MELISSA OKABE
Yoga Instructor (RYT-500) and Reiki Practitioner
Melissa is a yoga instructor (RYT-500) and Reiki Practitioner based in Los Angeles, California. She completed both her 200-hour and 300-hour teacher training through YogaWorks Los Angeles, studying under David Lynch and Jorge Luna, and completed Therapeutics Teacher Training at the Green Yogi Manhattan Beach under Chelsea Rothert and Wendy Garafalo.
Melissa has taught vinyasa flow, hatha, yin, and restorative yoga since 2014 for various yoga, wellness, and fitness studios, private students, corporate clients, and led a yoga retreat to the Big Island of Hawaii. Melissa completed her Usui Reiki Master Training in 2021.
As a host and facilitator of Women's Circles, Melissa is passionate about empowering women to connect with their Divine Feminine energy, inner beauty and radiance, self-love, and bringing people together as community; she is humbled by the practice of yoga which is a constant, beautiful reminder of change, self awareness, and being true to ourselves.