“The Wild Woman’s Way®” is Michaela’s body of work drawn from her decades of counseling and teaching women’s groups as well as from her training in a female Shakta tradition, of which she is now the lineage holder.

Her bestselling book “The Wild Woman’s Way” serves as a manual for navigating the demands of a busy life while staying connected to pleasure, joy and self-expression. 

The Wild Woman’s Circle™ expands on the themes of the book by offering in-depth engagement with the body, supporting emotional wellness and fostering deeper connection with self and others. This training provides education, inspiration, practical exercises and take home experiences for living as a sensually embodied woman in today’s world.

“Never before have we as women in the West had more opportunity, more choice, and more freedom. Granted, we still have a long way to go, yet compared to any other time in history, we have the greatest options and choices to forge our own paths and determine our own destinies. At the same time, with these opportunities come new challenges and distinct difficulties: the demands of life have created high levels of stress, pressure, disconnect, discomfort, and dis-ease in women.

As women we are now, more than ever, able to have the career we want, we can make our own money, choose our relationships and have the freedom to determine when and if we want children. Yet, our connection to ourselves, to pleasure, to nature and our intimate relationships has suffered. We are ever more disconnected from our biggest ally -the body- and as a result are missing out on a powerful natural resource for aliveness, pleasure and empowerment.“ 

-Excerpt from “The Wild Woman’s Way” book

The Wild Woman’s Circle™ Teacher Training draws from Michaela’s decades of professional experience of leading women’s group as well as her 1-on-1 counseling work in the field of trauma and relationship. Her vast expertise of leading and creating experiential workshops combined with her lineage training infuse the embodiment practices, women’s group exercises and ritual you will practice and receive scripts for.

This training is also an invitation for you – to remember the innate wisdom of the body – not defined by looks and shapes and sizes, but the living, feeling body as a portal to unlocking who you truly are.

You will experience the course material, guided by Michaela as a means to deepen your own embodied understanding, which will allow you to teach it with an embodied depth that inspires trust and relaxed resonance in your participants.

You will learn how to create a strong container in which the nervous system of each participant can relax into the exploration of feminine embodiment, inspiring full bodily expression, deepening relationship to pleasure and intimacy, and effectively counteract stress and trauma in the body.

This 4-module online training starts January 11, 2025!

Module 1: January 11 & 12, 2025

Module 2: January 25 & 26, 2025

Module 3:  February 1 & 2 2025

Module 4:February 9, 2025

Each training day is 6 hours for a total of 42 hours of live training.
Each module is available in two time streams to accommodate your timezone/location.

You can choose whichever time stream best fits your needs. You’re also welcome to join the other time stream for extra practice and review.

Example of Time Streams to choose from:

Engaging with the Energetics of a Woman’s Body

Even though each woman is built as a unique expression, with her own physiological and psychological makeup, and our personal history and programming determine how we each relate to our bodies, there are some principles that apply to all of us.

We use a framework Michaela calls “Energy Distribution,” which teaches us to pay attention to how our life force energy is distributed within our body at any given time. As women we are uniquely connected to our lower bodies. Power to create, instinct and our ability to feel pleasure (and procreate) sits in the lower part of our body.

Many women nowadays experience the gradual loss of connection to the feelings and sensations of their body, especially the lower body. With stress and overwhelm come numbness, maladaptive coping mechanisms (in the form of overeating, addictions, etc.), and disconnection.

When we “get into our heads,” and prioritize thinking and doing over feeling and being, our thoughts and actions take on a compulsive quality and our body gets tense and tight. Headaches, a clenched jaw and neck pains become all too common.

Once we are in the mindset of getting things done, it is not easy to get back to the relaxed, open state of flowing naturally. Even if we know intellectually that we should slow down, the energetics in our body might no longer cooperate.

Knowing where the energy gets stuck, meaning, being able to detect areas of tightness and tension is the first step towards distributing the energy differently. Simple movement of the hips, thighs and lower body can effectively counteract the effects of a body stuck in “go”.

Each element taught in this training provides exploration and experiential insight into your energetic habits and offers simple yet effective ways to “re-embody” and experience flow.

Coming Back to Pleasure in the Body

“How do I escape the seemingly inevitable reality of disconnection and stress, and their effects on my body, without giving up the ability to be successful and productive?” This question arises frequently whenever we teach.

The answer is to become fluent in both the world of work and stress, but to also reclaim our natural state of aliveness and pleasure. Since vitality and sensual sensations happen in and through the body, trying to think our way into them is like trying to think our way into riding a bicycle. Reading books on bicycle riding and talking about bicycle riding do not translate into sitting on a bike and knowing how to ride! Thinking and talking about reclaiming your pleasure is a start, but it does not necessarily translate into having the bodily wherewithal to open, soften, and relaxed. Physical closures, contractions, and habits are acquired through repetition can be undone by consciously practicing new patterns within your body and nervous system.

As humans, we learn through repetition. Every activity is wired into the body-mind through repeating an activity. When we learn something new, our whole system interconnects. What first felt foreign and almost impossible to do, over time and repetition becomes the pattern we use automatically.

All patterns have somatic, emotional, and mental components. Once a pattern has been learned, it is accessed automatically and becomes second nature. We can counteract existing patterns of stress and closure by learning new, simple activities that over time become the new “go-to” patterns of our body.

There are two parallel approaches. First we create awareness of tension and tightness in the body and counteract those constrictions by bringing the energy into the lower body. 

Second, we bring attention to sensual experiences that are already available. Instead of looking for outside “fixes” and stimuli, which often require even more “doing”, we can create awareness of what is already there. 

Feminine Embodiment

Embodiment has become quite the buzzword and there are many ways to define it. In this training we define it as an ability to listen to the messages the body sends and being able to keep our thinking mind, our emotions and our bodies connected and integrated.

In this context, the term “embodiment” can be understood to mean “coming back into the body.” Of course, as long as we are alive, we are always in our bodies. But that does not mean we are aware of what is happening in our body.

Embodiment is the process of becoming alive to the signals of our bodies. The awareness of the signals of the body can also be described as sensual recognition. Being with the full array of sensory and emotional perception—the sublime as well as the ugly—allows us to savor the full human experience: body, mind, and spirit – alive, open, and integrated. You will receive practices and exercises that facilitate embodiment regardless of the different level or experience of each participant. These exercises are designed to reveal each participants unique connection to her body and empower her to engage with embodiment in a deeply personal way.

Creating Meaningful Intimate Relationships

It all begins with our relationship to our own body. Before we can connect with and feel others, we need to become sensitive to and educated about our own energetic dynamics. Once you understand your own reasons for any numbness, tension, and strain that you may carry in your body, you can easily undo the related habitual body patterns and restore yourself to a state of pleasurable aliveness and sensual well-being.

From there we can connect within an intimate relationship from a place of empowerment. Being able to feel ourselves also allows us to set appropriate boundaries and with that we can be more generous when we actually want to interact.

The practices of sensitization, relaxation and full feminine expression through the body allows us to be more available, sensitive and expressed with the intimate partner of our choice. You’ll be able to play within the full range of expressions, without getting stuck in “go” mode and heady disconnect.

The practices you will engage in – and learn to facilitate –  in this training are designed to offer sensitization, relaxation and expression for each participant and in turn allow for a deeper connection to others.