About
“ My first greatest teachers were my grandmother’s hands as they moved on my womb like an endless landscape, the body of my first love as I felt the heart of spirit move through the palms of my hands, and my relationship with plants, water & stones at a childhood pond.”
Madeleine Michal is a practitioner of the heart, committed to her own ever evolving deep inner work, and being in service to the collective & mother earth through sacred activism. Her journey began with the sensation of the presence of eros and its weaving with spirit at a young age. She explored what was arising through her waking body and in dream states through expressive visual arts. Later, the longing for meaning making, lead her to Art therapy and psychotherapy studies landing mainly in transpersonal and eco psychology.
As she journeyed deeper through forms of meditation - meant to tame the mind, sensuality, somatics, and breath - reaching into body, and energy - tapping into synergy of all forms, she found a sensation of alchemy, that lives within and without. The powerful essence of creation - one of cyclical patterns that allows coexistence - it does not tame, suppress, or accelerate.
Madeleine is passionate about reintegrating and honoring grief into our human experience by consenting to it and honoring it as a form of love. This became a louder calling as she felt the mirroring of bodies to earth and earth to bodies, feeling solace placing her hands and body on mother earth’s skin and in her waters - a transcendence of bodies and earth as sacred vessels; inviting the wisdom of our natural world in through roots of ritual and rites of passage.
“ I reach in with you, finding attunement in our body’s voice and vibration, through layers hidden behind cultural shame, fear, trauma, and grief. Allowing the erotic to erupt as she erodes and clears a resting space at the core of our inherent creative power - inviting in the wisdom of pleasure - making way for a remembrance of the divine that transcends through our bodies.”
Madeleine spends extensive time on different lands globally including Palestine / Israel, India, and the Amazon in Peru and Brazil. Immersed deeply in living & learning through heart, earth, eros, and in plant & kambo dietas guided by Yawanawá and Matses tribes. Committed to continuing this path from a place of integrity and deep reverence.
“ In great reverence for teachers and mentors that have stood beside me as I find the teacher within. For the land, in how she teaches love, patience, nourishment, care, regeneration, and repair. For humans and cultures sharing indigenous and ancestral knowledge, infusing it with life and care, and ensuring that it continues to live on through many streams. To knowledge that streams through transmissions, intuition, experience, communing with plants, people, and other non “institutional” means.” More on education, trainings, initiations
“People who find me are drawn to incorporate the physical and energetic body into their human experience. They understand that their inner workings are a piece of collective change, one that is loudly rumbling through a global paradigm shift. These are humans who have an appreciation of the power of ritual, are drawn to a bit of magick, and have been in search of someone who embodies all of this with solid understanding of the intricacies of emotional processing. I’m here for anyone that comes forth to stand on steady ground AND feel the movement while the ground beneath us shifts in all that this life presents us.”