Mellie Areena Artema
Somatic Painting by Mellie Artema - Layers
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I hope this website offers a sense of getting to know me, my values, and how we might journey together. I have included many links and resources to support your own learning and sense of curiosity. I hope you enjoy exploring some of these things as much as I do! Please reach out with any questions.
I came into this world energetically sensitive and naturally aligned with a kind of language that goes deeper than words. I have always had a profound interest in holistic ways of seeing and exploring the human experience. My offerings are informed by decades of experience with bodywork modalities, energy medicine practices, somatic therapies, herbal medicine, spiritual studies, and more. I became fascinated by the human body and the world around me as a child and began diligently studying herbal medicine, learning to identify plants, practicing reflexology, and studying everything I could find related to holistic healing in the late 1980's. I found yoga in 1993 which gave me a framework for my inherent love of embodiment practices. I have continued to develop and focus my skills through the present, extensively studying, practicing, and integrating numerous healing modalities into my own life for both personal and professional development. I have studied dozens of bodywork styles, energy medicine modalities, acupuncture techniques, trauma healing approaches, and methods of working with plant medicine with many prominent acupuncturists, herbalists, bodyworkers, qigong masters, shamanic practitioners, psychotherapists, anthropologists, and other integrative healing professionals across the globe. |
Somatic Painting by Mellie Artema - Layers
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Somatic Painting by Mellie Artema - Layers
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My professional background is heavily focused on wellness and healing arts, providing body-centered therapies, services, and education to promote holistic ways of thinking, building self-awareness, and creating conscious personal growth. This work uses multiple, eclectic modalities to offer opportunities to slow down, connect, reflect, learn, holistically process, and expand our human experience.
I use a collaborative, heart-centered approach, encouraging taking action in support of personal and planetary well-being while also honoring mystery, paradox, less "doing," and the more intangible and subtle ways in which growth, transformation, and integration happens.
I tend to attract people who identify as empathic, introverted, highly sensitive, or neurodivergent. I offer supports that may utilize concepts from somatic practices, bodywork & energy medicine modalities, Eastern methodologies, and soul tending from a grounded, body-based framework. I am neurodivergent in multiple ways and have unique ways of sensory processing along with dynamic, invisible disabilities. I bring this lived experience into my work in the world.
While I love learning, I also acknowledge that many of our education systems are broken and unhealthy in many ways. I recognize the fragmentation these systems often emphasize with deep roots in racism, ableism, classism, etc. I generally have an even greater appreciation for lived experience, integration and reflection work, contemplative practices, and intentional personal growth work. It is this kind of consistent and ongoing work that allows us to truly gain wisdom through experiencing the wholeness of our humanity. Formal education can enrich these experiences but can never be a substitute for them.
These days, I choose to offer services primarily as a mentor, soul companion, and energy medicine practitioner to support the reemergence of the feminine aspects of healing, community, and care that refuse to be regulated.
While I appreciate the knowledge and experience gained from my formal education, I prefer to work outside of models that medicalize and pathologize the human experience. Additionally, I have deep reverence for opportunities to gain wisdom and insights directly from experiences with the animate world, plant allies, ancestors, unseen forces, the imaginal realm, and more-than-human kin.
I use a collaborative, heart-centered approach, encouraging taking action in support of personal and planetary well-being while also honoring mystery, paradox, less "doing," and the more intangible and subtle ways in which growth, transformation, and integration happens.
I tend to attract people who identify as empathic, introverted, highly sensitive, or neurodivergent. I offer supports that may utilize concepts from somatic practices, bodywork & energy medicine modalities, Eastern methodologies, and soul tending from a grounded, body-based framework. I am neurodivergent in multiple ways and have unique ways of sensory processing along with dynamic, invisible disabilities. I bring this lived experience into my work in the world.
While I love learning, I also acknowledge that many of our education systems are broken and unhealthy in many ways. I recognize the fragmentation these systems often emphasize with deep roots in racism, ableism, classism, etc. I generally have an even greater appreciation for lived experience, integration and reflection work, contemplative practices, and intentional personal growth work. It is this kind of consistent and ongoing work that allows us to truly gain wisdom through experiencing the wholeness of our humanity. Formal education can enrich these experiences but can never be a substitute for them.
These days, I choose to offer services primarily as a mentor, soul companion, and energy medicine practitioner to support the reemergence of the feminine aspects of healing, community, and care that refuse to be regulated.
While I appreciate the knowledge and experience gained from my formal education, I prefer to work outside of models that medicalize and pathologize the human experience. Additionally, I have deep reverence for opportunities to gain wisdom and insights directly from experiences with the animate world, plant allies, ancestors, unseen forces, the imaginal realm, and more-than-human kin.
Highlights of studies & education:
- Master of Divinity (M.Div.) in Spiritual Direction in progress - United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in Eco-Justice in progress - United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN
- Neijing Nature Based Medicine studies in progress - Dr. Edward Neal, M.D. & The Apricot Grove, Portland, OR
- Interfaith / Interspiritual Ordination in progress - One Spirit Learning Alliance Seminary, New York, NY
- Ordained Animal Chaplain studies in progress - Compassion Consortium, New York, NY
- Certified Advanced Master Practitioner of Shamanic Energy Medicine - Alberto Villoldo & The Four Winds Society, International
- Authorized by The Four Winds to teach and pass the full series of Rites of the Munay Ki
- Monastic Path in progress - Gnostic Celtic Church, Ancient Order of Druids in America, Indiana, PA
- Master of Acupuncture (M.Ac.), Summa Cum Laude - Northwestern Health Sciences University, Bloomington, MN
- Individualized Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused on Integrative Health & Ecopsychology - Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN
More information to help you form an idea of how we might work together:
- Astrology: Virgo Sun, Virgo Moon, Aquarius Ascendant
- Enneagram: 5w4
- Human Design: Manifesting Generator
- Gene Keys: My Life's Work 59, My Evolution 55, My Radiance 20, My Purpose 34
- Myers-Briggs: INFJ
- Clifton Strengths: Input, Intellection, Learner, Achiever, Focus
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"Muse" by Mellie Artema, 2022 - Acrylic on 30" X 40" Canvas | Studies with Musea & Intentional Creativity®
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"Matrica" by Mellie Artema, 2023 - Acrylic on 24" X 24" Canvas | Studies with Musea & Intentional Creativity®
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Artema Somatics LLC
815 Main Street East
Menomonie, WI 54751
815 Main Street East
Menomonie, WI 54751