Her photography style has evolved over the years and now deeply reflects her yogic lifestyle and inspirations from island beauty. The Impressionist Collections are a visual practice of presence and conversation with the natural world—a way of being with the natural world through color, texture and landscapes as living energy. Each piece is a meditation—a doorway into stillness, intuition, and wonder.

Often mistaken for paintings, these images are created in-camera with limited digital processing.

Featured: Modern Coastal Collection Image

In 2017 Melissa Anne suffered a head injury and found her way to yoga. Yoga felt like a homecoming and brought a new dimension to her life. To deepen her practice she became a yoga teacher in 2022 and has completed basic hatha yoga teacher training as well as Raja Yoga (the study of the Yoga Sutras), Neuroscience and Yoga and Yoga Nidra training programs. She currently practices and teaches on Bainbridge Island and online and brought her passions for photography and yoga together with the Art Of Wellness, immersive art and wellness practice recordings.

Melissa Anne is a photographer, yogi and nature lover. She spent over 15 years working in disaster response, has experienced personal traumas and is no stranger to living life with an unbalanced nervous system. Photography and other creative practices became an outlet for self-care and finding a sense of calm outside work days often filled with trauma, grief and loss. In 2008 she began to show her photography in galleries and shows in New York City, beginning with images from her Water Colors Collection, abstract photography from the bottoms of boats.

Featured Image: Circle Of Grandmothers from the Water Colors Collection

A lover of fashion and accessories since childhood, in 2018 she launched the designs to color life accessory line created from her Impressionist Photography. Striving for sustainability, most products are made-to-order, meaning reduced waste and carbon emissions. Fine art print paper is made from cotton remnants, photo blocks are made from sustainable bamboo and organic textiles are used when available. The COLORS muse is nature and it’s important to look for ways to improve how we live and do business and protect our resources.

Melissa Anne weaves eco-spiritual practice, Earth-based ritual, and devotional creativity into her work. She honors the Celtic Wheel of the Year, explores Ecstatic Trance Postures and engages in Shamanic Journeying.

She has trained with Mayan wisdom keeper Nana Mimi of the Tz’utujil lineage in Guatemala as a cacao ceremony facilitator and cultural steward of Mayan cacao and its healing traditions, including Mayan Womb Massage. Melissa Anne carries these teachings with deep respect and continues to nurture her relationship with Ix Cacao and ceremonial cacao as ritual and medicine.