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To inspire wellness through a therapeutic blend of yoga, meditation, inspirational messages and nutritional education.
Melissa Mooney-Lopez AKA Mel
Yoga Teacher, Wellness Guide, Mother & Wife
Melissa began practicing yoga over a decade ago. Yoga’s ability to heal became abundantly clear to Melissa after years of living with the painful effects of multiple sports related injuries. She found yoga to be the only therapy to give her true physical and mental relief. It became obvious her path was to share this message
Nature + Yoga + Sound = Epic Zen.
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There’s something truly powerful that happens when these three come together.
🏞️Nature naturally helps calm the nervous system, lower stress hormones, and bring us back to the present moment.
🧘♀️ Yoga invites us to slow down, breathe deeply, release tension, and reconnect with our bodies with compassion.
🎶 Sound healing uses soothing vibrations and frequencies that can help quiet the mind, encourage deep relaxation, and create space for restoration.
Together, they create an experience that nourishes your mind, body, and spirit—leaving you feeling grounded, lighter, and deeply renewed.
Whether you’re looking for a private gathering, corporate wellness experience, retreat, girls’ night, or a special celebration, we’d love to create something meaningful for your group.
✨ More public experiences are coming soon!
📩 Now booking private yoga + sound experiences.
DM me to learn more or reserve your date.
07/25/2026
🎄✨ ❤️🤍💙
Christmas in July!
Who says holiday recipes are only for November and December?
Healthy-ish Happy Holidays: A Mom’s Recipe for Honoring Family, Cooking, and Being Well Through America’s Favorites is so much more than a Thanksgiving and Christmas cookbook.
Inside you’ll find healthier twists on comfort food for every season:
☀️ Backyard BBQs🍉🌿
🥗 Summer gatherings
🍂 Cozy fall dinners
🎄 Holiday celebrations
🎉 Potlucks, parties, and everyday family meals.
🍡🍢🫒🧀Amazing Apps
It’s filled with recipes that honor tradition while nourishing the people you love.
☺️Stress free hosting Tips
wellness and comfort food really can share the same table. 🤍
If you’re local, I have a few signed copies available. 📖✍️
Or you can grab your copy anytime through the Amazon link in my bio.
Here’s to gathering around the table, making memories, and living well all year long.
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🤍 Live. Eat. Think. Be Well.
— Mel
07/22/2026
💎✨ You’re Invited! ✨💎
Join us for an evening of shopping with purpose at Kendra Scott in support of Step Up! 💛
🛍️ Shop beautiful jewelry
🥂 Enjoy sips & light bites
🤝 Connect with inspiring women from across our community
💛 Give back while you shop
I’m honored to be co-hosting this event alongside Meghakanya Bradley and Precious Bridges and we’d love to see you there!
📅 Wednesday, July 29
🕔 5:00–8:00 PM
📍 Kendra Scott – The Mall at Green Hills
Raffle items by Green Hills Body Alive
Can’t make it in person? You can still support Step Up by shopping online using code:
✨ GIVEBACK-MJFLA ✨
Every purchase helps support mission of empowering girls to fulfill their potential through mentorship and leadership development.
Bring a friend, network with amazing women, and let’s make a difference together! 🧡
WomenSupportingWomen
07/18/2026
Fear will always have something to say.
It just doesn’t get to decide where I’m going anymore. 🤍
POV: You became the woman you used to watch on Instagram… not because you had it all figured out, but because you stopped letting fear make your decisions.
For a long time, fear quietly ran the show.
Fear of failing.
Fear of disappointing people.
Fear of choosing the wrong path.
Fear of being misunderstood.
Fear of outgrowing relationships.
Fear of ending up alone.
It’s amazing how much of life can be shaped by trying to avoid discomfort instead of moving toward what makes you feel alive.
Lately I’ve been asking myself some hard questions.
In less than a month, I’ll enter the last year of my 40s.
Where did this decade go?
More importantly…
Where do I want to go from here?
More than half my life has already been lived. That realization doesn’t scare me—it wakes me up.
We get one precious life.
I don’t want to spend another year staying in places that shrink me, saying yes because it’s easier than saying no, or surrounding myself with people who aren’t aligned simply because I’m afraid of being alone.
I’m choosing intuition over fear.
Purpose over approval.
Depth over popularity.
Presence over perfection.
Maybe that’s a little delusional.
Or maybe that’s exactly how dreams become reality.
🤍
Live. Eat. Think. Be Well.
Mel
“You’ll never be free until you realize this…”
Freedom was never about what other people thought of me.
It was always about learning to trust my own intuition.
That quiet inner voice has taken me to some incredible places—back home to myself, across the world with my best friends, and to the tops of mountains that scared me to my core.
This summer, it led me to these incredible Rocky Mountain bristlecone pines—some of the oldest living trees on Earth—high on Mount Blue Sky in Colorado (formerly known as Mount Evans).
The air was so thin it was hard to breathe. I had an altitude headache. And if I’m being honest, the drive up had me gripping my seat as the road climbed toward nearly 14,000 feet.
It looked adventurous in the photos… but I was definitely scared.
And yet, that’s where the reward always seems to be.
On the other side of fear is freedom.
So I hugged the trees. I stood quietly among beings that have witnessed centuries upon centuries of change. I listened. I breathed as deeply as I could. I followed my heart.
Nature has a way of reminding us that we don’t have to force our path—we simply have to trust it.
The older I get, the more I realize that the life I’ve always been searching for isn’t found by following the crowd. It’s found by following the quiet whispers of my own soul.
Here’s to trusting your intuition.
Here’s to taking the road that scares you.
Here’s to hugging ancient trees, breathing mountain air, and remembering who you are.
🌲🤍✨
Live. Eat. Think. Be Well.
🤍 Mel
07/16/2026
Two Vows.✝️🧘♀️
A Lifelong Commitment.
There have been two vows that have shaped my life.
The first was made by a frightened little 7-year-old girl.
In the middle of fear, I promised God that if He would guide me out of what felt hopeless, I would spend my life helping others. I didn’t know what that would look like then—I just knew I wanted out of an extremely traumatic situation. I had no idea how much purpose would come from being guided by Spirit.
Years later, after finding yoga during one of the hardest seasons of my life filled with sickness, heartbreak, and loss - I made another vow.
If yoga could help me find relief in my body, peace in the chaos, quiet my mind, and create space to hear Spirit more clearly, I would spend my life sharing it with others.
For me, yoga has never replaced my faith.
It has deepened it.
Again and again, Spirit has met me on my mat and In my teaching. A window to shine through.
Teaching me to breathe through fear.
Soften my heart.
Trust again.
And remember that I was never walking alone.
This cross.
This mat.
And this light.
They remind me that healing isn’t something we achieve alone. It’s something we receive:
one faithful step.
one breath.
one prayer at a time.
They remind me that purpose often grows from pain, and that the greatest act of faith is continuing to say “yes” to the path Spirit places before us, even when we can’t yet see where it leads.
The journey hasn’t been easy, and for many years I questioned why there had to be so much suffering.
Today, I believe some of our deepest wounds become the places from which we love, serve, and heal others most authentically.
And this keeps me in the promise path.
🤍 Live. Eat. Think. Be Well.
Mel
When people ask how I’ve been doing, I always hesitate.
Which version do you want me to answer with?
The one where I’ve been untangling the version of myself that was built to survive…
Rebuilding my business after realizing I was chasing everyone else’s definition of success…
Finding my way back to my true identity after years of losing pieces of myself…
Learning to regulate a nervous system that spent far too long in survival mode…
Growing my own little family while everything I once knew about my family of origin fell apart…
Or…
I could just say,
“I’ve been busy.” 🤍
Sometimes the biggest transformations are the ones no one else can see.
No but really I’ve been REALLY good!!!
✨ Live. Eat. Think. Be Well.
🤍 Mel
07/12/2026
🌻 Oh, this day… how lovely. 🌻
Today is International Day of Hope, and it feels like the perfect reminder that no matter what season we’re in, hope is always available to us. 🤍✨
One of my favorite quotes by Maya Angelou has accompanied me through some of my toughest seasons of life:
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.”
Those words have gently brought me back to center more times than I can count. When fear felt loud, they reminded me that I still had a choice—to lean into hope. 😌
If you’re walking through something hard right now, I hope this quote finds you at exactly the right moment. I hope it reminds you to take one deep breath, trust the next step, and believe that brighter days are still ahead. 🙏🤍☀️
Choose hope today. And tomorrow. And the day after that. 💛
Live. Eat. Think. Be Well. 🤍
– Mel
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