Melisa is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher who completed her teacher’s training under the guidance of Rina Ortiz, a senior Iyengar Yoga teacher and founder of the Iyengar Yoga Center Manila in the Phillippines.

She has also studied with her teacher, Parveen Nair at Swarupa Iyengar Yoga and has had the opportunity to learn at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute ( RIMYI ) in Pune, India. Melisa believes yoga should be practised with sincerity, effort and a willingness to delve deep within oneself in order to reap the full benefits of the practice.