Melanee Cooper

To come as she is, without apology has been the journey of ten thousand yoga classes.

Yoga started Melanee on a new path 25 years ago. It was love at first meditation when she began to explore what it meant to connect to her inner landscape. She found yoga, like most things in her life, through synchronicity. Or that’s how yoga found her. She had a major life event that would change the course of her life. As she started to practice yoga, she started to orient from the inside out. She found she was in a new relationship—with herself.  She rediscovered who she was by using the tools of mind, body,  breath, and heart. 

As a passionate student, Melanee wanted to explore everything she could about these powerful ancient mind-body practices. Along the way, she branched out to include yoga and Buddhist philosophy, meditation, somatic, therapeutic, and trauma-informed yoga, psychology, neuroscience, and holistic health coaching. 

In her yoga classes, Melanee guides people to get curious about their physical, mental, and emotional states. A typical class will include meditation, alignment cues, breathwork, mantras, and mudras as well as hard-won life wisdom sprinkled throughout. Learn more at: MelaneeCooper.com. 

(Editor’s note: Melanee’s next yoga retreat is: March 22-29, 2025,
“Awakening the Lotus” at Bodhi Tree in Nosara, Costa Rica. Learn more: https://melaneecooper.com/yoga-retreats/p/awakening-the-lotus-2025 )