Who I Am
My name is Jessa Michaels, and my path into yoga, meditation, and spiritual work began long before I ever taught a class.
When I was three years old, I burned my arm badly, and the next morning I told my family that Jesus had come and healed me. We weren’t a religious family, but from that moment on, I LOVED Jesus.
Years later, when I was 15 years old, I studied abroad in Spain during my junior year of high school. While I was there, my grandma died. I remember talking to my pastor about it, and he told me she wasn’t going to heaven because she hadn’t asked Jesus to be her Lord and Savior. But I knew Jesus, and that wasn’t the Jesus I knew. That moment changed something in me. I let go of religion and began walking a more spiritual path instead.
Many years later, I found the book Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch, and it deeply impacted me. His writing helped me understand that God is someone we can connect to directly, and it opened the door to a much deeper spiritual journey for me.
In 2012, my life changed forever after surviving a near-death experience during a car accident. Moments before a truck traveling nearly 60 miles an hour hit my car, I experienced a blue light surround us and felt my spirit lifted from my body. I understood, without words, that I was in the presence of Archangel Michael. I was shown a door and knew that if I walked through it, I would leave this life behind. I chose to stay, and in that instant, I was placed back into my body. The truck struck directly behind my driver’s seat, where no one was sitting. That experience profoundly shaped the way I relate to life and connect with Spirit.
Today, I share practices that help people reconnect with themselves through movement, breath, stillness, and presence. Whether I’m teaching group yoga classes, paddleboard yoga, chair yoga for businesses, meditation, or spiritual workshops, my intention is always the same: to create spaces where people can return to themselves and remember their own inner wisdom.
I believe healing is not about becoming someone else. It is about returning to who you truly are.
