Mellara Gold

Mellara is a yoga and meditation teacher, author, and retreat guide whose work is rooted in the simple practice of living with greater awareness.

She has been teaching yoga for more than twenty-five years. Over time, her practice and teaching have deepened to weave together Hatha yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and reflective inquiry, inviting students to meet themselves with greater honesty, steadiness, and compassion. Whether teaching yoga, writing an essay, guiding a retreat, or working with someone individually, her work returns to one enduring question: How do we stay with ourselves when life becomes difficult?

Originally from Queensland, Australia, Mellara moved to Los Angeles at seventeen to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She went on to spend most of her adult life in California, where yoga became a central part of her life and work.

Mellara completed her yoga teacher training at the Center for Yoga in Los Angeles. Her teaching continued to deepen through practice and study with teachers including Erich Schiffmann and Saul David Raye. Her later study with monastically trained Buddhist upāsaka Channa Dassanayaka brought meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative practice more deeply into her life and became an enduring influence on her work.

She is the author of A Life Worth Living, Living in Awareness, and the Living in Awareness Companion Journal. Her essays and articles have appeared in OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine, Women's Fitness, Elephant Journal, Meditation Magazine, and other wellness publications. Her writing explores many of the same questions that shape her teaching: how we inhabit our lives more fully, meet change with awareness, and remain in relationship with ourselves through the many seasons of being human.

Mellara lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts, where she teaches weekly classes and works privately with students. She also teaches workshops and retreats and offers private sessions both in person and online.

She believes practice is not about becoming someone else.
It is about learning to remain present for the life that is already here.

You're welcome here, exactly as you are.