About Lumana
Our Approach
There’s a difference between experiencing what a practice can offer and learning how to access it for yourself.
At Lumana, we offer both: meaningful guided experiences, alongside the knowledge and practical tools to support your own practice in everyday life.
Our approach recognizes rest as an essential part of wellbeing, while creating space to slow down, reconnect with ourselves, and support nervous system regulation through sound, yoga, meditation, breath practices, mindful rest, and other contemplative practices.
Our work is rooted in traditional practices that have explored the relationship between body, breath, and mind for thousands of years, brought into modern life in ways that feel accessible, relevant, and practical.
We recognize that every person arrives with a unique body, history, and set of needs. Rather than focusing on performance or achievement, we invite you to slow down, listen inward, and connect with your experience as it is. Our approach is grounded in choice, curiosity, and respect for individual experience.
We do not believe that practitioners heal or fix others. Instead, we aim to create supportive conditions for rest, awareness, learning, and reconnection — giving you space to discover what supports you and develop practices you can return to in your own life.
What you discover here is yours to carry forward.
Meet the Founders
Melissa Lees
Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra Facilitator • Yoga Teacher • Yoga Therapy Student
Mel’s greatest passion lies in using yoga as a therapeutic support for mental health and helping others reconnect with themselves through practices that cultivate awareness, rest, and self-compassion.
Her teaching blends the ancient wisdom of yoga with the realities of modern life, offering practices that support nervous system health while remaining accessible and relevant to contemporary needs. She is committed to creating spaces that feel inclusive, welcoming, and free from judgment, where people can show up exactly as they are.
At the heart of Mel’s work is a desire to help people feel more at home within themselves. Through movement, breath, meditation, and deep rest, she offers practices that encourage self-awareness, resilience, and a greater sense of ease in daily life.
Training & Credentials
Registered Yoga Teacher
Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra Facilitator
1000+ Hour Yoga Therapy Student, Yoga Therapy Toronto
Developed and facilitated a Chair Yoga & Mindfulness program for Cornerstone Housing for Women’s Princeton Residence
Experience teaching yoga in community, municipal, and wellness settings
Randy has a passion for creating spaces that support rest, self-awareness, and meaningful connection.
Drawing from therapeutic sound, yoga, meditation, breath practices, and contemplative traditions, his work is rooted in the belief that wellbeing begins when we slow down, listen inward, and create space for ourselves just as we are. His approach is grounded, inclusive, and accessible, blending ancient wisdom with contemporary understandings of nervous system health and wellbeing.
Whether guiding a group sound experience, offering a private session, or working with individuals one-on-one, Randy’s intention is simple: to create a welcoming environment where people can rest, reconnect, and explore the innate wisdom that already exists within them.
Training & Credentials
Registered Yoga Teacher
Peter Hess® Sound Practitioner
1000+ Hour Yoga Therapy Student, Yoga Therapy Toronto
Additional training through Rooted in Sound
Additional training through the International Sound Therapy Association (ISTA)
Develops and facilitates therapeutic sound, yoga, and mindfulness programs for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Sound Therapist • Yoga Teacher • Yoga Therapy Student
Randy Sansen
Our Story
Lumana was founded by partners Mel and Randy through a shared passion for mental health, wellbeing, and the transformative potential of therapeutic practice.
The two met while studying yoga therapy, where they discovered a deeply aligned philosophy rooted in nervous system regulation, compassionate care, and the belief that meaningful healing begins with presence rather than performance. With shared values, complementary strengths, and a mutual vision for the future, Lumana emerged as a natural expression of the work they both felt called to offer.
Today, Lumana offers classes, workshops, and therapeutic experiences that support rest, resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful connection. Many of its offerings take place at Within Yoga & Sound.
The Practice of Sound
Randy's relationship with sound has grown over many years of study, practice, and careful listening. At the heart of Lumana is one of Canada's most thoughtfully curated collections of therapeutic sound instruments.
His journey began with crystal singing bowls before discovering a deep connection with the gong during his sound therapy training. Since then, he has assembled handcrafted gongs from makers across Nepal, Italy, Germany, Indonesia, China, British Colombia, Toronto, and beyond, each selected for its distinct voice, resonance, and character.
Alongside the gongs, Randy works with Peter Hess® Sound Massage bowls, crystal singing bowls, monochords, chimes, and other carefully chosen instruments to create immersive sound experiences that support deep rest, nervous system regulation, and meaningful moments of stillness.
The Practice of Movement
Movement has been a lifelong practice for Mel. Her background in dance, gymnastics, yoga, and embodied movement continues to shape the way she teaches today.
Over time, she discovered that movement could be more than physical practice. It became a way of deepening awareness, regulating the nervous system, processing lived experience, and reconnecting with the body in meaningful ways.
This understanding continues to shape her therapeutic approach, particularly when supporting those navigating stress, trauma, and periods of disconnection. Rather than focusing on performance or achievement, movement becomes an opportunity to listen inward, explore with curiosity, and build a deeper relationship with the body.
While she continues to appreciate the artistry and discipline of physical practice, her greatest interest lies in helping people understand and experience movement as a tool they can return to — for presence, regulation, self-awareness, and connection in everyday life.
Our Philosophy
At Lumana, we believe wellbeing is not something we need to force or achieve. It is something we can learn to support, cultivate, and reconnect with.
Modern life can keep us busy, distracted, and disconnected from ourselves. Through sound, movement, breath, meditation, rest, and contemplative practice, we create opportunities to slow down and reconnect with the present moment.
We believe the body has an innate capacity for balance and wellbeing. By learning to listen inward and understand the relationship between body, breath, and mind, we can begin to recognize what supports us — and develop practical tools to return to in everyday life.
Our role is not to heal or fix anyone. It is to create supportive environments for experience, exploration, and learning, where people can reconnect with the wisdom and resilience already within them.
This practice belongs to you.
Begin Your Practice
Explore classes, workshops, private sessions and workplace offerings designed for both experience and learning.
Whether you’re new to these practices or looking to deepen your understanding, you’re welcome to begin wherever you are.