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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
    • ARMOR OF LIGHT
    • SACRED ALLIES
    • COMPASSION MEDITATION
    • MEDITATION TRAINING
  • Coaching
    • SEE COACHING PROGRAMS
    • CLARITY COACHING
    • LIFE BALANCE ALIGNMENT
    • THE HEALING JOURNEY
    • CONSCIOUS LIVING
  • Retreats
    • ABOUT BUDDHI RETREATS
    • SACRED JOURNEYS
    • WOMENS SPRING RETREAT
    • SENSES OF SUMMER RETREAT
    • BALI WOMENS RETREAT
    • INNER PEACE WOMAN RETREAT
  • Books
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Conscious Evolution, Mindful Living & Spiritual Alignment

Buddhi Institute offers alignment coaching, live courses, retreats, and digital downloads for women ready to Evolve.

  

Conscious Evolution is the art of mindful living and leading from the soul. This isn’t mindset training. It’s Soul alignment.


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

INTERRUPT THE PATTERN

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

Consciousness Coaching & Spiritual Counseling


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


This is not mindset coaching.

This is deep pattern interruption.


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



SEE COACHING PATHWAYS
Diverse women gathered in unity at Buddhi Institute as a Soul Tribe.

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 like-minded women. 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. 


Rise higher with other women who walk with truth, tenderness, and fire. It's all about wisdom and empowerment. 

READY TO RISE HIGHER?
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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.


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



EXPLORE RETREATS

LIVE - Online Meditation Events

Holiday Compassion Meditation

Center in Love, Radiate Peace

December 11   |   7-8:30 pm 


LIVE on ZOOM -- Join me for a one‑time Compassion Meditation on December 11—a guided practice blending self‑compassion to ease holiday stress, a Heart Centered energy healing, and the collective outpouring of compassion into the world.


*Register for both December Meditation experiences for $25


REGISTER for $15

Solstice Meditation - Healing Peace

Clear your Field, Ignite your Light

December 21   |   7-8:15 pm


LIVE on ZOOM -- Join me for a Solstice Meditation to clear your field, release the pull of darkness, habits, and holiday stress. Together we’ll experience a prolonged collective peace healing, send light into the world as also activate our Inner Light on this threshold night.


*Register for both December Meditation experiences for $25


REGISTER FOR $15

Mindful Living involves mind, body, and SOUL.

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.


Buddhi Institute is an online and in-person space for guidance, renewal, and conscious evolution.   


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.   


🌸 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 SOUL 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.


Conscious Evolution, Mindful Living & Spiritual Alignment

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.


 

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


The Winter Group Session begins January 20th


Subscribe to the Newsletter for updates and enrollment discounts. 


SEE UPCOMING GROUP CLASSES

Private Teaching and Mentoring

Private training in course topics are available year-round for women seeking focused guidance, accountability, or specialized healing work. 



Winter Session begins January 20, 2026

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Sacred Allies & Divine Support

Sacred Allies & Divine Support

Sacred Allies & Divine Support

Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm

begins January 20th


  Explore how Saints, Angels, and Archetypes walk beside us—offering guidance, protection, and soul companionship. 

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SEE DETAILS

Sacred Wintering

Sacred Allies & Divine Support

Sacred Allies & Divine Support

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.


REGISTRATION OPENS DEC. 1
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Armor of LIGHT

Sacred Allies & Divine Support

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

Sacred Allies & Divine Support

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

Digital Downloads - SOUL Snippets

The Reason for the Season

The Reason for the Season

The Reason for the Season

This Soul Snippet guide invites you to reclaim the sacred essence of the season—beyond stress, noise, and obligation—through poetic reflection, energetic clarity, and a return to what truly matters. 


Includes mindfulness and meditation practices for the Advent themes of Hope, Joy, Faith and Love. 


SEE DETAILS

Embracing Anxiety

The Reason for the Season

The Reason for the Season

Anxiety can feel like it’s unraveling your peace, especially during the holiday season. 


This Soul Snippet Guidebook offers highlights from the Embracing Anxiety course—featuring quick remedies to soothe stress and mindfulness practices to prevent anxiety before it begins.


SEE DETAILS

Dare to Shine

The Reason for the Season

Dare to Shine

Dare to Shine offers practical tools to expand awareness of your vibration, frequency, and intentions. 


These Soul Snippets are highlights from the entire immersion course. Escape auto‑pilot programming and embody your Soul Self with courage and clarity.



SEE DETAILS

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

Life is a Journey of Self-Discovery

🌺 A Message from Melinda

Founder of Buddhi Institute | Spiritual Philosopher

Your Guide for Conscious Evolution


I help women leaders, creatives, and seekers align their inner world with their leadership strategy. 


Drawing on Vedic wisdom and decades of embodied practice, I teach how to transform uncertainty and repetitive life patterns into clarity and purpose.


At Buddhi Institute, you’ll find transformative coaching, women's retreats, and sacred immersions designed to cultivate mindful living, restore balance, and awaken your Soul Self. 


The inward spiral of Conscious Evolution is a journey that dismantles reactive patterns, untangles emotional cycles, and awakens the deeper intelligence within. 

Contact Buddhi

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Buddhi Institute

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

(585) 672-5250

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