Apprenticing with Presence
The sacred is not elsewhere. It is found in our willingness to return to what is.
Apprenticing with presence is a practice of listening to life and allowing it to teach us.
Through one-to-one guidance, psychedelic retreats, and practitioner support, I draw on meditation, inquiry, and somatic practice to help us meet ourselves and our relationships with curiosity and care.
Living in Relationship to What Is
How do we meet life when it doesn't follow our plans? Can we stay present with uncertainty, listen to what hurts, and let ourselves be touched by what we cannot control?
Together, we explore our relationship with life as it is, including the places where we resist, hold tightly, or turn away. As we bring curiosity and care to these places, new possibilities for responding can emerge.
“Love says: ‘I am everything’. Wisdom says: ‘I am nothing’. Between the two my life flows.”
1:1 Guidance
Space to explore a life transition, a familiar pattern, or a profound experience. Through conversation, inquiry, and somatic practice, we listen closely to what's unfolding and how you want to meet it.
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Time to step out of familiar routines and listen more deeply. Explore private and group retreats, meditation, and breathwork, with opportunities for both personal inquiry and shared practice.
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Support for those who hold space for others. Mentorship for facilitators, coaches, and guides to explore questions, challenges, and their own experience of the work, with a particular focus on 5-MeO-DMT.
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I think of my own life as an apprenticeship with presence: learning to listen, questioning what I think I know, and meeting what I would sometimes rather avoid.
For more than 20 years, I've accompanied others as a coach and facilitator, and now as a retreat leader and integration specialist. Meditation, inquiry, somatic practice, and work with 5-MeO-DMT inform how I sit with people.
What draws me is the possibility of living in deeper relationship with ourselves, one another, and the sacred in ordinary life.
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Tandava Retreat Participant“Michelle didn’t ask me to become a better version of myself. She invited me to get honest about what was getting in the way. Her fierce compassion and steady presence helped me go to the places I usually avoid. That’s where things started to shift.”
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Chris Retired Paramedic and Emergency Nurse“From the first time we spoke, I knew I was in the best hands with Michelle. Her care continued throughout the retreat and integration, and I felt she was truly invested in my wellbeing.”
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Victoria Wueschner Co-Founder & President, The F.I.V.E. Institute“Michelle brings a rare depth of preparation and heartfelt dedication to her work with 5-MeO-DMT. Her decades of experience in coaching, facilitation, and contemplative practice are reflected in the care she brings to each participant at Tandava.”
“There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying Yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.”
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