Melanie Santos

Mind, Body, Spirit Wellness and Energy Educator, Multidisciplinary Healer, and Kundalini Yoga Teacher

My work is rooted in creating social change by guiding people towards intentional living and educating on the energetic connection between the mind, body, spirit, and our human experience.

Blending personal experience, intuitive wisdom, and both ancient and modern wellness practices, I help empower people to rebuild their foundations from the soul level through mental, physical, and energetic self-care.

Here’s a short version of my story.

I was born and raised in the heart of New York City by immigrant parents. My upbringing was a beautiful mix of Cuban and Dominican heritage, ancestral methods of eating, moving, thinking, and healing, and a culturally driven way of living that forms much of my core.

While I was in college getting my degree in Communications, I was diagnosed with depression but ignored it. A few years later, I experienced a debilitating episode of depression and anxiety that almost ended my life. Knowing I’d reached a crucial point, so I opened up to my parents.

Mental health wasn’t a topic that was ever brought up in conversation. I was conditioned to believe that mental health disorders meant someone was “crazy,” that therapy was reserved for “major mental breakdowns” (or caucasian people), and that extreme sadness and stress could be overcome by toughening up or leaning into faith.

Mental health stigma exists among many societies and cultures, including Latine communities like mine, where talking about mental health isn’t the norm. But that season of my life changed everything. My family and I had to quickly make space for the fact that my age, upbringing, and heritage didn’t excuse me from having mental health disorders and that I might need professional help.

That week, my parents and I scheduled my first appointment with a psychologist. This was the start of my healing journey to remembering who I am. 

My path to well-being wasn’t clear, so I dedicated myself to learning everything I could and forging a unique path back to myself.

What was portrayed as “wellness" in the early 2010s seemed too white-washed, expensive, and picture-perfect. Nothing resonated with me or seemed attainable. So, I became obsessed with researching, trying different healing methods and products, and attending well-being events to explore different ways of healing my mind, body, and spirit.

I craved a space where I could talk about what I was growing through because I knew that I couldn’t be the only person on earth who felt the way I did. So, I started publicly blogging about my well-being journey in November 2013. The rest is history.

Today, I am exactly who I needed when I was lost, so I serve my purpose by helping guide others who are in similar positions on their journey.

My journey is continuous, but I am honored to serve and connect with a collective of over 80K+ people globally through intentional social media content, digital products and classes, and one-on-one intuitive guidance.

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What I Know…

I know that my experiences influence how I show up in the world. That how I embrace my clinical depression and generalized anxiety disorder, motherhood, relationships, faith, and identity shape me and my wellness needs. That self-care and connection are not one-size-fits-all, because although similar, no two beings are alike. And despite what they want us to believe, that it’s a beautiful thing.

I know that much of what I defined as truth was defined for me long before I could form my own opinion. It’s taken years, a lot of time spent in deep self-examination, and much time researching and learning to get a clear understanding of how the world really works; to understand how conditioning, thoughts, behaviors, and environments affect our mind, body, spirit connection. 

I know that I honor my ancestry and everything that occurred to put me here, but I am also grateful to be severing ties with the belief systems and practices that don’t serve my alignment and expansion.

I know that we are souls in bodies having a human experience together. I know, without a semblance of a doubt, that every single living being is in existence for a reason and a purpose. That the power and guidance I used to seek outside of myself is always within me.

I know that “as above, so below.” That tuning myself to the vibration of the God/Source/Spirit energy inside me made me realize how much we are all connected to everything around us. That every movement made by anything from a human being to a planet, creates a ripple in the ever-changing energetic fabric of life. That knowing the astrological correlatives to life can help us align with our highest selves.

I know that the current view of manifestation is rooted in white privilege. That writing something “55 times for five days in a row” most likely won’t manifest money or a car for someone from a marginalized community. I know that due in part to the commodification of spiritual rules like the Law of Attraction, people have lost reverence, and manifestation has become an object-oriented, elitist concept. I am committed to changing that.

I know that our minds, bodies, and souls are irrevocably entwined and that what we feed our physical body affects our emotional health and energetic body.

I know that becoming comfortable with our shadows is difficult but necessary. That we won’t heal and evolve without it. That even if we wanted to try to take the easy way out, the people making the products that promise to help rid us of our problems do not have our actual best interest in mind. 

I know that it’s up to us to do the work. That it’s up to us to surrender our egos and see the divine opportunities for evolution in our daily interactions. That despite all the lovelessness and self-serving propaganda we face day to day, we still need to lead with love. That above all else, it’s not a woman or a man in power that will change the world, but human beings who remember who they are.

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Email mgmt@melaniesantos.co.
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