speaker

Michelle Fury

MA, C-IAYT, LPC

Therapy

Psychotherapy, Counselor

Michelle Fury, Founder and Owner of Rhythms Yoga Training, is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a C-IAYT, and a pioneer in the field of pediatric yoga therapy. She is also the author of Using Yoga Therapy to Promote Mental Health in Children & Adolescents. As a licensed therapist, she has decades of experience counseling kids, teens and families on mental health and trauma issues. Today, she seamlessly combines her clinical mental health experience and yoga expertise in the yoga therapy training she offers. Michelle was named the first full-time yoga therapist in a hospital setting by IAYT when she worked at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

For nearly 15 years, she helped the hospital develop its yoga therapy, which evolved into a flagship program now emulated by other hospitals. Michelle is very well-known in the therapeutic yoga world. In addition to her book, she has presented at numerous conferences on the mental health benefits of yoga for kids. She’s written articles and co-authored a chapter in Heather Mason’s & Kelly Birch’s Yoga for Mental Health. She’s also been featured in top media including U.S. News & World Report, the Wall Street Journal, Yoga Journal and Embody.