Lived experience. Contemplative practice. Relational wisdom.
Cory Davis
Founder of Relationship Yoga | Contemplative Educator & Facilitator
My work grew out of a long period of personal searching.
For more than two decades, chronic and complex health challenges, periods of profound psychological distress, trauma, and experiences I understood as near-death experiences pushed me to investigate questions that conventional healthcare alone could not answer for me: What helps a human being flourish? How do body, mind, relationship, and meaning interact? And how do we learn to live well in the presence of great suffering?
That search took me through holistic nutrition, dietary supplements, meditation, Yoga, contemplative practice, brainwave entrainment, philosophy, and relational work. Some approaches helped enormously. Others did not. Over time, the search itself taught me something equally important: to distinguish carefully between what I experience, how I interpret it, and what can actually be considered as truth.
I earned a degree in Holistic Nutrition and spent more than a decade working within the dietary-supplement industry, alongside practitioners and organizations spanning conventional and naturopathic approaches to health. My own health journey also led me through years of navigating complex chronic illness and eventually receiving diagnoses that helped explain aspects of what I had experienced.
Later, I completed 500-hour Yoga teacher training within a Himalayan Yog-Vedantic tradition. That training deepened a contemplative practice already influenced by Classical Tantra, Buddhism, Christian mysticism, nonduality, and Western philosophy.
Relationship Yoga emerged from bringing these streams together.
I do not present Relationship Yoga as an ancient system I discovered intact. It is a contemporary synthesis: a contemplative and developmental framework exploring how awareness, embodiment, relationship, psychological growth, and spiritual practice can inform one another.
My own contemplative practice also gave rise to an unusual recurring observation. During certain shared practices, other people sometimes reported shifts in their subjective experience while I intentionally stabilized particular contemplative qualities in myself.
I now use Consciousness Resonance as a working term for this observation and the research question emerging from it. I do not claim to know its mechanism, or even yet the extent to which the phenomenon can be reliably demonstrated under controlled conditions. I often find my generation of non-ordinary states of consciousness, when intentionally directed, often influences others into similar states. My interest is increasingly in bringing careful empirical inquiry to experiences that have historically been interpreted primarily through spiritual or contemplative frameworks.
Relationship Yoga represents the practical side of that larger inquiry: How can contemplative insight become embodied in the way we actually live?
My role is not to give you another belief system or tell you what your spiritual experiences mean. It is to help create conditions for deeper observation, self-inquiry, relational awareness, and integration.
My hope is that this work helps people become more aware of the patterns shaping their lives, more capable of meeting themselves and others with honesty and care, and more able to translate contemplative insight into relationships, responsibility, meaning, and ordinary life.
I’m honored to walk beside those who choose to explore it.
Cassandra Michler
Relationship Yoga Special Contributor | Entrepreneur & Contemplative Practitioner
My path has been shaped by periods of profound change—trauma, addiction, burnout, divorce, psychological struggle, and experiences that challenged the identity and life I had built.
Those experiences eventually led me into a long exploration of healing, contemplative practice, spirituality, embodiment, and the question of how we reconstruct a meaningful life after the structures we once relied upon have fallen away.
Over the years, I have studied and practiced within a number of contemplative and earth-based traditions. My training includes 200-hour Tantric Hatha Yoga teacher training, Women’s Tantra, Shamanic Breathwork, and the Munay-Ki rites in Peru. I have also participated in the Golden Age Priestess tradition and in pilgrimages, ceremonies, and earth-centered practices around the world.
Along the way, I have had experiences I understand through spiritual frameworks such as kundalini, initiation, intuition, and the sacred feminine. These traditions and experiences continue to inform the way I approach embodiment, relationship, community, and our connection with the natural world.
I am also an entrepreneur at heart.
For more than 15 years, I have founded and led mission-driven companies, produced international events for Fortune 500 organizations, and worked with initiatives focused on human wellbeing, empowerment, sustainability, and conscious innovation.
I am the founder of EarthLab, a community exploring regenerative culture, conscious collaboration, personal development, and stewardship of the Earth.
Entrepreneurship taught me leadership, creation, and responsibility. Contemplative practice taught me to question who I thought I was.
Today, I contribute to Relationship Yoga particularly where its work intersects with embodiment, relationship, feminine contemplative traditions, nervous-system awareness, community, and our relationship with the Earth.
Relationship Yoga begins with the understanding that relationship is larger than romantic partnership. We are continually in relationship—with ourselves, one another, our bodies, our communities, and the living world around us.
My role is not to tell people what their spiritual experiences mean or to ask them to adopt my beliefs. I aim instead to help create spaces in which people can slow down, listen carefully to their experience, recognize patterns that may no longer serve them, and explore more honest and compassionate ways of relating.
For me, the spiritual path is ultimately not about escaping our humanity. It is about becoming increasingly capable of inhabiting it—with greater awareness, humility, responsibility, courage, and love.
I’m honored to contribute that perspective to Relationship Yoga. Let’s rise.
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