Michelle A. Smith

<b>Michelle A. Smith</b> began her career as a yoga teacher at Melt Hot Yoga and went on to complete her Master of Science in Yoga Therapy at Maryland University of Integrative Health. In her last few months of her master’ s program, the health system where Michelle worked announced that they would begin creating an Integrative Medicine program. Michelle reached out to the attending physician tasked with its creation and they began collaborating to create what is today a fully operational integrative medicine program. The modalities of yoga therapy, Reiki, and singing bowls have had a profound effect on Michelle in terms of healing from the loss of her father and the loss of hundreds of patients who became friends and surrendered to death through the disease of cancer. Additionally, the modalities helped Michelle find peace as she was simultaneously dealing with her own cervical cancer scare, a Crohn’ s disease diagnosis, and a fiancé who relapsed into drug abuse and infidelity. She currently resides in Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania.