Holistic Wellness & Spiritual Transformation

Guided By Mel

Heal from the inside out
body, mind & soul.

You were designed to thrive. When we remove what no longer belongs physically, emotionally, spiritually your body remembers how to heal. Let Melanie guide you home to yourself.

Inner Body Work
Cleanse & Restore
Inner Body Work

Parasite cleansing, detox protocols, and holistic wellness coaching for those who've tried everything and are ready to go deeper.

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Body Work
Release & Restore
Body Work

Fascia release and stretch therapy through 1:1 sessions, group workshops, and immersive half-day wellness retreats.

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Outer Body Work
Transform & Align
Outer Body Work

Spiritual development, life coaching, and trauma work for those ready to change everything with full accountability and support.

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What Clients Are Saying

Real results, real people

"I had been struggling with eczema and other symptoms for years, trying countless supplements and protocols with nothing working. By the end of the cleanse I felt lighter physically, mentally, and spiritually. What I had been told was PCOS turned out to be a buildup of toxins creating drainage issues, and releasing that made a huge difference. Melanie was incredibly attentive, answering every question with genuine care. Her passion came through in every interaction and made my experience truly special."

AR
Alysse R.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"Years of chronic tension in my body that I had just accepted as normal. After just a few sessions with Melanie, it was gone. She has an incredible ability to find exactly what the body is holding onto and release it."

SK
S.K.
Stretch & Fascia Therapy

"Melanie was incredibly attentive, always available, which helped calm any anxiety that came up during the process. The biggest change I noticed was how much calmer my nervous system became. Even when my energy dipped I felt more grounded and connected to myself, and more able to express my authentic voice. This experience reminded me that everything starts with our internal energy and the foundation we create within our bodies. As a coach and speaker, that clarity was everything."

MR
Michael R.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"The sound bath Melanie facilitated was one of the most peaceful and grounding experiences I have had in a long time. The room held such a safe, intentional energy. I left feeling genuinely restored. Already looking forward to another event."

SA
S.A.
Sound Bath Experience

"My main purpose was to be free of the prison keeping my mind in lala land. Every time I went out whether it was work, the grocery store, social events, I was under this umbrella of fake comfort. I realized I was not taking these substances for me. It was the people pleasing wired into my brain. By the end my energy was coming back naturally and I lost about 12 pounds of toxic buildup. The real me has its ups and downs and that is ok. That is what makes us human."

PT
Peter T.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"Melanie helped me see patterns I had been blind to for years. She held space without judgment, and for the first time I actually felt safe enough to look at the things I had been avoiding."

JL
J.L.
Outer Body Work & Life Coaching

"There was so much stagnant debris I was carrying that was slowing me down. Now I understand what was causing my fatigue and anxiousness. It piles on subtly. Thank you Melanie for educating me and walking me safely to higher levels of performance so I can be more effective and present with my daily missions."

RH
Ricardo H.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"The group fascia release session was unlike anything I expected. I walked in not knowing what to think and left feeling like my body had completely exhaled. There was so much tension I did not even know I was holding. Cannot wait to get our group together again this spring!"

KM
K.M.
Group Fascia Release Event

"Working with Melanie gave me tools I actually use every day. Her approach is equal parts practical and spiritual, rooted in faith in a way that felt grounding rather than overwhelming. For the first time my healing felt connected to something deeper than just my body. That combination is exactly what finally made the difference for me."

DN
D.N.
1:1 Wellness Coaching

"I had been struggling with eczema and other symptoms for years, trying countless supplements and protocols with nothing working. By the end of the cleanse I felt lighter physically, mentally, and spiritually. What I had been told was PCOS turned out to be a buildup of toxins creating drainage issues, and releasing that made a huge difference. Melanie was incredibly attentive, answering every question with genuine care. Her passion came through in every interaction and made my experience truly special."

AR
Alysse R.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"Years of chronic tension in my body that I had just accepted as normal. After just a few sessions with Melanie, it was gone. She has an incredible ability to find exactly what the body is holding onto and release it."

SK
S.K.
Stretch & Fascia Therapy

"Melanie was incredibly attentive, always available, which helped calm any anxiety that came up during the process. The biggest change I noticed was how much calmer my nervous system became. Even when my energy dipped I felt more grounded and connected to myself, and more able to express my authentic voice. This experience reminded me that everything starts with our internal energy and the foundation we create within our bodies. As a coach and speaker, that clarity was everything."

MR
Michael R.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"The sound bath Melanie facilitated was one of the most peaceful and grounding experiences I have had in a long time. The room held such a safe, intentional energy. I left feeling genuinely restored. Already looking forward to another event."

SA
S.A.
Sound Bath Experience

"My main purpose was to be free of the prison keeping my mind in lala land. Every time I went out whether it was work, the grocery store, social events, I was under this umbrella of fake comfort. I realized I was not taking these substances for me. It was the people pleasing wired into my brain. By the end my energy was coming back naturally and I lost about 12 pounds of toxic buildup. The real me has its ups and downs and that is ok. That is what makes us human."

PT
Peter T.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"Melanie helped me see patterns I had been blind to for years. She held space without judgment, and for the first time I actually felt safe enough to look at the things I had been avoiding."

JL
J.L.
Outer Body Work & Life Coaching

"There was so much stagnant debris I was carrying that was slowing me down. Now I understand what was causing my fatigue and anxiousness. It piles on subtly. Thank you Melanie for educating me and walking me safely to higher levels of performance so I can be more effective and present with my daily missions."

RH
Ricardo H.
Parasite Cleanse Program

"The group fascia release session was unlike anything I expected. I walked in not knowing what to think and left feeling like my body had completely exhaled. There was so much tension I did not even know I was holding. Cannot wait to get our group together again this spring!"

KM
K.M.
Group Fascia Release Event

"Working with Melanie gave me tools I actually use every day. Her approach is equal parts practical and spiritual, rooted in faith in a way that felt grounding rather than overwhelming. For the first time my healing felt connected to something deeper than just my body. That combination is exactly what finally made the difference for me."

DN
D.N.
1:1 Wellness Coaching

The Guided By Mel Philosophy

True healing happens when the body, mind, and spirit are addressed together.

Melanie bridges practical health protocols with deeper personal and spiritual transformation helping you remove what is blocking you physically and spiritually, so you can reclaim your vitality, clarity, and purpose.

Cleanse & Restore

Inner Body Work

When the body is burdened by parasites, toxins, and energetic weight, nothing else works. This is where the healing begins at the root.

This Work Is For You If...

You've tried everything and something still feels off.

You're not broken. Your body is simply carrying more than it was designed to hold. Inner Body Work is for the person who is ready to go beneath the surface and address what conventional health systems have missed.

  • You've seen doctors, tried diets, changed your lifestyle and still don't feel well
  • You're carrying physical or energetic weight you can't explain
  • You experience chronic fatigue, bloating, brain fog, or digestive issues
  • You suspect toxicity, parasites, or heavy metals may be affecting you
  • You're ready to take radical ownership of your healing
  • You want to shed what is dead physically and energetically and start fresh

What's Offered

Ways to work with Melanie on your inner healing

1:1 Holistic Wellness Coaching

A deeply personalized coaching experience that combines parasite cleansing protocols, detox guidance, dietary shifts, and lifestyle adjustments all tailored to your body's specific needs. Melanie walks alongside you every step of the way.

1:1 · Private
Group Parasite Cleanse Program

A structured group cleanse led by Melanie, including herbal protocols, binders, detox supplements, dietary guidance, daily meditations, and a supportive community. Heal alongside others on the same journey.

Group · Community
Heavy Metal Detox Protocol

A focused detox program targeting heavy metals and environmental toxins stored in the body with guided supplementation, lifestyle adjustments, and Melanie's ongoing support throughout the process.

Protocol · Guided
Spiritual Cleansing Integration

Melanie teaches that physical parasites and spiritual attachments are deeply connected. This layer of the work helps you cleanse both simultaneously, using faith-based practices and biblical wisdom to support full-body renewal.

Spiritual · Holistic

When you remove what does not belong in your body, you create space for healing, truth, and transformation.

Ready to cleanse from the inside out?

Book a free consultation with Melanie to find the right program for where you are right now.

Release & Restore

Body Work

The body holds everything. Fascia release and stretch therapy help you release stored tension, restore flow, and reconnect to your physical self from the inside out.

This Work Is For You If...

Your body is holding more than just physical tension.

The fascia remembers everything stress, trauma, old patterns. This work is not just physical recovery. It's somatic healing that helps your nervous system return to safety, your body release what it's been storing, and your movement become a form of medicine.

  • You feel tightness, restriction, or chronic tension in your body
  • You want to improve your mobility, posture, and physical ease
  • You're recovering from stress, trauma, or burnout stored in the body
  • You're looking for nervous system regulation through movement
  • You want a hands-on healing experience in a safe, intentional setting
  • You're curious about retreats that combine wellness with community

What's Offered

In-person sessions and immersive experiences

1:1 Stretch & Fascia Sessions

Private in-person sessions tailored entirely to your body. Melanie works with you to release fascia restrictions, increase mobility, and regulate your nervous system through intentional bodywork.

In Person · 1:1
Group Workshops

Join a community of others in guided stretch and fascia release workshops. A powerful shared healing experience with Melanie facilitating movement, breath, and body connection in a group setting.

Group · In Person
Half-Day Wellness Retreats

Immersive half-day retreats curated by Melanie and partnering wellness vendors. Expect stretch therapy, somatic healing, nourishing practices, and connection with others on the wellness path. Coming Soon

Retreat · Collaborative

Stretch therapy is not just physical recovery. It is a somatic practice that helps the nervous system return to its natural state of ease.

Ready to release what your body has been holding?

Book a free consultation with Melanie to find the right session for where you are right now.

Transform & Align

Outer Body Work

For those who are serious about changing their life not just improving it. Spiritual development, life coaching, trauma work, and a return to faith. This is the deepest work Melanie does.

This Work Is For You If...

You're ready to change everything not just cope better.

This is not surface-level self-improvement. Outer Body Work is for the person who feels a deep pull toward transformation who knows that patterns, trauma, and disconnection from faith are holding them back from the life they were created to live.

  • You're stuck in patterns you can't seem to break no matter what you try
  • You're navigating unhealed trauma that affects every area of your life
  • You feel spiritually disconnected and are craving deeper faith alignment
  • You want real accountability not just encouragement
  • You're ready to do the uncomfortable inner work required for lasting change
  • You want a guide who will walk with you honestly and without judgment

What's Offered

Deep transformation with full support

Spiritual Development Coaching

A coaching relationship rooted in faith and spiritual alignment. Melanie helps you deepen your spiritual life, reconnect to your purpose, and build practices that anchor you even in the hardest seasons.

1:1 · Ongoing
Life Coaching & Accountability

Structured coaching for those who are serious about change. Break old patterns, build discipline, develop self-awareness, and align your daily habits with the life you've been called to live with Melanie holding you accountable every step.

1:1 · Structured
Trauma-Informed Support

Melanie creates a safe, compassionate space to begin addressing the trauma that lives in the body and shapes your life. This work is approached with care, honesty, and deep respect for your journey and timeline.

Holistic · Supportive
Personal Development Intensives

For the person ready to accelerate their growth. Focused intensive sessions that combine personal responsibility, inner transformation, embodiment practices, and spiritual clarity into a concentrated period of intentional change.

Intensive · Immersive

Personal growth requires honesty, courage, and responsibility. This work creates the space for all three.

Are you ready to truly transform?

This work is for the person who is done settling. Book a free consultation with Melanie and take the first step.

Melanie

Founder & Guide

Meet
Melanie

Melanie is a holistic wellness practitioner, certified personal trainer, breathwork and fascia release facilitator, and life coach who guides others through physical detoxification, nervous system healing, and the kind of personal transformation that changes everything because she has lived it herself.

"I went through the fire so I could help others find the way out. This work is not just what I do. It is who I became."

Melanie

A diagnosis that changed everything

Melanie's journey into holistic wellness did not begin in a classroom. It began in her own body at a young age when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease that spiraled into a cascade of health challenges no one around her could fully explain.

What followed were years of skin disorders, autoimmune dysfunction, mental health struggles, depression, anxiety, and a system that dismissed her symptoms rather than investigating their root cause. She was told again and again that what she was experiencing was not real.

But her body knew differently. And eventually, so did she.

Stretch therapy

In 2018, she decided to stop surviving and start healing

By 2018, Melanie had reached a breaking point. She turned away from a system that had failed her and began working with naturopaths, functional medicine doctors, and practitioners rooted in eastern and holistic medicine.

She became a certified personal trainer through NASM and began exploring the body through yoga, stretch therapy, and somatic movement. Having been a dancer her entire life, movement had always been a language for Melanie. Now it became a form of medicine.

Melanie

She realized the gift was not just for her

The deeper Melanie went into her own healing, the more she noticed people around her dealing with the same things. Trauma. Chronic illness. Toxic patterns. Spiritual disconnection. Lost in the same system that had failed her.

Coming from a background in events and marketing, Melanie had always known how to create space where people come together. Guided By Mel was not built from ambition. It was built from necessity, testimony, and a deep calling to ensure others did not have to struggle as long as she did.

Melanie

Healing the body, strengthening the spirit

Faith is not a footnote in Melanie's story. It is the thread that runs through all of it. Her spiritual journey deepened through the hardest seasons of her life and profoundly shapes how she understands healing, resilience, and purpose.

She believes people are created with an innate capacity to heal. When we remove what is interfering with our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, that capacity is restored. This is wholehearted healing. And it is the only kind Melanie knows how to offer.

Education & Training

Certifications & Specialized Training

NASM · 2018
Certified Personal Trainer

Certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Melanie's foundational training in anatomy, movement science, and corrective exercise underpins all of her bodywork.

Paola Sellaro · January 2024
Emotional Chakra Clearing & Emotion Code

Trained in the Emotion Code method, a system that uses applied kinesiology (muscle testing) to identify and release trapped emotions stored in the body. Melanie uses this work to help clients release emotional weight that conventional approaches cannot reach.

Brooke McPoyle · April 2024
Mighty Breath · Fascia Release & Nervous System Regulation

Certified through Musical Breathwork founder Brooke McPoyle. A science-backed system combining fascia flow sequencing and breath techniques to expand lung capacity, release stored tension, regulate the nervous system, and synchronize brainwaves for deeper states of clarity and calm.

Lauren Pacione · February 2025
PLANT Ambassador & Nature System Reset

Certified under Lauren Pacione, Ecotherapist and Educator, in nature-based intervention principles grounded in reputable scientific research, ancestral wisdom, and the applied integration of these insights to cultivate personal transformation, holistic well-being, and ethical stewardship across diverse communities and ecosystems.

Maria Alfieris, PT · February 2026
Release with Fascialization · Myofascial Release Training

Completed hands-on Myofascial Release training under Maria Alfieris, a Physical Therapist, Myofascial Master, and Reiki Virtuoso with 34 years of experience. Melanie trained in full-body fascial release techniques spanning head, neck, shoulders, upper back, rib cage, organs, low back, hips, legs, knees, and ankles, learning to unblock the body's meridian system and activate its innate healing intelligence.

What Melanie brings to every session

01
Lived Experience

Melanie has walked the path she guides others down. Her work is not theoretical. It is the direct result of her own healing, her own failures, and her own transformation.

02
Radical Honesty

She tells the truth about what your body needs, what your patterns are costing you, and what is possible when you commit fully to the work.

03
Spiritual Grounding

Everything Melanie does is rooted in faith. She creates healing experiences that go far deeper than the physical because she knows that is where lasting change is made.

Giving Back

Community & Volunteer Work

Melanie believes wellness begins in community. Outside of her private practice, she invests her time and gifts into the next generation.

Youth · Dance · 2025 Season
Youth POMS Coach · Urbana Football

Melanie coaches the Urbana Youth POMS K-1st Grade dance team, teaching developmental skills including teamwork, camaraderie, musicality, and leadership during the 2025 football season.

Youth · Martial Arts · Damascus, MD
Jiu-Jitsu Coach · MMA & Sport

Currently coaching the youth Jiu-Jitsu program at MMA & Sport in Damascus, Maryland, supporting young athletes through discipline, movement, and the resilience that martial arts builds.

Mark Your Calendar

Upcoming Events

22
March 2026
McLean, Virginia · Sponsored by Sweetgreen
Spring 2026 Natural Living Expo

Visit Melanie's booth at the Spring 2026 Natural Living Expo in McLean, VA. Come say hello and learn about her cleanse programs, bodywork offerings, and upcoming coaching.

When you remove what does not belong in your body and your life, you create space for healing, truth, and the purpose you were made for.

Ready to begin your healing journey?

Book a free consultation with Melanie and find the right path for where you are right now.

Event setup

Community · Ceremony · Connection

Wellness Events &
Sacred Gatherings

Creating intentional spaces where people come together to heal, learn, and reconnect — through sound, movement, community, and ceremony.

The Vision Behind the Work

Over a decade of creating
experiences that matter

Before Guided By Mel became what it is today, Melanie spent over 10 years in event coordination and experiential marketing across Miami's hospitality scene, music festivals, and major productions. She understood better than most how to build an atmosphere, move a crowd, and create a moment people carry with them.

But somewhere in her own healing journey, the question shifted from how do I create a great event to how do I create a space where people actually transform. That question is at the heart of every gathering Melanie produces today: wellness activations, sound bath ceremonies, women's circles, group fascia release sessions, educational workshops, and brand partnerships rooted in community health.

What We Create

Experiences for every kind of gathering

Sound Bath

Ceremony

Sound Bath Ceremonies

Immersive sound healing sessions using crystal singing bowls, candles, and sacred space. Available for private groups, corporate wellness, and hosted events.

Group session setup

Group Sessions

Group Fascia Release & Stretch Therapy

Guided group fascia and stretch sessions that release stored tension and build community through shared embodied practice. Perfect for bachelorettes, girls' nights, and wellness retreats.

Movement and retreat

Women's Circles

Private Women's Circles

Intimate gatherings designed for women ready to go deeper. At your home, a private venue, or a location of your choosing.

Brand activation event

Brand Partnerships

Wellness Activations & Community Outreach

Collaborating with brands and local businesses to bring wellness education, movement, and community into everyday spaces.

Damascus · Montgomery County
Evans Homes & Gardens

A local neighborhood farm and nursery providing produce, plants, and trees to the communities of Damascus and Montgomery County. Melanie collaborates with Evans to bring nature-based wellness practices into everyday community life.

Let's Create Something

Event & Hosting Inquiry

Tell Melanie a little about what you have in mind. She will be in touch within 48 hours.

Don't have a space? Melanie occasionally opens her home for small group sessions — select above and she'll be in touch with availability.