My Core Embodied Values
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Lead with lived wisdom, not performance.
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Honour rhythm, care and personal sovereignty.
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Create from an ongoing journey — not a perfected destination.
About & Contacts
Melanie Kalay is the founder of melamoves, a wellness platform that blends science-backed practice with embodied, rooted wisdom. Her approach is grounded in trauma-informed, research-led methods and shaped by decades of study with leading somatic and social embodiment teachers.
With a background in functional fitness, yoga , and nutrition, Melanie offers a sensitive, inclusive, and non-performative approach to transformation—one that honours nervous system rhythms and the lived experience of marginalised bodies.
Through melamoves, she supports people to return to rhythm, reclaim space, and rebuild trust in their own knowing. Her work bridges structure and softness, movement and rest, care and clarity.
Melanie holds numerous certifications, including a Diploma in Sports Therapy, Senior Yoga Teacher Status, Somatic Therapeutic Training, Menopause Health, and various qualifications in nutrition and bodywork.
BOOKING & CONSULTATION
To invite Melanie to facilitate at an event or festival, please email: contact@melamoves.com
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Melanie's STORY!
Movement has always been central to my life—but how I understand it has changed profoundly through experience.
I was an active, outdoorsy child and a competitive athlete until a serious elbow injury at 20 left me with lasting mobility loss. The recovery taught me about adaptation, strength, and patience—and planted the seeds for my professional path in becoeming a personal training and fitness class instructor.
My 20s and 30s were spent deepening my knowledge and expanding my approach. I explored the world while studying yoga, meditation and mind-body practices, gradually shifting into more holistic and embodied ways of working.
In 2021, I lost my father to COVID. Around the same time, I was navigating the under-acknowledged experience of perimenopause . The combination of grief, PTSD, and hormonal change brought me to stillness—and in that stillness, I turned inward.
Somatic yoga, sound therapy, and connection to nature became rituals of reconnection. They helped me come home to my body, process emotion, and re-root myself. When I later had my COVID myself, I had to rebuild again. That journey reminded me the importance of strength , and alll my skills came into play while i regained my health and strength again.
Today, my work is shaped by all of it: the pain, the healing, the remembering.
It is trauma-informed, intuitive, and built with care. It centres people who are often overlooked in mainstream wellness: queer folks, people of colour, childless/childfree women, and anyone navigating grief, change, or marginalisation.
For me, wellness isn’t just about personal growth. It’s about collective care. Representation. And creating spaces where people feel seen, softened, and safe to return to themselves.
