Michelle Ayn Tessensohn

Michelle Ayn Tessensohn is a healer and guide with two decades of professional experience in healing arts and personal development. Her interest is in helping others to heal so they can express their gifts, abilities and purpose more fully. 

✳ How it all started.

In 1994, after a personal crisis or spiritual initiation as she now sees it, Michelle made the conscious decision to answer her calling to train as a healer so she could do meaningful work helping others and learn to be balanced herself. She sought out the best teachers and training she could and experienced more initiations that deepened her ability to support others in their healing and spiritual journeys.

✳ The training.

In 1997, she completed a year-long intensive yoga and meditation training with two yogis then went on to train for five years in zen shiatsu, attaining a diploma from the Devon School of Shiatsu. She received a BTEC higher national diploma in counselling and diploma in psycho-spiritual counselling from the Sacred Space Institute of Counselling and Psychotherapy in the UK. She worked with flower essences, aromatherapy, herbalism and natural remedies when she took on a job as a natural health consultant as she trained as a healer.

Her life took on new meaning when she combined her training and experience to offer a modality she called Shiatsu Healing which she practised and taught for ten years. She also travelled to South America to work with plant medicines and deepen into ritual through indigenous traditions for four years. In an effort to learn more tools to help her clients live in an intentional and heartfelt way, she certified as a life and master coach with Dr. Martha Beck in 2011 and 2014 respectively.

She began guiding informal meditation classes in 2014 then completed the certification requirements for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program run by the Awareness Training Institute and Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley. She attended Family Constellation trainings on inherited family trauma and certified as an ancestral lineage healing practitioner with Ancestral Medicine. She is also a certified NARM practitioner.

✳ Where she is now.

Along with working one-to-one with clients, Michelle gives talks, classes and offers self-healing and self-mastery programmes in person and online. She also supports the personal and cultural transformation courses run by Ancestral Medicine and mentors trainee practitioners. She has been featured at the Heart, Mind, and Body Festival, interviewed by Connected Women, on WKRZ 91.3, 93.8 Live, Razor TV, and Primetime Morning on Channel News Asia.

For almost three decades she has dedicated her life to her spiritual path and self-healing. It has given her contentment, meaning and peace, She feels blessed to be able to help others heal and live their best lives.

Her approach is diverse, trauma-sensitive, and inclusive.

✳ Something more personal.

Michelle is a fifth-generation Singaporean Eurasian and lives on the ancestral lands of the Orang Laut in Singapore.

Her ancestors are from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Melanesia, England, Scotland, Holland, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and the Iberian peninsula.

When she’s not working, she enjoys getting outdoors for walks in thoughtful company, cooking, Korean dramas, watching films at the Projector and Latin dance. She is currently working on a memoir about her personal journey of healing.


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“I was feeling very stuck on an issue in my personal life that I’ve grappled for years to deal with. Michelle has a very calm presence, which put me at ease immediately. Her firm (but gentle) energy that told me she wasn’t going to let me just coast through the session without really digging deep and examining the underlying issues at hand. She means business and is committed to helping you work through whatever challenges you are facing while providing a safe and supportive environment in which to do it. It was an incredibly fruitful session that transformed the way I felt about the issue and equipped me with practical tools to deal with it. The benefits have continued well beyond our session. Thank you so much!”

XL, Singapore

“After working with you I have more trust in myself. You planted the seeds for bravery and a thirst for integrity. I learned about collaboration, accountability, how to trust in my abilities and the courage to try things out. You didn’t push any agenda on me and allowed whatever needed to come out to have its time to flow. And you didn’t make me dependent, you urged me to fly from the nest quickly! You are gentle, calm yet cognisant of the need for establishing boundaries, truly professional and also a wonderful speaker and group facilitator.”

Marixi Salud, Endorsed Mind Body Coach

“Thank you Michelle! You are a gift! I’m extremely grateful to have found you. Thank you for your love, compassion, empathy and for all that you’ve taught me and the great energy you always channel. I’m going to continue to do the work and hope to see you soon!”

Calina, Singapore

“What I like about you is your compassion and ability to relate. Your gentle guidance and honesty. You have helped me recognise my true virtue and the power within myself to live my mission. You guided me to tap into my own wisdom and helped me create a reservoir within to draw my own resources and work through my own challenges. Something within me has changed and evolved for the better, and you have a significant part to play in that metamorphosis.”

Sherlin Giri, Lecturer and Trainer

“I believe the advice and methods that Michelle showed to me was essential in helping me move closer to my dreams and I consistently refer to those skills I picked up from our sessions to help me live my life to my fullest potential.”

Camille Lim, Producer, Nissan Global Media Center

“I felt like I’d tried everything and although it had all helped a little bit, nothing had been the silver bullet I was hoping for – but working with you approached the same problems from a completely different angle.

Now I have a different perspective, clearer boundaries and more insight into what’s really going on with me. I feel much more hopeful and in control of how I feel. I’ve learnt to use some tools that I’ll be able to refer back to and use again whenever I need them in the future.”

Sophy Dale, Edinburgh

“Michelle is one truly amazing individual. She makes you feel right at home, safe and comfortable enough to open up and deal with your emotions and issues. Her positive energy and radiant smile shines throughout and makes you feel hopeful and optimistic for the future. Michelle has given me immense strength to start opening my heart to others and start trusting myself.”

Kephren Ayanari, Events Management Professional