Yes I can't wait to start my Ayurvedic Journey!

Self-Love and Gratitude as a Sacred Healing Path 

I believe and teach self-love & gratitude as essential tools for healing, teaching and life.

“Through my 25 year career of teaching, owning a yoga studio, training yoga teachers at Langara College, and working with thousands of students … I began to see a pattern.”

The pattern was within myself. I would feel inspired and then hit a plateau in my teaching and life and then begin to question what I was doing and why I was doing it. I often felt dismayed at the state of yoga and YTT today as it was so vastly contrary to the more traditional lineage I studied at the Bihar School of Yoga over a 10-year period.

I stumbled upon Ayurveda when no doctors could help me overcome an illness that lasted almost a decade. Ayurveda taught me how to take care of myself with my particular dosha, align with my natural state and get my energy and life back.

I spent a lot of time, energy and money seeking out my training and integrating it. I wish I had a mentor, someone who had gone before me and understood my hardships.

This Ayurveda Yoga Training is consciously designed for you to learn Ayurveda in a digestible format that you can actually utilize and integrate into your own life and into your classes and private sessions with students.

Yoga teachers are a dime a dozen these days. What makes you unique? What level of wisdom, understanding and presence do you bring to your classes?

Whether you’ve been teaching for decades or are fresh out of your YTT, I’ll share with you the essence that I’ve gleaned from over 25 years of exploration and study of Ayurveda, yoga, energy healing, martial arts, Vision Quests, Vipassana, ashram living, dance, owning a yoga studio, Reiki, Akashic Records, travel and leading groups on retreats all over the world.

This Ayurvedic program was born out of my love and dedication to both yoga and Ayurveda and the increasing need in the world of yoga for classes that consider the alchemy of the physical, mental, emotional, and energetics, to bring sustainable and deep healing through greater awareness, acceptance and love.

“Melanie's training provided such depth and provided very tangible ways of applying Ayurvedic principles to the practice of yoga.

I feel my own practice has become more skillful and balanced. My students have also reported finding benefits from small, simple seasonal changes that I have offered in my classes. Thank you, Melanie.”

-Jacqueline M.

“This training has been an absolute gift! Such in depth insight into yoga from an Ayurvedic perspective. Melanie is passionate, deeply knowledgeable, caring and extremely inspirational. Thank you from my grateful heart for this experience.”

-Pascale Fromont, Coastal Bliss Yoga

“Melanie’s training is so deep, her emodiment of Ayurveda so apparent. She teaches from a deep inner knowing of the science and of herself. She not only teaches on the five elements, she draws upon your five senses; leading us through the most thoughtful and rich yoga classes, deep interactive conversations, and rad dance parties. We became not only acquainted with Ayurveda, but with ourselves. I am so grateful you and your training came into my life. I can’t thank you enough.”

-Lindsay Gough

"I’m grateful for this experience! Melanie brings humour, her own depth of experience and a grounded understanding of the human psyche to the teaching of Ayurveda. With great compassion and human-ness she shares this ancient wisdom so that we as students might apply the lessons to our own life and in turn to the lives of our students. I’m grateful for this experience of getting to know myself better through the guidance of such a skilled teacher.”

-Katherine Wilson, Katherine Wilson Yoga

“I was able to take a good look at myself and start making changes. I got so much out of this workshop: a better understanding of how foods can affect us, a new meaning to why we do yoga postures, and ways that they can be a benefit to us, a new understanding to what yoga really is. I was able to take a good look at myself and start making changes. I was able to share openly which is something I don’t normally do. This was possible because of the space Melanie was able to provide for us. I feel very grateful to be part of this group.”

-Mike Hay

“I’m so glad I decided to follow through with this opportunity to learn. This Ayurvedic Training program is engaging, accessible and empowering. Melanie’s perspectives and materials allowed me to gain a clearer perspective of how I can live my daily life with more intention, gratitude and love. I’m so glad I decided to follow through with this opportunity to learn."

-Jinnene Foster

“A training that far exceeded my expectations! This journey I thought I was on to bring Ayurveda into my yoga teachings turned into deeper teachings for my own inner journey of living mindfully in every moment and being present in all I do and in my interactions with others.

Learning to listen with an open heart, to find a state of peace and contentment while healing myself to be full, healthy and non-judgmental, but also not taking life too seriously.

Such an amazing course that subtly and intricately builds on so much self-care and self-love to live WHOLEHEARTEDLY."

-Rosie Williams, Yoga Shack BC

“Thank you for your authentic presence, courage and light! On my continuous journey of learning through the path of yoga, ayurveda sparked my interest and I chose Melanie Phillips and her course on ayurveda to be my next step in learning.

Her guidance, example, straight forward and open approach to delivering the content really allowed me to embody the knowledge and wisdom and to go away with enthusiasm to practice and continue to learn more and at the same time have appreciation and acceptance for what I already know, for what I am already doing and for being open to what is next.

My ayurvedic studies have just started and I am excited to learn more and with the support and guidance from Melanie and her content, which she continues to evolve, perfect and develop on her journey and authentic dedication to the ayurvedic path.

Thank you for your authentic presence, courage and light. I am thankful I chose to participate in a deepening course with you.”

-Hana, Hana Health