Meet Mel

Hi! I'm so glad you're here. Here's a bit more about me than I could squeeze into the front page of a website :). I'm a personal trainer, brain-body expert mindfulness and mindset coach, and yoga teacher who has been helping individuals find greater joy in their mind, body + soul for more than a decade now.

While I've always been passionate about fitness, wellness and the mind-body connection, there were times my Capricorn, East Coast, societally conditioned type-A ambitious (but deep down free spirit) self got caught up deep in the rat race. Eek.

Thankfully, my body kept speaking to me and bringing me back to myself, my purpose and my zest for life. From a young age, I remember always thinking how miserable adults looked - robotically shuffling from a job they hate back to their couch, passing the time with TV, hunched over from "computer life". Everything I've done - personally and professionally - has been to challenge this status quo.

So that my soul doesn't feel like it's being stomped on by the "just suck it up and grind it out, this is just how life is" mentality. And so that my body isn't crammed into cubicle hustle life that leaves us feeling like crippled zombies (lol).

I now know that the human body is our greatest source of power - it holds everything we desire. It is where we literally feel joy, it is where we source our energy + vitality from, it is where we can hear our intuition + create our most abundant life, it is where we quite literally live our lives.

Yet, the human body been pushed to the sidelines in the hustle and bustle of modern life, and it's time to reclaim its rightful place at the forefront of our lives.

It is my greatest passion to help people deepen their relationship with their body, so they can physically, mentally and spiritually experience the fullness of life that is available to them. The areas I am most passionate about helping people with are:

• healing your relationship with body, fitness + food
• healing physical pain + rebuilding trust in the body
• releasing stress, anxiety, hustle patterns + discovering more work-life flow
• accessing greater clarity, creativity, intuition + ability to create a life you love

I hold a wide variety of rigorous certifications:

• fitness and wellness: certified personal trainer (ACE), restorative + orthopedic fitness specialist (ACE), fitness nutrition specialist (ACE), YogaRenew 200HR YTT, and more
• pain, the nervous system + brain-body connection: Z-Health Practitioner (4 certifications - R, I, S and T phase) on the functional application of the nervous system to wellness and performance
• behavior change, mindset coaching + mindfulness (ACE-Certified Behavior Change Specialist; advanced courses with Eckart Tolle, Dr. Joe Dispenza; student of Deepak Chopra, Rapid Resolution Therapy and more)

I so look forward to supporting you on your journey to greater wellness, calm, joy, presence, abundance, success and everything you desire.