Hi lovely to meet you, my name is Melody.

I am a medicine woman of the sea. My life and medicine are in relationship with the ocean. My education has spanned many modalities, including yoga, massage, reiki, craniosacral therapy, and Chinese medicine. I am a Chinese medicine doctor, teacher, and mentor.

I have traversed complex trauma, navigated a diagnosis of dyslexia in my teens, and PCOS in my early 20s, a hormonal imbalance I healed through the wisdom of Chinese medicine and by unhooking from patterns of disordered eating and a detrimental relationship with my body.

I find healing in the art of wave riding, also known as surfing. I explore the intense edges of embodied experiences, finding presence in the residual inner quiet that comes from discharging dysregulated energy.

My life’s work and practice involve transforming pain into power and embodying the reclamation of body freedom. I respect the natural world and am in awe of the simple noticing of her rhythms and cycles. I see my work as both deeply personal and inherently collective, contributing to a rebalancing for a more harmonious world.

I feel that when the equilibrium of an ecosystem, internal or societal, is out of alignment, chaos erupts, thus causing pain and rippling out, affecting everything and everyone.

I have a family medicine practice that is centered around women’s health. I mentor budding practitioners in cultivating their own unique approaches to acupuncture and Chinese medicine, and I teach at Pacific Rim College of Integrative Medicine.

I look forward to crossing paths with you.