Meet Melissa Ohana, Yass (2025)

01/10/2025

This is a proud moment for me, my 5 year old wanted to paint my face. I surrendered. She had THE BEST time and was so proud of her creation. I even went to school pick up like this, admittedly, I stayed in the car 😉

If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, there are some nuggets of wisdom for you here, even if you are in Spring. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, then these are things that you can dive into to take full advantage of the energy that Autumn is building into Winter.

The art of “being” is a concept you have seen everywhere! There is a general definition, I know you're smart enough to figure that one out. But the most important part of the concept is to understand what YOUR lack of “just being” looks like, and how that affects your life adversely. I'll share what I connected it to in the hopes that you relate.

For me, "being" meant sitting with the discomfort of stillness, and taking the time pressure off everything I do. It meant noticing how often I hide behind, Netflix, chores, eating, or scrolling just to avoid it. Even admitting how hard it can be to simply sit and play with my kids and loose track of time. It was noticing that I didn’t put value on “unproductive” things like play, meditation or everyday rituals that can add sprinkles of magic even in the most mundane of days.

Over the years, I can see that these things have lead to weight gain, cycles of burnout, and those moments where I know if I sit down, I won’t be getting up again, so I just keep “doing” until it’s done enough to satisfy my ego. Our nervous systems don’t know how to cope with stillness anymore, but we must learn for our children, it’s our duty to re-teach them and to model this for them.

Next time you catch yourself “doing” just to fill the uncomfortable space of nothingness, take a minute, literally, more if it is available to you, and focus on your breath, or look outside and appreciate any nature you see, even if it’s just the the sky.

11/09/2025

For so many years, I’ve been chasing something I thought I needed to prove my worth. I worked tirelessly, believing the reward would be some grand prize - a trophy earned only through relentless effort and sacrifice. I was convinced that if I just tried harder, if I somehow became enough, it would finally be mine.

But now, as I pause, reflect, and heal my heart wounds, I see it differently. I realise I no longer want that distant, conditional pursuit. The constant striving for something out of reach has lost its appeal. What I crave now is something deeper, something real.

I long for warmth, a refuge, a space where I can find peace - not because of what I’ve done or haven’t done, but simply because I’m me. I want something that doesn’t demand perfection or hide from my flaws, but instead wraps me in acceptance, just as I am.

I need something steady, something I can turn to when life feels overwhelming, when the world feels unkind, or when I feel lost in the chaos. I yearn for a constant presence, like mother moon - unwavering and patient, always there no matter how many mistakes I’ve made or how far I’ve strayed from where I thought I should be.

What I’m searching for now isn’t a prize for accomplishments, but a source of unconditional love and support. Something that gently whispers, “You are enough, just as you are.” A quiet shelter in the storm. A soft place to land when everything else feels too hard.

It’s about being truly seen, deeply loved, and held without conditions. That’s the feeling my heart longs for - the peace of knowing that, I am always enough.

I find new level's of this every time I heal my heart.

If this is that stage that you are at too, we can can heal your Heart wounds together.

Limited HeartHealing packages and sessions on offer.
PM me to explore our co-creation of the most authentic version of you!

25/08/2025

Healing for yourself is also healing your bloodline…

You are healing for your children.
Your mother.
Your lineage…
That version of you who once thought she had to hold it all together to be loved.

HeartHealing™ isn’t just a modality,
It’s a total reset, a golden opportunity to reclaim who you were before the world put that version of you down.

A reclaiming of self-love in a world that taught you that you had to earn it by fitting an approved mould.

A reclaiming of safety in a nervous system that has lived in survival just to keep up with expectations.

A reclaiming of power from generations of women who had to sacrifice themselves for others.

When you heal, your family feels it… big time!

The rage becomes softer
You can off-board that guilt train
And the shame doesn’t take up so much real estate in your precious being!
And “being” as you are starts to feel more comfortable.

When a woman chooses herself, her worth, her truth, and her joy… she changes EVERYTHING.

You are the heart of your family.
And when the heart heals, the whole system begins to recalibrate.
Cycles break… the pain stops with you,
And love becomes the new legacy.
You are re-writing the codes in your lineage.

This is the power of HeartHealing™.

23/08/2025

Drop-in's from the Dance Floor
Listening to your body is the journey.
If I want chips or chocolate,
I’m listening to my body.
And if I ignore that voice,
It is a "healthier" path, but
I’m depriving her.
Not just of her needs and wants,
I'm depriving her of what she is trying to tell me.
The lesson, in what ever we reach for to numb or comfort is:
Why am I reaching for it?
That’s the secret that the nervous system is holding:
"I need comfort."
"I need safety."
"I need sugar."
"I need salt."
Sometimes it’s emotional.
Sometimes it’s hormonal.
Sometimes it’s the resonance of a need that was never met.
This is what I mean when I say that
Your body is your guide, your greatest teacher,
it always has a fable to share, to enlighten you with.
And when you listen,
when you stop depriving, stop overriding,
when you're in complete presence,
you’re invited to explore.
Why this snack at this time every day?
Why this pattern?
Why this numbing?
Whether it’s food, or a scroll, or a substance,
it’s not just a craving.
It’s a message.
And this is your roadmap.
Your way out of unconscious cycles.
Your way back to power, presence, and choice.
You can’t keep shutting her down.
You have to listen.
You have to work with her.
If at any time, you feel my words touch something deep inside, the part of you that knows, it’s not by accident, it's a nudge. My work is an invitation back to yourself.
DM me, "heart" and let’s begin the journey together.

22/08/2025

Did you know your heart has its own brain?

✨ Neurocardiology confirms that the heart has a complex neural network, an entire “heart brain”, that actually sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart.

Let that sink in.

Your heart is not just emotional, it’s intelligent.
It doesn’t just feel - it knows.
And it’s leading the conversation more than you’ve been taught to believe.

So when you heal your heart…
When you clear the grief, the fear, the hidden pain stored deep in that sacred space…
You're not just feeling better.
You're rewiring everything.

The way you think.
The way you respond.
The way you move through the world.

HeartHealing™ is soft, yet science-backed… soul-led revolution.
And it starts in the most powerful place of all: your own heart. ❤️‍🩹

17/08/2025

Have you been doing everything right by your business mentor, yet clients still aren’t lining up and your bank balance isn’t climbing?

You’ve done all your homework. You’re manifesting like a mo-fo and nailing the strategy.

You’ve shown up to every coaching call (or watched the replays). You’ve asked all the questions. You’ve put yourself out there.

You’re posting consistently, being authentic, and pouring your passion and love into your socials.

You’ve been the ultimate diligent client- you’d 100% get a gold star for effort!
DON’T give up. All the work you’re putting in WILL pay off… but only after you heal your receiving wounds.

The same walls that once protected you from past hurt are now blocking you from receiving what you truly deserve.

Your business mentor probably rocks - I know mine did- but those walls around my heart were stopping me from getting the results I wanted, no matter how much work I put in.

I often felt deflated, like something was wrong with me. Like I wasn’t enough for this online space. Like I didn’t have what it takes.

I don’t often talk about money- it’s not my number one value. But I do talk about healing families through the mother. Because when a mother heals, she brings more peace to her family, breaks generational cycles of trauma, and raises children who carry more love into the world.

And money plays a part in that. Because financial stress makes parenting harder. It causes parents to react in ways they wouldn’t if they felt safe and supported.

I know you want to make the most of your time with your mentor. You want to bring in the income that will make a real difference for you and your family.
I’ve been where you are. For years. But now? Things are finally shifting. Clients are reaching out. My bank account is ACTUALLY growing.

Since starting my HeartHealing® journey, I have more money in my business account than I ever have. And I wish I had invested in HeartHealing® while I was still working with my coach.

Healing your receiving wounds amplifies the work you and your coach are doing together.

HeartHealing® packages are available. PM me to see if it’s right for you.

15/08/2025

✨ Sisterhood ✨
There’s something sacred that happens when women gather.
When the masks drop.
When the music starts.
When bodies move and hearts speak.

In circle, you begin to remember yourself.
You begin to soften.
You begin to release the weight of who you thought you had to be.

We move. We journal. We speak truth into a space that can actually hold it.
And slowly, gently, you start to let go of the beliefs that have kept you stuck in over-giving, people-pleasing, and constant doing.

You realise you’re not alone in the “never enough.”
You realise your story isn’t too much to carry here.
You realise healing doesn’t have to be hard. it just has to be held.

This is the power of women coming together with intention.
It changes you. Not in a loud, dramatic way. But in a quiet, cellular way.
Where you leave feeling lighter. Clearer. More like yourself.

And when that happens? Everything in your life begins to shift.

14/08/2025

What if the deepest version of self-love isn’t seeking luxurious comforts but facing yourself with compassion, no matter what you see?

Nothing brings self-awareness like a daily practice that asks you to show up for you without distractions, without roles to play, without anything to prove. Just you and yourself, face to face. Mine is my 5 rhythms dance therapy practice. Yours could be committing to stretch each morning, or a daily walk on your own, no podcasts or distractions.

You’ll witness a different version of you each day, tender, fierce, exhausted, energetic, challenged. And when you can be with all of that, without fixing, without judging, that’s where true self-love begins.

It’s uncomfortable. It’s messy. It’s not always easy to meet the mirror without wanting to return to a place that feels safer, a place of denial or pushing it back down. But if you’re truly looking to know yourself, really know yourself, this is one of the most powerful things you can do.

And when you start to see your own light, when your world doesn’t fall apart after you confront these uncomfortable moments in presence, when you actually feel seen and stronger! Even just a flicker of your light through the cracks begins to displace the shadows you’ve carried for a lifetime. Bit by bit, the light grows. It begins to give you access to your own codes of light that have been scrambled by survival, trauma, and time.

In order to sit in that light, to meet yourself in honesty and not illusion, you first have to clear the old lenses. The protection you built up that once kept you safe but now keeps you stuck. That’s the gift of deep healing like HeartHealing™. It clears the channels. Rewrites the stories. And brings you back to the truth.

And when you can sit in that truth, in your light… scouts honour, it’s one of the best feelings we get to experience as humans.

09/08/2025

When I meet you, I don’t want your highlight reel.
I want a glimpse of your soul. A drop of your essence.
The part of you that’s real even when it’s messy, unsure, or still healing.

When we speak, I want to feel something.
Not polished. Not perfection.
But a musing, a moment, a truth that lets me bathe in your beautiful humanness.

So why do you hide it?
Why do you guard the most sacred, the most “you?”

What happened that made you believe it wasn’t safe to be fully seen?

Who taught you that being your whole self -your full, brilliant, emotional self- was too much? Too messy? Not enough?

Who made you believe that love had to be earned… deserved… performed for?

This is the heart of the work.
To unravel those lies.
To return to your truth.
To remember that the real you is exactly who the world needs.

✨ HeartHealing™ Packages now open. ✨
If you're ready to:
☑ Find peace with your past
☑ Heal your most complicated relationships
☑ Feel like a better mother, a better partner, a better YOU…
And so much more, this is for you.

DM me “HEART” if you're ready to begin.

08/08/2025

Drop-ins from the Dance Floor
This is my space to share the unfiltered musings that come to me, downloads and soul truths that quite literally drop in while I’m moving my body in its most unfiltered shapes.
This is one of the gifts our body gives us.
It is a vessel for channeling ancient wisdom.
A cauldron of our deepest, most personal truth.
I practice 5 Rhythms dance therapy not for performance, but for presence.
For remembrance. For release.
For coming home to my sacred, God-given vessel.
And in these sacred movements, the messages are revealed.
Sometimes it’s a truth I didn’t know I needed.
Sometimes it’s a question that stirs immense curiosity and sends me down a rabbit hole of discovery.
Sometimes it’s just the raw, holy gratitude of being alive and witnessing what I’ve created.
I’ll be sharing these with you, raw and unfiltered, in the hopes that something I say cracks you open.
Maybe it stirs something inside you that inspires you to want more…
More for yourself.
More for your life.
More for the people you love.
✨And that “more” will always start with you.✨
In this space, you’ll know me beyond the words.
We’ll meet in the wildness, the rhythm, the honesty of what’s waiting to be discovered.
The parts of you that have been hidden, longing to be seen, held, and validated.
✨Those parts become our greatest gifts.✨
This photo was from one of my sunrises dances on One Mile Beach.
Todays drop in, in comments x

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I’m fascinated by the patterns that live in the shadows.
The ones we don’t always see, but feel.
The ones shaped by our nervous system…
woven into our belief systems…
and living quietly/loudly in the corners of the heart.
I’m interested in the hidden reasons we do what we do.
The unconscious agreements.
The protective responses.
The silent stories.
These unseen forces drive everything.
And so, my dance and my work as a spiritual leader becomes an exploration of what’s invisible.
Of what’s waiting to be witnessed.
This is my practice.
And it’s also an invitation:
Start exploring what’s hidden,
Because that’s where conscious change begins.

06/08/2025

If you don’t look like this…
You’re probably carry the weight of the world barraging you with subliminal conditioning about what is sexy, beautiful, acceptable.
Struggling to look pre-pubescent is twisted AF.
(If this is your natural body type, than you do you boo! NO bad blood here💪 )

You probably look in the mirror and feel like you’ve failed yourself because you just can’t seem to stick to any food or exercise routine that produces actual results.
You speak to yourseIf horribly; I’m not desirable like this, I’m not thin enough, I have no will power, I don’t work out hard enough, I give up too easily, I am just not enough; and you end up pushing yourself too hard.
If you live in a larger body you have to watch a billion dollar industry that is getting richer and richer by selling to people who will keep buying just to avoid looking like you!

Now…
you can sit there and feel like a victim to all these very real external messages, or you can wake the F up and burn it all down 🔥 !!

Burn down the lies, burn down the judgement, the stigmas and biases. They are real, very very real, but you don’t have to buy into it!

You can take your power back, reclaim that mean voice inside your head, and give that girl inside of you all the love, attention, and recognition that she deserves, that she always deserved.

These beliefs you have about your body are keeping to separate from her… to be whole, to deeply heal, we need to embrace her and love her for exactly as she is today.

You are SO DONE with feeling like this!
DM me “🔥🔥🔥” and let’s talk!

03/08/2025

I often find myself yearning to be somewhere else, something that feels more like me. Being an American expat on Australian soil, this isn’t surprising.
I picture myself on beaches, faraway islands, in forests, living off the land, surrounded only by others that fill me with love, and leave me with only the most beautiful, if not contemplative thoughts.

I then I look at my reality, and I come back to that place where I remember that I love my house, I love my garden, I love all the things that I have manifested in my life. I love the healing work I have created and allowed myself do dive into, and invest in. Invest in myself, so I can bring real transformation to the world.

I look at my relationship, and the soft and forgiving dance we have built in our communication that allows us to navigate what life throws at us with respect, understand and grace.

I look at my 3 beautiful children whom we are teaching all the most important things in life, unconditional love, honouring their creativity and uniqueness, their autonomy, building confidence, forgiving oneself, and about the importance they play in this family, and eventually the importance they’ll play in the world.

There is always a greater plan, one that we don’t often get to fully see, and in that plan there is chaos, messiness, imperfection, challenges, growth, and the knowings… that wisdom that get’s unlocked from our bones as we navigate the everyday.

That wisdom is the gift, the most grounding and meaningful truths that we get to come back to in each moment, in every choice we get to make.
You also may feel that your life isn't really you, that there is some place or something out there that will fit the bill. But the knowing that has been unlocked in me, says that home comes from within, from your heart, and you get to choose, everyday, what feels like you, what is in alignment with how you are feeling and what you want for yourself. Little choices, that seem inconsequential will add up to big shifts that feel like you’ve done it… you’ve designed your life in a way that does feel like you, no matter where you put down roots.

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