Melanie McGhee, L.C.S.W. is an award-winning author, relationship expert, psychotherapist and spiritual coach. She is also the founder of Abhimukti Yoga Coaches - providing coaches training to yoga teachers.
For more than 25 years, she has been helping people cultivate rich relationships with themselves, others and Life. A long-time yoga practitioner and meditator, Melanie sees relationship as one of Life’s perfect practice spaces for experiencing yoga. Melanie's experiences and training led her to create a coaches training for yoga teachers. Her understanding of the sanskrit term yoga is that it means union with the Divine in yourself, others and Life. It is her intention to generously share tools and practices that support your personal and spiritual growth, using relationship as the practice ground. In this way, you learn to take your relationship with yourself, with others and with Life to the next level, exploring and practicing the yoga of relationship.
As a longtime meditator, I founded Illumined Life, LLC to help people build better relationships with themselves, others and God. I aim to be respectfully adept in supporting my clients release the emotional and cognitive blocks that keep them from living fully. I am committed to self-acceptance, helping people learn to experience themselves without the inhibition of self judgment, self evaluation and self criticism. For I see such acceptance as a means to more fully connect with the divine in one’s self and in others.
I’ve been lucky to have exceptional teachers. They have helped me develop my communication skills, especially teaching me to listen deeply and with compassion. Through the grace of such teachers, I’ve found and cultivated the insight and intuition that resides in each of us. Using skill and insightful listening, I am committed to helping people free themselves of emotional pain and supporting them as they craft richly fulfilling lives.
For more than 20 years, I have been helping people engage more fully in life, attain their goals and reach their potential in what I hope to be an atmosphere of unconditional acceptance and respect. In addition to maintaing my psychotherapy and coaching practice, I have worked with individuals and groups in boardrooms, the deep wilderness and a variety of retreat sites. Among the organizations I have served are NASA, Methodist Medical Center, Baptist Hospital, Tennessee Valley Authority, Michigan Unemployment, the SYDA Foundation and the US Army.
Visit my website http://www.illuminedlife.com or give me a call 865-384-410.