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      • SACRED ALLIES
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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
    • NEW YEAR IMMERSION
    • SACRED WINTERING
    • ARMOR OF LIGHT
    • COMPASSION MEDITATION
    • SACRED ALLIES
  • Coaching
    • SEE COACHING PROGRAMS
    • CLARITY
    • ALIGNMENT
    • HEALING
    • CONSCIOUS LIVING
  • Retreats
    • ABOUT BUDDHI RETREATS
    • SACRED JOURNEYS
    • SUMMER RETREAT
    • BALI WOMENS RETREAT
    • FALL RETREAT
  • Books
    • GUIDEBOOKS
    • PEACE PACKS
    • MEDITATION MUSIC VIDEOS
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Conscious Evolution, Mindful Living & Spiritual Alignment

Live from the Wisdom Within

Buddhi Institute offers mindfulness training, alignment coaching, spiritual wisdom classes and body and soul retreats for women—and anyone who feels the fierce pull of inner awakening.


You are feeling a shift.  Let's embrace that. 


You have found an online and in-person "sanctuary" for healing, reclaiming your energy, awakening your sacred fire, deepening your inner wisdom and creating a life shaped by soul rather than conditioned patterns.

This is where Conscious Evolution Begins

Not mindset work. Not therapy.  Here, you will find an authentic path to return to your deepest alignment.


Conscious Evolution is the art of mindful living and leading from the soul.  It’s Soul alignment.


Interrupt the pattern of what has been. Learn to stand in your own Power. 

Begin your Evolution...Your Journey starts here >

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Coaching – Consciousness in Action

LIVE, online Classes for Spiritual Women

LIVE, online Classes for Spiritual Women

Conscious Living and

SOUL Alignment


Strategic, soul-aligned mentorship for those navigating burnout, boundary collapse, trauma, addiction and the quiet ache of misalignment.


 Through personalized guidance, you reclaim clarity, power, and the capacity to live your life from your inner authority. 


SEE COACHING PATHWAYS
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LIVE, online Classes for Spiritual Women

LIVE, online Classes for Spiritual Women

LIVE, online Classes for Spiritual Women

LIVE. INTERACTIVE. INSPIRING.

Meditation · Mindfulness · Growth


Buddhi Institute classes are gathering circles of spiritual seekers. Classes are REAL, relaxed and soulful.   


Come online as you are...No makeup, no pressure, just presence. Dinner in hand, wine in glass, make-up off. 


NEXT SESSION BEGINS 1/20
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Retreats - Embodied Transformation

LIVE, online Classes for Spiritual Women

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.  You’ll return home to yourself—clear, nourished, and aligned.


EXPLORE RETREATS

Life in Balance

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The Inner Journey...

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


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


Here, you EVOLVE from the inside out. 

 

Buddhi is a Sanskrit word meaning, in the Highest Awareness.


You will obtain That.


FREE DISCOVERY CALL

Journey to Inner Peace: A Visual Tour of Buddhi Institute

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Conscious Evolution, Mindful Living & Spiritual Alignment

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

Winter Session begins January 20, 2026

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New Year Spiritual Immersion

New Year Spiritual Immersion

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm

begins January 20th


Embodying the Sacred Self...Step into 8 weeks of transformation where spiritual wisdom meets real world integration. 


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SEE DETAILS
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Sacred Wintering

New Year Spiritual Immersion

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Wednesdays 7-8:30 pm

Begins January 21st


A guided journey into rest, ritual, and renewal.  


Deepen your spiritual practice and embody the LIGHT of your Being.


SEE DETAILS
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Armor of LIGHT

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Compassion Based Meditation

 Thursdays 9–10:30 am

Begins January 23rd


Armor up. This training is for women who feel the intensity of the world and are ready to rise with grace, clarity, and unapologetic light. 


SEE DETAILS
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Compassion Based Meditation

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Compassion Based Meditation

 Thursdays 7-8:30 pm

Begins January 23rd


 This course offers a weekly reset—where breath becomes medicine and presence becomes power.



SEE DETAILS
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for those who are weary...

If you are tired of surviving, tired of soul‑searching, and tired of carrying patterns that no longer serve, you will find rest and guidance here.


When burnout, trauma responses, and old coping strategies collapse, you are not failing — you are being invited into a new way of being.


From the core, you align.

INTERRUPT THE PATTERN

What is Consciousness Coaching??

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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 Inner Self

  

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

 

TRY ONE SESSION

2026: A Year of Sacred Fire--Your Awakening

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Clarity

Conscious Living

Alignment

 A 3-session reset for women who feel saturated, split, and ready to reclaim clarity.


NEW YEAR PROMO

Get 4th Session FREE




Enroll by 1/20


Learn More
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Alignment

Conscious Living

Alignment

 What is your WHY?

 When purpose fades, energy follows. 


10 SESSIONS

As Needed soul-strategy 

Alignment Coaching for life balance and spiritual guidance. 


1 HOUR SESSIONS


LEARN MORE
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Healing

Conscious Living

Conscious Living

 When doing Inner Work, consistency is key.


3 MONTH INTENSIVE

This is hands-on, in the moment coaching.  Healing occurs in the present moment. Call your Coach!


90 MINUTE SESSIONS


LEARN MORE
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Conscious Living

Conscious Living

Conscious Living

   A 6‑month journey for women ready to rise in clarity, power, and soul alignment.
 

Only 5 spots open
 

NEW YEAR RATE $4444

Regular Rate: $6200 


Enroll by 1/5


LEARN MORE

Your Three Frees

Sacred Wintering E-book

Sacred Wintering E-book

Sacred Wintering E-book

LESSON ONE- Stillness

This is the companion guidebook for the upcoming spiritual Immersion Sacred Wintering.


The 12 days of Christmas lead us into this season ...  a journey into your most 

Inner Temple of Self. The Intro to this teaching is available for FREE.


AVAILABLE JAN. 1
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One FREE Class

Sacred Wintering E-book

Sacred Wintering E-book

Enter one live session and experience the depth of this work for yourself.


This offer is for one free class only, and availability is limited due to small class sizes.


All Buddhi Institute courses are live, interactive, and capped at 12 participants for personal guidance.

GET YOUR EVOLVE PASS
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Awakening Guide

Sacred Wintering E-book

Awakening Guide

Are You Being Called to Awaken?


A short, powerful self‑inquiry guide to help you recognize the signs, thresholds, and inner shifts of Awakening.


This free guide will be delivered on January 21.

Reserve your copy now.


GET YOUR GUIDE

A Spiritual Guidebook

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Sacred Wintering Guidebook

Sacred Wintering is a live, 6‑session course guiding women into the Art of Becoming.  This is the companion GUIDEBOOK.


Through stillness, silence, shadow, seed, spark, and renewal, you will enter the inner temple of rest and receive divine clarity for your calling. Each of these aspects of self is a threshold of discovery, initiation, and inner deliverance.


Mystical Awakening Through Sacred Wintering

In the quiet of winter, you are invited into the inner temple—where silence unveils revelation, shadow becomes sacred teacher, and the spark of divine clarity ignites your becoming.


Pre‑order now.

Available January 21. 

E-BOOK IMMERSION $22

Interrupt the Pattern with a Class Pass

Unlimited Class PASS

The Unlimited Class Pass gives you access to ALL courses through the end of 2026—plus five private mini sessions.


  • $888 one-time
  • or $88 a month for 12 months


Gain full access to 24–36 immersive courses that include over 200 live, interactive classes designed to support conscious living, leadership, wellbeing, and spiritual integration.


This pass is ideal for women leaders, creatives, and seekers who want consistent support, structure, and soul-aligned strategy throughout the year.


Stay connected. Interrupt the Pattern. 

Align with your Shine.


GET YOUR CLASS PASS TODAY

Guiding Conscious Evolution Through Inner Alignment

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🌺 A Message from Melinda

Founder of Buddhi Institute | Spiritual Philosopher

Guide for Conscious Evolution


I help leaders, creatives, and seekers align their inner world with the life they are called to live.


Drawing on Vedic wisdom and decades of embodied spiritual practice, I teach how to transform uncertainty, emotional patterns, and inner fragmentation into clarity, purpose, and authentic power.


At Buddhi Institute, you’ll find transformative coaching, retreats, and sacred immersions designed to restore balance, deepen self‑awareness, and awaken the intelligence of your Soul Self.


Conscious Evolution is an inward spiral — a dismantling of reactive patterns, a return to truth, and a reclamation of the deeper wisdom that has always been yours.


Evolve with intention,

Melinda

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

(585) 672-5250

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