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      • ARMOR OF LIGHT
      • SEEING WITH THE HEART
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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
  • Coaching
    • SEE COACHING PROGRAMS
    • CLARITY-AWAKEN THE FLAME
    • BALANCE-SACRED ALIGNMENT
    • TRAUMA-A HEALING JOURNEY
    • SHIFTING-CONSCIOUS LIVING
  • Retreats
    • ABOUT BUDDHI RETREATS
    • SACRED JOURNEYS
    • WOMENS SPRING RETREAT
    • SENSES OF SUMMER RETREAT
    • BALI WOMENS RETREAT
    • INNER PEACE WOMAN RETREAT
  • Books
    • GUIDEBOOKS
    • PEACE PACKS
    • MEDITATION MUSIC VIDEOS
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White lotus floating on a pond, symbolizing renewal and conscious evolution at Buddhi Institute

Conscious Evolution, Mindful Living & Spiritual Alignment

Conscious Evolution is the art of mindful living and leading from the soul.


Here, transformation is a sacred process that guides women beyond surface-level living.  


This isn’t mindset training. It’s Soul alignment— a total recalibration that shifts your body, mind and spirit into a state of elevated living.


ONE DOOR. THREE PATHS...

A living, breathing space where women rise to their Best.

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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.  


This training and guidance restores your emotional sovereignty, rewires inherited patterns, and anchors you in truth—not trauma.


SEE COACHING PATHWAYS
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Classes – Rise into Radiance

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

LIVE and ONLINE

Meditation · Mindfulness · Women’s Wellness · Empowerment · Spiritual Growth


These aren’t just classes—they’re seasonal initiations into deeper awareness, emotional sovereignty, and sacred embodiment.


Each session is a living transmission of spiritual wisdom designed to interrupt patterns that no longer serve you. Rise higher with other women who walk with truth, tenderness, and fire.

READY TO RISE HIGHER?
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Retreats - Embodied Transformation

Coaching – Consciousness in Action

Retreats - Embodied Transformation

Women’s Retreats for Body & Soul
 

Step away from the noise. Breathe into your body. Awaken the wisdom within.


Buddhi Institute retreats are Sacred containers where women gather to restore their rhythm, reclaim their power, and rise into embodied truth.


Through yoga, meditation, and deep listening, you’ll return home to yourself—clear, nourished, and ready to lead from within.


EXPLORE RETREATS

Come to Master the Art of Mindful Living.

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

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, or addictive behaviors.  


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


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


Open the door to Inner Clarity, Spiritual Alignment, and Life Balance.


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.


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 toward higher consciousness.  It's a mindful evolution that awakens you at a soul level.


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

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

The September session is in process, and individual classes are open for drop in.


The next Session begins November 11th.   


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.

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

 

 Step away from the noise of everyday life and immerse yourself in 900 acres of serene forests, open fields, and tranquil waterfront views.  


 This retreat is a sacred pause—an invitation to completely step away from the news, the discord, daily routines, everything that you constantly pour into.


Women's Yoga and Meditation Retreat

From $545 pp


SEE DETAILS / REGISTER
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Fall Session - Classes are Forming

Higher Wisdom for Elevated 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.


Next Session begins: November 12


SEE FALL CLASSES

Fall Session Wisdom Course Highlights

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Armor of LIGHT

Creating Relationships with Saints & Angels

Creating Relationships with Saints & Angels

Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm

begins November 11th


 Armor up. The light within you is holy, fierce, and untouchable.


Learn to flow with grace while honoring boundaries that protect your inner sanctuary. 




REGISTRATION OPENS 10/20
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Creating Relationships with Saints & Angels

Creating Relationships with Saints & Angels

Creating Relationships with Saints & Angels

Wednesdays 7-8:30 pm

begins November 12th


A Devotional Journey of Connection, Guidance & Sacred Support.


Learn how to build meaningful spiritual relationships with Saints and Angels through guided practices, rituals, and daily devotion.


REGISTRATION OPENS 10/20
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Seeing with the Heart

Creating Relationships with Saints & Angels

Compassion Based Meditation

 Thursdays 9–10:30 am

Begins November 13th


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. 




REGISTRATION OPENS 10/20
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Compassion Based Meditation

Creating Relationships with Saints & Angels

Compassion Based Meditation

 Thursdays 7-8:30 pm

Begins November 13th


Compassion is a practice, not just a feeling. Through breath, presence, and gentle awareness, this meditation journey helps you cultivate inner peace that radiates outward—nourishing your relationships, your work, and the world.


REGISTRATION OPENS 10/20

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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