Melissa McKay

New York, NY, USA

809 Followers

Melissa found meditation in 1998 practicing with masters from Burma and the United States. She has attended intensive silent meditation retreats yearly since that time and has over 10,000 hours of meditation training. She began teaching in 2003 and teaches with MNDFL and Dharma Punx in New York City and Insight LA and Wanderlust in Los Angeles. She leads retreats, workshops and teacher trainings around the country and teaches for the Wanderlust 108 festivals and hosts a weekly zoom class.

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Reviews

Christine Dao

Nov 5, 2025

I loved your guidance! The instructions felt thorough. I was given enough support to continue practicing, even as the mind wandered and body sensations came and went.

Elizabeth

Sep 13, 2023

Lovely peaceful voice

B StJ

Aug 27, 2023

An enjoyable meditation. It had no conclusion which allows the listener to remain in the meditation for a longer period without notice.

Jennifer

Nov 26, 2022

As ever, Melissa’s guided meditations are deeply grounding and approachable. Thank you.

Mary

Nov 20, 2022

Informative explanation of what Metta meditation is and is not

Lynn

Apr 28, 2022

Very helpful in calming me down. Also replacing fear with kindness for myself and others.

Eliko

Nov 3, 2021

Melissa, grateful for this guided meditation. See you soon in class

Jose Moncayo

May 27, 2021

This was awesome too anchor my breath with your guidance. Thank you. Namaste.

Liz Woollard

May 15, 2021

I find this a really peaceful way of learning Metta, as the phrases are condensed. Thank you so much for this!

Ralph

May 12, 2021

Wonderful simple and calm

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Joined Insight Timer in September 2016

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