⊹Yoga Alliance RYT-200 Trauma-Informed SOMATIC Yoga Instructor ⊹ Reiki Master Teacher ⊹EVIDENTIAL MEDIUM⊹
Welcome. I’m Melissa Shaker.
I create spaces where your nervous system can soften.
My work is devoted to holding compassionate, consent-based spaces where healing unfolds gently, at the pace of your body.
This path began as my own search for relief from PTSD following sexual trauma. I know what it feels like to live disconnected from your body. To brace. To survive. To long for safety.
Movement was the first doorway home.
Yoga became more than a practice, it became a sanctuary. A place where I could meet sensation without fear. Where breath became an anchor. Where choice replaced force. Where I began to trust myself again.
Reiki deepened that healing. Through subtle energy work, I experienced emotional release and a quiet remembering that beneath the trauma, I was still whole.
Over time, my intuitive sensitivity, something I had felt since childhood, became clearer and more refined. I pursued formal training in evidential mediumship to ethically and responsibly develop this gift. Today, I offer mediumship the same way I offer yoga and Reiki: grounded, trauma-informed, and centered in nervous system safety.
I received certifications through:
〰 Trauma-Informed Training with Transcending Sexual Trauma Through Yoga (Zabie Yamasaki)
〰 Somatic Yoga Training with Megan MacCarthy
〰 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Inner Power Yoga
〰 Restorative Yoga Certifications
〰 Reiki Master Teacher Certifications with Gurunater Kaur Khalsa and Yvonne Gleason
〰 Formal Training in Evidential Mediumship with Jeremy Turner-Welch
In every class and session, you are invited to move at your own pace. To listen inward. To choose. To pause. To feel.
Healing, as I see it, is not about fixing what is broken.
It is about creating enough safety to remember who you have always been.
Wherever you are on your journey, grieving, healing, searching, or simply curious, you are welcome here.
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You are enough.
