Mellara Gold E-RYT has been teaching yoga and meditation for two decades, and influenced by Hatha Yoga, Mindfulness, and Buddhism. Her radiant and inspirational teaching blends the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga with self-inquiry. She leads online and in-person workshops, retreats, and trainings and is a regular contributor to online journals and other lifestyle and spiritual magazines. Check out her teaching memoir, A Life Worth Living: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Mindfulness, Yoga, and Living in Awareness published in 2021. And Living in Awareness: Deepening Our Daily Lives Through Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation was just published. June of 2023. Available worldwide.
Mellara is a well-respected teacher of yoga and meditation. She has been teaching for over two decades, primarily influenced by studies of hatha yoga, mindfulness, and buddhism.
She has an inspirational style of teaching that incorporates both the physical and spiritual aspects of the practice of yoga.
Mellara teaches from the radiance of her own journey through honest self-inquiry and discovery.
Her first book published in 2021, A Life Worth Living: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Mindfulness, Yoga, and Living in Awareness is available everywhere. And her new book, Living In Awareness; Deepening Our Daily Lives Through Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation was just published in June 2923.
She was born in Queensland, Australia, and at the age of seventeen moved to Los Angeles to attend the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
After roles in Don’t Look Back, with Peter Fonda (1996) and Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998), a depleting injury led her to embark on a healing journey, and she began focusing on yoga. At the Center for Yoga and other LA studios, she immersed herself in Hatha, Iyengar, Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and other yoga, including teacher training with Erich Schiffmann and Saul David Raye.
After eighteen years teaching yoga in the U.S., Mellara returned to Australia to study for two years at the Uniting Awareness Centre, under the guidance of Channa Dassanayaka. She then moved back to California, teaching online and in-person workshops, retreats, private sessions, and trainings. She now lives and teaches on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her husband Mike, and children Leela and Charlie, and is a regular contributor to OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine, and other lifestyle and spiritual magazines.
Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute
1993-1994
Center For Yoga Teacher’s Training
1999-2001
Erich Schiffmann Advanced teachers training
2005
Saul David Raye Aruvedya & Yoga Teachers Training
2005
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