Align & Restore Healing Yoga Retreats
A profound week focused on structural, physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual alignment and holistic healing.
Exploring the deep connection between alignment, healing, and longevity in your yoga practice.
With compassionate guidance and clear instruction, you'll discover how rooting through the feet and aligning the spine can bring profound balance-physically, emotionally, and energetically. Through morning and evening sessions, supported self-inquiry, and a nurturing space for all bodies, you'll leave feeling empowered and inspired in your own practice.
UPCOMING RETREAT dates - ALIGN & RESTORE WITH MICHELLE
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28 March - 4 April 2026 - Align, Restore and Journaling, with Michelle and Lara O`Brien
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11 - 18 April 2026
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12 - 19 September 2026
ABOUT THE RETREAT
Unravel all stress, dis-ease, discomfort and anxiety. Come and learn the right corrective action and various powerful conscious tools to be at mental peace and physical comfort in your daily existence.
One’s life story is felt, witnessed, expressed, carried, stored and experienced inside and on our bodies. There is an intimate connection between our mental state and how the body is showing up for us.
Precision in alignment and understanding how to execute a pose harmoniously is vital for the health and comfort of the spine. Poses, “the asanas” will be taught and explained in such clear detail that students will experience them in structural alignment, comfort, clarity and ease. When a posture is taught and executed correctly, areas that are weak will strengthen and places that are over worked, stressed, tense or contracted, will soften. Balance can be achieved.
Breath awareness weaved throughout the week: maintaining that the healing journey is authentic, meditative and yogic on all levels. In truth, Yoga is a mental science, we are using our bodies as a vehicle to purify the mind.
Daily conscious practices, movement medicine, somatics, guided and silent meditation, cacao ceremony, forest walks, trauma release techniques, delicious healthy food, sauna and swimming, transformative bodywork, yoga workshops and sound will be experienced to help
you on your path towards health.
After a week of guided practice, passive and active inversions, immunity, nervous system and
hormonal work, you will leave feeling renewed, restored, PAIN FREE, peaceful and have a
confident understanding of how to practice at home daily on your own.
Transform and change your life!
LOVE Michelle
ACCOMMODATION & PRICING
ANANDA LAXMI SUPERIOR SUITE : Solo - €1750 , Sharing - €1455
HONEYMOON YURT : Solo - €1645, Sharing - €1400
DELUXE DBL EN SUITE : Solo - €1595, Sharing - €1395
DBL ROOM shared bathroom : Solo - €1385, Sharing - €1185
TWIN ROOM shared bathroom : Solo - €1385, Sharing - €1185
TWIN ROOM PRIVATE bathroom : Solo - €1500, Sharing - €1325
ECO CASA DBL bed (external bathroom) Solo - €1285, Sharing - €1085
MINI DOME DBL (external bathroom) Solo - €1285, Sharing - €1085
MINI DOME TWIN (external bathroom) Solo - €1285, Sharing - €1085
MINI DORM ROOM (4 single beds) - Sharing - €990
For more details regarding the accommodation types click here:
PLEASE CONTACT MICHELLE DIRECTLY TO CHECK WHICH ROOMS ARE STILL AVAILABLE:
WHAT´S INCLUDED:
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Daily Morning Yoga Session & Late morning Workshops
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Afternoon Restorative Yoga / Meditation
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All meals are Vegetarian with Vegan options (Buffet style, no refined sugar used)
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Unlimited fruit, tea & coffee available 24 hrs/day
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Unlimited use of the outdoor Salt water swimming Pool
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One sauna evening session
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Meditation ‘Garden of Stilness’ available for use at any time
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Usage of the Yoga props
Further OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES will be offered, such as:
Treatments with Michelle
Cacao Ceremony
Waterfall swim
Mindful forest walk
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AN EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER, Patricia, Dublin
Michelle is an exceptional yoga teacher with a truly unique approach to her practice. She has a remarkable ability to read the room, intuitively understanding what the class needs in that moment. No two classes are ever the same, yet each one is thoughtfully guided with detailed instruction, deep knowledge, and genuine care.
Her understanding of body, mind, and spirit brings a depth to her teaching that I have never experienced elsewhere. Michelle’s attention to alignment allows me to explore postures more deeply and safely, often accessing positions I didn’t think possible. She creates a supportive, calming space where intention and mindfulness are woven into every movement, leaving me both energized and deeply relaxed, with a greater sense of self-awareness.
I’ve been attending Michelle’s classes in Dublin and her retreats in Suryalila since 2022, and in over 20 years of practicing different yoga modalities, I’ve never encountered a teacher quite like her. Whether you are new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, Michelle offers a unique, deep healing experience that always leaves you feeling balanced, renewed, and inspired.
About Michelle
I have been holding space for healing and doing energy work since 2006. I have been teaching Yoga & Meditation full time since 2009. My development as both teacher and practitioner has drawn on experience, inspiration and trainings from different styles of Yoga over the many years. The precision, therapeutic and alignment focus of Iyengar Yoga is my main inspiration, and I connect deeply with the authentic Hatha principles of action and non action and its traditional philosophy and spirituality. Physical, energetic, mental, structural, emotional and spiritual alignment is my souls work , passion and calling.
I have taught in various countries in Europe including England, Spain, Ireland, Italy, the USA and many spots in Africa. I was based teaching and studying in India between 2014 and 2019: deepening my wisdom in the ancient healing therapies of Yoga, Massage, the study of Ayurveda and the power of Dance. My personal journey and goal of freedom, keeps me constantly driven through a process of self reflection, increased awareness and helping others to find physical and mental space. I am currently based in the South of Spain, immersed in the my self enquiry and helping others on their own path.
QUALIFICATIONS:
2006 - Certified Reiki 1, Reiki 2 and Reiki Masters Degree in "Hands on Healing"
2007 - Full Body Chi Massage Course 400 hours
2009 - Apprenticeship with Jax Jai in Ashtanga Primary Series in Cape Town, SA - 300 hours
2010 - RYT 200 Ashtanga / Vinyasa Teacher Training Course in Cape Town, SA @ Africa Yoga in St Francis Bay with Maria Taylor
2011 - Bikram & Yin training at Yoga Life in Cape Town. 300 Hours
2013 - RYT 200 Introduction to Forrest Yoga in March in Cape Town with Ana Forrest
- 120 hrs Advanced Forrest training at Triyoga in London in August with Ana Forrest
- 100 hrs Anusara Advanced Teacher’s Immersion with Patrick Creelman in Cape Town in October
2014 - 5 months immersed in India - practising Iyengar, Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga with various Indian teachers
- 80 hrs Synergy Immersion with Simon Borg-Olivier, the co-founder of Synergy Yoga Australia
2015 : India- 300 Hours Intensive "Pranic Healing" Course and 250 hours Teachers Training Course Level 1 Iyengar Yoga with Master Yoga Teacher Sharat Arora (student of BKS Iyengar for 8 years)
2016 : India - 300 Hours Intensive Ayurveda Course and 250 hours Teachers Training Course Level 2 Iyengar Yoga with Master Yoga Teacher Sharat Arora
2017 : Teaching full time at the Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre in Arambol, Goa during Winter & Dharamkot Centre in the Himalayas in the summer
2017 August : Resident Yoga teacher at the Italy Contact Camp in Tuscany
2018 March : Resident Yoga Teacher at the Thailand Contact Dance Festival in Koh Pangan
2018 September : Completed my 7th Vipassana 10 Day Silent Retreat
2019 January: Yoga Therapy Courses in Arambol, India
2020 January : Yoga Therpay Courses in Arambol, India
2024: Teaching, Massaging in Europe
2025: Massage Therapis, Yoga Teacher and RETREAT holder at Suryalila Retreat Center in Spain