Whole Health Pathways – About Michelle
Whole Health Pathways
About Michelle
My holistic journey began over 40 years ago in the NHS, where I worked as a Registered General Nurse in both hospital and GP settings. That experience showed me how vital it is to approach health in a more personalised and holistic way—one that supports the whole person, not just the symptoms. I’ve always seen myself as a bridge between conventional healthcare and sustainable, self-led wellbeing.
Today, I’m co-director of Integrative holistic health CIC http://www.integrativeholistichealth.co.uk alongside nutritional therapist Rebecca Leonard. Together we design and deliver funded programmes that support people living with long-term health conditions, offer preventative health education, and promote holistic approaches to wellbeing within communities.
Through my yoga classes, workshops, and holistic programmes, I support people to make small, everyday choices that nurture their health—through movement, rest, seasonal awareness, and emotional resilience. I believe wellbeing is deeply personal, and that each of us can find a path that evolves with the natural rhythms of life.
This commitment also inspires my Yoga Teacher Training for those aged 40 and over—offering space to reflect, deepen practice, and grow into teaching in a way that feels
grounded, relevant in today’s world and sustainable. At this stage in life, many people are ready for something more meaningful, and I’m here to support that journey.
Exploring yoga and Holistic Health through my own practice, teaching others and undertaking continuous study, enables me to bring insights and understanding of the whole-body approach to movement into my teaching.
Over 21 years I have had the joy and privilege to teach yoga to many people of all ages and stages in life from pregnant women, parents and their babies, children, teenagers through to elderly people.
As a Yoga therapist and Health/Wellness Coach I have worked on a 1-1 basis and with groups to assist people with chronic health conditions. I designed and taught the British Wheel of Yoga Module for Qualified teachers to teach children and teenagers.
It has been and continues to be a wonderful journey to witness people benefitting from Yoga practices.
“Yoga therapy was instrumental to my journey to wellness. Michelle’s combined knowledge of being a yoga therapist and registered nurse helped me to understand and begin working effectively with my body. After being enveloped in a clinical environment, Yoga therapy gave me space to work with my breath and postures to help with pain and strength as well as my mental well-being during the course of a neurological diagnosis, recovery and rehabilitation, Michelle supported me physically, emotionally and developed a practice which guided me every step of the way back to full mobility and physical health. 6 years on my yoga therapy still resonates with me in daily life and helps keep my practice through any circumstance.”
ABBY WARNE
My Yoga Training and Experience
Registered General Nurse
Senior Yoga teacher and therapist with 25 years experience:
BWY (British Wheel of Yoga) Diploma
The Yoga Biomedical Trust/ Yoga Campus for Yoga Therapy training.
BWY Meditation Training
Pregnancy and children’s Yoga teacher Training
Holistic Health Practitioner
TPC Health and Wellness Coach
Yoga in Healthcare Alliance, certified Teacher
Yoga is not just an exercise programme, it is a lifestyle practice that happens on and off the mat. It is a holistic practice which incorporates all aspects of being ourselves, therefore my approach is firstly practical in terms of finding effective movement, therapeutic in the sense of stress reduction, calming the nervous system and mind and philosophical to explore ideas off the mat and in the wider context of a person’s life. I offer yoga through Online and Live classes, Yoga retreats and within the Whole-health-pathways programme in the context of wider health.
Yoga is not just an exercise programme, it is a lifestyle practice that happens on and off the mat. It is a holistic practice which incorporates all aspects of being ourselves, therefore my approach is firstly practical in terms of finding effective movement, therapeutic in the sense of stress reduction, calming the nervous system and mind and philosophical to explore ideas off the mat and in the wider context of a person’s life.I offer yoga through Online and Live classes, Yoga retreats and within the Whole-health-pathways programme in the context of wider health.