Private Sessions

In-Person or Online with Michelle Chua

Private or small-group sessions provide you with a more customized experience at the convenience of your home, workplace or a local park. Michelle will design your session(s) in alignment with your personal goals or intentions and pace the activities according to your level of experience and ability.

Choose one or a combination of the following offerings to include in your session of 45-90 minutes:

Reiki Energy Healing

Reiki is a Japanese technique for relaxation that also promotes healing. Through gentle touch and hovering their hands over the client's body, the Reiki practitioner serves as a conduit for soothing energy to flow into the client, helping to release tension and promote physical, mental-emotional, energetic and spiritual healing and well-being.

Michelle has studied with several Reiki Master Teachers in Usui Shiki Ryoho and has earned her first degree, second degree and Master Reiki Practitioner certifications, the latter with Holy Fire Reiki attunement. Her Reiki sessions begin with a short guided breathwork and meditation to support the client in clarifying their intention for the session and relaxing into receiving Reiki. The client lies down comfortably for 40-60 minutes as they receive Reiki. Michelle's Reiki clients have ranged in their intentions, from cultivating overall well-being, to relieving stress, to seeking relief from physical or emotional pain, such as grief and bodily injury.

Physical Yoga

Michelle is trained in a variety of Hatha Yoga styles: Vinyasa Flow, Yin/Restorative Yoga and Flow and Restore (half Vinyasa/half Yin and Restorative). Her clients have ranged from beginners, who would like to learn the basics of Hatha Yoga postures before stepping into a group class setting, to experienced Yoga practitioners, who would like to refine their physical alignment in postures and increase their strength, flexibility and balance. She has worked with diverse age groups and physical abilities, from professional athletes, seeking to balance their training regimen to prevent injury, to middle-aged employees, who work at an office for many hours a day and want to stay healthy, to senior citizens, who practice chair Yoga to maintain their mobility and coordination. As a former elementary school teacher, Michelle has also facilitated Yoga classes for children, and through weekly practice over several months, they have demonstrated increased ability to focus and self-regulate in both the Yoga class setting and in other areas of life, such as test-taking at school.

Breathwork & Meditation

Michelle draws from Mindful breathing techniques for self-regulation and Yogic techniques for regulating the breath, called Pranayama, to regulate one's energy. Breathwork ranges from calming and grounding to relax the nervous system and bring clarity of mind to energizing, promoting digestion and inner fire and rebalancing energy with neural integration, or balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Guided Meditations range from starting a daily meditation practice to specific focuses, such as cultivating self-compassion with difficult emotions, visualizing to actualize goals and intentions, nurturing loving kindness and joy, balancing specific chakras, or energy centers, or deepening awareness and clarity.

Her Meditation and Breathwork clients have ranged from middle and high school student groups to adults individually and in group sessions on retreat or during lunch breaks at the office.

Forest-bathing & Meditation in Nature

Mindfully immersing in nature regularly has profound healing and wellness benefits, such as stress relief, pain management, boosting the immune system and cultivating feelings of connection and belonging. Read more on this blog article. And you don't have to be in an isolated forest in order to receive the benefits of forest-bathing. Let Michelle guide you on a nature immersion journey in your local park or neighborhood, so that you can develop loving relationship with the land and natural elements regularly in your area. This practice is more about how you pay attention to the natural world that surrounds us and tap into your childlike curiosity and attitude of play.

Michelle guides monthly groups on Forest-bathing nature walks and hikes in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. This is also a regular component of her local and international retreats.

Soundbath for
Deep Relaxation

Immerse in a harmonious soundscape of crystal singing bowls and other acoustic instruments while resting your body comfortably, allowing the vibrations to soothe your nervous system and promote deep relaxation. Sessions can last 30-45 minutes and begin with a guided breathwork and end with a short meditation to promote grounding, presence and intentional space. Soundbaths can enrich your Reiki or Yoga experience.

Michelle has privately studied the art of facilitating soundbaths with a certified music therapist and has integrated soundbaths in her local retreats and classes for adults, teenagers and preteens in private and group settings.

Here's an article about the benefits of developing a daily Yoga practice:

Read "21 Benefits of Daily Yoga"

Energy Exchange
for Private Sessions

Sessions can be tailored to your preferred length of time for a session. Generally, Michelle meets with clients at their home, office or nearby park for an hour, at the sliding-scale energy exchange rate of $75-150 per session, depending on services included and financial ability. Travel fees may apply to distances over 10 miles from Hollywood, LA.

To inquire about booking your private session(s) with Michelle Chua, please complete the form below.