About Michael Sala

I am a (temporarily or permanently) retired social worker who spent the majority of my 20+ year career working with children, primarily in Special Education. I learned a great deal about emotional arousal, co-regulation, trauma, cultivating a mindful and peaceful presence, and in retrospect, although we tend not to use this word professionally, love. My interests expanded holistically over time to include becoming a yoga instructor, a Thai bodyworker, and an energy medicine practitioner. After a perspective-changing, mystical experience in 2007, I added spirituality to my growing list of pursuits. From 2013 to 2015, I enjoyed a sabbatical from working life while moving across the world with my husband to live in Mumbai, India. This was a time of great learning on many levels. Upon returning to Minnesota, my passion turned toward end of life. I volunteered and then worked as a social worker in hospice care for a total of three and a half years. Learning about death helped me to deepen my understanding of allowance (i.e., non-judgment), unconditional love, and impermanence. I currently learn about early childhood development through working as a classroom assistant at a Montessori preschool, where my day-to-day life feels simple (though not easy) and meaningful, and my life lessons include gratitude, patience, humility, and, again, love.

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​I began as a yoga student in Austin, TX, in 1996. I completed yoga teacher training through the Yoga Center of Minneapolis in 2007 and became a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance that same year. After 1000 hours of teaching, I reached my current designation as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT).

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I completed Thai Yoga Bodywork training with Tanya Boigenzahn in Minneapolis in 2010 and became a Registered Thai Therapist (RTT) with Thai Healing Alliance International (THAI) in 2011. I completed a monthlong intensive study with Rahul Bharti at the Healing Hands Center in Puducherry, India, in 2014.

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​​I completed my primary energy medicine training in Multidimensional Waveform Healing with Cindi Claypatch in Minneapolis in 2011.
I completed the Basic Pranic Healing Course sponsored by World Pranic Healing Foundation, Inc., in Mumbai, India, in 2013, and training in Access Bars/Access Consciousness in Mumbai, India, in 2015.​
​To learn about my work in spiritual care and end-of-life care, please click here.

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"​You know, usually, people talk about, well, this is the history of a thing. And it is, but that history
is birthed out of the imagination. It literally was conjured up. Imagination is so powerful
that it could set forth 400, 500 years of something wrong, which means
that it very well could set forth 400, 500 years of something right.
That’s sort of the beauty of humanity."

Jason Reynolds
Michael Sala     Imagine Better     Eden Prairie, MN     952-201-7461