Wisdom Teacher : Author : Speaker
Transmitter of Ancient Song
Michelle Coutinho is a transformational leader, teacher, healer + guide.
Her Vocal Empowerment Coaching helps conscious professionals discover their authentic voice, embody their deepest purpose, and own their personal power.
A personal student of Ram Dass, she has woven the traditional path of Bhakti Yoga with her ceremonial + healing work learned from many years of holding space -- including singing in plant medicine ceremonies, guiding weekly rituals to a global audience via Insight Timer, and leading Vocal Empowerment workshops at retreats + transformational festivals worldwide, most recently in Egypt.
Her work is best described as transmission, where she uses her voice and presence to blend many modalities including working with mantra + shamanic song, energy work, yogic practices, somatic embodiment, intuitive counseling, and sound healing.
Her voice channels timeless wisdom + ancient song that awakens and opens the hearts of those who are ready to hear. She is the creator of Vocal Alchemy + Embodiment, a process that uses the voice as a gateway to the subtle body, releasing trauma and healing the psyche on a multidimensional level.
Michelle's work goes beyond traditional therapy, offering a rich, potent transmission of love, transmutation, and healing that touches the soul.
With a unique blend of intuition, empathy, and grounded wisdom traditions based in ancient lineages, Michelle has dedicated her life to empowering individuals to release their karmic blockages and step fully into their power and purpose.
Based out of Austin, Texas, she leads ceremonial spaces + works with clients worldwide. Her work weaves together many traditions sharing the common thread of the Infinite in Everything.
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Hello, I’m Michelle.
One of my favorite things in this world is to talk about consciousness.
My mother introduced me to Ram Dass when I was 15.
And like most sacred things that happen + shape our lives, it was seemingly impromptu. We were in Barnes & Noble and she picked up a copy of Be Here Now and handed it to me. This was before the angel number trend, but I got a kick out of the price being $14.14.
Soon after, she found an old cassette tape with his lectures on it recorded from the 70s. I listened to it constantly.
I had felt my whole life like I didn’t belong.
There was always something inside of me seeking the transcendent and the mystical. I carried the archetype of The Seer, The Wise One, The Oracle and so, I was often ostracized in social groups.
I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale in the 90s, and being an old soul I always hung out with older people. I took psychedelics at an early age and hung out at the Renaissance Festival and the Rave Scene. I was looking for spiritual truth.
But when I found Ram Dass speaking of what it was to have a spiritual awakening, and describing consciousness through his merging of eastern philosophy with western psychology — it felt like I had finally found something real.
His Jewish, North Eastern, Yogic bent was like home-cooked food to me. His vibe was familiar, and he taught me about concepts like forgiveness, karma, and soul family.
I spoke with him personally quite a few times in my twenties and early thirties through his Open Heart Talks via Skype. We met in person in 2012 on the island of Maui and spent some time together.
In one of our conversations, he asked me if I had any teachers and who my teacher was.
I was baffled by this question, and I said it was him. That he was my teacher.
He laughed at me lovingly and said,
“You’re doing pretty good for being self-taught.”
What is praised is one, so the praise is one too,
many jugs being poured into a huge basin.
All religions, all this singing, one song.
The differences are just illusion and vanity
Sunlight looks a little different
on this wall than it does on that wall
and a lot different on this other one,
but it is still one light.
We have borrowed these clothes,
these time-and-space personalities,
from a light, and when we praise,
we are pouring them back in.
—Rumi
My mission on this earth is to walk in beauty and to live in tune with the cosmic rhythms of the earth, the sea, and sky, and provide healing tools for others to do the same.
I will teach you to access more freedom in your mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic bodies, reclaim your power and your voice, and embody your True Alignment.
I am a teacher who has to become the medicine myself before I can turn around and share it.
I transmute wounds into wisdom. Anything I learn, I share it here with you..
In 2012, I became a College Professor, Yoga Teacher, and Transformational Facilitator simultaneously at the age of 29.
In 2012, I became a College Professor at Full Sail University, utilizing my background in Visual Art and Creative Consulting into teaching User Experience and Interface Design.
As I began to teach lectures in the classroom, one of the first times I did so, I had a vision. It was as if Athena herself had downloaded into my bones. I thought, “Oh, I have done this before.” This was part of my true nature. My multidimensional essence.
I spent my entire 30’s maturing and becoming this teacher + guide. Now in my early 40s, I feel as though this part of my soul has finally landed.
I feel like I get to bless each soul and put them on their path as I teach them to carry themselves with integrity and, “Walk as if they have wings in this world.”
Becoming a Space Holder
As I evolved through the transformational festival scene from 2012 - 2015 I stepped into becoming a sound healer. Through a series of dreams on whale consciousness, ceremonies, and transformational events I was activated.
The most prominent experience was when I felt as if a piece of my soul dropped into my being as I was handed a large, 18-inch, Native Drum for the first time during a ceremony at a festival in South Florida.
I started intuitively drumming behind people's throats and hearts and singing into their bodies. In medicine ceremonies, we sing Icaros which are living songs, where the vibration weaves a sacred geometry energetically in the room that creates a container that allows people to heal and transform. This is my soul work. I work with many prayers, Goddess Chants, Sanskrit Mantras, and weave them like Icaros in medicine ceremonies.
This was the very beginning of what I now offer as SOULSOUNDS each week on Insight Timer as well as in my coaching practice and when I facilitate ceremonial and psychedelic spaces.
My mission to help people attune to the Infinite in Everything. To remember how to access the multidimensional consciousness of oneness + universal love.
It seems nowadays we are more divided than ever. So I know this work is so important to embody here on earth. At a time when we need it the most.
In love, light, and warrior spirit,
Michelle Infinity
VOCAL EMPOWERMENT :: SOULSOUNDS
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Gather with like-minded beings from around the world for a multi-modality, healing ceremonial concert. Michelle will guide you using powerful tools such as mantra chanting, vocal toning, channeling, energy healing, and sound. She seamlessly integrates the multidimensional with the physical, bringing you into a state of peace + harmony of your mind, body and soul.
Elevate your vibration, clear your energy, and drop in deeply with yourself!