Mellara

Does this ever happen to you? It happens to me all the time. Yet the more I’m conscious that it’s happening, the more it doesn’t happen.

From my family to yours
Happiest of New Year Blessings🥂

May we travel lightly into the New Year remembering that we were born for these times.

My mother (pictured with me in her arms)- both of my parents, for that matter - did the best they could with the tools they had and didn’t have.

They were dealing with their own traumas and trials while raising me. Everyone has their crosses to bear and no parent is perfect.

ALL mothers and fathers make mistakes.

Our children certainly do have the opportunity to overcome a difficult or stressful upbringing. Although I am not a perfect example of this, I am one of these children who has developed into a much more balanced version than what I experienced in my childhood.

We all make mistakes as humans and it feels important to not give children a reason to blame someone else for their discretions and problems. Mostly because they will grow up and this kind of thing is magnified in our world and as adults.

My mother had an extremely rough beginning in life and my father lost his dad at ten years old and was left with his mother who had also lost her daughter and was abusing and neglected my dad.

My parents are about 20 years older than me and although we don’t have a relationship today, I grew up and realized that they had plenty of traumas of their own and although I tried blaming them for it all, at the same time I couldn’t do that as I also believed they were doing their best given their circumstances.

They were hurting themselves, so, how could I ever blame them for situations beyond their control?

As a 48 year old with lots of healing experienced I’ve learned to give to my ‘little one’ inside of me, truly listen to her and give her a good dose of encouragement and self-compassion.

When I’m not connected within my heart and my practice of presence I can still get bogged down with thoughts and feelings of despair. But thats the practice.

And the practices, just like our lives are forever in a flow anyway.

When practicing and truly embodying self-compassion I know they love/loved me and my sibling and just tried the best they could.

If this post speaks to you and you actually made it all the way down to this long post. Emoji me/us with a ❤️ and Merry Merry dear ones🎄✨🎄 you and your healing are always close to my heart.

Thinking of you and wishing you a gentle and peaceful day today🌲✨🌲

When I reflect on this past year I am often taken to my own personal yoga practice. What has changed, what has shown itself to me and what is worth holding on to.

Throughout the decades and with each passing year my yoga practice changes whether I like it or not. Perhaps you feel the same about your own practice?

And in the beginning, it was essential that I eased my body’s pain that I was experiencing. First being a psychological pain that turned into a physical ailment.

Little did I know that by soothing the physical pain it would open up areas within my mind.

The more I focused on breathing into my whole body’s awareness, I could feel subtle changes of where emotions lived and created a home.

And in releasing them my body began to feel much lighter. Basically, my physical injury brought me to a place (inside) where I have a deeper understanding of who I am.

Isn’t life pretty funny that way?

The very thing that we wish wouldn’t be, is the very something that is the catalyst for a happier more balanced life.

My wish for us and my own practice is that our curiosity only becomes stronger. Learning from our experiences and each other. And where we can feel our humanity at the core. And in embracing it, we move into the pure awareness of our own true nature, learning to live wisely and discovering freedom and compassion regardless of circumstance.

“How amazing. All living beings have the Buddha nature of awakening and freedom, yet they do not realize this. Unknowingly they wander on the ocean of suffering for lifetimes. It is time to realize your own Buddha nature.”
~Prajnaparamita

I am so grateful for the Scituate Salt Cave and our community. The fact that I get to teach yoga and meditation in a cave, by the water feels so healing to me and so many🥰

Our own beautiful healer and author, Mellara Gold, was featured in the latest issue of Living Crue Magazine, where she shares her inspirational journey of healing from trauma through the practice of Hatha Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation. Grab your copy today! And don’t miss her latest book signing “Living In Awareness: Deepening Our Daily Lives Through Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation” on Thursday, January 4 at 6:30pm here at the Cave. You can also experience Sunday Morning Yoga with Mellara at 8:45am most Sundays. Reserve your spot at ScituateSaltCave.com/Events

I’m so grateful to finish off 2023 with a feature in .life There was no stone left unturned in their question asking. It is a vulnerable share that I hope might be helpful in your own healing journey. Below is one of their questions to me.

life asks…..
I don’t think that you see yourself the way that I see you. All of the decisions you made for yourself: to move across the ocean, find a place to live and settle in a new country, meet your basic needs, get a career started, go to auditions, become caretaker … It must have been interesting when you were done with the book to look back at your life. It’s very dissociative, isn’t it?

I say…..
I love, I love that you said that. And I would disassociate a lot in my childhood. It was the only way that I could not feel the pain of it all. But see, that catches up with you after some time.

The beautiful thing about how I’ve gone through all of this is that the most rewarding thing that I get to do is turn my pain into gold by
supporting others with theirs.

Either in the form of yoga, mindfulness, or meditation.

I can really say that I am living my best life, not a perfect one, but one that is true to me. It’s quite remarkable because there are people who are sometimes similar to me in a lot of ways, who have gone through big stuff in their lives—all kinds of difficulties, situations, trauma—and because of it all I’m able to be present with them and in their pain.

I am so grateful and honored that I get to have this kind of opportunity. It’s life-changing for me.

My life has come full circle. All I went through is for something. Something greater than what happened.

https://issuu.com/livingcruemagazine/docs/living_crue_no_6-_connections_23?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ

It’s the softer part of who we are and the gentleness that brings us in to connection.

I’ll meet you there.

Meditation is one of the ways we can be with each other even when our physical bodies are not.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn’t live a life of use to others. I’m certainly no saint and I’m just as flawed as any of us humans trying to be our best. Yet still this feels like such a powerful message to share.

I’ve often heard from folks, ‘I still don’t know what my purpose is in life?!’

Perhaps our purpose is more than a goal oriented vision? Could it be something so much more simple, yet profound like spending time playing catch with a child, or paying for a strangers meal, or visiting your elderly neighbor whom you haven’t seen in a while.

What if our true purpose is aligned in the moment where we ‘get to’ give from the heart?

I love all the ways in which we are united as one energy. Like it’s love that feeds our soul helping us to feel a life worth living.

Have you picked up a gift for yourself yet? Just a reminder that making time to be with yourself, and in your happy place supports all of us. When you are happy, I feel that and when I feel that my family feels that too. 🫶

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Current vibes on this beautiful (day after) new moon energy✨

loved ones…… don’t forget that you are a mystical, magical person who can manifest clear and pure intentions into something real and tangible.

What cannot be seen, we are collectively beginning to trust more and more.

That in believing in our inner world means that we believe in our prayers, it means we believe in our quiet intuitive voice, that we are validated from within, and our own existence.

But yet how do we become a vessel what we’d like to see in the world?

How do we see what we don’t necessarily like in someone’s actions, and have great compassion to be the change?

Some gentle questions to ponder on this Mercury in retrograde Tuesday.

And just a reminder that mercury in retrograde is not here to punish us. It’s a teacher of sorts, supporting us to slow down connect within and to trust that we already know the way.❤️

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Cheers to a beautiful new day.
It’s all here waiting for us💛

Testimonial✨ thank you Shannon from California.

I met Mellara by chance and I was looking to reconnect to yoga practice.
My first class I was hooked. I was overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude that I found my practice. My teacher. I followed her to 3 more studios.

Mellara creates a space of profound healing and connection to self and sangha in her classes. Her style includes guided meditation and teachings leading you to a place of pure acceptance and self love in each breath and asana. Each class is unique, tailored to who is in the room, and where she feels we need to move. While most of our classes started in silence, we cultivated nourishing relationships and connections on the mat. Our sacred space. I never felt safer on the mat in her studio surrounded by folks dedicated to healing, finding and loving our true selves. This practice is confronting and can be uncomfortable for those of us used to numbing and distracting from pain and trauma. But she cultivates and demands an open and safe space from everyone in the room. Practicing in her home studio was the most healing experience I’ve ever had and I am forever grateful for that time.

In private sessions Mellara taps into her intuition and provides a deeply healing experience energetically and spiritually. She is able to do this in person and virtually which may seem surprising. She leads you through breath, movement, energy work, and meditation in profound ways that are transformative and lasting. She is a skilled healer. Seemingly knowing where to find the places we store pains and emotions. Each session works towards releasing what holds us back from ourselves. She is a mirror. Each prompt leading you back to you. To your home. To your heart.

Private depth sessions are available online at mellara.com and in-person at the where you are able to use your HSA & FSA cards.
These cards are only available for use at the https://scituatesaltcave.com

📸 Yoga and Photo by Cecille

My heart is with you and I come to you in peace. ❤️

thank you to those who have been sharing their frustrations about all of the wars going on in our world.

Thank you to those with huge hearts that have a deep love for humanity. I see you.

Stating the obvious, the wars in the world just don’t seem to be over. Conflict and confusion that has been going on for more years than I have been alive in this body.

The abuse of power is unrelenting, from regular citizens living in the developing world, to folks living anywhere.

For me, I don’t think I have ever appreciated sides. I teach yoga and I don’t so much like levels either… never have. life is so much bigger than sides, borders and levels…. This is in no way disrespecting our fellow brothers and sisters who make the decision to be on a side. After all taking a side is sometimes the only way to get some traction on something that’s important. Remembering that life is a paradox.

May we remember that we are love, we are peace, and we are all this ONE energy expressing ourselves in many different forms…

I pray deeply for the wounds of humanity to be transformed into love… I pray for the Palestinian people… I pray for the Israeli people…. I pray for Ukraine and for Russia. And I pray for America a place where I have so far found home in my adult years.

My prayer is for us to move into another paradigm.

To let go of power over another, and the false ego that likes to be right and in turn ultimately making another wrong.

and I pray for us to remember who we are, live humbled (I meant humbled, it is not a typo), and to be strong and believe in love.

I have always believed in us.

Hang in there beautiful humans.

We are counting on you❤️ and in the end we are ultimately counting on each and every one of us.

Wow, this is an exciting, intimate and sometimes emotional share.

Thank you .life and the (pictured) where I offer healing Depth Sessions.

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Connection is a feeling that took our friend Mellara Gold decades to find. “I feel like the loss of connection I had with the people in my life ultimately helped me find the most real connection that any of us, I think, look for in life: with ourselves.”

Don't miss Mellara's story in The Connections Issue 2023. You really have to hold these stories in your hand! Visit www.livingcrue.com/subscribe

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I don’t think I’ve especially changed that much since I was very little.

Perhaps you feel the same about yourself?

I’m still tender and courageous enough to be open while feeling sad. And when my wounds rise up for some more healing I can sometimes allow for the rain and the down pouring of life. And some days I am even bold enough to be the sunshine and the sunset all at once. Being joyful, laughing and helping others along the way is the way for me. It always has been.

Life for me is about being peaceful at the core, like deep down. Yet at the same time not spiritually bypassing our s**t just to pretend to be positive.

Perhaps a life worth living is not just about being happy all of the time, as it could very well be wrapped up in this moment, breathing inside and feeling the warmth of who we are. The peaceful heart that is us right here, right now. This is after all the bridge we have to know that we really are home inside.

My little book that could turned two recently, and i would like to thank everyone who has picked it up🫶

It makes a wonderful gift for those who are interested in self-discovery, overcoming obstacles and challenges in their life.

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It always feels so good when you hear that you are making a difference in someone’s life.

I love what I get to do in the world.

So this testimonial came in after a private depth session (online). And they consist of yet are not limited to Intuitive Yoga, Yogic Breathing Practices, Spiritual and Mindfulness Counseling.

Need more information?

Just check out my website mellara.com

Would you prefer to meet in-person? I’m at the and we are approved to take your HSA and FSA cards now🙌🏻

And just a little reminder to give back to yourself while you’re running around taking care of everything and everybody else this season.

As yogi’s on the path of self-discovery we learn that it is way more advanced to be kind and compassionate to our body’s rather than doing advanced yoga asana’s. Not that there is anything wrong with advanced yoga postures. In fact, through them we can develop deep gentleness and our humble nature shines inside the process of practicing them.

So could it be that the word advanced just doesn’t even make the cut?

That perhaps it’s more about listening to and tending to the wholeness of being?

Literally being the gentleness that we would like to experience in the world.

And be it just one person at a time. YOU and me. 🫶

Feeling some feels and deeper thoughts on this beautifully crisp and sunny day.

Hope that you might find this post useful inside your own pondering of practice.

📸 Yoga and Photo by Cecillee

When I was a new yoga teacher in my early 20’s (20+ years ago) I honestly remember dreaming of this day.

A day where valuable services such as private one-on-one yoga, meditation coaching and mindfulness counseling would be accepted by health insurance companies. We are not all the way where I’d like us to be, yet progress has for sure been made.

Congratulations to the for making this possible for us! It’s huge🙌🏻

The fact that the Scituate Salt Cave now accepts most HSA and FSA cards with all of the amazing benefits of Halotherapy, Ionic Foot Bath Detoxes, Reiki and Depth Sessions with me and all of the other wonderful healing services, it's never been easier to take good care of yourself!

Find time for YOU and make an appointment to visit us. We can't wait to see you!

Need more info on what Depth Sessions are all about? Visit me at mellara.com

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Wishing you a harvest of blessings, good health and peaceful moments.

May you and your family enjoy a bountiful Thanksgiving, and one that also includes others in our hearts who need our support and prayers during this time.

Sending you warm wishes from my home to yours and from heart to heart to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving🍁

And if you scroll on the pic you’ll also see a loving kindness meditation from my book Living in Awareness: Deepening Our Daily Lives Through Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation https://a.co/d/006ZLKo

Simply read it to yourself and if it speaks to you sit with it inside your body, and once you’re finished notice how it feels within your heart center. 🫶 hope you find it helpful today.

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A simple meditation and especially for the holidays🌷

Close your eyes and light a candle within your heart, or light a physical candle on the outside.

Go within and take some deep breaths to center.

Connect with your heart and start to be with your inner Self.

What are you most grateful for in this moment? let the universe know.

Now sit and open to your inner guidance and your feeling body.

The passage of your life as a journey that brings us back home inside.

Make an intention and ask yourself where are you at in this moment of your life. Even if you don’t quite get the answer, just the inquiry is enough.

be thankful for your health, energy and happiness in your life.

And offer any prayers and good wishes to all of life.

feel the flow of life and chant ..

OM... AUM… OM…

or create your own meditation ❤️

Don’t forget to sit with yourself today. Dedicating some time to be alone and commune with your interior world helps us with the most important relationship we can have… with ourSelf.🫶



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Not sure if you knew that my beautiful daughter Leela is the illustrator of my newest book that was published in the summer.

Just swipe to see one of her drawings…… I’m feeling so grateful for this creative collaboration. 🫶

To read more and to pick up your copy for yourself or a friend just head to my bio where you can purchase the kindle version for as little as $7 USD.

Living in Awareness📕Deepening Our Daily Lives Through Prayers, Rituals, and Meditations

👉 For details visit: mellara.com

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“A Life Worth Living is a book worth reading. Not only could I relate to many of the author’s struggles, but also experienced a deep curiosity growing in me as I followed the stages of her transformational spiritual journey. Where would she take me next? This is not a book written with objectivity. It is the exact opposite. A Life Worth Living is written with a passion and fierceness that is the perfect antidote to any cool, above-it-all preaching about what happens when we commit ourselves to the path of yoga. I will gratefully carry the words of this Warrior-Princess-Seeker with me as I continue my own spiritual journey, feeling a little less lonely, a little less afraid, and a lot more inspired. Join us.”

— Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, has taught yoga around the world since 1971 and is the author of 11 books, most recently Teaching Yoga with Intention: The Essential Guide to Skillful Hands-on Assists and Verbal Communication.

“Mellara’s book dives deep into the passage of yoga and how we can use our practice (yoga), our breath, and our awareness to create more love and peace in our lives. I see so much of my own journey in Mellara’s and suspect many others will relate to her journey as well.”

— Mariel Hemingway, actress and author of Out Came the Sun

Like most people who practice postural yoga I was on the mat to find relief from back pain (5 bulging discs) that I was diagnosed with as a teen.

Talk therapy, yoga, acupuncture and the Korean Sauna’s of Los Angeles back in 90’s was my everything. I was of course also in a country that I was still getting to know as I essentially knew I needed to leave Australia so I could heal far away from the memories of trauma in my childhood.

I somehow knew that the solution would be to deal with both my physical difficulties and my psychological problems at the same time. I still do this today.

Even though life is far different from those early years, healing is a way of life for me.

There’s a promising new way to find relief says a study from Royal Holloway, a public research college at the University of London, talking therapy along with addressing the physical problems was found to help patients who had been experiencing reoccurring low back pain. This is essentially what I did for myself and is why I am so passionate about my private one-on-one depth sessions that I offer.

In these sessions we not only work through some of the mental distresses that are involved we also learn to accept ourselves as we are, and for me that meant my pain while also accepting that there is probably not ever going to be cure for it, yet that me/we can still live life to the fullest! Which is what I do every day.

Back pain in the physical body becomes less as we bring awareness to the areas that need acceptance, breath, and unconditional love.

It has taken my whole life (48 now) to work through these challenges and be the example of my work that I get to offer you today.

A new way of being is born; finally letting go of the past, nurturing the little one inside all of us and becoming more present, and loving all of who we are.

We are enough and with this understanding a new consciousness is born.

Would you like to book your own one-on-one depth session? Find me at mellara.com for online options in your time zone and for in-person sessions.


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Like most people who practice postural yoga I was on the mat to find relief from back pain that I was experiencing.

Talk therapy, yoga, acupuncture and the Korean Sauna’s of Los Angeles back in 90’s was my everything. I was of course also in a country that I was still getting to know as I essentially knew I needed to leave Australia so I could heal far away from the memories of trauma in my childhood.

I somehow knew that the solution would be to deal with both my physical difficulties and my psychological problems at the same time. I still do this today.

Even though life is far different from those early years, healing is a way of life for me.

There’s a promising new way to find relief says a study from Royal Holloway, a public research college at the University of London, talking therapy along with addressing the physical problems was found to help patients who had been experiencing reoccurring low back pain. This is essentially what I did for myself and is why I am so passionate about my private one-on-one depth sessions that I offer.

In these sessions we not only work through some of the mental distresses that are involved we also learn to accept ourselves as we are, and for me that meant my pain while also accepting that there is probably not ever going to be cure for it, yet that me/we can still live life to the fullest! Which is what I do every day.

Once home inside our body tension is not made bigger, because we are becoming more aware.

Back pain in the physical body becomes less as we bring awareness to the areas that need acceptance, breath, and unconditional love.

It has taken my whole life (48 now) to work through these challenges and be the example of my work that I get to offer you today.

A new way of being is born; finally letting go of the past, nurturing the little one inside all of us and becoming more present, and loving all of who we are.

We are enough and with this understanding a new consciousness is born.

Would you like to book your own one-on-one depth session? Find me at mellara.com for online options in your time zone and https://scituatesaltcave.com for in-person sessions.


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It is such an incredible and rewarding feeling within my heart to have my book A life Worth Living being helpful in the lives of others. Thank you Tracey Yokes for sharing and supporting my work in the world. 🙏🏻

A Life Worth Living: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Mindfulness, Yoga, and Living in Awareness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1950186350/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_29W6XVABPF3DYNDXEQ89

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A while back @mellara_gold reached out to me here on Insta because she noticed we had lived, at one point, very near to one another, though we never met (our kids were born in the same local hospital) and we sometimes shared like-minded content related to living in awareness, healing, growth, overcoming adversity, and spiritual awakening. She let me know about her book, A Life Worth Living, and I'm so grateful that she did! Within, Mellara shares her journey with openness and honesty. Her childhood in Australia was less than ideal and several suboptimal patterns arose, following her into adult life. As someone who had an entirely different yet in some ways similar childhood, I so appreciated the clearness with which Mellara could share her past, how it impacted her, and how it (the suffering) was a driver for change. There are so many important takeaways in this book. And one thing that really struck me was Mellara's willingness to share about the difficulty that's ongoing when we decide to walk a road of recovery. A very inspiring read! #alifeworthliving #wakeup #awareness #consciousliving #healing #growth #yoga