Based in Madeira, Portugal, Melanie de Villiers has been teaching yoga since 2009, blending Iyengar precision with intuitive Vinyasa flow. After a personal health crisis, she found healing through Yin Yoga and completed the Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Bernie Clark at Asana at Home, shaping her somatically aware, non-dogmatic approach.
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Last year, over Easter, my world shattered. Depleted, I locked myself inside my yoga studio in solitude. Rain poured outside, and my crying body curled into Yin postures. I was lost. Everything I believed in had collapsed. It felt like a mid-life crisis—but instead of divorcing my husband, I broke
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