Work with Michael
Working with Michael is a personalized process that meets you where you are. Through conversation, meditation, gentle breathwork, and self-inquiry, the work can help you quiet the noise, gain clarity, and deepen your connection to yourself.
Some people begin with breath retraining, while others begin with conversation and self-inquiry. The approach is flexible and guided by your goals, interests, and what feels most useful to you.
If you’re unsure where to begin, you’re welcome to schedule an introductory call or reach out by email to ask questions and explore what might be a good fit.
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Cary, NC Studio
Located in a residential neighborhood near downtown Cary, NC, the Cary Studio offers a relaxing space for either type of session. Individuals can sit comfortably on the chair, or rest on the massage table. Blankets and an eye pillow are provided if you wish to do a guided meditation.
Please be advised that a flight of steps are the only way to access the Cary Studio. A restroom is also available.
Virtual Sessions
Connect online from the comfort of your own home via Zoom. This is a great option for those who have very busy schedules or are not in the local Triangle area.
Spiritual and Philosophical Inquiry
In addition to his work with breathing and anxiety physiology, Michael has spent many years studying consciousness, non-dual awareness, and the deeper nature of the mind.
He helps individuals explore their own relationship to spiritual understanding and inner guidance. Conversations may include topics such as:
* the nature of awareness
* the illusion of psychological separation
* how shifts in perception can change our experience of anxiety, thought, and identity.
For many people, working with anxiety becomes a doorway into deeper questions about consciousness, perception, and what it means to live with greater clarity and awareness.
These conversations are not about adopting beliefs, but about helping individuals recognize and understand insight for themselves.
Those interested in exploring these ideas can discuss them during one-on-one sessions with Michael.
Invite Michael to Speak
Michael is available for podcast conversations, interviews, and speaking engagements on topics including anxiety, breathing physiology, perception, and non-dual awareness.
Podcast hosts, event organizers, and workshop facilitators are welcome to reach out.
Examples of Conversation Topics:
• Anxiety as a disturbance of perception
• The relationship between breathing and consciousness
• Analytical thinking vs inner guidance
• Non-dual awareness and the nature of mind
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Group Workshops and Classes
Michael offers group workshops and classes centered around gentle breathwork, meditation, and self-inquiry. Workshops can be hosted throughout the Raleigh area at yoga and wellness studios, functional medicine practices, counseling offices, and other community spaces, as well as online.
These approachable workshops offer simple practices to slow down, quiet the noise, and create space for greater clarity, connection, and presence.
Pricing & Packages
Choose a single session or a multi-session series depending on the level of support you’re looking for.
Single Session: $95
A 60-minute one-on-one session tailored to where you are and what you’d like to explore.
3-Session Series: $255
Three 60-minute sessions that allow more time to deepen the work, build on what comes up, and integrate the practices into daily life.
6-Session Series: $480
Six 60-minute sessions for those who want ongoing guidance, practice, and support over a longer period of time.
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Paradise Now Sessions
Paradise Now sessions take a dual approach to nonduality, bringing together the direct path of awakening with the alchemical path of transformation.
The direct approach draws from Dzogchen, Zen, Advaita Vedanta, and other direct-way traditions, using direct pointing and simple contemplative praxis to recognize the nondual Awareness already present beneath thought and the narrative self.
The complementary psychoenergetic approach works with the body, psyche, relationships, and subtle dimensions of experience through Jungian psychology, dreamwork, divination, magic, sexual alchemy, IHT breathwork, tummo, True Breathing, and other individualized practices.
Bridging these two approaches is Headset Theory, a contemporary model of awakening that understands ordinary consciousness as dominated by the linguistic, analytical left hemisphere, while the right hemisphere opens onto a broader, nonconceptual and intuitive mode of awareness.
Headset Theory identifies this deeper intelligence with what Western spiritual traditions have called the Guardian Angel.
Awakening involves restoring communication and balance between these two modes of consciousness, allowing the narrow narrative mind to become receptive to a larger intelligence that it ordinarily obscures.
The work is therefore both direct and developmental, recognizing the Awareness that is already present while restoring conscious relationship with this deeper intelligence and allowing it to guide the transformation of the psyche and the life.
Drawing from both Eastern and Western spirituality, contemporary science and quantum physics, and the work of figures such as Carl Jung, sessions are tailored to the individual rather than organized around a single tradition or technique.
The aim is not merely to glimpse nonduality, nor simply to improve the conditioned personality, but to bring awakening and transformation together through direct recognition of what you are alongside the gradual integrati
Anxiety-Focused Breath Retraining
For individuals seeking a structured approach to reducing anxiety and chronic stress. Sessions focus on improving breathing efficiency, increasing carbon dioxide tolerance, and stabilizing nervous system reactivity.
This pathway is practical, measurable, and grounded in the physiology of anxiety. Ideal for those who want a clear method for reducing baseline stress and anxiety intensity.
For those who want continued refinement and steady support. Ongoing weekly or monthly sessions provide:
• Review of breathing progress
• Adjustment of daily practices
• Troubleshooting stress patterns
• Breath-based guidance applied to current life situations
• Ongoing accountability and integration
These sessions are not only about breathing practice. They also provide a place for thoughtful dialogue about anxiety, perception, and the deeper psychological or spiritual questions people encounter along the way.
Many people appreciate having an ongoing conversation with someone who understands both the practical and philosophical dimensions of this work.
• Identifying dysfunctional breathing habits
• Improving CO₂ tolerance safely
• Reducing chronic overbreathing
• Increasing nervous system stability
• Building calm under stress