Michele Pernetta
Fierce Grace Founder & Chief Instructor, Yoga Alliance Senior Teacher (UK and USA), Certified Ashtanga Vinyasa teacher, Certified Rocket® teacher, Fierce Grace teacher and Certified Bikram teacher. Martial Arts Tae Kwon Do Black Belt, ITEC Certified Massage therapist.
Michele brought Hot Yoga to the UK and Europe in 1994. After opening four Hot Yoga studios, and becoming the UK’s leading Hot Yoga business, Michele launched Fierce Grace in 2013.
Michele Pernetta studied martial arts for 10 years, as well as dance and gymnastics. She began studying with Bikram Choudhury in LA in 1990 when she was trying to avoid knee surgery. This awakened her keen interest in yoga for healing injuries.
Michele has over 25 years' teaching experience. She has also written and contributed to countless magazine and newspaper articles and appeared on many TV and radio programmes. Michele has been a judge five times at the International Bishnu Charan Ghosh Yoga Championships. Michele was a fashion designer for 17 years, trained at the prestigious Saint Martins School of Art and has designed costumes for award-winning films. She has been a spiritual practitioner of a Buddhist discipline for 25 years and has a keen interest in homoeopathy and Ayurveda.
Michele has trained personally with the famous Larry Schultz in Ashtanga Vinyasa, and also credits Erich Schiffman, Brian Kest and Steve Walther with inspiring her in her work on Fierce Grace.
Fierce Grace is the culmination of all her years of study and her observation of the over a quarter of a million bodies she has had the privilege to observe in her years of teaching in her four London studios. She leads the FG Teacher Training programme, teaches on her FG Retreats and at workshops, festivals and seminars around the world.
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Neck, Shoulder and Upper Back Release with Michele
Michele will take you through a series of stretches to lengthen, open and release tension in your neck, shoulders, trapezius, deltoids and spine.
The mainly floor based sequence will take you through poses that deliver traction and circulation to the spine and neck. Breath based micro-movements ...
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Working with Back Injuries in Yoga Classes with Michele
Get expert tips for how to work with back pain or a back injury in online and offline yoga classes.
This short 15 minute guide will give you some safety tips, and show some common mistakes in yoga poses.
Michele discovered yoga while working with knee injuries and has a special interest in w...
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Working with Knee Injuries in Yoga Classes with Michele
Tips and modifications for working with a knee injury in both online an offline yoga classes. Michele covers the three main types of knee pain and how to work with them in this 12 minute tutorial.
Michele herself fixed both her knees with yoga and avoided knee surgery. She shares best practice ...
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Fierce Abs Livestream #3 with Michele
Michele leads you through this 30 minute abdominal strengthening class to slim and tone your entire core.
Each Fierce Abs class on FGTV has slight changes each time so you can vary your workout.
Target each group of abdominal muscles with our unique blend of yoga, power conditioning, pilates...
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Fierce Flow 15 - A Sun Salutation Experience with Michele
This 15 minute Sun Salute based flow takes you into challenging poses to strengthen your muscles while freeing your mind.
Dragon, Cartwheel, Twisted Cartwheel, Ab toners, Triangle, Extended Side Angle and other surprises branch off the Sun Salutation to ensure you feel invigorated, challenged a...
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IN 75 with Michele in Positano
Improve joint mobility and open your whole body while gradually getting wound down, de-stressed and softened in our popular IN class, taught by Michele in Positano, Italy.
This entirely floor based yoga/physiotherapy class will reach deeper in to muscle, joints and attachments, releasing and st...
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Desk Yoga with Michele
A desk sequence you can perform without leaving your chair. If you're on your computer reading this - why not just do it now?
Release hips, back, legs, shoulders, arms, hands and neck in the time it takes to have a tea break. With everyone spending too much time on the computer, this mini seque...
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Fierce Abs Livestream #2 with Michele
Michele leads you through this 30 minute abdominal strengthening class to slim and tone your entire core.
Each Fierce Abs class on FGTV has slight changes each time so you can vary your workout.
Target each group of abdominal muscles with our unique blend of yoga, power conditioning, pilates...
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FIIT 30 Variation in the desert with Michele
With variations each time, FIIT will always fire up new muscles.
This 30 minute version of our full length class will get you fighting FIIT. Each of the four sets work legs, arms and abs ensuring your whole body is worked evenly.
This smart HIIT class is based on yoga and functional movements,...
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De-stress, Calm and Sleep with Michele
A short yoga sequence and breathing exercise to quieten the mind and stretch the body, with specific emphasis on poses that calm the nervous system and stimulate the "feel good" and sleep-wake cycle hormones.
Hands to Feet Pose, Prasarita Pose, Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee Pose all stretc...
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Morning Rites with Michele
A short refreshing morning ritual loosely inspired by the Tibetan Rites and our own WILD class. Morning Rites harks back to ancient times in a modern and fresh approach and delivers flexibility and a feeling of openness.
We flush the body with oxygen through Fire Breath, stimulate the spine and ...
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Foot Yoga with Michele
25 mins of everything you need to really take care of your feet (except a pedicure!)
For the stiff unfit foot - to the hardworking athletic foot - we all need these exercises to keep our feet functioning as they should.
Work through strengthening, stretches, releases, balancing, joint alignmen...
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Quick Abs Flow with Michele
A 17 minute core strengthening sequence, targeting all the core muscles as well as strengthening the upper body, including arms, upper back and wrists.
This is a user friendly class for all levels which has the added benefit of modifications for an ankle injury, as our lovely demonstrator Nicol...
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Fierce Grace 90 Livestream with Michele
A recorded live stream of our signature full-length Fierce Grace class taught by founder Michele.
Our signature, user-friendly but challenging general level class. Multi-level, multi-style. Fluid and expansive. Strength and power balanced by depth and relaxation.
Fluid but not a “flow” class,...
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Fierce Abs #2 with Michele
Strengthen, slim and tone your entire core with FG Founder Michele Pernetta.
Target each group of abdominal muscles with our unique blend of yoga, power conditioning, pilates and bootcamp exercises.
This class has been designed to be accessible for the less fit, while still challenging for t...
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FIIT 30 #2 with Michele
FIIT - FIERCE INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING. Beautiful and Beastly.
What happens when classical yoga meets traditional Bootcamp and cardio drills in a high intensity interval training format? An east/west fusion that gets you FIIT FAAST.
Expect a fluid yoga-inspired warm up, Yoga/HIIT hybrid dr...
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Introduction to Breath with Michele
Michele gives a simple introduction to breath control in yoga. She discusses some of the challenges a beginner may face and takes us through the mechanics of correct breathing. She then introduces the simple form of "retention" breath (Kumbhaka) and finally adds the "locks" (Bandhas.)
Level - Al...
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Sun Salutation Tutorial with Michele
Learn the in depth alignment protocols for the FG Sun Salutation.
Michele shares a teacher's workshop on how to correctly perform (or teach) this Classical Hatha Yoga Sun Salutation.
Michele breaks the sequence down and shows where common mistakes can occur and how to ensure you get the most ...
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FG/FG2 30 Minute Mash Up with Michele
Michele will take you through a 30 minute mix of FG and FG2 for a fun, fast effective session to get you fit and fired up.
Expect the framework of an FG class with some new poses, and a slightly faster pace.
Level: All
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Deep Core 75 Livestream #2 with Michele
The deepest stretch out there.
Our popular Deep Core class taught by FG founder Michele Pernetta as a recorded live-streamed class.
This cult class is favoured by both men and women alike, from athletes to the very stiff.
Suitable for beginners and advanced students alike, Deep Core focusse...
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FG2 55 in the desert with Michele
Bring some heat, power and freedom to your day with our sunny FG2 in the desert with Michele and Tara.
Take a vacation in your mind with our shorter FG2 class which delivers its signature freedom and fun without some of the harder poses.
Explore variations, the unexpected, optional advanced po...
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Yoga for Runners & Cyclists 45
Designed for runners and cyclists but a great class for anyone wanting to stretch tight hamstrings, hip flexors, glutei, quads, IT bands, psoas, calves and feet.
This sequence can also help relieve knee, hip or lower back pain caused by an imbalance in the musculature of the lower body. Designed...
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Fierce Abs Livestream with Michele
Michele leads you through this 30 minute abdominal strengthening class to slim and tone your entire core.
Each Fierce Abs class on FGTV has slight changes each time so you can vary your workout.
Target each group of abdominal muscles with our unique blend of yoga, power conditioning, pilates...
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Classic 60 with Michele
This motivating class develops alignment while building strength, stamina, and flexibility.
Our Classic yoga class is a great foundation class that is suitable for all ages and levels from the unfit to the experienced. Work through foundation poses that run throughout the FG yoga system. Build s...
