Melanie is the owner of the established natural health Paradise Clinic in Kemnay, Aberdeenshire. A wide range of clients come to Kemnay from Aberdeen and beyond for treatments, yoga classes and one-2-one sessions, calm & relax and breathwork coaching. All types of coaching, certain treatments and yoga classes/one-2-ones are also offered online.
Melanie has over 20 years’ experience as a therapist and has mainly concentrated on 2 therapies; the various forms of Reflexology and Acupuncture, supplementing them with additional techniques that complement the outcomes required from many different clients. Techniques include various forms of Reflexology (nerve, VRT, hands-free, precision, maternity, fertility, ear, face), Japanese Reiki & Kekko Massage and Needle Free Korean Hand Acupuncture.
Melanie is also HSE Approved First Aider and registered under the Data Protection Act:1998 and GDPR May 2018.
Continuous Professional Learning ~ CPD
Melanie does numerous CPD courses each year to supplement her existing knowledge in Reflexology and Yoga. Most recently, she has done training in:
- Fertility Reflexology
- Stress
- Pain Management
- Hip & Knee Pain
- Energy Medicine,
- Migraine and Headache pain with Touchpoint in Denmark.
Reflexology Qualifications:
Melanie began training in 2002 as an Original Ingham Method Reflexologist. In 2004 she began training with Dwight Byers, the Nephew of Eunice Ingham. In the 1930s in the USA, Eunice carried out the original reflexology research along with Medical Doctors.
Melanie qualified as a Nerve Reflexologist with Nico Pauly in 2013; and with Lynne Booth for Vertical Reflex Therapy for treatments on both hands and feet in 2010.
Melanie has taken numerous training courses with Helen Harris in Edinburgh on Ayurvedic Reflex Massage on hands, legs & feet, face, head and neck.
Melanie trained with Moshe Kruche for Maternity Reflexology and with the late Gill Thomson, a midwife who specialised in the Suzanne Enzers Maternity Reflexology Method. Melanie developed her own techniques for Baby Reflexology from many years experience.
Melanie qualified in Korean Hand Acupuncture in 2005 with a Korean Teacher and visited the institute in Korea.
Melanie trained in Ear Reflexology (an Auricular Therapy) with Jong Baik and uses this technique mainly to help people stop smoking, lose weight and control phobias.
The Paradise Yoga and Meditation Studio is located within Paradise Clinic offering face-to-face and online live classes. The aim in our studio is to teach blended classes. So you can attend in person or online to any of the classes. This allows anyone in any part of the UK to take part. If you cannot attend a class, then on request, a recording of the missed session can be sent to you.
Melanie has been practising Siddha Yoga for over 40 years, and DRU yoga since 2000.
Building on her DRU Yoga Breathwork experience, Melanie qualified as a Calm & Relax Coach and as a Breathwork Coach,
In 2008, Melanie took the 3 year DRU Yoga Teacher Training course and as such began to include Relaxation Yoga Techniques where appropriate in the Reflexology and Reiki therapy sessions. To deepen her yogic practice, Melanie re-took the Yoga Teacher Training course during the Pandemic.
Melanie began training as a DRU Meditation Teacher during the Pandemic and qualified in 2023. Subsequently, Melanie has qualified as a Breathwork Coach, taking centuries-old breathing practices and modernising them for use by anyone to reduce stress and cope better with the effects of anxiety and any illness. Taking Pranayama and presenting it in a modern coaching format suitable for these stressful times.
Melanie has been teaching Pregnancy Yoga in Kemnay since July 2015. Melanie is a Pregnancy Yoga (YogaBirth Trained) a British Wheel of Yoga Post Natal teacher and a Baby Yoga teacher.
Melanie taught Pregnancy Yoga at 7pm on a Thursday evening at Hoodles in Oldmeldrum from 2016 to 2017 and then took over Judy Cameron’s Pregnancy Yoga class and also her Post Natal and Baby Yoga Classes at Queens Cross Church Aberdeen until 2019, when the church was refurbished. She was trained by Judy Cameron, who put together a special course for the British Wheel of Yoga. This Post Natal course trains us to show you how to do safe and effective postnatal yoga, which is specifically for new mothers, so it can be the first exercise you do in the immediate months after birth.
Melanie further trained in Baby Yoga with To Baby and Beyond. This Baby Yoga course is accredited and certified by 6 national training bodies, including The Royal College of Midwives.
DRU Yoga, YogaBirth, Post Natal Yoga & Baby Yoga
The Paradise Yoga and Meditation Studio is located within Paradise Clinic offering face-to-face and online live classes. The aim in our studio is to teach blended classes. So you can attend in person or online to any of the classes. This allows anyone in any part of the UK to take part. If you cannot attend a class, then on request, a recording of the missed session can be sent to you.
Melanie has been practising Siddha Yoga for over 40 years, and DRU yoga since 2000.
Building on her DRU Yoga Breathwork experience, Melanie qualified as a Calm & Relax Coach and as a Breathwork Coach,
In 2008, Melanie took the 3 year DRU Yoga Teacher Training course and as such began to include Relaxation Yoga Techniques where appropriate in the Reflexology and Reiki therapy sessions. To deepen her yogic practice, Melanie re-took the Yoga Teacher Training course during the Pandemic.
Melanie began training as a DRU Meditation Teacher during the Pandemic and qualified in 2023. Subsequently, Melanie has qualified as a Breathwork Coach, taking centuries-old breathing practices and modernising them for use by anyone to reduce stress and cope better with the effects of anxiety and any illness. Taking Pranayama and presenting it in a modern coaching format suitable for these stressful times.
Melanie has been teaching Pregnancy Yoga in Kemnay since July 2015. Melanie is a Pregnancy Yoga (YogaBirth Trained) a British Wheel of Yoga Post Natal teacher and a Baby Yoga teacher.
Melanie taught Pregnancy Yoga at 7pm on a Thursday evening at Hoodles in Oldmeldrum from 2016 to 2017 and then took over Judy Cameron’s Pregnancy Yoga class and also her Post Natal and Baby Yoga Classes at Queens Cross Church Aberdeen until 2019, when the church was refurbished. She was trained by Judy Cameron, who put together a special course for the British Wheel of Yoga. This Post Natal course trains us to show you how to do safe and effective postnatal yoga, which is specifically for new mothers, so it can be the first exercise you do in the immediate months after birth.
Melanie further trained in Baby Yoga with To Baby and Beyond. This Baby Yoga course is accredited and certified by 6 national training bodies, including The Royal College of Midwives.
Since the Covid Pandemic, Melanie has focused on teaching one-to-ones at her clinic in Kemnay and also teaching yoga classes on Zoom to students from anywhere in the UK.
Melanie qualified as a Calm and Relax Coach, helping individuals and groups with strategies to help them in their day-to-day lives to cope with stress. Most recent qualifications include Calm & Relax Coaching helping people to make strategies to cope with everyday living and creating a personalised toolkit of techniques to make life flow more easily.
Professional Collaborations
Melanie has worked with OrganicaJ and Bskincare over the last 20 years as their businesses have developed. Both are excellent makers of skincare products. OrganicaJ products are available in our SHOP.
