Melinda Quesenberry

Melinda Quesenberry is a mindfulness coach and meditation teacher who lives in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She trained in psychology to master's level, is certified to teach yoga at the 500-hour level, and has spent more than ten years teaching yoga, meditation and mindfulness. Her interest runs through positive psychology and human behaviour, and her teaching centres on self-compassion and on meeting life as it actually is rather than as we wish it were.

She is best known online as the creator of Inner Shift, formerly Theta Thoughts, a library of spoken affirmation meditations set over binaural beats, many designed to be played while falling asleep, with themes such as acceptance, self-trust, love and the moon's cycles. Inner Shift has a large following on Insight Timer and YouTube. Today most of her time goes into private fifty-minute mindfulness sessions, offered on a sliding scale and begun with a short free conversation. She wrote the poems in her book May You Know Peace during a time of heartbreak, and she also writes This Little Life, a Substack of reflections on being human, alongside occasional free group sits on Zoom.