The heart behind Living in Flow
About Melanie Gordon
I didn’t start Living in Flow because I had everything figured out. I started it because life cracked open in a way I couldn’t ignore.
In my twenties, I was living what looked like a good life on paper — building a career, creating a home in Colorado after graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder, surrounded by people I loved. But underneath it all, I felt a quiet pull toward something different. Something more self-directed, more creative, more alive.
At 26, I officially created Living in Flow as a small business centered around yoga, movement, and creative work. A few months later, my life changed overnight when a fire took my home, my belongings, and my cat, Moby.
Learning Living in Flow
Everything familiar disappeared at once.
And somewhere in the aftermath of that loss, I booked a one-way ticket to Central America.
Not because I had a master plan.
Because I needed space to hear myself again.
Solo travel became the thing that rebuilt my relationship with life.
There were moments of grief, awe, loneliness, freedom, beauty, discomfort, connection.
I learned how to move through the world at my own rhythm. How to trust myself. How to begin again without needing every answer first.
Eventually, that journey led me to Nicaragua, where I lived and worked at an eco-lodge on Laguna de Apoyo teaching yoga, designing websites, and slowly becoming someone new.
From there, life kept unfolding in ways I never could have planned.
I learned Spanish.
I learned how to surf.
I became a travel writer.
Over the past few years, my work has taken me around the world — from gorilla trekking in Rwanda to ancient rock art sites in Australia to remote villages in the Peruvian Andes.
The Living in Flow Retreats
But the experiences that stay with me most are rarely the extravagant ones.
They’re the deeply human moments.
The conversations shared over long dinners.
The women who arrive on retreat at a turning point in their lives.
The feeling of being welcomed into someone else’s world and leaving changed because of it.
That’s the foundation Living in Flow was built on.
Creating space to reconnect with the version of yourself that was always there underneath the noise.
For The Woman In-Between Chapters
Today, Living in Flow retreats are designed for women who feel in-between chapters — women craving clarity, expansion, adventure, softness, honesty, or simply a moment to step outside of their everyday lives and hear themselves again.
Travel has changed my life many times over.
It’s an honor to now create experiences where it can change yours too.
xo
Melanie
Living in flow is a dance. A balance of surrender and control; taking action, while knowing the potential of the Universe is on your side.
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