Micheline is an Artist, Filmmaker, and Embodiment Mentor whose work integrates somatic practice, immersive travel, art, and deep encounters in nature to awaken the body’s innate intelligence as a wellspring for creative renewal. She has guided thousands—rock stars and artists, impact leaders and cultural change-makers, somatic practitioners and dancers—through journeys that restore presence, ignite creativity, and foster embodied connection.

Micheline holds a B.A. in Film Production and advanced to candidacy for both a M.F.A. in Film Direction and a M.A. in Dance as Healing and Therapy at UCLA, where her early research explored the relationship between performance, narrative, and embodied healing. Her methodology is shaped by decades of study in yoga, postmodern dance, Buddhist meditation, and Afro-diasporic movement, ritual and rhythm, and is deeply informed by the work of Victor Turner, Simone Forti, Laurie Anderson, and other artists and thinkers whose work helped shape her understanding of movement, story, and embodied expression.

She is the founder of Liquid Asana Vinyasa, a teacher training and somatic leadership program based in Brazil. She has led over 100 immersive retreats and somatic trainings across the globe, including the Atlantic rainforests of Bahia, the Tuscia hills of Italy, the cliffs of Esalen in Big Sur, and the highlands of a New Mexican Zen center—each landscape shaping the rhythm and language of her work. Each experience she curates invites participants into deeper intimacy with their bodies, the land, and one another—honoring our interdependence as a source of belonging.

Her recent creative collaborations include producing and directing For Freedoms’ 2024 campaign film Where Do We Go From Here, co-producing SOLEFUL, a somatic storytelling podcast for The School of Lived Experience, and designing embodiment pedagogies for the Guild of Future Architects. She is also a partner and producer at Stellar Visioning, a high-level aerial cinematography company founded by her husband, Joey Lugassy. She is currently developing her first feature documentary—a story of forced estrangement, reunion, and the artistic legacy she unearthed upon meeting her father after 48 years.

A polyglot (English, French, Portuguese), Micheline’s work is based between Los Angeles, Brazil, and Italy. She continues to create immersive environments—where practice becomes a threshold into embodied presence, deep connection, and creative renewal.