Garden Flows

Mel Gonzalez is a 200hr and trauma-informed certified yoga teacher, and founder of La Onda. They’ve been practicing yoga for 18 years and teaching for 7. They've worked with yoga to explore their body dysphoria & queerness at a time when they didn't have language for what they were feeling. a validation to their non-binary, the divine union between masculine and feminine energies

Mel incorporates mindfulness, moon cycles, astrology and trauma-informed ways of knowing to create flows and spaces that feel nourishing and safe enough to quiet the mind so that you can listen to all that you are.

Mel lives in Providence, RI and is a first-generation native Spanish speaker of Borikén descent. They’re passionate about food sovereignty and sharing the abundance of the land as revolutionary devotional practice. They are currently training as a butcher and have previously studied aquaculture and oyster farming.