Saira Francis

About Mellulah's Founder, Saira Francis

Since 2004, when she first began working with energy healing, Saira Francis has been devoted to creating a safe and supportive space for others on their healing journey.

Her own lived experience has taught her lessons no textbook or workshop could provide: that choosing to work on ourselves can be deeply transformative. She also understands that healing is not a destination, but an ongoing process. In her role as a guide, she offers the possibility of change, along with the trust that, when held in a nurturing environment, people can release what no longer serves them and discover a new way forward.

Saira encourages an approach to life that meets both joy and challenge as opportunities for deeper self-understanding, embracing both shadow and light. She shares from genuine experience, drawing on her work with energy and her connection to body, mind, and spirit. Authenticity matters to her, and she does not avoid life’s harder moments. Instead, she believes it is more meaningful to move through difficulty with honesty and use it as a path for growth and evolution.

Determination & Strength

Saira’s own life has been shaped by both highs and lows, like so many others. She raised her children largely on her own, and today they are thriving and finding their own paths. The challenges she has faced have deepened her understanding of courage, resilience, human vulnerability, and suffering.

As a mother, teacher, partner, and friend, she has consistently drawn on determination and inner strength to move through darker periods, supported by the ancient wisdom of yoga, meditation, healing arts, and esoteric traditions.

Transformation

Saira shares yoga and healing with passion, believing these practices can bring lasting comfort and strength into people’s lives. When she holds a retreat or workshop, she leads from the heart, with sincere trust in the healing power of choosing spiritual self-work.

She believes life can change when we trust the journey of wisdom, healing, and strength, and when we listen to the inner voice that encourages us to keep going and take the next step.

Wherever guests join her, Saira hopes to offer a healing cocoon: a safe, comforting space that feels like a soothing balm for discomfort and a gentle support on the path ahead.

Meet your host

Saira Francis has been a healer for more than two decades, offering authentic support, compassion, and guidance to her community. Based in West Dorset, she is an experienced yoga teacher, holistic therapist, and energy and sound healer. Drawing on her own journey along the healing path, Saira offers heartfelt support to those just beginning, as well as those continuing, their own process. Her dedication to helping others is a key reason guests return to Mellulah Yoga Retreats time and again for her energetic guidance and practice.