MelanieLuja_Bio

MELANIE LUJA

Still Waters

Subtle Tiyes Products

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Author - Speaker - Educator - Poet

Melanie Luja (known creatively as Queen Socks) is a soul-work practitioner, life-purpose coach, educator, author, and award-winning poet. She is the founder of Subtle Tiyes Products, and the CEO of Still Waters Network (a Los Angeles based production company). Melanie is also the co-founder of The Vibrations Enrichment Group, which focuses on Alkaline Education, and The Balance Portal, a private practice in southern CA, where the aim is Alternative Soul-Care. With the release of the book Internal Balance: Would You Marry You? alongside her husband Oshea Luja, Melanie has brought another level of philosophical truths into a synergy designed to balance a person’s universe internally and externally... read full bio

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“Remember, we are the authors of our destiny, the painters of this canvas that‘s ever-evolving from one moment to the next. We can accept what we desire and reject what does not resonate.” - Melanie Luja

Introducing a new podcast where Melanie will be offering simple, yet profound tips to assist in the healing process suggesting seasonings and ingredients that might already be in your kitchen. The episodes will take place on Monday's at 3:33pm at www.MelanieLuja.com.

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Internal Balance –Would You Marry You? Is a content rich manuscript that journeys from the micro to the macro universe in the turn of a page. The book is based on Melanie and Oshea’s philosophy - that everyone has the innate ability to love themselves into wholeness, creating an overflow that loves without expectations, conditions and by default.

"Try Walking A Mile N My Socks" is a timeless manuscript that echo's Melanie's connection to nature, tribe and the universe. We share her aim in discovering parallel messages from ancient sources about the infinite power of the journey that exist in all of us. Melanie hopes by telling her story, we all will be motivated to tell our story for generations to come.

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I create to remind my me that I'm here, now, forever in this journey of remembrance.

“I will wash my hands of the last moment and enter into the new moment, clean and refreshed.”

The day that changed my

life was the day I changed

my life.

You are miraculous

whole and divine...

even when you think

you're not!

“It’s to easy to do it right when wrong ain’t working!”

I am open to being close to negativity!

Released in 2015, The Love Lock has garnered international attention for it's smooth, culturally significant, easy listening jazz riffs set under dynamic spoken word vocals from Melanie & Oshea Luja aka (Food4Thought & Queen Socks).

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With a marketing and communications background from Cal St. Fullerton, Melanie went on to start a promotions company in the late 90’s representing the artist of Def Jam, Columbia Records, and So So Def to name a few. She has also work with Jay-Z, The Fugees, Da Brat, Destiny’s Child and many others in the entertainment industry.

As a celebrity stylist for over twenty-five years, her craft mastery has lead her into creating an all natural skin, hair care and tea-line, called Subtle Tiyes, designed to assist in the beautification of ones essence. Melanie also facilitate lectures, workshops, conduct private consultations, and is the executive director of Still Waters Network, a Los Angeles based production company that raises global awareness through the creative arts.

As an herbalist, Melanie enjoys creating concoctions and elixirs to assist in the healing process. Melanie is an accredited cosmetologist, Reiki Master and soul-work therapist. A native of Los Angeles, California, this creative force is also a seasoned speaker, poet and host, sharing stages with the likes of Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka and Angela Davis.

As a wife, mother of five and entrepreneur, Melanie has also found time to become a doula and energy intuit, in the fields of spirituality, soul-work, health, and balance. Melanie’s rite of passage has been spiritually rewarding, humbly studying under the tutelage of author, poet, and priest Father Amde of the legendary Watts Prophets, award-winning documentary filmmaker, author, and poet S. Pearl Sharp, and The Grandfather of Rap and acupuncturist Dr. Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the legendary Last Poets.

As non- denominational ministers, Melanie and her husband Oshea Luja is sought after to facilitate weddings, funerals, rite-of-passage ceremonies, and many other sacred rituals throughout the year. Melanie’s research and life experiences have cultivated a unique philosophy that celebrates internal balance, suggesting that everyone has the innate ability to experience love inwardly, and the awareness of this actuality triggers an opening to explore love’s trajectory.

Some of Melanie’s works include (Books): Internal Balance, Would You Marry You? (2017), Tea with Melanie (2015); Sounds From The Waters, Poetry Anthology (2013), The Watts Learning Center Anthology (2011) Try Walking A Mile In My Socks (2010). (Stage plays): Smoke (2017), Big City Bright Lights, (2014), Flowers, (2010), (Albums): After-Birth (2019), The Love-Lock (2015) N My Socks (2009) School curriculums: The Princess Project initiative, The Beautiful Me Workshop, and The Still Waters' Writers’ Super-Heru Workshop. Stay tune for Melanie’s forth-coming novel “Sweet Peppa”, due to be released in the spring of 2020. For more info on Melanie, please contact: www.StillWatersEvents.com

Melanie Luja (known creatively as Queen Socks) is a soul-work practitioner, life-purpose coach, educator, author, and award-winning poet. She is also the co-founder of The Vibrations Enrichment Group, which focuses on Alkaline Education, and The Balance Portal, a private practice in southern CA, where the aim is Alternative Soul-Care. With the release of the book Internal Balance: Would You Marry You? alongside her husband Oshea Luja, Melanie has brought another level of philosophical truths into a synergy designed to balance a person’s universe internally and externally.

With a marketing and communications background from Cal St. Fullerton, Melanie went on to start a promotions company in the late 90’s representing the artist of Def Jam, Columbia Records, and So So Def to name a few. She has also work with Jay-Z, The Fugees, Da Brat, Destiny’s Child and many others in the entertainment industry. As a celebrity stylist for over twenty-five years, her craft

mastery has lead her into creating an all natural skin, hair care and tea-line, called Subtle Tiyes, designed to assist in the beautification of ones essence. Melanie also facilitate lectures, workshops, conduct private consultations, and is the executive director of Still Waters Network, a Los Angeles based production company that raises global awareness through the creative arts.

As a wife, mother of five and entrepreneur, Melanie has also found time to become a doula and energy intuit, in the fields of spirituality, soul-work, health, and balance. Melanie’s rite of passage has been spiritually rewarding, humbly studying under the tutelage of author, poet, and priest Father Amde of the legendary Watts Prophets, award-winning documentary filmmaker, author, and poet S. Pearl Sharp, and The Grandfather of Rap and acupuncturist Dr. Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the legendary Last Poets.

As non- denominational ministers, Melanie and her husband Oshea Luja is sought after to facilitate weddings, funerals, rite-of-passage ceremonies, and many other sacred rituals throughout the year. Melanie’s research and life experiences have cultivated a unique philosophy that celebrates internal balance, suggesting that everyone has the innate ability to experience love inwardly, and the awareness of this actuality triggers an opening to explore love’s trajectory. Stay tune for Melanie’s forth-coming novel “Sweet Peppa”, due to be released in the spring of 2020. For more info on Melanie, please contact: www.StillWatersEvents.com