Michelle C. Johnson

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher and director, racial equity consultant and educator, and intuitive and shamanic healer. Her work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, returning to wholeness, and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She has also worked for over two decades as a clinical social worker, and she teaches yoga.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary and a Master's in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has worked in several non-profits and served as an elected official in North Carolina from 2011 to 2016. Her Dismantling Racism trainings have been led with corporations, non-profits and community groups, including Duke University, Kripalu, Yoga Alliance and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her work also aims to make the wellness industry more inclusive and accessible.

Michelle is the author of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World, Finding Refuge, We Heal Together, A Space For Us, Illuminating Our True Nature, and The Wisdom of the Hive, written with Amy Burtaine. Her book You Are Protected: Invoking Spiritual Support to Sustain Your Energy follows. She gave a TEDx talk at Wake Forest University in 2019, and in 2020 she created the podcast Finding Refuge, which ran four seasons on collective grief and liberation.

She facilitates workshops and immersions, leads retreats nationwide, and offers healing services for individuals and groups. Whether in an anti-oppression training, a yoga space, or an intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness sit at the center of her approach. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, her dog Jasper, and her honeybees.