Melissa Staxfeld

Melissa Staxfeld is an artist, yoga teacher and transformational coach. She describes her work as helping creatives reconnect with their worth, trust their intuition, and expand into aligned, abundant lives through coaching, yoga, and workshops and retreats. Her approach rests on a few ideas: self-worth before strategy, intuition as a guide, embodiment over mindset alone, and community as medicine.

She majored in Studio Art in college and still paints, believing that practicing our gifts is essential to living fully. She later worked as a middle school art teacher and became a yoga instructor. In 2015 she moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut, where she built a community she is proud of. After almost five years there, she and her husband spent a summer in Bali and moved back to Massachusetts. Back home, she followed her curiosity into health and transformational coaching.

Working with women, Melissa came to see how many people struggle with not feeling enough. Helping women develop self-love, confidence, presence and worthiness became her mission. On YouTube she offers yoga from beginner classes to sweatier flows, hoping people feel empowered and grounded wherever they are on their journey. Her signature class is a transformational flow she calls "funky flow," and her sessions and retreats often draw on meditation, EFT tapping, Reiki, oracle readings and art making.

Her Insight Timer page describes her belief that meditation is the key to feeling connected, joyful and free, and her aim to show people that they are enough exactly as they are.