Welcome to the Speakeasy!
Book a Reiki Session and/or explore other creative modalities.
We all benefit from practicing good energy hygiene. Getting a Reiki treatment is energetic self-care. It helps the nervous system relax and aids with stress. Reiki is pure compassion and presence: it promotes healing on many different levels - physical, emotional, mental.
Reiki can support you as you move through life changes, nurse injuries or shift your habits and perspective. A treatment can bring insights from your own higher knowing around what are the best ways of directing your energy and attention to lead a more balanced life.
The Speakeasy is a safe place to get real about life, get in touch with your inner knowing, and separate the wheat from the chaff. An intuitive card reading on whatever topic is concerning you right now + Reiki can bring greater clarity, ease and freedom to your energetic system. Reiki is a safe & natural energy modality that helps you release blocks and recircuit energies for your highest and best good. We are all energetic beings governed by universal laws. If we recognize our place in the system and learn to manage our breath and our elements, we can flow in our lives and in dealing with the people around us with greater ease and clarity. Reiki supports all of that.
Cheers to a Reiki-tini!
Energy Cocktails
Order à la carte from these curated energetic creations or create your own unique blend through consultation and session add ons.
Speakeasy Session (Tarot Reading & Reiki / Energy Work Blend) (90 min): $150
Healing Reiki Session - In person or remote (60 min): $100
Intuitive Tarot Reading - in person or remote (60 min): $100
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Signature treatment to assess & rebalance your 7 main energy centers. Pendulum assessment, Reiki and alchemical conversation.
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“Deal Me In” - Intuitive Reiki Session with Card Reading and Alchemical Conversation.
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Harness healing snake energy! Movement practices and energy work to assist in changes you are going through.
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Energy Detox Reiki Session after disturbing news or situation. Served with Compassion
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“Bloody Indecision” - Drink in this potent energy blend to unblock the main artery to your inner guidance. We recommend shaken, not stirred. Card reading and Reiki session to bring clarity to choice.
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“Hekate’s Whip” - A wake up call to your life. Card reading and Reiki session to help you face what you know to be true. Pairs nicely with “Ease the Sting.”
Let’s work together
Complete the form below to request a session.
Melinda will connect to continue the consultation and co-create your Speakeasy Reiki experience!
Melinda
Melinda is a Reiki Master and body alchemist. Understanding energy and helping people smile, dance and enjoy life more has always been part of her mission and matrix. Melinda grew up belly dancing at tavernas in Athens, Greece at the hip of her wild Sagittarian mom. She is passionate about guiding students to connect with love to themselves, their energy, their creativity, their bodies, the inner strength, their potential and their lives. No matter what modality she is teaching, Melinda encourages you to find your center and dance from the heart. Melinda’s unconventional & international upbringing amid circus artists, dancers, academics, hippies and freethinkers informs her work and allows her to teach and hold space with ease, imagination and flow for people from many walks of life on a variety of levels.
Melinda is founder of Moody Street Circus, her family’s circus arts and belly dance studio. As she continued her energy work education and practices and deepened trust in her intuition as a long-time member of the Alchemy Circle led by Yolanda Williams, Melinda was called to create Speakeasy Reiki as a sanctuary for healing and energetic exploration. She resources a variety of modalities including Reiki, Qi Gong, meditation, Tarot and oracle cards, ritual creation & journaling. Melinda feels honored to explore people’s important questions and helping resolve inner conflict. She enjoys witnessing their resilience as they find clarity and make aligned choices while navigating challenges.
In her past academic life, Melinda was a prestigious Ben Franklin Fellow and received her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a professor at both UPenn and Boston College before she was called to dedicate herself to her current path. She is Co-founder & Director of Moody Street Circus, her family-run studio, and hosts the Mythic Mel podcast on Awakening Airwaves.
6 fun things about me
(scroll to bottom of page for certifications & credentials )
My favorite color is eggplant. My favorite question is why is it called an eggplant.
When I got pregnant with my daughter 25 years ago, I had a knowing that this new energy field within me was going to “move around my furniture.” That happened in more ways than one! I saw also that we would work together side by side, without knowing exactly how. That has all come to pass!
I believe we are far more powerful and capable of change than we give ourselves credit for.
I was born on a full moon in Pisces. It’s interesting to figure out what phase the moon was in on your birthday and how that energy might be playing out in your life.
I wrote my college entrance essay on the phrase “Know thyself,” which is written on the gate of the Oracle of Delphi. Such a teenage philosopher! 4 years later I wrote my thesis on female desire and auto-eroticism in the works of Marguerite Duras, the French writer who wrote The Lover. Uncovering what lights you up as a unique individual has been my main interest for years.
I trust when my questions turn into quests. If I wonder about something, it’s usually a clue that I am meant to learn more and dig deeper.
honor and care for you
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honor and care for you 〰️
Qualifications
& Gratitude to my Teachers
Level 1 and 2 Shoden and Okuden Usui Reiki Ryoho Certifications with Yolanda Williams
Level 2 Shoden Usui Reiki Ryoho training and certification with Christine Grace.
Shinpiden Master Level Certification - 5 day retreat for Reiki and Energetic Alchemy in March 2025 with Yolanda Williams.
Reiki attunement by Suzanne Gallo at the completion of level 1 Spirit of Reiki Certification 2021.
Certified in Wellness Coaching and Oracle Card Reading - intensive 5 months training with the School of Energetic Alchemy.
Master Robert Peng’s 5 Day QiGong Empowerment training intensive at Omega Institute. Completed 12 week Yi Jin Jing training twice. Qi Gong Movement - Chanting - Meditation - Breathwork.
Studied with shamanic practitioner Ann Drake for two years. Guides, Soul Loss, Soul Retrieval & Shamanic Journeying.
2018 - Intuitive training classes with psychic medium Laurie Xanthos.
Coursework in guided journeys, Tarot reading, astrology, intuition and psychic development & chakra balancing with The Energetic Alchemist.
Member of The Alchemy Circle since 2020. I have learned so much through exchange and meditation in community.
Academic realm: graduated Magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College. Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in medieval French Literature. Was award-winning teacher at UPenn and adjunct Professor at Boston College.
In the “what I was born into” life realm, I have been a belly dance and circus artist and entertainer since childhood, doing shows around the world and learning from many different contexts and cultures. I have been clown, juggler, acrobat and dancer. Moving / conducting energy and helping people smile, dance and enjoy life more has always been part of my mission & matrix.