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Email: dercksenluann11@gmail.com
Michelle van Straaten
JHB, South Africa
Peru, South America
California, North America
Tel: +27 82 339 7716
Margaret Ramsay
Melanie’s journey with yoga began in her 20s, practising various styles of yoga and meditation. Moving to Cape Town in the late 1990s, she began attending classes at the Ananda Kutir Ashram and over the years deepened her yoga and meditation practice whilst raising three children and working.
In 2023, she completed her 200 hour training with the Academy of Yoga and Ayurveda as a teacher of Integral Hatha Yoga. Melanie teaches yoga at her own studio in Rondebosch, Cape Town. As part of her SEVA practice, Melanie teaches yoga to children on the Cape Flats and supports a womens empowerment project making and selling yoga bags and products.
Melanie continues to deepen her yoga practice, training in new modalities and integrates yoga and breath work in programmes run through her NGO - Ground Up Collective, which provides trauma informed programmes on healing and transformation, restorative justice and addressing the drivers of gender based violence and inequity.
