Rediscover yourself.

My purpose and passion is to empower you
to listen to the wisdom of your body.

In the process of listening, we access the space to heal, unwinding the habits, patterns, weaknesses, and blindspots that limit our ability to feel healthy, resilient, empowered, and strong. Together, we discover how to “undo” what is wound tightly within the nervous system, the tissues, and the feelings in the body to know what limits you from reaching your highest potential.

-MICHELE PALMER, MSPT

Creating connection

I am Michele Palmer, a teacher, yogini, women’s health practitioner, physical therapist, somatic guide, explorer of the body · mind · heart · spirit and believer that anything is possible. Over the past three decades, I have dedicated my work to guiding and teaching women to discover the magic of their own bodies. It is a journey into opening the doorway to feel what has been held, how to touch these tenders spaces, learn to let go, open to presence and heal. From my vast experience of working intimately with women and their bodies, I know the importance learning how to listen to the body, to trust our intuition, and sense what lies beneath the surface, so we can deeply nourish and tend to our true selves. 

WELCOME
I’m so glad you found me! 

For the past 30 years, I have delved deeply into the healing contemplative and embodied arts and sciences, discovering many healing modalities that dovetail magically together to restore our sense of “whole-ness”. I felt called to be of service to women, to answer questions, to teach more about our bodies, to access our wisdom and healing capacity, developing a happy, healthy relationship with our vagina, pelvis, and pelvic floor as the doorway to empowerment.   

Along the way, I had my own transforming healing journey that opened me to new embodied understanding and experience on how to listen into and balance body- mind-spirit-heart to create a more expansive space for wellness and spiritual growth.  

Do you desire a greater understanding of your body, because the old ways are no longer working or not satisfying?  Do you experience the joy of being a woman? Of having a healthy relationship with your menstrual cycle, fertility, conception, your magnificent post- baby self, full- expression sexuality? Are you tired of feeling pain and discomfort or an overall disconnection and dissatisfaction with your body?

Your journey to discovering Embodied Wisdom awaits.

Expertise

Specialties

  • Women’s Health

  • Pelvic Health Care

  • Women’s Health Physical Therapy

  • Holistic  Pelvic Care™

  • Mayan Uterine Massage™

  • Myofascial Release™

  • TherapeuticYoga

  • Somatic Therapy

  • Mindfulness & Meditation

Focusing On

  • Menstrual Cycle Regulation

  • Vaginal Health

  • Vaginismus/Dyspaerunia/
    Painful Intercourse

  • Fertility Issues

  • Bladder and Bowel Health

  • Sexual Health & Happiness

  • Digestive Wellness

  • Post Hysterectomy Care

  • Birthing Recovery

  • Menopause

Over 30 years of experience

For more than three decades, I have been exploring, practicing, and sharing the benefits of somatic-healing, physical therapy, and the transformation arts.

My introduction to eastern spiritual practice was through transcendental meditation in the early 1990’s, a spiritual doorway into a  new way of experiencing and understanding myself and the world around me.

In 1992, I began delving into yoga during a year-long trip driving a VW bus through Mexico and Central America with a girlfriend, our 3 large dogs and 2 Swedish hitchhikers.  When I returned home to Boulder, Colorado, I began ten years of committed study and practice of yoga with world-renowned Richard Freeman.

I have travelled throughout the world spending extended periods of time in Mexico, Central America, India, and Southeast Asia studying eastern philosophy, indigenous healing practices, yoga, meditation and movement.

After working for 5 years as a physical therapist and Myofascial Release specialist, I opened a women’s health clinic and have maintained a private practice since 2005.

Since 1992, I have dedicated my personal and professional studies with some of the most prominent and knowledgeable teachers in the world, including Angela Farmer, Patricia Walden, Judith Lassiter, Richard Freeman, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Georg Feuerstein, John Friend, Norman Allard, Leslie Howard, and Wendy Bramlett.


Education

HEALING TOUCH EDUCATION
Boulder College of Massage Therapy, 1993
2000-hour course of study in Shiatsu, Hakomi, Sports & Medical Massage, and Swedish

BACHELOR OF SCIENCES – BUSINESS
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 1991
Business Degree in Tourism Management

MASTER OF SCIENCE – PHYSICAL THERAPY
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 2000


Yoga, Movement, and Somatic Training

Pelvic Floor Yoga Teacher Training,
Leslie Howard
A deep dive into the role and function of the pelvic floor in yoga asana.

Ashtanga Yoga Practice, Mysore, India
6-week daily intensive study with Patahbi Jois and Serat

 

Yoga Journal Conferences
Hundreds of hours of therapeutic applications of Yoga Therapy

 

Authentic Movement, Body MIND Centering
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

 

India year abroad, lived, travelled, and studied throughout southern, northern and Buddhist India

Suspenshen Training,
Norman Allard
125-hours of therapeutic movement, repatterning & awareness

 

Yoga Movement Breath Awareness Training, Norman Allard
500-hours Feldenkrais, Iyengar yoga, meditation, and breath training

 

Ashtanga Teacher Training, Richard Freeman
Advanced teacher training: 200-hour Yoga Alliance certified

 

Yoga Research and Education Center, Georg Feuerstein
Two-year, 700-hour Yoga Alliance certified yoga Philosophy, eight limbs and of Asana Practice including Judith Lassiter Restorative yoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Hatha, Yin, Viniyoga


Mindfulness Training

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER CERTIFICATION

Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach and Friends        
A two-year extensive study of mindfulness and knowing of self, communication with others, loving kindness and compassion, diversity and adversity awareness and brining the practices into communities.

Vipassana meditation courses, Goenka
10-day silent retreats to drop into the ocean of sensation within the body and the eventual quiescing of the mind.

 

Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Jack Kornfield
Multiple 10-day silent retreats delving into mindful awareness, loving kindness, and compassion.


Women’s Health Training

Advanced Pelvic Floor Function and Dysfunction I, II, & III  
Coursework completed through the American Physical Therapy Association and Herman and Wallace  Pelvic Rehab Institute

Gynecologic Visceral Manipulation
Gail Wetzler, American Physical Therapy Association.

Holistic Pelvic Care™, Tami Kent
Certified in holistic pelvic care healing and deep nourishing practices for women’s pelvic health.

 

Arvigo Mayan Abdominal and Uterine Therapy, Rosita Arvigo, ND
Completed Self-care, Pregnancy, Professional Training, Certification and Teacher Training coursework


Manual Therapy Training

Pelvic Mechanics , Richard Jackson, DPT

Thai Massage, Thailand

Shiatsu, Advanced training diagnosing the Hara

Chakra Balancing, Thailand

Myofascial Release I, II, III and Unwinding, John Barnes PT

Visceral Manipulation, Urogenital and Gynecologic, Didier Pratt D.O.

Neuromuscular Therapy, All trigger point therapy courses, Paul St. John

Craniosacral Therapy,
John and Anna Chitty


Teaching Experience

Pelvic Health Physical Therapy
Women’s Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

 

Understanding Painful Intercourse
Maya Abdominal Therapy Convention, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

 

Female Sexual Health Anatomy & Care
Maya Abdominal Therapy Convention, Estes Park Colorado

Primal Trust Academy
On-line weekly somatic exploration classes

 

Women’s Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Rocky Mountain Shambala Center assistant to Katharine Kaufman

 

Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga Intensive
The Yoga Workshop
Experiential Anatomy Instructor for 3 years


Additional Personal Coursework

Dynamic Neural Retraining System
Brain Retraining Course and Practice
Practice, study, and training for understanding and treating limbic system impairment.

Safe Body Safe Mind, Irene Lyon
Regulation of nervous system through somatic practice .

Heart Math Institute
The study and benefits of heart coherence to manage stress and deep connection to love.

Primal Trust Academy
Cathleen King, DPT
Alchemical journey of transforming heart-mind-spirit. I have completed the coursework and transformed my life through this program.

Joe Dispenza
Attended advance and advanced followup-retreats.

Your journey to discovering EMBODIED WISDOM awaits.