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 considered a natural healing modality that can support other methods of healing, including allopathic.  It is a Japanese technique for deep relaxation that awakens your innate ability for self-healing -- physically, mentally-emotionally or spiritually. 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, anxiety and bodily injury or disease.

Michelle hosts private sessions in her in-home studio in Hollywood or at clients' homes or workplaces, where she brings her massage table.  Through gentle touch and hovering their hands over the client's body, the Reiki practitioner serves as a conduit for Universal Life Energy, which is amplified in the client.

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. She is also among the few practitioners in the USA certified in the traditional Japanese method of Jikiden Reiki in Kyoto, Japan.

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 45-90 minutes as they receive Reiki.

At the start of your Reiki session, select which natural healing method you would like to receive: Usui Ryoho or Jikiden (for physical or mental-emotional healing). If you select Jikiden, the mental-emotional healing method is only available after your first session with Michelle.

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

Forest-bathing is the wellness practice of slowing down and consciously connecting with nature through your senses. Backed by science, it has profound healing and wellness benefits, such as stress relief, pain management, boosting the immune system, improving sleep and cultivating feelings of joy, connection and belonging.

Michelle has trained in guiding Deep Forest-Bathing in Japan, where the practice originates (Read about it in her blog article here). Deep Forest-Bathing, which adds a focus on psycho-social wellness, supports rebuilding humans' relationship with the more-than-human natural world, which is essential for collective survival, healing and thriving.

A forest-bathing session with Michelle includes a guided sensory-opening mindfulness meditation, moments of slowly paced walking and pausing in nature to explore invitations to tune into specific senses and find a personally meaningful way to connect with nature. Intermittent circle shares allow the participant(s) to reflect aloud and be witnessed through deep listening, integrating their experiences and insights. The session is culminated with a closing circle of sharing tea or a healthy treat together with nature.

Book a private or private small-group guided forest-bathing session with Michelle.

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, Yoga or Forest-bathing 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

Michelle offers private sessions at a sliding scale rate in an effort to make her services available to diverse people while honoring the sustainability of her work. Sessions can be tailored to your preferred length of time. Typically, 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. A travel fee may apply to distances over 15 miles from Los Angeles zip code 90028.

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