Awaken Your Power - Presence, Power and Belonging to Ourselves (with Mellara) In this episode, host Keri Mangis sits down with Mellara a long-time meditation and mindful yoga teacher whose work centers on awareness, self-compassion and embodied presence in a complex and often overwhelming world. 

Mellara Gold is a frequent contributor to OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine, writing insightful articles on yoga's deeper spiritual aspects, authenticity, community, and self-worth, with themes like "All of life is a yoga class," cultivating inner strength, finding purpose, and embracing imperfection. Her writing, often based on her own experiences as a yoga teacher, encourages readers to find connection, build resilience, and live a more purposeful, heart-centered life through practice.  

A Life Worth Living: Mellara Gold’s new book on “mindfulness, yoga, and living in awareness” is my favorite because she employed a style that I used in my book, as well. By using vignettes of memoir, prescriptive information, and a bit of research, her book takes what could have been dry and didactic information and makes it a literal page-turner. Her childhood could very well have been a movie, and she takes you through her learning process in marriage, motherhood, and studying under Channa Dassanayaka, who also supplies the invocation at the book’s opening. This book is totally worth checking out. Just click on the photo to read more.