It took a season of burnout for me to realize how disconnected I had become from myself and from the things that actually make me feel grounded and alive.
After 18 years working as a teacher, I realized the life I had planned for myself was not the life that truly fulfilled me. I had been living based on expectations and standards shaped by others, not from what truly lit me up or set my soul on fire. I always had this sense that there was more to life than the hustle, the constant doing, and the constant struggle.
For a long time, I was living on autopilot. I had lost touch with my well-being, my inner peace, and my own needs. I wasn’t prioritizing myself, and I didn’t have the capacity or awareness to shift it.
Until life forced a change, and I began making intentional shifts in how I was living and relating to myself.
What started as small daily changes became a full shift in how I live. I began prioritizing my well-being physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually.
I returned to practices that ground me like yoga and meditation. I set clearer boundaries and became more intentional about how I want to feel in my daily life.
Yoga teacher training, women’s circle facilitation, Reiki, and other trainings became turning points. They gave me tools and a different perspective on how change actually happens through presence, consistency, embodiment, and reconnection with yourself.
Hi, I’m Melba.
Through years of working with women in retreats, circles, yoga, and mentorship, I’ve seen that many of the challenges women face are not rooted in a lack of knowledge, motivation, or capability. They are rooted in the relationship they have with themselves and the beliefs they hold about their worth. They are also shaped by what feels available to them, and how much support, ease, pleasure, success, rest, love, or opportunity they allow themselves to receive.
My work brings together mindset, identity, energetics, somatic awareness, and nervous system regulation to help women shift how they experience themselves and their lives. Together, we create the internal conditions that allow you to think differently, move differently, trust yourself more deeply, and transform the way you show up, make decisions, relate to others, and experience your life.
You can count on me to deliver transformational experiences and work that is intuitive, expansive, intentional, grounded, embodied, and rooted in presence.
I help women trust themselves again, regulate their nervous system, and reconnect to their inner wisdom so they can stop second-guessing themselves and move through life with more steadiness and self-trust.
Together, we explore the unconscious ways striving, proving, over-functioning, and self-sacrifice can become a way of life, and we create space for a different experience.
A life with less force, less pressure, and a greater capacity to receive what you truly desire.
I realized I am my greatest investment, and I started choosing myself in how I live, move, and show up for my life.
It’s time to begin making the changes that move you closer to the life you want to be living.
MY CREDENTIALS
Certified Yoga Instructor
200-hr Yoga Teacher Training at John’s Creek Yoga
300-hr Yoga Teacher Training at John’s Creek Yoga
Yoga Nidra Training Teacher Training: Level 1 with Evolutionary Education- Dr. Nick Atlas
Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Dennis and Kathy Lang
Level 1 Crystal Sound Bowl Certification with Akasha Searcy
Sacred Women’s Circle Facilitator Training with Sacred Women’s School
Certified Reiki Master