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.

For more than two decades, she has woven together Hatha yoga, mindfulness, meditation, 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 before discovering yoga and the mindfulness and Buddhist traditions that would shape the course of her life.

She completed her first yoga teacher training at the Center for Yoga in Los Angeles in 1999, where she established the foundation of her teaching. Her teaching has been shaped through twenty-five years of practice and study with teachers including Erich Schiffmann, Saul David Raye, and Channa Dassanayaka.

She is the author of A Life Worth Living, Living in Awareness, and the Living in Awareness Companion Journal, and is a regular contributor to OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine and Women's Fitness.

Now based on the South Shore of Massachusetts, Mellara offers weekly classes, private sessions, retreats, Yoga Wall sessions, and online Depth Sessions.

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.