A supportive community of healing arts practitioners with roots in Namibia.

A Home For Healers & Committed Practitioners

The Practice 

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Join Mel and a dedicated community of practitioners for LIVE Online Healing Workshops every New Moon.


SET YOUR SPACE, READY SOME TEA OR CACAO, THEN PREP YOUR HEART FOR HEALING.

 
 
 

The healing arts can be a wild and confusing place. 

Choosing the right practice at the right time, and then using it CONSISTENTLY, is something that few seem able to do.  

No matter how powerful a single experience might be, true, lasting change always requires some level of commitment, new actions and consistent practice over time.


In THE PRACTICE you’ll join to a nourishing community of doers, then learn a range of healing arts processes, so you can commit to the ones that best suit your goals, life phase and deeper nature.  

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Together we’ll meet for a 2 hour LIVE workshop once a month where we’ll practice: 

  • Breathing exercises (modern and yogic)

  • Mindfulness and meditation 

  • Movement, mantra and mudra

  • Yoga asana & beyond (not all sessions)

  • Basic bodywork (not all sessions)

  • Themed contemplations & spiritually mature conversations (both standard & lineage-based)

  • A transformational breathwork journey with energy healing

  • A group Q&A 

  • And 1:1 hotseat coaching 

Only join the parts of the workshop that interest you.
Enjoy session recordings for the days you can’t attend LIVE. 

In addition to our monthly workshop, each member will gain access to our community membership site where you’ll receive: 

  • Session recordings

  • A recommended monthly practice schedule depending on your experience level.

  • A recommended reading (an article, podcast or book).

  • A simple monthly challenge or ritual (a real-world action to take to move your life forward). 

  • A simple contemplation to help you craft and commit to your perfect practice over the month.

  • Access to a community Whatsapp Community Group to ask questions, share stories and hold yourself accountable to simple daily practice.



    PARTICIPANTS WILL ALSO HAVE THE OPTION TO JOIN FOR 30 MINUTE WEEKLY CO-PRACTICE SESSIONS IN BETWEEN OUR OFFICIAL MONTHLY MEETS.

    WEEKLY PRACTICE Sessions take place ON TUESDAY EVENINGS at 7PM GMT+2. VIEW YOUR TIMEZONE.

 

 

Over the course of the year…

We’ll be cover a range of themes that include: 

· Ceremony, Ritual & Lineage
· Appropriate Cacao & Plant Medicinal Sharing 
· Non-suffering Through Wise Love 
· Basic Bodywork, Healing Movement & Dearmouring
· Yoga Asana & Beyond 
· Kirtan, Bhakti Yoga, Mantra & Myth 
· Moving Beyond Suffering

 

We’ll also be working with:

· Nervous System Regulation & Resiliency
· Energywork and Self-Healing
· Nourishing the System (Food & Nutrition)
· Classical Tantra, NeoTantra, Sacred S*xuality & Polarity
· Collective Liberation, Cultural Appropriation & Spiritual Spine 
· Abundance, Sovereignty & Money
· Ancestry & Elemental Intelligence
· The Many Planes Of Consciousness

YOUR TEACHER

 

 

Melissa Mukaiwa

is a Mindfulness, Meditation, Yoga & Elemental -Egyptian Reiki Master Teacher.

She’s a Transformational Life Coach, Sacred Sexuality, Cacao Ceremony & Breathwork Facilitator; A Host, International Speaker & Speaker Trainer; A Narrative4 Story Exchange Facilitator as well as a Trauma Release Through Dance Practitioner.

Melissa is a 300 hour Bhakti Yoga Teacher (Harmonium, Mantra Chanting & Kirtan) , she’s a Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner and is currently completing her training as a London School of Thai Massage Therapist and African Constellations Therapy Facilitator.

Mel is an Advanced Cathartic Breathwork Practitioner with the only Triple Board Certified Academy in the world - Alchemy Of Breath.  

She also holds an honours degree in Business Science from the University Of Cape Town with a specialisation in Marketing.



Mel began her work as an educator in 2012. Since then her coaching and mentorship footprint has spread to 8 countries across the globe, where she’s trained thousands in person and online. She has also trained 30 mindfulness and meditation teachers as well as attuned more than 100 Elemental Reiki Masters.


Melissa’s passion for wellness and personal empowerment took root in the founding of a local community development initiative called “Just Breathe”. Since 2017, they have served thousands at their Free, LIVE in-person community events.

In 2019 her community development work saw Melissa being invited to Rutgers University in the United States as a Mandela Washington Fellow.

She is also the Founder and CEO of PR, Marketing & Creative Solutions Company, Nica Creative.


Melissa describes herself as an irreverent optimist and student-teacher to the core whose work is geared toward a singular goal:


“The Activation of Human Potential to the Betterment of Us All.” 

 
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The Practice is for you if:

  • You’re seeking regular deep healing in community

  • You’re seeking daily accountability, LIVE weekly consolidation practice and monthly deep dives

  • You want some fun, lightness and comaraderie in your healing journey

  • You’re ready to make a gentle commmitment to your healing, expansion and growth

  • You teach, facilitate and give endlessly — you need a nourishing space to be inspired and receive

  • You’re new to the healing arts and need a safe space for deliberate exploration

  • You struggle to maintain a regular healing practice

  • You don’t know enough to commit to particular lineages but would like to learn more

  • You’re noticing that your practice is making you too sensitive and unable to function in life

  • You’d like coaching and mentorship to make sure that you’re doing the right things in the right way

  • You’re ready to reap the deep and lasting fruits that only come with consistent practice over time.

Our First Community Workshop

will take place on Saturday, 2 November from 10am - 12pm GMT+2 when Mel broadcasts LIVE from the magical slopes of Ma India. View your timezone here.

Our sessions will take place on each Saturday closest to the New Moon so that each month, you can use the group energy to recommit to consistency, ask powerful healing questions and plant new seeds. Sessions are from 10am - 12pm GMT + 2. View your timezone here.


The rest of our 2024/5 training dates are as follows: 

  • Saturday, 2 November - Session 1 (Early bird bonus session): 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 30 November - Session 2 (Early bird bonus session): 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 28 December - Session 3 (Early bird bonus session): 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 25 January: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 1 March: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 29 March: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 26 April: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 24 May: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 28 June: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 26 July: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2 

  • Saturday, 23 August: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 20 September: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 18 October: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 22 November: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2

  • Saturday, 20 December: 10am - 12pm GMT + 2


All sessions will have recordings that you can access via our membership site.
Only join for the parts of the workshop you like. 

PARTICIPANTS WILL ALSO HAVE THE OPTION TO JOIN FOR 30 MINUTE WEEKLY PRACTICE SESSIONS IN BETWEEN OUR OFFICIAL MONTHLY MEETS. SESSIONS TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAYS AT 7PM GMT+2. View your timezone here.

 
 
 
 
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Join Our Annual Membership Today and Receive: 

  • An EARLY BIRD founding member rate that won’t be offered again (limited spots available)

  • The 3 Workshops of 2024 for free (your membership is from 1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2025)

  • The opportunity to enrol with a friend and receive a founding member buddy discount 


Join The Practice for:
 

N$500 per month OR N$5000 per annum for Namibians & South Africans 

555 Euro per annum for the Rest of the World.



Practice is more powerful when done with a friend. Invite the ones you love to join us. Sign-up with a buddy and receive an even more discounted rate.

The Practice Buddy Member Rate:
N$400 per month per person OR N$4000 per annum per person for Namibians & South Africans 

444 Euro per annum per person for the Rest of the World.

THIS BUDDY FOUNDER MEMBER RATE IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON or before TUESday 31st DECEMBER 2024. FOUNDING MEMBERS WILL MAINTAIN THIS RATE THROUGHOUT THEIR MEMBERSHIP.


If you’d like to purchase a membership for someone else who may not have the means, please email us at justbreathenamibia@gmail.com to organise this.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ’s


  • 2 Hours long and all sessions include:
    - Breathing exercises
    - Meditation
    - Mantra
    - Mudra
    - A theme
    - A themed breathwork journey with energy healing
    - A Community Q&A - both group & 1:1

    Some sessions will include:
    - Accessible yoga asana
    - Simple bodywork
    - Kirtan, Bhakti & Myth
    - Nervous system regulation
    - Simple dance, healing movement and dearmouring


    Only join for the parts that interest you.

  • On the Saturday closest to the new moon from 10am - 12pm GMT + 2. Live training dates are below. Please add them to your calendar.

    2 November - Session 1 (Early bird bonus session)
    30 November - Session 2 (Early bird bonus session)
    Saturday, 28 December - Session 3 (Early bird bonus session)

    OFFICIAL MEMBERSHIP DATES:
    25 January
    1 March
    29 March
    26 April
    24 May
    28 June
    26 July
    23 August
    20 September
    18 October
    22 November
    20 December

  • The New Moon is associated with Fresh starts and New Beginnings. Group practice helps us amplify and better entrain with whatever intentions we set during class.


  • Yes there will be recordings to review practices and for the days you can't attend LIVE.

  • Mel will teach most of the classes. Every now and then she may invite a guest teacher.

  • We start with once a month because we'd like to build self-trust. Making a simple commitment that we can easily keep helps us build discipline in a gentle and sustainable way.

    With that said, real, life-changing transformation usually only comes from consistent practice over time.

    Though you'll be exposed to a range of techniques throughout the year, you're encouraged to rewatch the class (or at least the parts you find useful) multiple times throughout the month.

    On the membership portal you'll be provided with a suggested daily and weekly practice based on the month's theme and your experience level.

    In addition to our monthly workshops we also meet once a week on Tuesdays at 7pm GMT +2 to practice together. View timezone.

  • We host optional LIVE 30 minute group practice sessions once a week that you can join. Sessions are Tuesdays at 7pm GMT +2. View timezone.

    We also have a group for daily accountability.

    If you’re serious about deeper practice you can also join my annual facilitation mentorship - HOLD.

    It's for people who want to facilitate the holding of healing spaces as well as those just looking for a deeper personal practice.

    Super Early bird rates are open with pre-training tasks available immediately.

    View HOLD here.

    You can also consider signing up for my 1:1 coaching mentorship - Grounded, however it’s recommended that you complete HOLD first.

    View details on Grounded here.

  • Mel will be hosting multiple wellness retreats in Namibia in 2025 - Contact us if you’d like to learn more.

    You’re also welcome to invite her to teach on your online training, conference or retreat.
    Contact us.

  • Though the pre-practices help you go deeper more safely in the breathe, you’re welcome to sign on later and only do the parts of the workshop that interest you.

  • It's a term Mel developed that describes a range of topics which most healing spaces tend to avoid.

    These include things like the role of healing arts paractitioners in collective liberation, antiracism, queer rights, unconscious sexually predatory behaviours that are common in healing arts spaces, spiritual bypassing, shadow hierarchies, the invalidation of invisible illnesses and the differently-abled, spiritual gas-lighting and more.

    Many classrooms completely ignore these very real issues for fear of being seen as "low-vibe" or "divisive".

    The practice invites those who are interested to learn how to build the resiliency to meet, both ourselves and others fully so we can take right action in 3D.

    We train ourselves out of the tendency of collapsing when faced with difficulty. We develop a strong Spiritual Spine.

  • The Practice has three main intentions:
    - Deliberate, embodied exploration so you don't commit to a lineage or practice that's inappropriate for you.

    - The development of competency through repetition as you rewatch the recordings.

    - The gentle commitment of healing in community and having fun.

    While there's only so much depth that one can cover in a 2 hour class the information on the membership site, recommended readings, podcasts and Q&A portion of the workshop are there to help you find direction so you can continue your investigations and form a long-term practice in intelligent ways - Mel will help with this.

    The team is also developing some additional micro-trainings on each theme so you can dive deeper on the themes, practices and lineages that speak to you.

  • Not at all. Use what's useful. Leave the rest.

  • If we have enough people from The States and Australia signing up, Mel may consider adding another timezone. Please email us if you'd like to join the waitlist for a USA/AU timezone.

    If you're an experienced breathworker and don't mind learning via recording, you have that option as well.

  • Unfortunately we don't have access to a payment gateway that makes this financial viable.

    If you're in financial hardship and require a custom payment plan. Email us.

  • Unfortunately not. Signing up means you're joining this membership for the full 2025 year and will be liable for full fees accordingly. There are no refunds and you’re liable for the full fee upon first payment receipt.

    If you're not in the position to commit to showing up for yourself once a month (and catching up on recordings), then Mel's not the appropriate facilitator for you.

  • Unfortunately not. We're keeping prices as low as possible which means we'd like to keep admin as low as possible as well.

    If there's someone in your life who could benefit from joining us; consider purchasing a membership for them as well. These experiences are particularly fun and powerful when you have people to reflect on them with.

    Contact us if you have any questions on purchasing memberships for others.

  • If you're based in Windhoek (Namibia), you can learn about our Free Community meetups via our WA group and instagram page.

    We also have a limited number of scholarships available. Apply here.

  • You’ll have access to the membership site and all it’s content for 1 year:
    January 2025 - end December 2025 (those who sign up before Nov 2024 will receive access before our opening call).

  • You’re welcome to cancel your membership at anytime. However we don’t issue refunds for any of our trainings and you’ll still be liable for the full cost of the training even if you cancel. This term goes into effect upon receipt of your first payment.

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Our First Community Workshop

takes place on Saturday, 2 November from 10am - 12pm GMT +2 when Mel broadcasts LIVE from the magical slopes of Ma India.  View your timezone here.

Limited pre-launch slots available.

If you have any questions or need help signing up - Let us know.


See you in The Practice.