Hello, I’m Melany
I offer a body-led approach to women's health, healing, and development.
I believe there are times in life when the body invites us into a deeper relationship with ourselves.
A symptom appears.
A cycle changes.
Perimenopause begins.
A profound experience reshapes what we thought we knew.
Old patterns surface, asking to be understood in a new way.
These moments are often uncomfortable.
They can also become powerful thresholds of transformation.
My work is devoted to helping women navigate these experiences by listening to what the body may be revealing and creating the conditions for meaningful change to emerge over time.
At the heart of my work is a simple belief:
The body is intelligent.
Symptoms are meaningful.
And lasting change emerges not through force or willpower, but through relationship with the wisdom of the body.
My Path
My path into this work was both professional and deeply personal.
I trained as a health care attorney and public health professional and spent many years working within the systems that shape modern medicine.
At the same time, I spent decades navigating those systems as a patient living with chronic health challenges.
Like many women, I moved through cycles of appointments, testing, diagnoses, and treatments that often focused on managing symptoms without fully addressing the deeper patterns that contributed to them.
Living inside that experience led to an important realization.
Many of the challenges women face—particularly those related to chronic stress, trauma, menstrual health, hormonal transitions, and persistent symptoms—cannot be fully understood through a purely medical or scientific lens.
A deeper question began to guide me:
What creates actual, root cause healing and lasting change?
That question eventually led me beyond symptom management and into the study of the body's innate capacity for healing, adaptation, and transformation.
Over time, I came to understand that symptoms are more than isolated physical events.
And they can become invitations.
Signals.
Doorways into a deeper understanding of ourselves and the ways our lives have shaped us.
This understanding eventually became the foundation for the Menstrual Somatics Method™, a body-led developmental approach that uses the menstrual cycle as a mirror, map, and guide for healing, growth, and transformation.
My Approach
Today, I support women navigating menstrual challenges, hormonal transitions, persistent symptoms, trauma, life transitions, and transformative experiences.
Some women come because they are struggling with PMS, IBS, chronic stress, anxiety, fatigue, a medical diagnosis, or pelvic symptoms.
Others arrive during times of profound change—perimenopause, grief, relationship transitions, illness, postpartum recovery, or after a significant psychedelic or spiritual experience.
Whatever the doorway, the work begins in the same place:
By listening to the body.
Together, we explore the patterns, adaptations, symptoms, and experiences that may be shaping your life—not simply to understand them, but to create the conditions for meaningful change to emerge.
As held experiences are gradually metabolized and old adaptations become more flexible, many women find they have access to more of themselves.
More energy.
More choice.
More authenticity.
More capacity to engage with life from who they are now rather than from patterns shaped by the past.
Teachers, Training & Influences
My work has been shaped by more than two decades of study and practice across women's health, somatics, trauma resolution, yoga, pelvic care, ritual, and embodied spirituality.
I was introduced to Menstrual Cycle Awareness through the work of Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer of Red School, where I completed the Menstruality Leadership Program and later served as a Menstruality Mentor. I also completed in-depth studies of contemporary menstrual research with Lara Owen, PhD, and conducted my own research into the effectiveness of Menstrual Cycle Awareness practice.
My training includes Somatic Experiencing® (currently completing the final Advanced module), Somatic EMDR, Hakomi, craniosacral therapy, psychedelic integration, and ongoing studies in trauma resolution and embodied healing. I am also a member of ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service), an organization dedicated to education, research, and harm reduction in the field of psychedelic and ethnobotanical practices.
My understanding of women's embodied health has been enriched through training in Holistic Pelvic Care™ (Tami Lynn Kent), Internal Pelvic Attunement (Ami Opal), Tul’ix Therapy (abdominal self-massage), yoni steaming, and other pelvic-centered practices, alongside Usui/Holy Fire® Reiki I & II, qigong (Yuan Tze, Ren Xue International (Yuan Gong)), Hatha yoga (RYT 500), yoga therapy (Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Well Woman Yoga Therapy), and yoga nidra.
I have also had the privilege of studying ceremonial practices related to postpartum care and menopause, including the Closing of the Bones ceremony, through contemporary women’s wisdom traditions and traditional Mexican medicine (Collective Rebozo).
While my work is informed by many modalities and traditions, no single modality defines what I do. The body itself remains my primary teacher. And I continue to deepen my understanding through ongoing study, mentorship, practice, and the women I have the privilege of working with.
Gratitude
I carry deep gratitude for the many teachers, mentors, elders, colleagues, and clients who have shaped this path.
I am especially grateful for the women who have entrusted me with their stories, their challenges, their questions, and their transitions.
Again and again, they remind me that the body is far wiser than we often imagine.
And that when we learn how to listen, it can become a trusted guide through some of life's most challenging—and most transformative—moments.
