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With over 15 years of professional experience and a lifetime of
study and exploration, Melinda Rodriguez uplifts, rejuvenates,
restores and inspires people towards transformation and a pursuit of
their own personal power, healing and purpose. She is renowned for
creating a genuine connection with Spirit and a deep awareness of the
wisdom that lies within us all. Her unwavering integrity
and amazing gifts of listening sincerely, leading from the heart and
inspiring the best in others has earned Melinda deep admiration and
appreciation from her clients, students, and audiences everywhere.
Honoring her Cherokee lineage and deep connection to Native American
spirituality, Melinda draws upon her expertise in a medley of diverse Shamanic
traditions acquired through apprenticeships and study with an array of
teachers, and facilitates this profound, eclectic wisdom in her healing and
teaching practice. Melinda is Certified as a Spiritual Counselor through
the American Board of Hypnotherapy and trained with Dr. Doreen Virtue. She is an integrative healing practitioner and holds certification as a
Reiki Master Teacher.
Melinda is also a passionate percussionist utilizing ceremonial and
recreational drumming as a transformational tool that heals and awakens
ones inner power. Introduced to drumming through her shamanic training,
Melinda soon realized the profound and positive transformation that
drumming inherently creates. This led her to study various cultural
methods of making music through rhythm and become a Professional Drum
Circle Facilitator with training by Arthur Hull and many other
extraordinary teachers of the drum.
Melinda has
been teaching and presenting in the field of spiritual and personal
development for over ten years. During that time she was invited to
share her talents and wisdom with corporations as team building and
motivational programs involving drumming. Since 2005 she has presented
over 250 programs to globally recognized companies such as Microsoft,
Disney, Southwest Airlines, Stanford University, the American Heart
Association and St. Josephs, just to name a few. The profound
transformation she has facilitated and witnessed within these
organizations has been monumental, both on an individual level as well
as the whole of each group. As part of her life's work, Melinda travels
extensively
with the Drum Café, an international
corporate team building sensation that brings the ancient
transformational tool of drumming to modern audiences everywhere.
Drawing upon
her own challenging life journey and overcoming numerous obstacles
including drugs, physical abuse and recently the loss of her unborn
child, Melinda forged a pathway to
empowerment which led her to enhanced consciousness, shamanic awareness, purpose and passion
for life. As with all shamans, Melinda has gone through her own
initiation of personal crises, and has faced the fears and demons of her
unconscious. She has emerged with an enhanced desire to help heal other
people's wounds and guide them through their pain.
After pursuing
a degree in traditional psychology, Melinda soon recognized that most
conventional therapy methods were not getting to the root of a person’s
issues nor facilitating empowerment and self love. From her own
spiritual development and understanding that loving the self is far more
effective than playing victim to supposed outside
forces, Melinda elected to study spirituality, metaphysics, Shamanism,
energy healing, and evolved methods of psychology and counseling. This
decision lead Melinda to her life’s work which then begin to transform
her painful past into passion and purpose.
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Melinda lives in Southern California with her high school sweetheart Luis,
her daughter Britany, two beautiful Siberian Huskies and three adorable cats. When
she takes a break from teaching, healing, mentoring individuals and
leading motivational drumming events across the country, Melinda greatly
enjoys gardening, hiking, cooking, and joyful time with friends and
family.
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