Michelle Turner

Founder/Practitioner

Michelle M. Turner created Movement Lesson™ in 2009 out of necessity, following years of searching for answers for her son. After more than 30 surgeries and limited progress through traditional therapies, she was faced with a lack of direction and diminishing hope. At four years old, her son was non-verbal and had multiple diagnoses, including Autism and Cortical Visual Impairment.

Rather than continuing to pursue isolated treatments, Michelle sought to understand how movement was actually organizing within the body. That process led to the development of Movement Lesson™, a system focused on how the body functions under gravity and where breakdowns occur.

Over time, her son progressed from a non-verbal child with complex needs to a student at Arizona State University. That journey became the foundation of her work. Today, Michelle applies Movement Lesson™ across all ages and levels, from infants to adults, helping individuals restore movement, improve function, and gain clarity when progress has stalled.

Felipe Perez

Certified ML™Practitioner

Felipe Perez became a Movement Lesson™ Practitioner in 2017 after experiencing its impact firsthand. As a professional baseball player, he sustained a serious arm injury that reduced his long toss from 120 feet to 90 and led to a scheduled shoulder surgery. Days before the procedure, he chose to work with Michelle Turner. After the first session, he noticed a shift; after the second, his arm function had fully returned.

That experience fundamentally changed his understanding of the body and movement. He recognized that performance is not restored through force, but through proper organization of the system. Motivated by this transformation, Felipe trained as a practitioner and now works with both children and adults, helping them restore movement, reduce pain, and return to functional performance.

Vanessa Landego

Certified ML™Practitioner

Erin Fulks

Certified ML™Practitioner

I found Movement Lesson™ in 2017. I was in the hospital with my second baby and had tapped out of medical and therapy services. There was nothing more they could do to help my daughter live. I found Michelle and asked if there was anything she could do. She showed me some exercises to help my daughter breathe, which I thought was interesting since I was told that was impossible without her cognitive input. Amazingly, my daughter could breathe after 30 minutes of trying the exercise Michelle showed me. I was hooked.

After getting my daughter breathing, I just wanted to help her move because she didn't move at all.She couldn't even lift a bandaid or move her fingers. I had no hope that she would milestone and Michelle said I could help my baby have milestone experiences without performances. Instead, because of those experiences, my daughter would optimize, and her greatest movement and independence potential would be unlocked, and I was all for that!

Since that day, I have learned everything I can about movement and how to give it to my 8 children, four of which are special needs (Spinal Muscular Atrohpy, RHOBTB2, and Downs Syndrome).

I want to help parents, caregivers, and professionals learn Movement Lesson as fast as possible and have what I call "Michelle Exerperiences" every day. This means you get the results Michelle gets as if she worked on your child personally!