Meet Melita

I was born in England and educated at Cambridge University, majoring in Natural Sciences. After several years gaining valuable training and experience in the Cambridge high tech business world, I joined a colleague in founding a company to exploit ink jet technology for product coding. We took that company to a public stock market release after 7 years, when I retired to train as a healer while engaged on my own journey back to self which took me around the world. I came to the US in 1996 with nothing but a dream and mission, seeded at Scotland's Findhorn Community, to establish a retreat center. A year later, that dream became Oregon House, a retreat center on the coast dedicated to empowerment through purification, healing and spiritual alignment. I continue to hold the focus for Oregon House while developing my personal practices in Yachats and Portland. I write about my experiences and continue to travel on my own spiritual journey which currently takes me regularly to Brazil. I proudly became a US citizen in 2007 and live with my husband in Seal Rock.

Highlights of Melita's Education and Business Resume

• Oregon House Retreat Center - founder and CEO (OR)
• Domino Printing Sciences Plc - Director start-up company to stock market flotation (UK)
• Analogue Electronic Workshop Limited - Director start-up company (UK)
• Cambridge Consultants Limited - P.A. to Managing Director (UK)
• London Business School - Small Business Senior Executive Program (UK)
• MA in Natural Sciences - Cambridge University (UK)

Highlights of Melita's Healing Training

• Prenatal & Birth Therapy with Ray Castellino (CA)
• Integrative Cranio Sacral Therapy with Mary Louise Muller (CA)
• Soul Retrieval with Sandra Ingerman and Dr. Theo Paredes (Peru)
• Energy Balancing with The McNeil School of Therapeutic Healing (UK)
• Person-Centered Counseling with Metanoia and Spectrum (UK)
• Grief Therapy with RIGPA and St. Clare Hospice (UK)

Other stuff

• Theatre directing at The Drama Studio in London
• Psychological Astrology at the Center for Psychological Astrology in London

My spiritual path

As a child I read whatever I could get my hands on in an attempt to understand the world I found myself in. Later, as a science student, I was fascinated to discover that everything was an expression of energy, so that when I came to study energy healing, the concepts and the work came naturally to me. As a seeker, I traveled to and marveled at many centers of spiritual power - in Europe, India, Tibet, Nepal, Egypt. But my awakening came in 1990 at the Findhorn Community in Scotland. I was burned out from work and unable to attract or keep a healthy and supportive relationship. A spiritual counselor I consulted told me I needed to be “touched by the hand of God” and suggested spending some time at Findhorn. Well, I did and I was and the veils opened briefly. I saw beams of golden light and was led on a fantastical search while receiving amazing teachings clairaudiently. This spiritual initiation changed my life. The mission to establish a retreat center was seeded, but I still had a path of healing to walk before I was ready. Since then I have read widely the teachings of many enlightened beings representing many spiritual paths. Through my work at Oregon House, I have hosted groups following many spiritual traditions, and I honor them all. I have also experienced for myself worlds of non-ordinary reality through medicine work in Peru. A trip to Assisi and a connection with the Franciscans was immensely powerful. As a scientist I easily embrace a holographic view of existence. I am excited to be alive at a time of massive transformation of human consciousness which I believe is shifting in response to an intensification of universal forces.