Hello, my name is Melissa and I've got some big, big energy to share!

I always did, right from the start.

I was one of those kids that ran fast, tumbled, tackled, danced, sung, climbed trees, climbed fences, chased boys, scissor kicked my own height in high jump (pre-frosby flop era) loved backbends, cartwheels & walking on my hands and could somehow stand on my head for too long to count (& I still can).

Yep I was one of those super freaky kids, super skilled and also super aware of the emotions and fears of others.

Turns out a lot of this can be explained in my human design. (My latest addiction) I'm a 1/4 Emotional Generator with the channel of rhythm, channel of power skills, channel of community & the channel of the beat. This channel energy is what I resonate with most.

I'm a water type and that's me to a T. I'm a shape shifter, driven by fear and yet I'll always find a way.

If you want to know the quickest way down the mountain - follow the water (there's another funny story waiting to be told on the podcast right there!)

I was one of those kids that just knew how to move my body. I was strong, I could climb anything, I could balance upside down and I was lightening fast. That physical ability was just innate within me. 

All part of my human design and all part of what I'm designed to teach & inspire others with!

When the universe brought me Pilates it was an instant ah-huh moment. Like the recognition of a lifelong lover. It spoke to me & to my bodies intelligence.

"This is it"

"This is what I've been looking for"

.........there and then my lifelong love affair with Pilates and a re-awakening within my body began!

Much like when I met Matt.

The was an instant resonance.

A deep inner knowing.

"Please let this be him"

I could feel the answers in my body and then all the external signs that followed, confirmed it for me. This was meant to be.

I simply responded.

That was almost 32 years ago now & we're still going strong. There's a lot I can say about why, it's not by accident. It's on Purpose!  Just like my pilates is on purpose.

It's all intentional.

Working with emotions, fear & relationships has always been a thing for me....and I was always the 'go to girlfriend' for that 'counsel' and 'sage advise'. It's just in me. 

When I found Pilates (or it found me) it was during a time when I was in the thick of early motherhood (& at the time, Matt was MIA a lot, working in the music industry). I was working hard a lot of the time just to keep my head above water.... seeking answers for a child that was so anxious with panic attacks that she would jump out of moving cars and climb 6 foot barbed wire fences, to avoid being separated from me.

So you can imagine the feels right?

They can bring some dark moments where you wonder if you'll ever survive this.....

Then I knew (deep within my bones again) that to help her I needed to help myself first. I knew that the answers for her, lay within me. Leaning into my own darkness was a scary prospect, I was busy holding myself together, I didn't want to fall apart and yet, cracking myself open and facing my own fears I was willing to do for her.

You see I had also grown up with panic attacks and I'd witnessed them with others, although her's (& later my sons) were next level!!

I knew mine (like my kids) were due to genetic baggage, in addition to my own trauma surrounding circumstances with heart surgery as a baby (a story for another time ), the point was, I knew I needed to heal my own wounds as well as the genetic trauma, so I was looking for answers and God, delivered.

I was also looking for "what am I supposed to be doing for money?" in amongst all the other goings on.

I followed the signs.

First came the home business enterprise selling a meditation system. I was already a qualified Naturopath but with no interest in being in clinical practice (so far I had attracted vampires that wanted 3hrs of my time for next to no money - *eye rolls* I wasn't ready for that) .... I knew I wasn't in the right 'headspace' for clinical practice based on the people I was attracting, so I was looking for something else to do at home with my kids (2 at that time).

In order to sell this meditation program, I of course had to take the journey myself....I carved out the 20-60min per day, I committed and had Matt's support.

In 10 days (I kid you not) I had turned my life around. Again.

(the first time I quantum leaped and made miraculous changes within 2 weeks, led me to study Naturopathy - again, another story to tell) 

I changed me & EVERYTHING changed!

Everything started to fall into place when I changed my mind and changed my vibration!

I was excited and jumping out of my skin (in the best possible way).

So of course, everything that was meant to find me, could now find me.... that energy is like a homing beacon!

Pilates found me & I followed the signs again.

Pilates spoke to my inner acrobat, the dancer, the mover and the climber!

The inner child in me was excited.

Excitement here is key.There in lay your clue to where you're supposed to be!

It made sense to me and the inner knowing was deep.

It resonated right to the core! (see what I did just then?)

This was the universe again whispering to me, go this way.

And so I did, with great reward!

That was 21 years ago now.

At the grand young age of 51 as I type this, I reflect a lot on what has worked in my life.

On what made the easy, successful, joyful times flow so easily.

(PS we did solve the panic attack puzzle!)

There is a definite pattern and boy oh boy do I have some stories to tell!

... the love & the lessons, the grief & the healing, the intuition, the births & the babies, the business success & the burnout. The bouncing back & the rockstar experiences.

It's a freaking trip.

I've been blessed to have had some of the most magical life experiences one can have and the radical turning point all started at the age of 16, when I really started to dream and vision my life!

I've massaged on Bondi Beach, been on the front of the Sunday paper doing so, then massaging in the music industry, riding in cars to gigs with International celebs like INXS & DURAN DURAN and other experiences you just can't buy.

I've been in the backstage crew for rockstars and athletes and while all of that has been a very small part of my life, they are some fun stories to tell and serve to remind me what I can attract into my life!

I've had 4 conscious conceptions and birthed with & without fear (the duality is always there).

I've had a breech vaginal delivery, a land birth, a water birth at home & a free birth.

All of which were the most wonderful, empowering experiences and received with a mindset strategy that I love to share. 

I launched my own business growing it quickly to multiple six figures (part time) while essentially living like a stay at home mum and managed then to feel like I was having my cake & eating it too!

I retired my husband from work outside the home, he joined me teaching pilates. We renovated and sold another home and took our 4 kids to NYC & Disneyland with the proceeds. We've renovated our little cottage into a grand home, built a gorgeous studio at home complete with dream pool & infra red sauna all while never really knowing how it would happen, but believing it would.

It hasn't always been easy.

Beyond panic attacks and some extended family 'stuff' that felt like a 10 year Jerry Springer episode, I've lost a best friend in almost every decade, starting at 17, so dealing with grief and loss, learning acceptance and gratitude, has been quite a journey.

Then of course, to top it all off, I hit functional burnout. HARD.  

I tried to 'rescue' everyone else.

My big big energy tapped out!

I cried. I cried a lot. All the layers of suppressed grief bubbling to the surface. 

I had spent my life trying to 'hold it all together' me and everyone else that was with me. 

That's enough. I said. I'm done. I'm learning to say NO. I'm starting to understand what's mine to deal with and what's not.

I need to know why my need to please is so pathological. What was unconscious was slowly rising to the surface.

I asked for it.

"Let's dive deep again shall we?" The Universe said as she took my hand onto the dance floor...it's time to release those deeper layers for your next quantum leap....

Through it all, I've managed to look, listen and feel into the answers.

When your intention is healing, not blame, then you start to get the answers you seek.

I'm aware of the guidance I get from those friends who have passed and I'm aware of the gifts I've been granted to help guide others on their journey too.

All kind of a long story (51 years of living will do that to you, for which I'm incredibly grateful!) but the essence of these lessons and the growth and the excitement at feeling empowered (& just plain excited about life) and the ability to change our mind and our body, was the initial impulse for launching my first Pilates studio.

To provide others with the space I knew I wanted and needed for myself to move, breath & flow again and of course, to provide wealth for my tribe. To provide for my family financially.

I got both!

I've helped thousands of families, women, men, teens to strengthen their body & mind, to move from fear to fierce, from in pain to empowered with pilates and other mindset strategies.

Nothing has changed but there are a few more offers on the table these days, now that my kids (all 4 of them) are 16 and over now and quite independent.

I have more capacity to guide others to develop their own superpowers for healing, purpose and abundance.

To share my stories to light the way for others, to inspire (because I love being inspired) to remind you all HOW to come back into your body for the answers.

It is through your body that the Universe, or Uni-God-verse as my brother says, communicates with us to show us the way.

Listen carefully.

So if your gut, or a little voice inside you is whispering, "this is the girl for you" then perhaps you are destined to work with me?

If you're ready to level up then reach out for a free discovery call.

Let's see where this takes us!

With Big Love & Big Energy,

Melissa xx

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