Presence Collective is delighted that our teachers will be offering live webinars every Thursday. These sessions will include a teaching and practice designed to help support you during these challenging and uncertain times.
Join us Thursday, June 25th from 2-3:00PM PST (5-6:00PM EST) for a webinar with Michelle C. Johnson. Michelle will share about how to meet this present moment by engaging the principles of spiritual practice. This offering will include a guided meditation, discussion and time for questions from participants.
These webinars are offered by donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
*Sliding scale language borrowed with permission from Rev. angel Kyodo williams.
$15 - Rebalancing: for those with more than enough financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.
$12 - Fair: for those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.
$10 - Supported: for those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.
Michelle Johnson (she/her) is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, she has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. Her awareness of the world through her own experience as a black woman allows her to know, first-hand, how privilege and power operate.
Michelle has a Bachelors of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 500hr RYT. She has worked in several non-profits and served as an elected official and on many non-profit boards of directors. She has worked with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. She is on the faculty of Off the Mat Into the World, and she serves as the Co-Director of 18 Springs Healing Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Michelle was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019, and she has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal.
Michelle leads courageously from the heart with compassion and a commitment to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes for many because of the harm it creates. She inspires change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing and wholeness are at the center of how she approaches all of her work in the world.
Areas of intersection within Michelle’s work include social justice and yoga, and an understanding of how traumatic white supremacy and oppression are in this culture. I have come to describe my work as grief work. Most of it has to do with us unearthing what has been buried and is causing us harm. I make space for grieving in my facilitation. She is also a licensed clinical social worker.