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    • Classes
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      • BASKING IN THE LIGHT
      • ARMOR OF LIGHT
      • SEEING WITH THE HEART
      • SUMMER IMMERSION
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Buddhi Institute

(585) 672-5250

  • Home
  • About
    • ABOUT BUDDHI INSTITUTE
    • CONTACT BUDDHI
    • THE YOGA SCIENCES
    • WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
    • FOUNDER-MELINDA JOHNSTON
  • Classes
    • GROUP CLASSES
    • BASKING IN THE LIGHT
    • ARMOR OF LIGHT
    • SEEING WITH THE HEART
    • SUMMER IMMERSION
  • Coaching
    • See Coaching Programs
    • SELF-CARE COACHING
    • LIFE BALANCE COACHING
    • CLARITY COACHING
    • ABSOLUTE AWARENESS
    • TOTAL TRANSFORMATION
    • ULTIMATE WELLNESS
  • BOOKS AND GIFTS
    • GUIDEBOOKS
    • PEACE PACKS
    • MEDITATION MUSIC VIDEOS
  • Retreats
    • About Buddhi Retreats
    • WOMENS SPRING RETREAT
    • SENSES OF SUMMER RETREAT
    • BALI WOMENS RETREAT
    • INNER PEACE WOMAN RETREAT
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Welcome to Your Soul Sanctuary

An online and in-person space for guidance, renewal, and conscious evolution.


Come to Master the Art of Mindful Living.
Open the door to Inner Clarity, Spiritual Alignment, and Life Balance.


Rooted in ancient wisdom, held in modern presence—led by Melinda Johnston, your coach, guide, and spiritual director.


PATHWAYS TO YOUR CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

Three Paths. One Sanctuary.

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Coaching – Consciousness in Action

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

Consciousness Coaching & Spiritual Counseling


Anxiety & Trauma Healing, Addiction & Recovery, Clarity, Focus and Self-Empowerment for Life Balance


Personalized guidance to untangle the mind, heal old stories, and reclaim your power.   Expand your Self-Awareness and reconnect you with your Inner Wisdom.


SEE COACHING PATHWAYS
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Classes – Rise into Radiance

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

LIVE Mindfulness Classes & Healing Wisdom Courses


Meditation, Mindfulness, Women’s Wellness, Empowerment & Growth.


Root into daily awareness with sacred teachings, seasonal immersions, and embodied practices.  Join a SOUL Tribe of like -minded women.


FALL SESSION BEGINS SEPT. 23

READY TO RISE HIGHER?
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Retreats - Embodied Transformation

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

Retreats - Embodied Transformation

Seasonal Women’s Retreats for Body & Soul
 

Soulful Splendor, Inner Peace Yoga, Summer Senses, Bali Wellness Immersion & more.


Step away. Breathe deep. Awaken within. Buddhi Institute Body and Soul retreats offer sacred space for restoration, laughter, and soulful growth.


EXPLORE RETREATS

Mindful Living, Conscious Evolution & Spiritual Alignment

Buddhi is a Sanskrit word that means, in the Highest Awareness...

Engaged Awareness liberates you from:  Mental habits, reactive emotional patterns, outdated belief systems, and recurring life cycles such as new relationship-same issues.  


The Inner Journey meets past habits and patterns head-on, embraces lessons learned, and releases the past.   


SERVICES AT A GLANCE >


💫 Consciousness Coaching — Personalized guidance to clarify, align, and evolve.   


🌿 Online Mindfulness Immersions & Healing Courses— Seasonal containers for soulful restoration. Live and interactive.   


📖 Guidebooks for Meditation & Self-Inquiry — Wisdom you can hold in your hands.   


🌀 Healing Wisdom Courses —Self-mastery through spiritual practice for mindful living.  


🌸 Women's Body and Soul Retreats — Embodied experiences for mind-body-soul harmony and life balance.


FREE DISCOVERY CALL

Life in Balance

When the mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, life becomes luminous.


Whether you’re navigating life’s challenges, healing from past wounds, seeking clarity—or simply craving space to breathe—this Soul Sanctuary is designed to meet you exactly where you are... and gently guide you forward.  


Through immersive coaching, soul-based courses, and seasonal retreats, you'll engage in a gentle process of awakening, healing, and learn how to stand fully in your power.


Buddhi Institute's programs blend spiritual wisdom, neuroscience, and embodiment practices to cultivate deep-rooted clarity and sustainable life balance that endures.


This isn’t therapy.  At Buddhi Institute, we don’t diagnose—we Illuminate. 


This is the path of mindful evolution.


What is Consciousness Coaching??

Within each of us is an Inner Knowing—a Higher Realm of Consciousness—waiting to be unlocked.

  Living solely within the confines of intellect keeps your self-perception tethered to past experiences or constantly preparing for potential future outcomes. The Thinking Mind judges these moments, shaping a limited sense of identity and potential. 


Consciousness Coaching cultivates:


  • Mental clarity—free from confusion and limiting thought loops
  • Emotional calm—freedom from reactive triggers
  • Physical self-care—a renewed connection with your body
  • Spiritual harmony—a gentle, authentic relationship with your Soul Self

  

This transformative shift of consciousness naturally frees you from mental and emotional patterns that keep you feeling stuck, past traumas, and addictive struggles.

 

TRY ONE SESSION

Live & Online Learning

Wisdom Courses & Healing Classes

Taught Live via Zoom


These aren’t pre-recorded programs.
They’re immersive experiences that meet you in real time, with guidance that’s personalized, hands-on, and energetically attuned.


Come as you are. Connect where you are. Awaken together—in real time.

Seasonal Schedule

Classes bloom slowly in spring and summer, then flourish in full sessions September through May.  The Fall Session begins September 23rd. 


Subscribe to the Newsletter for updates and enrollment discounts. 

SEE UPCOMING GROUP CLASSES

Private Training

Available year-round for women seeking focused guidance, accountability, or specialized healing work.

Subscribe for Updates and Events

A weekly newsletter with insights about Mindfulness, Wellness, Healing , Growth, and upcoming events.

Upcoming Events

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Fall Women's Retreat

New Dates!  New Location!

October 17-19, 2025


 SKY LAKE  | BINGHAMTON, NY  

 Root & Radiate: A Sanctuary for Autumn Alignment

 

This retreat is a sacred pause—where nature becomes your teacher, and stillness your guide.


🍁 Expect nourishing rituals, conscious rest, fireside wisdom circles, and spacious moments to reconnect with your own spirit.


Women's Yoga and Meditation Retreat

From $495 pp


SEE DETAILS / REGISTER
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Fall Session - Classes are Forming

Higher Wisdom for Mindful Living


 From ancient mystics to modern-day visionaries, these classes offer profound insights and timeless wisdom to help you step into a higher realm of awareness, balance, and holistic well-being. 


 

At Buddhi Institute, these classes are more than just lessons—they are a sacred space where you can rediscover your voice, reclaim your power, and embrace your peace.


Here, you are free to be fully yourself—seen, heard, and loved for exactly who you are.


SEE FALL CLASSES

Fall Session Wisdom Course Highlights

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The Secret Gospel of John

The Secret Gospel of John

The Secret Gospel of John

. Tuesday 7-8:30 pm  EST

TRY ONE SESSION - August 26th


This revelatory text offers a metaphysical account of the unfolding of Divine Mind and its profound implications for humanity.


REGISTER HERE
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Basking in the LIGHT

The Secret Gospel of John

The Secret Gospel of John

 Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm EST

begins September 23rd


 A weekly sanctuary for conscious evolution. 

This soul-centered course invites you to embody your Spiritual Self with greater ease and clarity. 


SEE DETAILS / REGISTER
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Armor of LIGHT

The Secret Gospel of John

Seeing with the Heart

Wednesdays 7-8:30 pm

begins September 24th


Having traversed the sacred feminine, quantum mysticism, and ancient wisdom texts, the Soul Tribe now steps into

an immersive exploration of spiritual resilience and divine protection.

SEE DETAILS / REGISTER
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Seeing with the Heart

The Secret Gospel of John

Seeing with the Heart

 Thursdays 9–10:30 am

Begins September 25


Seeing with the Heart is a transformative metaphysical immersion into the Mind of Christ—an awakening into Unity Consciousness where divine wisdom and presence gently unfold. 

SEE DETAILS / REGISTER

Free Resource for Anxiety

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Embracing Anxiety

FREE RESOURCES from Buddhi Institute


This 20 page E-BOOK is a PDF that offers tips for how to  ‘seat’ yourself and maintain higher realm of consciousness to discover your own authentic flow of inner peace and mental calm.  


FREE LESSON DOWNLOAD

Life is a Journey of Self-Discovery

🌺 A Message from Melinda

Founder of Buddhi Institute | Spiritual Philosopher

Your Guide for Conscious Evolution


True healing begins where surface solutions end. The path I walk—and teach—is grounded in ancient wisdom and spiritual science, passed down from enlightened masters and integrated through decades of immersive study and embodied practice. 


As a Master in Vedic Wisdom & Sacred Integration, I guide others not to escape discomfort, but to alchemize it—to meet life’s lessons with clarity, depth, and reverence.


This work asks for more than momentary relief. It’s the inward spiral of Conscious Evolution: a journey that dismantles reactive patterns, untangles emotional cycles, and awakens the deeper intelligence within. 


Through this intentional practice, we cultivate Mindful Living—not as a trend, but as a spiritual discipline—and build a foundation of Life Balance that endures.


Buddhi Institute is your sanctuary for this transformation. Through guided coaching, sacred immersions, and seasonal retreats, here you will experience spiritual insight into embodied wisdom—where integration becomes your personal illumination.


✨ This is your invitation:
To rise into next chapter of YOU with presence, sovereignty, and grace.

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Buddhi Institute

1400 North Winton Road, Rochester, New York 14609, United States

(585) 672-5250

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. ~ Rumi

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