

Not because we need to become perfectly calm or regulated all the time, but because repetition gives us an opportunity to become more familiar with ourselves—and with what actually supports us.

A few intentional breaths may not change everything happening around you.

But they can create a moment to pause, notice, and reconnect with yourself before you move into whatever comes next.

And sometimes, that small moment is enough to begin. 🤍

08/13/2026

There’s a question I’ve been sitting with all week, and I think it’s the one this class is actually about.

What part of you has been waiting to be loved?

Not because you’re broken. That’s the part worth saying clearly, your habits may need to change, your nervous system may need support, your body may grow stronger, your relationships may grow healthier. But none of that happens because something in you was ever fundamentally wrong. It happens because, little by little, you remember who you were before the fear, before the conditioning, before the story that you were ever separate from love in the first place.

In yoga, we call those old patterns samskaras, the grooves our conditioning leaves behind. They can run deep. But they were never able to touch what’s underneath them. Love doesn’t create the Self. Love just cleans the mirror, so we can finally see what was already there.

This Friday is Week Two of The Path Home, Returning to the Heart. We’ll move mindfully, meditate, chant, and spend some real time with that one question. If some part of you has been waiting a while to be met, this is an invitation.

📍 9th.limb.yoga Morro Bay CA + Virtual
🗓️ Friday, 5:30–6:45 PM
💛 By donation, no one turned away

Link in bio to save your spot. 🤍

You didn’t come here looking for a spiritual awakening. You came for strength, for mobility, maybe just to move without ...
08/12/2026

You didn’t come here looking for a spiritual awakening. You came for strength, for mobility, maybe just to move without pain again.

That’s enough. That’s exactly where we start.

But something tends to happen once you spend real time in your body. You start noticing more than muscle. And when you’re ready for that, there’s a whole practice waiting, breath, meditation, ritual, sound. Nothing required. Just available.

This is what makes EXPAND+BREATHE different. We’re not choosing between the science and the spirit. We never have.

If you’ve been craving strength, and also something quieter you can’t quite name yet, this might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

California’s Central Coast, in person. Everywhere else, virtually.

Come find out what your body already knows.

Hi, I’m Michaela, founder of EXPAND+BREATHE. If you’re new here, welcome. 🤍The carousel shares the story of how I got he...
08/10/2026

Hi, I’m Michaela, founder of EXPAND+BREATHE. If you’re new here, welcome. 🤍

The carousel shares the story of how I got here, but what it doesn’t show is what that journey has taught me about working with people.

One of the greatest lessons has been this: there isn’t one path that’s right for everyone.
Some people come to me because they’re recovering from an injury and want to move without pain. Others are feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected and don’t know where to begin. Some want to build strength. Others are longing for stillness. Most discover they’re searching for a little of both.
That’s why I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach.

Over the past decade, my work has grown to include Pilates, Integrative Himalayan Yoga, breathwork, meditation, sound, and nervous system education. Not because I believe everyone needs all of them, but because each offers a different doorway into the same conversation.

The goal has never been to fix people. It’s to help them better understand themselves.
Sometimes that begins with learning how to move without pain. Sometimes it begins with a single, intentional breath. Sometimes it begins by sitting quietly for the first time in years. Every journey looks different.

Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you know you don’t have to have it all figured out before you begin.

If you’re looking for a place to move, breathe, reconnect, or simply slow down for a while, I’d love to practice with you.
You’ll find my current classes, private sessions, and upcoming offerings in the link in my bio.

Week One of The Path Home: Returning to Awareness. 🤍Last night we moved slowly. Really slowly. The kind of slow, juicy p...
08/08/2026

Week One of The Path Home: Returning to Awareness. 🤍

Last night we moved slowly. Really slowly. The kind of slow, juicy practice that can feel wonderful in the body and surprisingly challenging for the mind. Because when there is less to do, we begin to notice just how much the mind wants to do.

Patañjali opens the Yoga Sutras with Yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ, often translated as, “Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.” There was something beautiful about experiencing that teaching rather than simply talking about it. We weren’t trying to force the mind into silence. We were practicing noticing its movement, returning to the body, returning to the breath, and creating a little more space between the thoughts and the one who is aware of them.

One of my favorite moments was hearing everyone’s voices together during Kriya, and then again as we closed with the Gayatri Mantra. There is something powerful about a room of people practicing together. Individual voices begin to disappear into one shared resonance.

I left feeling so grateful for the people who chose to begin this journey with me, and apparently so present that I completely forgot to take a single photo. 😂 So, a little glimpse of my altar instead.

Home is awareness. Next week, we return to the heart. 🤍

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