Melanie Salvatore-August

Melanie Salvatore-August, E-RYT 500, YACEP, is a Yoga Mentor for the Gaja Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training and the Lead Yoga Trainer of the Gaja 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, where she supports trainees in refining the practical art of teaching through methodology, feedback, embodied learning, and skillful classroom application.

Melanie has been teaching for more than thirty years. She started leading fitness classes at sixteen, took her first yoga class in New York City at twenty-three, taught at ISHTA and YogaWorks from 2005, and became a teacher trainer in 2007, going on to lead YogaWorks teacher trainings for more than fourteen years. A classically trained actor and former comedy writer and theatre producer, she is the founder of MelWell, which runs Yoga Alliance RYS 200 and RYS 300 programs, and the co-founder of The Yoga School 300-hour advanced training.

She is the author of Kitchen Yoga, Fierce Kindness: Be a Positive Force for Change, and Yoga to Support Immunity, and a Reiki Master. Her teaching centers on functional, accessible vinyasa with an emphasis on pranayama, mantra, mudra, marma, and meditation. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches online and around the world.