Nini Melvin is the founding director of Meridians – Pathways to The Heart, in Northampton, Massachusetts where she teaches Shiatsu and Qigong (in person and online), and has a private practice. She has trained shiatsu teachers and practitioners locally and internationally since 1985, and has begun her fifth decade of practicing shiatsu.
Nini created a nature-based healing art, HUMANATURE, blending Shiatsu, Chinese Medicine and Philosophy, Dance and Qigong. She teaches Asian Healing theories and perspectives through embodied movement experiences, including the meridians, the five elemental phases and the Time-of-Day Cycle. Nini created a book, HUMANATURE – Pathways to Personal and Planetary Healing, and a five-element divination deck of cards to guide people on a healing journey through the elements.
Nini has a Master’s degree in Dance from Temple University in Philadelphia, and taught movement and shiatsu at Omega Institute in New York. She received her shiatsu training at the Ohashi Institute in NYC from 1981-1985, and was a senior instructor through 1994. She trained students and teachers internationally, and wrote curriculums for the Institute. Nini has been influenced by many shiatsu teachers, including Waturu Ohashi, Pauline Sasaki, Patrizia Stefanini, Kikko Matsumoto, Pamela Ferguson, Ron DiKooning, Michelle Shumann, and Pamela Hannay. She is an AOBTA Certified Instructor.
She has studied Chinese medicine with Dianne Connelly, Jeffrey Yuen, Thea Elijah, Nikki Bilton, and Chris Marano and Qigong with Master Li Jun Feng, Daisy Lee, Lee Holden, Terri Nash and Lorelei Chang, and Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.
www.ninimelvin.com
