founder and matriarch of her sanctuary
Meet
Michelle Young, MA
I am a priestess, a spiritual mentor, a teacher, and a community builder.
An entrepreneur, master ceremonialist, and facilitator. A writer, yogi, and soul midwife.
For twenty years, I have been leading and serving women in the deepest of ways, walking beside them through transformation, healing, and awakening.
My purpose, my life’s work, is to bring women together in sacred feminine community, so we can heal, remember, and rise during this critical time on Earth.
We are at a turning point in history.
We feel the collective call to rise, to break patterns, to speak truth, to take up space, to bring our gifts forward. And we find the courage to do this with and through one another. This is why Her Sanctuary is here.
Where It All Began...
i've had a front row seat to the lives of women
One of my most formative journeys was founding and running a women’s yoga, healing, and community center in California for over a decade. There, I had a front-row seat to the lives of thousands of women, to our exhaustion, fear, and desires, and to the beauty, strength, and wisdom that surface when we gather.
I witnessed what we’re truly missing in modern life: depth, connection, and sacred space to be fully seen.
After earning my Master’s Degree, running my studio, studying the Divine Feminine for decades through the 13 Moon Mystery School, and sitting at the feet of extraordinary spiritual teachers, I came to understand something simple and profound:
What women want, and what we need, is simple.
We need each other.
the practice:
The Lineage Beneath the Sanctuary
From those early years of teaching and witnessing in my first studio, The Practice was born — my foundational body of work guiding women into feminine embodiment, self-devotion, and sacred leadership.
In my first studio, women originally came for yoga, but it quickly became clear they were craving something deeper. They wanted to connect, not just to their bodies, but to their truth, to each other, and to something holy.
I listened. I attuned. And I began to open the space to our voices. Women spoke. Tears flowed. Walls softened. Transformation happened, simply through presence and being witnessed.
That was the beginning of The Practice.
Over the past 15 years, it has evolved into a living feminine spiritual system, one that blends sacred feminine teachings, ritual, shadow work, and ceremony to guide women home to themselves.
The Practice is not class or a workshop, it's a way of being. A devotion. A rhythm of living in alignment with the feminine.
The Practice is the tapestry behind Her Sanctuary.
It's really hard to put into words —
THIS COMMUNITY IS SIMPLY PUT, PURE MAGIC.
— DIANE, ENTREPRENEUR
her sanctuary is...
a temple and lounge
We gather for ritual, connection, tea, lounge time, and ceremony.
a sacred social club
This is a place where we can deepen friendships and build a true sisterhood.
a home for feminine leaders
We are a temple space for feminine leaders to offer their gifts and services.
a place to belong.
a feminine space of devotion
After two decades of leading circles, mentoring women, and building communities, the next evolution of my work revealed itself — Her Sanctuary.
It's community and connection and a sense of belonging. It feels like a deep sigh of relief. It's women supporting women and bringing back the ancient practice of devoted sisterhood, ceremony, and ritual. It's remembering who we are as strong, courageous, empowered, wise women, and having a space to speak our truth. This is a community of care. It's like a church for the sacred feminine.
Her Sanctuary is the living embodiment of The Practice — a temple for women to remember who they are, together.
you might be wondering...
who is 'she'?
She is the longing in your heart to live a different way. She is the nudge and the ache inside your body, begging you to listen. She is your intuition, your hidden wisdom, the part you that dreams and desires. She is the voice that is often ignored, the truth that begs for freedom.
She is the mother. The grandmother. The rising matriarch and the dancing maiden. She is the full range of Woman. She is compassion and she is rage. She is creation and she is destruction. She is wild stunning grace.
She is the divine that has been forgotten. The sacred feminine that whispers through the breeze and the trees and the ocean's beating heart. She is what wants to be remembered.
My dear, she is you and she is me.
She is Her.
“Every time I show up in this community I feel more connected.”
“I’ve been a part of Michelle’s programs for ten years, and every time I show up for myself, I feel more connected to a community of women, to my truth, and how I’m leading in my business and family.”
— jadah sellner, business coach and auther of 'she builds'
"I have so much gratitude for this community”
So much gratitude to this circle of extraordinary women who filled my heart with so much joy, comfort and inspiration.
— akiko, mom and reiki healer
“My life has been truly transformed because of this community."
Any fears, shame, or loneliness that I carried around with me were allowed to be witnessed and held without judgment. Any unworthiness or doubt that I felt about myself began to drip away as I opened up and let my voice be heard.
— jackie jordan, spiritual mentor and teacher
WE are
AWAKENED WOMEN who KNOW the VALUE OF CONNECTION.
we seek depth and truth
AND AUTHENTIC SISTERHOOD that HOLDS US
We are mothers, grandmothers, leaders, visionaries, care-takers, married, divorced, healers, space holders, and community gatherers. We are the full range of Woman. We have experienced life, been brought to our knees, felt death, grief, and the deepest love. We are strong, resilient, and fierce. We are every color, every shape, every size, and every expression. The thing that unites us is the desire for real, authentic, feminine community and to live a life outside of patriarchal rules.
