Teacher
Melissa is an artist who expresses life as a dance through massage from several ancient modalities and practice in yoga, mantra, music, and meditation.
She seeks to create a space where people feel comfortable to feel and express themselves. Her journey to her center began with yoga. She started practicing in high school finding personal growth and healing. She continued on to massage school and fell in love with Thai Massage in part due to its yogic roots.
Traveling to follow her teacher, Melissa studied near and far for the past ten years, developing her skills and practicing as a massage therapist. Her path led to further study in Yoga and Ayurveda at Naropa University, earning her bachelor’s degree in Traditional Eastern Arts.
She now teaches in the PTS(D) Residential Rehab program at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System’s facility in Denver as well as in the VA’s Inpatient Psychiatric Unit. Her studio classes are at Soul Tree Yoga in Boulder and Lafayette.
Melissa’s Yoga Nidra practice (relaxing yoga sleep) is in the Online Practice section of our website. Melissa regularly teaches Comeback Yoga classes in the VA System and at local Vet Centers.