About Melanie Shine

Chiropractor | Healer | Temple Guide | Space Holder

Melanie Hernand-Shine is a trauma-informed healer, Network Spinal chiropractor, and sacred space-holder with over 27 years of experience supporting others on their healing journeys.

As the founder of Healing Waves Wellness in Santa Cruz, Melanie weaves together her clinical expertise with a deep reverence for the body’s innate intelligence to heal—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

I began my journey of healing and transformation by following the quiet ache of a longing I couldn’t ignore — a whisper for more.

It rose to a crescendo during chiropractic school, just after a life-changing journey hiking the Andes to Machu Picchu and floating in the sacred waters of Lake Titicaca. When I returned home, everything I knew collapsed. My seven-year relationship crumbled. I was in the middle of a divorce, letting go not just of a partner, but of cultural conditioning, familial expectations, and the false self I had been molded into.

Little did I know — this was my Saturn Return. The breakdown was my initiation into embodiment and sovereignty. I could no longer bypass my truth. I began to feel what I had suppressed. I let myself unravel. I followed the pain all the way down to reclaim my power.

As a woman raised in a patriarchal household where judgment, criticism, and shame were woven into daily life, I had to untangle deep generational patterns of disempowerment. I faced anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms — and slowly, through decades of work, I walked myself out of the dark. I crawled my way into wholeness by meeting and integrating every shadow part of myself that had been exiled.

Through Network Spinal chiropractic, meditation, breathwork, and the sacred practices of Women’s Temple, I remembered who I truly am. I stabilized emotionally, gained clarity mentally, rebuilt my vitality physically, and ignited a spiritual light that rarely dims.

Today, I walk as a grounded, embodied woman — deeply connected to Soul and purpose. I listen to the intelligence that rises through my body and guides every step. I remember myself as a wisdom keeper and lighthouse for women navigating their own dark nights and spiritual awakenings.

I help spiritually curious, soul-led women transmute their pain into purpose, embody their Higher Self, and reclaim their voice, power, and presence.

I don’t believe healing comes from chasing something outside ourselves.
The wisdom, resource, and abundance you seek are already within you.
True transformation is an inside-out journey — a return to coherence, clarity, and truth.

Through mentorship, retreats, Women’s Temple gatherings, and leadership training,
I guide women home to their deepest truth.

Because when a woman remembers who she is, she becomes unstoppable.

• Feels the ache of something more, but doesn’t know how to access it.
• Is tired of hiding, overgiving, and shrinking herself to fit.
• Feels stuck in her head, disconnected from her body.
• Longs for authentic connection, ritual, and feminine guidance.
• Is ready to remember the light within her and rise in her power.

You don’t need to chase another strategy.
You don’t need to hustle to heal.
You just need to come home.

Everything you’ve been seeking is already within you.

Let’s walk you home.

Enter the Sacred Flow

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This Temple space is rooted in the sacred teachings of Chameli Gad Ardagh and the lineage of The Goddess of Awakening Women. I bow in reverence to the pathmakers who have walked before.

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