CALENDAR
Medicine Buddha Day
Chaos to Calm
July 22, No August, September 19th, No October, November 17th, December 17th
7-8:30pm Eastern Time
LIVE ON ZOOM (and recorded)
with Melanie Ryan
Registration: $25
Join Melanie Ryan, psychotherapist, and Tibetan Buddhist Teacher, for a guided meditation and deep healing. When we purify our minds of negative thoughts and beliefs, we clear ourselves of what blocks our true light.
This is a monthly meditation community gathering that will take place on Medicine Buddha Day, a day for healing and purification. Each month Melanie will offer a dharma teaching and meditation practice that invokes the Medicine Buddha. This can be used for self healing as well as sharing for the healing of others.
All levels welcome. This will be live online & recorded. If you cannot attend live, you can register and we will send you the recording within 24 hours.
Contributions will fund our documentary, TRAGICAL that will be filmed in Bhutan this October & November. Please contribute $25 or more if you can.
*Free for anyone who cannot afford it.
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The Golden Shadow Method
Omega Institute
August 21-23, 2026
Registration is open!
Join Melanie Ryan, best-selling author, psychotherapist, and Buddhist teacher for a weekend retreat into the “golden shadow” where your most beautiful, positive qualities are stored. Using Jungian psychology, Buddhist philosophy, and Indigenous wisdom, we will journey into the unconscious and embrace the positive qualities that are suppressed. These include our psychic abilities, our creativity, joy, and playfulness. We will transmute dark shadow blocks into light, transmuting lower frequencies into higher vibrations of love, harmony, wisdom and joy. This is a deep remembering of the powerful love and light that lives within.
Moving Beyond Pain
Book Launch and Workshop
with Andy Steigmeier, LMT CSCS
Saturday September 5th
10:00am -1:00pm
at Delphi University
$75 per person
To Register call Delphi Office:
1-888-DELPHIU
1-888-335-7448
Come meet Andy Steigmeier, author and award winning pain specialist from New York who recently moved to the mountains of Georgia.
Moving Beyond Pain is a gentle and integrative approach to treating acute and chronic pain at the root cause. Andy refers to a state of life beyond the limitations and challenges imposed by pain, focusing on strategies and natural approaches to finding relief, becoming stronger, and living pain-free without the need for drugs or surgery. Andy will demonstrate gentle bodywork techniques, therapeutic exercises and other movements, that bring natural pain relief and the body back into balance.
See Andy’s website for more information.
Golden Shadow Retreat
Scottish Highlands 2027
Exact Date TBA
Limited to 8 travelers
Email if interested
Activating The Lion’s Roar
In Buddhist tradition, the Lion is the symbol of courage. True courage is not about avoiding suffering. It is about having the bravery to completely embrace the raw, vulnerable, and painful realities of the human experience. The Lion’s Roar is the sound of freedom. It cuts through fear, anger, and self-doubt. By going against negative patterns and limiting beliefs, we remember our inherent goodness. This retreat is a call to action to awaken that inner power, allowing all of life’s experiences to be the fuel for the opening of your heart, a genuine heart of love, compassion, and wisdom.
Golden Shadow Retreat Greece 2028
June 2028
Max of 10 travelers
The 2028 retreat will be our 6th time to Greece and we can't wait to share it with you! Golden Shadow retreats are geared toward professional educators, healers, therapists, doctors, nurses, caretakers, and anyone who has a sincere interest in using ancient wisdom to heal themselves and others.
Led by Melanie Ryan and Demitra Vassiliadis, the Greece retreat takes you off the beaten path and into the heart and soul of ancient Greece. You will heal through the myths, legends, beauty and sacred sites. Greek archetypes teach us about the hidden energies within us. From Apollo to Chiron, and Asklepius to Hippocrates, we dive into the lineage of ancient Greek holistic health, healing, poetry, and soul.
RECORDED WEBINARS
Level Up
with Melanie Ryan
Transmuting Triggers
with Melanie Ryan
Shadow Projection
with Melanie Ryan
Awaken Your Golden Shadow
with Melanie Ryan
Healing Trauma & the Soul
with Melanie Ryan
Escaping the Underworld
with Melanie Ryan
Healing the Mother Wound
with Melanie Ryan
PTSD Trauma & the Soul
with Melanie Ryan
Working with Negativity
with Melanie Ryan
Healing Lyme Disease
with Melanie Ryan & Dr. Arce
Terrain Model of Health
with Melanie Ryan & Dr. Arce
Pain Relief
with Melanie Ryan & Andy Steigmeier
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