About us

This is us who run the center Blue Mountain Yoga, as well as Melkevoll Bretun.
We are a little family living in the inner end of Oldedalen in Norway, under the glacier and next to the Blue Mountain.

Johanne & Frank Alexander Bjennmyr Melkevoll

Frank and Johanne met in South India in the autumn 2012.
Just a few months before we had both said goodbye to our steady jobs, packed our bags and went out in the world to travel, study yoga, as well as exploring another way of living.
We were both finished with the hectic life in Oslo and Stockholm, and looking for a way of living that resonated deeper in our hearts and being.

Johanne has been exploring the practice of yoga since the end of high school in 1999. Together with working as a teacher in primary and high school, she was using almost all her time to practice, travel and study. In 2006 she started to share the tools of yoga with students, friends and colleagues in the school she worked in in Oslo.
Frank worked as a consultant, spent most of his time kite surfing when not in office. Yoga came into his life through climbing, and also he became exposed to the teachings of yoga when he travelled in the Phillipines. Here he also came into contact with watsu healing, as well as other modalities that changed his life at a deep level.
You can read more about our background and experience in yoga and other therapeutic modalities here on the page about the yoga practices we share.

After the yoga adventures in India in 2012, Frank and Johanne spent a lot of time in Bali in the coming years. We were so blessed to be able to travel and learn, both together and for ourselves for many years. We have both spent years studying the traditions from South America, yoga practice, as well as Cranio sacral therapy.

Through merging what we have practiced and explored from the east and the yoga tradition, as well as the nature connected traditions from the west and South America, we have in many ways found a form to our living and to what we share that resonates with our hearts.
We are also both very found of various creative expressions though writing, painting, photography, music and dancing, - and this is becoming an integrated part of our explorations. To allow the creative expressions for fun as well as a path to freedom is important for us both.

In 2018 we settled for real in our Nordic roots again. Our daughter Alva Simone was on the way, and after years of travel and exploration we were sent into the deepest, most loving and transformative journey ever;
to become parents to dearest Alva. In this same year we created Blue Mountain Yoga together, and the nature shala Blue Mountain Hall was born though the work of Johanne´s father.
In 2021 we became parents again, to our smiling son Isak León. We are now the parents of two amazing kids, and Alva is a caring and proud big sister, and Isak is the most charming little brother. To raise kids and be together as a family is the most fulfilling journey of pure love , transformation and the deepest learning.

Being the 15th generation on this land, - Alva and Isak being the 16th-, in a direct lineage way back more than 400 years, we feel that we are placed in a very special setting.
Standing on the shoulders of this ancestor line, as well as standing on the shoulders of the wisdom and transmissions of deep and transformative spiritual traditions from both the east and west,
- we know we want to serve and share in a way that honor this place and nature, and also these deeper teachings we are exploring and sharing.
To have the opportunity and purpose to bring people out in this kind of nature that surrounds us here, in a true power spot and with the elements dancing around us, feels like a big blessing. Since 2020 we have also taken over Melkevoll Bretun as well as the land and farm Melkevoll, and we love to share this unique space and place in nature with all who feel to visit here.

We hope that this abundance and love can overflow to those who visit us here, and who join our courses and workshops, be it teachers or students/ participants, or those who visit Melkevoll Bretun.
We hope you can go home with something new in your heart and inspiration. And that what we can share with you, and what the nature here can give you, is something that will nourish and support your life journey in a true and meaningful way.

With love and warmth;
Johanne & Frank Alexander