YOGA WALL: PRIVATE SESSIONS WITH MELLARA GOLD
OPEN DOORS™ YOGA STUDIOS | NORWELL, MA
ABOUT
The Great Yoga Wall provides a customized yoga experience in a private session using wall-mounted equipment designed to enhance your practice. You will work one-on-one with a teacher who tailors the session to meet your unique needs and goals. While the teacher offers personalized guidance and adjustments, the wall's straps and supports assist you in achieving proper alignment, deepening stretches, and building strength. This targeted, individualized approach allows you to explore the benefits of yoga and address any concerns, questions, or curiosities about your evolving yoga practice. All are welcome!
Note: Due to inversions, the Yoga Wall is not recommended for individuals with high blood pressure, detached retinas, glaucoma, or during menstruation.
Discover Mellara Gold's latest article, Yoga at the Wall, featured in OM YOGA Magazine! In this insightful piece, Mellara shares 5 key takeaways that will help you deepen your practice and confidently transition back to the center of the room. Whether you're looking to refine your alignment, build strength, or find balance, these tips are perfect for taking your yoga to the next level. Read the full article here.
I cannot recommend YOGA ON THE WALL one-to-one enough. Mellara is such a nurturing and knowledgeable yoga instructor. She finds the perfect balance between challenge and restoration. I am grateful to have discovered this practice. -Megan H.
SERVICES
Yoga on the Wall
Experience a practice supported by wall straps to encourage length, balance, alignment, and more ease in the yoga poses. Get support in balancing poses, extension in standing poses, and enjoy the benefits of inversions without weight on your hands, arms, or head. Beneficial for everyone - all levels welcome and no rope yoga wall experience necessary. (I usually run over for their first session if we have studio availability.)
Note: Due to inversions, the Wall is not recommended for those with high blood pressure, detached retinas, glaucoma or during menstruation.
Yoga for a Healthy Back
This private session is meant for anyone who needs to relieve back pain, ease tension, build strength, and get your spine moving! Strengthen your body and restore natural wellness while focusing on asanas of particular benefit for spine health and core strength.
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.
She has been teaching yoga for more than twenty-five years. Over time, her practice and teaching have deepened to weave together Hatha yoga, meditation, mindfulness, 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. She went on to spend most of her adult life in California, where yoga became a central part of her life and work.
Mellara completed her yoga teacher training at the Center for Yoga in Los Angeles. Her teaching continued to deepen through practice and study with teachers including Erich Schiffmann and Saul David Raye. Her later study with monastically trained Buddhist upāsaka Channa Dassanayaka brought meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative practice more deeply into her life and became an enduring influence on her work.
She is the author of A Life Worth Living, Living in Awareness, and the Living in Awareness Companion Journal. Her essays and articles have appeared in OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine, Women's Fitness, Elephant Journal, Meditation Magazine, and other wellness publications.
Mellara lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts and teaches weekly classes at Open Doors Yoga in Norwell. At the Norwell studio, she works privately with students through Yoga Wall, Yoga for a Healthy Back, and individual meditation and mindfulness sessions. She has taught private Yoga Wall sessions since 2002. Her one-on-one work offers a more individualized approach to practice, whether someone is caring for their back, exploring greater strength and mobility, developing a meditation practice, or wanting the space to listen more closely to what they need.
Beyond the studio, Mellara teaches workshops and retreats and works privately with students both in person and online.
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.
CONTACT
For more information or questions: Contact Marilva Wedge, Director
CustomerSupport@opendoorsyogastudios.com | 508-301-2787