Melody’s yoga journey began in 2004 when she was immersed in her high-stress corporate career in Public Relations. Yoga had an immediate and powerful effect on Melody, when only weeks after starting to practice she felt that her body and brain had changed forever. It was such a profound difference, that she began to dedicate her life outside of work to the study and practice of yoga.
After receiving her 200-hour teacher training in 2008 at Yoga Tree in San Francisco, she began teaching vinyasa flow and yoga for athletes classes, but still continued to march forward in her PR career. In 2017, she made the decision to leave PR behind her and dedicate her life to helping people. She became a certified Yoga Therapist and 500-hour E-RYT at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, along with becoming a certified perinatal yoga teacher.
Most recently, Melody is back in school to pursue a doctorate in Occupational Therapy (OTD) at Pacific University where she hopes to integrate her yoga teachings into her OT skills and interventions. Her yoga style blends yoga philosophy with creative movement and breath awareness to create customized yoga sessions that are dynamic, fun and therapeutic. Melody does one-on-one yoga therapy sessions with a focus on women’s wellness, back health, pelvic floor balance & strengthening and trauma-informed care.
She hopes her students will leave her sessions feeling empowered and like better humans than when they arrived. She takes her yoga seriously but tries not to take herself too seriously (everything is a practice!). Melody likes to laugh, move her body, hang out with her daughters and husband, cook and eat food, be outdoors and travel.
