Melissa Rosenberger, MAcOM, MS, is a sound healer, shamanic practitioner, acupuncturist, musician, writer, poet, and composer.  She has a private practice in the Seattle area.  She sees clients for private sessions and teaches classes and workshops. 

Education and Training

Melissa remembers loving nature documentaries and feeling deeply connected to the natural world as a child.  Because she grew up in a secular environment this led her to study of biology, which literally means the study of life, and in particular neurobiology, the study of the nervous system.  Melissa graduated magnum cum laude in Neuroscience from Oberlin College, and received a Masters degree in Neurobiology and Behavior from the University of Washington.  As an undergraduate she was awarded the Nancy Robel Memorial Endowed Prize, a departmental prize for most promise in the field, and in graduate school she was awarded a three-year research grant from the National Science Foundation. She has two scientific publications from graduate school. 

During graduate school Melissa realized she wanted to pursue some form of health care.  She left the world of research science to attend the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine from 2002-2005.  Melissa graduated with a Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in 2005.  Her training included Chinese-style acupuncture as well as Japanese Meridian Therapy, Chinese herbs, and addiction/detox training.  She is currently licensed in the state of Washington as an East Asian Medicine Practitioner.  In addition to her private practice, Melissa has worked in a fertility clinic in conjunction with Evergreen Medical Center. 

While in school at SIOM, Melissa met her first spiritual teacher, Char Sundust, and finished a training program in shamanic healing.  Melissa is a shamanic practitioner, her training includes soul retrieval, space blessing, extraction work, journey work, and energy reading.  She has also worked with several other wisdom teachers/healers including Tom Kenyon, Sarah Bicknell, and Michael Meade.  Melissa has completed a sound healing training with Tom Kenyon, and uses sound as a vehicle of transformation and energy transmission in her healing sessions and classes. 

Melissa came to do healing work, as many do, through her own healing journey.  She draws on her scientific and spiritual training as well as many years of personal exploration and experience to bring forward tools for healing and living a fulfilling life-- a life of vitality, creativity, passion, love, and self-expression.



Soundarya is the aspect of Melissa's creative and professional work that utilizes sound and music for healing, enlivening, and transformational purposes.  Melissa started her musical training early in life by studying classical violin and piano.  Voice is currently her primary mode of musical expression.  Melissa uses her shamanic training to infuse sound with Spirit and create musical experiences that evoke the life and soul within.  

In gratitude to Melissa's teachers, mentors, and sources of support and inspiration: Char Sundust, Sarah Bicknell, Awilda Verdejo, Tom Kenyon, Jennifer Posada, the Dalai Lama, Amma, Michael Meade, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, SIOM, Oberlin, UW, Mark Braford and Catherine McCormick, Alexander Prilutchi, family, and friends.