Journey & Recognition

A collection of experience, achievements, and acknowledgments.

This page honors the path I have walked and highlights of my professional journey, awards, and acknowledgments—each one a reminder of how I have served others, sought connection, and soul-led guidance.

A life devoted to voice, spirit, and service.

Michelle’s path has been shaped by devotion, transformation, and deep remembering — bringing together music and mediumship, creativity and spirit, and the journey from grief toward healing.

From Stage to Spirit

Before walking fully as a medium, Michelle devoted over a decade to the operatic arts, performing throughout Europe and North America. She was the founder and artistic director of Calgary’s Cowtown Opera, where she played a pivotal role in shaping the cultural identity of her hometown and building community through music.

Music was her first medicine.
Mediumship became her sacred calling.

Michelle holds a Master’s degree in Vocal Pedagogy from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Opera School at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, as well as the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia in Italy.

Her career highlights include creating two albums (Expect the Unexpected and M.O.M – Opera for Kids), performing La Bohème in Italy, headlining the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show, performing with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra alongside Thorgy Thor of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and touring nationally with her genre-blending Carmen Remix project.

Her dedication to the arts earned her wide recognition for both excellence and community leadership.

Honors & Recognition

Michelle has been honored with numerous awards and distinctions, including:

Named one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue Magazine

Recipient of the Mayor’s Enbridge Emerging Artist Award
Named one of Alberta’s 25 Inspiring Artists by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Cultural Ambassador for the Canadian Women of Inspiration Awards through the Universal Women’s Network

Nominated for Female Artist of the Year by the YYC Music Awards
Headliner in the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show

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Awakening & Initiation

In 2020, following the stillbirth of her son Chase, Michelle experienced a profound spiritual awakening that opened her ability to communicate with loved ones who have crossed over. What began as grief became initiation.

This moment marked the bridge between her life as an opera singer and her calling as a medium.

A former internationally trained performer and founder of Cowtown Opera, Michelle now offers elite vocal training with shamanic practice, channeled song, and mediumship to create deeply transformative offerings.

Her work consists of storytelling, live intuitive sound transmission, and spiritual insight — offering both grounded evidence of life after death and direct energetic healing through the voice.

Training & Lineage

Michelle has studied with some of the worlds greatest teachers to assist her on her journey.

Her mediumship development includes formal training with Danielle Searancke, the Squamish Medium, Dominic Boag, Cindy Johnson, Sean Collyns, Lynn Probert and Tony Stockwell.

She has studied shamanic healing and ceremony through the Shamanic Yoga Institute under the guidance of Colleen Reid and is a Full Mesa carrier in the Andean shamanic tradition as well as shamanic studies from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, training with Wade Prpich.

She is a certified Access Bars practitioner through training with Kelly Mallinson and has completed sound healing studies with Jessica Arnatt, weaving vocal resonance and sacred sound into her healing work.

This diverse training allows Michelle to bridge ancient wisdom with modern spiritual practice—integrating shamanism, mediumship, sound healing, and energy medicine into a unified, soul-led offerings.

Today

Today, Michelle walks as a Voice Alchemist, Psychic Medium, and Spiritual Mentor who bridges worlds through sound and spirit. She has served thousands through private readings, national tours, retreats, and mentorship programs, supporting emerging intuitives and open-hearted seekers in trusting their gifts and living in alignment with their soul.

Her work reminds us that love never dies — and that we are never alone.

Michelle’s journey stands as a testament to transformation — from stage to spirit, from grief to grace, from sound to soul.

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