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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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...
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Fierce Grace 30 with Michele
Our classically based yoga class with the FG hallmarks of strength, stamina, fluidity and relaxation with Founder Michele Pernetta. It all started here. The class that we designed to be easily adaptable for all levels.
Everything you ever wanted in a yoga class. Multi-level, multi-style. Fluid ...
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IN 30 with Michele
Improve joint mobility and open your whole body while gradually getting wound down, de-stressed and softened in our popular IN class with Michele.
This entirely floor based yoga/physiotherapy class will reach deeper in to muscle, joints and attachments, releasing and stretching deeply. Release...
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Deep Core Groove in Tuscany with Michele
Get a taste for our annual Tuscany retreat as Michele takes you through a relaxed 70 minute version of Deep Core from the yoga deck of our Tuscany Retreat centre La Chimera.
There is a suggested playlist below, to help you loosen up more deeply.
A slightly different take on this popular class ...
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FG2 90 #2 with Michele
The second specially recorded full length version of FG2.
A development of the main Fierce Grace class. Experiment with optional more advanced versions of poses, allowing deeper exploration for the intermediate, while beginners can remain safely in the earlier expression of the pose.
Alchemic...
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S.O.B. (Stiff, Old or Broken) 30 with Michele
A 30 minute version of our unique foundation yoga class for the beginner or the stiff, old or broken taught by Fierce Grace founder Michele.
15 years in the making - this yoga/physio hybrid class is a powerful tool to create a solid foundation in your body and also in your yoga practice. Origina...
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Deep Core 30 with Michele
The deepest stretch out there in our ever popular Deep Core class taught by FG founder Michele.
This condensed version of Deep Core brings you the best of the cult class that is favoured by both men and women alike, from athletes to the very stiff.
Foundation standing poses improve alignment w...
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WILD 30 with Michele
A 30 minute taster session of our uplifting cardio-kundalini, sculpting, strength class.
GET RIPPED (not torn.) WILD is a unique combination of Yoga’s strength poses, Kundalini Yoga, Core strengthening, Qui Gong, HIIT and Super Slow training. Constant movement combined with long slow strength h...
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FIIT 30 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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Fierce Abs with Michele
Strengthen, slim and tone your entire core with FG Founder Michele.
Target each group of abdominal muscles with our unique blend of yoga, power conditioning, pilates and bootcamp exercises.
The class has been designed to be safe for the unfit, while challenging for the fit. A yoga warm up, a...
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Primal 30 with Michele
Get back your primitive, animal freedom with this condensed version of our popular Primal class, taught by Fierce Grace founder Michele Pernetta.
Expect the key foundation poses from the FG system. A breath-led Warrior sequence, flowing dance like moves coupled with groan inducing core and uppe...
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Fierce Grace 90 Group Class with Michele
Everything you always wanted in a yoga class. The full 90 minute Fierce Grace class experience taught by FG founder Michele, shot in pre-pandemic times at Sunbeam studios with Fierce Grace teachers, friends and regulars.
Our signature, user-friendly but challenging general level class. Multi-le...
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Deep Core 75 Group Studio Class with Michele
The deepest stretch out there.
Our popular Deep Core class taught by FG founder Michele in a group setting.
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 focusses mainly on the flexibilit...
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Fierce Grace 60 Group Studio Class with Michele
The yoga class that does it all. The main class in the FG system taught by FG founder Michele with studio regulars at Fierce Grace Primrose Hill, pre-lockdown.
A user-friendly but challenging general level class, Fierce Grace is everything you ever wanted in a yoga class. Multi-level, multi-sty...
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Fierce Grace 75 with Michele
Our signature Fierce Grace class but a little shorter with a few poses taken out and a few variations added in. 75 minutes of Flowing Warm up, Warrior Series, Balancing, Arm Strengthening, Core Work, Back Strengthening and Leg Stretching. With a couple of glamour poses thrown in.
Work every inc...
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Partner Stretching with Michele
Michele Pernetta takes you and a partner through a series of exercises involving passive stretches and partnered releases based in Yoga, Shiatsu, Thai massage and simple bodyweight relaxations.
Expect to feel relaxed, stretched, more flexible and like you've just had a massage therapist, osteopa...
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Deep Core 75 Livestream with Michele
The deepest stretch out there in our ever popular Deep Core class taught by FG founder Michele.
This cult class is favoured by both men and women alike, from athletes to the very stiff.
Foundation standing poses improve alignment while this mainly floor based class allows us to drop any desire ...
