Melanie Dawn

Melanie Dawn is a yoga nidra teacher, Reiki educator and retreat leader. She describes herself as a mind/body/spirit educator who offers tools for using the mind to influence the body's natural state. She draws on yoga's teachings on the body-mind connection and brings in intuitive insight.

Her own path began with healing. She writes that she repeated harmful patterns, pushed love away and used rage as a defense. She says anxiety attacks, self-sabotage, control and insomnia ruled her life until she found yoga and conscious rest. After a first immersive yoga nidra weekend, where her voice was freed from the story that she should be ashamed of it, she knew she wanted to share the practice. She says she still stumbles, but now she catches herself without shame or guilt.

Today she supports people in peeling back layers of conditioning and reconnecting with their inner truth through yoga, meditation and energy work. She says she is not about quick fixes or fake positivity. Her work includes a 50-hour yoga nidra training, online Reiki certifications from Level 1 to Master/Teacher, women's circles, and The Priestess Path, a feminine embodiment program of rituals, ceremonies and teachings.

Melanie also leads yoga retreats, including the Bliss State Retreats, which she co-hosts with fellow teacher Tamara Royal. She has offered retreats in Mexico, Bali and the Foothills of Alberta, as well as online. Students describe her Zoom trainings as engaging and personal.