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    • Classes
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      • ARMOR OF LIGHT
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      • SACRED ALLIES
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Buddhi Institute

(585) 672-5250

  • Home
  • About
    • ABOUT BUDDHI INSTITUTE
    • CONTACT BUDDHI
    • THE YOGA SCIENCES
    • WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
    • FOUNDER-MELINDA JOHNSTON
  • Classes
    • GROUP CLASSES
    • NEW YEAR IMMERSION
    • SACRED WINTERING
    • ARMOR OF LIGHT
    • COMPASSION MEDITATION
    • SACRED ALLIES
  • Coaching
    • SEE COACHING PROGRAMS
    • CLARITY
    • ALIGNMENT
    • HEALING
    • CONSCIOUS LIVING
  • Retreats
    • ABOUT BUDDHI RETREATS
    • SACRED JOURNEYS
    • SUMMER RETREAT
    • BALI WOMENS RETREAT
    • FALL RETREAT
  • Books
    • GUIDEBOOKS
    • PEACE PACKS
    • MEDITATION MUSIC VIDEOS
  • Shop

Conscious Evolution, Mindful Living & Spiritual Alignment

For those who feel the call to evolve

You are feeling a shift. Let’s honor that.


Buddhi Institute is for those who feel the unmistakable pull toward inner awakening — the ones who know there is more to life than repeating patterns, surface‑level spirituality, or the endless pursuit of self‑improvement.


The teachings, trainings, and retreats offered here are not for everyone. This is spiritual development that cuts through limitation, dissolves obstacles, and interrupts the patterns that keep you looping through the same inner terrain.


Ready to evolve? Buddhi Institute offers a clear path — online and in person — to reclaim your energy, awaken your sacred fire, deepen your inner wisdom, and create a life shaped by soul rather than conditioning.

This is where Conscious Evolution Begins

Not mindset work. Not therapy.  An emergence into deeper alignment.


Conscious Evolution is the art of living and leading from the soul — a path of inner authority, clarity, and truth.


Interrupt the pattern of what has been. Learn to stand in your own power. 

Begin your Evolution...Your Journey starts here >

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CLARITY

ALIGNMENT

CLARITY

Beyond therapy. Beyond mindset. 

This is Consciousness Coaching


Consciousness Coaching is a precise, transformative process that activates your inner wisdom and dissolves the limiting patterns that keep you looping through the same terrain.


At Buddhi Institute, you are not diagnosed — you are illuminated.


This work isn’t about feeling better for a moment.  It is evolution into clarity, alignment, and inner authority.



BEGIN YOUR EVOLUTION
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WISDOM

ALIGNMENT

CLARITY

Spiritual classes beyond the fluff.

Live. Interactive. Spiritual. Wisdom.


Love and light are fine — until your soul ignites and demands evolution.


Buddhi Institute teachings are for those willing to walk into the Sacred Fire and let what no longer serves them burn, with clarity and humor intact.


The spiritual journey pulls on you. You rise. You crash. It is not all love and light. It is initiation.  Join us for practical applications of sacred wisdom.

GO BEYOND THE FLUFF
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ALIGNMENT

ALIGNMENT

ALIGNMENT

Women’s Retreats for Body & Soul
 

Step away from the noise — and find sanctuary in nature’s stillness, good food, and gentle yoga. Buddhi Institute retreats offer a grounded, sacred space for women ready to rest, relax, and revive.


Registration is open for the summer and fall retreats. Hold your spot with a $55 deposit.


Come with friends or make it a solo journey — a complete break from the roles you carry and a space to rise into soul‑nourished alignment.


REST AND RETREAT

Inner Alignment Shapes Everything

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The Inner Journey...

The inner journey is where old patterns lose power and new possibilities emerge.


Buddhi Institute blends spiritual wisdom, neuroscience, and embodiment practices to cultivate deep clarity, inner alignment, and a life that finally feels like your own.


Here, you evolve from the inside out. 

 

Buddhi is a Sanskrit word meaning “Highest Awareness” — the intelligence that guides your evolution.


This is the awareness that transforms everything.


FREE DISCOVERY CALL

Insights for your Conscious Evolution and Aligned Living

A weekly note with insights, alignment practices, and invitations into the work of Conscious Evolution.

Winter Session begins January 20, 2026

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New Year Spiritual Immersion

New Year Spiritual Immersion

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm

begins January 20th


Embodying the Sacred Self...Step into 8 weeks of transformation where spiritual wisdom meets real world integration. 


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SEE DETAILS
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Sacred Wintering

New Year Spiritual Immersion

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Wednesdays 7-8:30 pm

Begins January 21st


A guided journey into rest, ritual, and renewal.  


Deepen your spiritual practice and embody the LIGHT of your Being.


SEE DETAILS
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Armor of LIGHT

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Compassion Based Meditation

 Thursdays 9–10:30 am

Begins January 23rd


Armor up. This training is for women who feel the intensity of the world and are ready to rise with grace, clarity, and unapologetic light. 


SEE DETAILS
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Compassion Based Meditation

New Year Spiritual Immersion

Compassion Based Meditation

 Thursdays 7-8:30 pm

Begins January 23rd


 This course offers a weekly reset—where breath becomes medicine and presence becomes power.



SEE DETAILS
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for those who are weary...

If you are tired of surviving, tired of soul‑searching, and tired of carrying patterns that no longer serve, you will find rest and guidance here.


When burnout, trauma responses, and old coping strategies collapse, you are not failing — you are being invited into a new way of being.


From the core, you align.

INTERRUPT THE PATTERN

What is Consciousness Coaching??

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Within each of us is an Inner Knowing—a Higher Realm of Consciousness—waiting to be unlocked.

  Living solely within the confines of intellect keeps your self-perception tethered to past experiences or constantly preparing for potential future outcomes. The Thinking Mind judges these moments, shaping a limited sense of identity and potential. 


Consciousness Coaching cultivates:


  • Mental clarity—free from confusion and limiting thought loops
  • Emotional calm—freedom from reactive triggers
  • Physical self-care—a renewed connection with your body
  • Spiritual harmony—a gentle, authentic relationship with your Inner Self

  

This shift of consciousness naturally frees you from mental and emotional patterns that keep you feeling stuck, past traumas, and addictive struggles.

 

TRY ONE SESSION

Coaching Programs for your Conscious Evolution

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Clarity

Conscious Living

Alignment

 A 3-session reset for women who feel saturated, split, and ready to reclaim clarity.


NEW YEAR PROMO

Get 4th Session FREE




Enroll by 1/20


Learn More
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Alignment

Conscious Living

Alignment

 What is your WHY?

 When purpose fades, energy follows. 


10 SESSIONS

As Needed soul-strategy 

Alignment Coaching for life balance and spiritual guidance. 


1 HOUR SESSIONS


LEARN MORE
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Healing

Conscious Living

Conscious Living

 When doing Inner Work, consistency is key.


3 MONTH INTENSIVE

This is hands-on, in the moment coaching.  Healing occurs in the present moment. Call your Coach!


90 MINUTE SESSIONS


LEARN MORE
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Conscious Living

Conscious Living

Conscious Living

   A 6‑month journey for women ready to rise in clarity, power, and soul alignment.
 

Only 5 spots open
 

NEW YEAR RATE $4444

Regular Rate: $6200 


Enroll by 1/5


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Your Three Frees

Sacred Wintering E-book

Sacred Wintering E-book

Sacred Wintering E-book

LESSON ONE- Stillness

E-BOOK


Enter the holy pause where outer striving dissolves, and your spirit learns to dwell in Presence....this is Sacred Wintering.


In Lesson One of this teaching, you will be guided into the deep quiet of winter’s embrace. 

FREE DOWNLOAD
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One FREE Class

Sacred Wintering E-book

Sacred Wintering E-book

Enter one live session and experience the depth of this work for yourself.


This offer is for one free class only, and availability is limited due to small class sizes.


All Buddhi Institute courses are live, interactive, and capped at 12 participants for personal guidance.

GET YOUR EVOLVE PASS
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Awakening Guide

Sacred Wintering E-book

Awakening Guide

Are You Being Called to Awaken?


A short, powerful self‑inquiry guide to help you recognize the signs, thresholds, and inner shifts of Awakening.


This free guide will be delivered on January 21.

Reserve your copy now.


GET YOUR GUIDE

Guiding Conscious Evolution Through Inner Alignment

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🌺 A Message from Melinda

Founder of Buddhi Institute | Spiritual Philosopher

Guide for Conscious Evolution


I help leaders, creatives, and seekers align their inner world with the life they are called to live.


Drawing on Vedic wisdom and decades of embodied spiritual practice, I teach how to transform uncertainty, emotional patterns, and inner fragmentation into clarity, purpose, and authentic power.


At Buddhi Institute, you’ll find transformative coaching, retreats, and sacred immersions designed to restore balance, deepen self‑awareness, and awaken the intelligence of your Soul Self.


Conscious Evolution is an inward spiral — a dismantling of reactive patterns, a return to truth, and a reclamation of the deeper wisdom that has always been yours.


Evolve with intention,

Melinda

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Buddhi Institute

1400 North Winton Road, Rochester, New York 14609, United States

(585) 672-5250

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. ~ Rumi

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