Welcome! My name is Melina,

If you have the time and and enjoy reading, below is a meandering text about myself, my life
and what led me to being a mystic somatics trauma resolution guide...
but if you prefer something short and sweet, go here.

ABOUT ME

Born in Australia to a Papua New Guinean born Chinese father
and a Australian born Norwegian Mother, from an early age I had big questions about
my identity, the human experience and life...like,
Who am I, really?
Where do I belong?
What am I doing on this planet?
What is my purpose?
Why is there so much pain and suffering?
Who and what is God?
Do I even matter? 

These questions led me on a life long journey to find meaning, purpose and 'God'
which ultimately led me onto the path of seeking healing...

From 5 years old, I was known as high achiever,
in fact, I set a goal at age 6 that I was going to be an Olympian.
I trained for10 years towards elite athleticism and I believe it was my first taste of 'healing'.
I learnt throughout this time...
how truly remarkable our bodies are,
how truly remarkable our minds are,
discipline, commitment, dedication and believe it or not,

God...

It also was a great outlet for my perfectionism,
to literally 'run' away from my pain, escape the intense experience of living and not belonging
and to distract myself  from what I know now to be functional depression and anxiety...
so, when it all ended...
I was left with my first life crises.

This led me to my second avenue in seeking healing -- traditional therapy.

I spent many, many years grappling with my mind, my psyche...
endless hours going back into my childhood and re-living the past.
It was insightful and I gained so much deeper understanding about certain behaviors and personal struggles, but in truth, it wasn't really resolving ongoing patterns that I'd relapse into
no matter how much I 'talked it out.' 

Still feeling lost, and often out of control, I began seeking spiritual council and women's council.

For years I began to use a simliar dediation to my running to spiritual practices, shamanic practices, meditation and the path of the Goddess.
I received profound healing on many levels, levels even beyond 'me',
an experience of spirit and source that brought me peace in many ways...
and,
they also were a sneaky outlet to bypass ongoing suffering and as I came to realize
the pain in my body. 

By this point I knew I began seeking ways to heal my body and began my education with 
embodiment practices.

At the time, with gender confusion, I specifically longing for embodiment and spiritual practices for women in which I came across Awakening Women Institute (AWI) in 2013. 

It was here in an AWI women's embodiment circle that I first felt a profound  sense of belonging
I searched for for so many years.

It wasn't long that I dedicated myself to Chameli's teaching and trained to be a teacher in embodied spiritual practices and women group facilitation. Over 10 years of my life and still counting, I found myself enriched and falling deeply in love with the path of,
earth based embodied awakening practices,
goddess mythology,
story-telling,
ritual,
ceremony,
and the great mystery. 

All of these practices and deep passions of mine came to feel like the foundation of my being, what moved me, guided me, inspired me to access deeper levels of healing and joy in my life.

Over the years these practices and the work with AWI changed the way I related to my body.

I found safety, wholeness and empowerment, and an innocent sense of wholeness...
But what begin to also reveal itself over time was these practices and passions of mine helped me begin to see the unresolved trauma I was holding in my body. 

Enter, Somatic Experiencing ™ (SE).

I became fascinated by the subject of trauma, the nervous system and the body.
which led me to different avenues of education and experiences like EMDR, Brain Spotting, Somatic Re-Capitulation, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Acupuncture...
all of which I was seeking how and ways to resolve trauma in the body.

Then, eight years ago I first received an SE session... and all the piece fell into place.

I'm not exaggerating, when I say I  walked out of the session feeling like I've finally found the missing piece to my healing journey.

In each session, I began to experience a level of resolution from stuck patterns, unhealthy coping strategies and trauma from within the body, that I hadn't quite experienced before.
Yes, it was embodiment, but it was also psychobiological.
It was about the nervous system, our animal bodies, and restoring healthy functioning of fight, flight, freeze.

I think perhaps the the beauty to it all was, I found spirit within the practices as in,
something beyond what I could also explain.
  The guidance to resolve trauma was never forced, or pushed or even necessarily cathartic...
in fact it was sometimes so subtle I questioned if anything was happening at all...

A few years later, I decided to  enroll in the 3 year Somatic Experiencing Professional Program
and become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP).

Since that time, it's been an absolute joy and at times 'nerdy' passion to weave together all my training in embodied spiritual practices, ceremony, ritual, myth, medicines and the training of somatic trauma resolution and nervous system resiliency.

All of which has led to my work in the world today as a Mystic Somatic Healing Guide.  

Mystic Somatics is a practice developed by me that explores all the modalities and learnings I have practiced in-depth with myself and with hundreds of people (mostly women) around the world.
At it's core I encorporate both Somatic Experiencing and Mystic Embodiment Practices.
 

For those who are new to Somatic Experiencing ™, it is a body-based, psychobiological understanding of human beings. Which means, to observe and relate to the behavior and nature of the body through the lens of our natural animal instincts, which offers a wealth of insights about how to facilitate the natural re-balancing of our nervous system and mind. 

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In other words, SE is a type of therapy that focuses on the behavior of an individual, through sensations, gestures and emotions.  SE informs the individual of what is wanting resolution, what self protective responses are needing to complete themselves through the body, it supports nervous system repair and trauma renegotiation.
 

The Mysticism I incorporate is the mystery of it all, the mystery that also guides me.

I am a deep listener, an intuitive and masterful space holder -- not in a gloaty-kind-of-way
but in a, embodied experience of this is quite literally what I am here to do kind-of-way and,
I've always been reflected it's what has always been natural to me.

Sessions with me are unique, in the sense that I don't claim to know it all but instead I track, meticulously
for the intuitive unfolding of you...
Meaning you in-fact know what to do to heal, and I am a translator,
a guide, a mirror, an ally in the sometimes confusing and merky terrains
of you learning the language of healing for yourself.

In my sessions, you are the authority.

I am not a therapist or the guru.
Yes, of course, I call upon my education and experience but I also very much follow your lead.
Because, ultimately, your nervous system guides and informs your transformation
that is longing to be expressed and lived.

Our time together will be an exploration of the living, breathing myth that is your life and being,
and how you can create more ease, more joy, more safe connection,
more money, more freedom, more time,
more creativity, more aliveness, more softness,
more fierceness, more boundaries, more safety
within and around you.

It is a result of my own inner trauma resolution and from the merging of these modalities and practices that I experience the same results I know you too are seeking. 

If are wondering the specifics of what I have supported people who I work with to find resolution, healing, understanding, grace and resolution with... some of the experiences are:

grief, loss, relational rupture, transition, behavioral difficulties, postpartum and prenatal care, perfectionism, gender confusion, sexual trauma, abuse, psychedelic / medicine journey integration, spiritual awakening integration, anxiety, depression, fear and apathy, longing, passion, purpose, PTSD, CPTSD, addiction, developmental trauma, attachment trauma and injury, shame and longing.

 

We are complex and marvelous creatures.

Regardless of what you are working with,
relief, change, choice, compassion, understanding, healing and resolution is absolutely possible.

I lI am here for you and your sacred transformation. 

 

If you've stuck with me this far and want to jump on a call to tell me about yourself and see how I can support you then schedule a free curiosity call with the link below. 


 

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