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Jan 27, 2017
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Yoga with Melissa 368 is a yoga class for you if you are feeling anxious, restless, tense, nervous, fearful, agitated, or sleepless. When we allow ourselves to be interrupted and preoccupied by what is happening in a careless, impulsive way, we become ungrounded, anxious, and tense. We start to feel nervous, fearful and even have trouble sleeping. This yoga class will allow you to become strongly grounded, feeling your roots, connected to your stillness and then there is an inherent and a...
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Oct 12, 2018
10/18
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When we are exhausted it is not uncommon for us to feel anxious, scattered, unbalanced, exhausted, tired, moody, restless and experience insomnia. Exhaustion is a sign that we have overspent our energetic reserves.In this yoga nidra guided meditation we will gather the flow of chi, accumulating prana with responsibility, skill and sensitivity. We will give our depleted selves the necessary time and space to rest deeply, letting go of the momentum of the seeking mind and compulsive doingness....
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Jul 22, 2016
07/16
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Yoga with Melissa #341 - Perfectionism
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Sep 27, 2019
09/19
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Yoga with Melissa Episode 500
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Sep 22, 2017
09/17
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Yoga with Melissa 402
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Mar 10, 2017
03/17
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If you feel like you are running nowhere in every direction, this class will give you permission to stop and take one seat. This hatha yoga class allows you to take one seat and create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things, the sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, and happiness as Jack Kornfield would say. In our culture there is a tendency to move from one thing to the next when we get uncomfortable. If we are bored or anxious we scroll through...
Topic: Yoga with Melissa 374
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Sep 8, 2016
09/16
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Today is back to school yoga with a science class. We are going back to basics with breath. This class will begin with breath awareness with a focus on the science of your breath at your nose, throat and lungs. From there we will focus on yoga postures that encourage the muscles of inspiration, that is inhalation, to release and let go so that you can take in a larger breath of air. These muscles include the pectoral muscles, the serratus muscle, the scalenus, the levatores, and the...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with Dr. Melissa West, Yoga with Melissa 347, West Yoga
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Oct 13, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Meilssa West
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Today’s yoga class covers how to set an intention or sankalpa in a yoga class. We do this by coming into connection with your body, your thoughts, your emotions, your energy and what is happening in your life. From there I go through what sankalpa is and how to set intention. The yoga poses in today’s class open your awareness to your body, your breath, your mind, and allow you to let go of striving. Standing yoga postures connect you with the reason why you come to your yoga mat. The yoga...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 353, yoga and intention, yoga and...
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Feb 17, 2017
02/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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We live in a world of endless activity that tends to pull us away from our still center. From the minute we wake up in the morning our cell phone is in our hands and we begin the endless scrolling through social media and rushing through our days. Rarely in our day to we give our minds or bodies the opportunities for stillness without activity. Reflect on your own life, and recall a time when you weren’t busy occupying yourself with screen time or other activities to busy your mind or body....
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Oct 27, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Today’s yoga class is about endurance. In our culture, it is unusual for us to stay with one thing for any length of time. There is so much choice with everything from yoga teachers, yoga styles, food, books, movies, entertainment, and education it is easy for us to go from one thing to the next when we come to an edge, come up against a difficulty, become bored or challenged. Today we are focusing on endurance, the capacity to stay with something, without moving on. In this class I...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 355, yoga for endurace, yoga and...
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Sep 25, 2020
09/20
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Dr. Melissa West
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7 Irresistible Restorative Yoga Poses for Instant Calm at Home Join us LIVE to Celebrate our 11 year anniversary on YouTube with this 60 Minute Restorative Yoga Sequence that you can practice at Home on YouTube. This 60 minute restorative yoga class will bring you to instant calm with a sequence of 7 irresistible restorative yoga poses. The restorative yoga poses will use yoga props including the wall, a bolster, blocks, blankets, eye pillow, and a strap. This restorative yoga sequence...
Topics: Dr. Melissa West, Yoga with Melissa episode 542
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Dec 30, 2016
12/16
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Yoga with Melissa Episode 364
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Feb 12, 2018
02/18
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This week I met up with a longtime friend, almost 20 years now, Cary, who was visiting from Toronto, at Fishhook Restaurant in Victoria BC. Fishhook is a fabulous, cozy restaurant serving local seafood in the heart of downtown Victoria BC on Fort Street. We enjoyed sablefish pakoras to start and then Cary had the pondicherry and I had the line and sinker. Fishhook has a super tasty indo-french inspired menu. I love the flavours of their fusion style dishes. Cary and I had a great time catching...
Topics: Yoga with Melissa 61, Yoga with Melissa 9, Yoga with Melissa 13, Yoga with Melissa 16, Yoga with...
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Oct 19, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Today’s yoga class covers the three keys to balance in yoga. We will apply those three keys to balancing poses throughout the yoga class. Your ability to balance depends on your vestibular system, your proprioceptive system and your visual system. In each balancing yoga posture today, we will engage your visual, proprioceptive and vestibular system in concrete ways through movement. By engaging your vestibular system, your visual system and your proprioceptive system in each yoga balancing...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 354, yoga for balance, yoga and...
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Dec 15, 2016
12/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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In today’s Yoga with Melissa Class: Real Yoga for Real People so you can move better, feel better and connect with your True Nature I am going to show you 3 techniques on how to Balance in Garudasana or Eagle Pose. They are #1 training your vestibular system, #2 training your proprioceptive system and #3 training your visual system. In this class we will be focusing on your ankle joints, your knee joints, your hip joints, your elbow joints, your wrist joints and your shoulder joints as we...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 362, yoga for balance, yoga and...
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Oct 18, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Linda from facebook wants to know, “Why do I have difficulty balancing in yoga?” I get so many questions on balance and yoga I can’t even tell you! The reasons for difficulty in balance in yoga could be one of three things or a combination of all three. First of all, what is balance? Balance is your ability to maintain your body’s center of mass over its base of support. Put more simply it is your competency to not fall over. Your ability or inability to balance is the result of three...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga for balance, yoga and balance, yoga for better...
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May 26, 2017
05/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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In today’s heart stabilization class we are going to explore all the ways that we turn away from our personal experiences, emotions and relationships, including our relationship with ourselves. Instead we will invite an attitude of openness and non judgment to all the situations, emotions and people in our lives. This means not turning away from our experience and not withdrawing from our life as it unfolds. These teachings will be offered through my personal experience with acceptance over...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 385, yoga every day, online yoga...
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Jan 6, 2017
01/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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This is Real Yoga for Real People so you can move better, feel better and connect with your true nature, Welcome back to the Moving at the Speed of our Body Series, Happy New Year! As we come into the New Year we enter a time when we have excessive expectations from our body. We want extravagant gains financially, professionally, and for our lives in general. We desire unreasonable losses from our bodies in terms of weight, eternal youth or other physical changes. All of these are a form of...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 365, brahmacharya, aparigraha, yamas,...
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Sep 18, 2020
09/20
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Dr. Melissa West
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This 30 minute Hatha Yoga for Large Intestine will include Yoga & Simple Mindfulness Practices for your Everyday Life and is episode 540 of yoga with Melissa.. This is a new series where we will focus on simple mindfulness practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to calm your mind and sweep the dust from your heart. On our mats we will reflect on something that we do everyday in our day to day lives. During our practice time I will give you a contemplation that you can...
Topics: Yoga with melissa hatha yoga, yoga with melissa constipation, yoga with melissa hatha yoga for...
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Dec 24, 2016
12/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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This is REal Yoga for REal People so you can move better, feel better and connect with your true nature, Welcome back to the Moving at the Speed of our Body Series, this class is about yoga and living without effort. Today’s yoga class will be all restorative yoga postures: child’s pose with a bolster, downward facing dog with props, a reclined twist with a bolster, reclined bound angle pose and a side lying savasana. By practicing on our mats without effort we have a perfect container for...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 363, yoga without effort, restorative...
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Oct 6, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Today’s intermediate yoga class focuses on yoga postures that will allow you to shift your attention from an externally focused yoga practice focused on the achievement of yoga postures and shapes to an internally focused yoga practice focused on the sensations of your embodied experience. In an online video culture that focuses predominantly on how the body looks in a yoga pose we are focusing on something quite different in Yoga with Melissa classes. Rather than looking at our bodies from...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 352, yoga and body image, yoga for...
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Nov 11, 2016
11/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Today’s yoga class is all about how to balance in warrior three or virabhadrasana three. When your balance system is working well, you will be able to see clearly, move well, identify your orientation in relation to gravity, determine your direction and speed of movement and make postural adjustments to maintain your position and stability in various conditions and activities. As you learned in Yoga with Melissa 354, your balance relies on your vision, your proprioception and your vestibular...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 357, yoga for balance, yoga and...
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Nov 18, 2016
11/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Yoga with Melissa 358, Moving At the Speed of Our Bodies: The Pressure Of Our Lives
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Feb 10, 2017
02/17
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Today we have a special guest on Yoga with Melissa, Christina D'Arrigo from ChriskaYoga. This is a 45 minute yoga flow class for beginners by our guest this week, Christina from ChriskaYoga! If you are looking to try a yoga flow class at the beginner level, then this video will be perfect for you. The class is designed to introduce you to the sun salutations and the general structure of a flow class. It will also get you moving and give you a gentle stretch towards the end.
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Jan 12, 2017
01/17
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Yoga with Kassandra
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Today's Yoga with Melissa class is a collaboration and features a special guest, Kassandra from YouTube channel Yoga with Kassandra. Kassandra has kindly filmed a yin yoga class for all of you. This beginner friendly yin yoga class is a fantastic way to give your joints some TLC. Yin yoga is a passive practice where we learn to work with gravity to reduce stress and anxiety, improve joint health and increase our range of motion. Yogis with limited flexibility will enjoy these simple poses...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 366, yoga with kassandra, yin yoga...
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Mar 24, 2017
03/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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We tend to tighten our bodies in response to the painful experiences in our lives whether they be physical, emotional or psychological. As we open to the sensations in our body through our hatha yoga practice, as we turn towards our emotions and the thoughts in our minds and we gradually include all that we have previously shut out of our awareness, our body has the opportunity to heal. Through our practice we notice clearly the rhythm and needs of our bodies. We clear the confusion, hearing...
Topics: yoga for healing, hatha yoga for healing, yoga for emotional healing, hatha yoga for emotional...
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Mar 15, 2017
03/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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Have you ever wondered What exactly is hatha yoga? Today I am going to explain exactly what is meant by this style of yoga. Hi I’m Melissa with Yoga with Melissa, I offer Real Yoga for Real People, yoga you can do so you feel better, move better and connect with your True Nature (socials come up on screen) I put out a yoga tutorial every Wednesday at 9 am PT, so if you are new here, subscribe and turn on notifications so you don’t miss episode. If you like today’s video remember to give...
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Jul 28, 2017
07/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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In this intermediate hatha yoga class we will return to exploring the emotion of anger through yoga postures. Anger can be a very scary emotion. It can be an emotion that we do not want to relate to whether we are experiencing it or whether we are watching somebody else express it. Anger is a very direct emotion. It is an emotion that puts is in connection with our present moment experience. All of our periphery experiences fade away and we have a kind of tunnel vision that takes over, we get...
Topics: yoga for anger, yoga for anger management, yoga for anger release, yoga for reducing anger, yoga...
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Sep 21, 2021
09/21
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Dr. Melissa West
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Why did you start doing YouTube? Do you still remember the first class you taught? What was your favourite filming location ever? (Brenda Bohun) When did you feel you found your style? (yogastanya) How do you always guarantee to renew your content (keep it fresh). Did you ever think about the positive impact your videos would have on people?
Topics: YouTube Anniversary Q & A, ask me anything, yoga with melissa, melissa west yoga Q & A,...
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Sep 29, 2021
09/21
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Dr. Melissa West
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PART 2 What has been the most challenging part of your YouTube journey? Did you get discouraged at some point and how did you overcome it? Greatest Gifts? What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned about YOURSELF over the last 12 years? Congratulations! What kept you so persistent over the last 12 years? Does Tim practice your yoga videos? Does Trinity practice your yoga videos? Is there a comment or some feedback that stands out in your mind over the last 12 years? What do you do...
Topics: YouTube Anniversary Q & A, ask me anything, yoga with melissa, melissa west yoga Q & A,...
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Apr 19, 2017
04/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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Spring is a time of regeneration, growth and renewal, but it isn’t all daffodils and tulips. In your physical body, spring is the time that your liver and gallbladder organs are naturally cleansing themselves and so it is natural to feel like you are on an emotional rollercoaster. You might feel angry, irritated, aggressive, edgy, anxious. When we support our liver and gallbladder things flow free and easy without stress. Yes spring is a season of expansive movement and growth. Spring is a...
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Oct 7, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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I started the week cleaning out the fridge and making soup for lunches. When you cook do you use recipes or do you follow your intuition? Sunday afternoon I did some art with Shiloh Sophia McLeod on releasing your inner critic and embracing your muse. It reminded me a lot of our inner critic series :) Tuesday morning I interviewed one of our members, Jayne who was celebrating her one year anniversary with us. I had a second Just Like Me interview with Jenn Ashton who is an artist here in...
Topics: autumn vegan soup, Life Book 2016 Shiloh Sophia McLeod, Yoga with Melissa, Yoga with Melissa inner...
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Jun 2, 2017
06/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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Those of you who have an ongoing yoga practice will recognize that your spiritual journey is a endless journey of transformation. Today´s hatha yoga is about the cycles on our path. Whether these cycles come from our inner needs or our external circumstances we can respect the changes that these cycles bring about in our lives. The cycles of our yoga and meditation journey will take us high and low and in and out. Sometimes it will feel like we are riding the roller coaster of the ascending...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 386, yoga every day, online yoga...
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Oct 3, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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This has been a week of interaction and collaboration with you. I began my week by interviewing two of our members in our membership community for our regular feature, the Just Like Me Interviews. Then the week unfolded with a fruitful discussion about how my teachings are working for you: when you feel I talk too much and what you feel I talk too much about. I so appreciate how many of you gave your specific, constructive, thoughtful, and meaningful feedback about the “too much...
Topics: Yoga with Melissa, Yoga with Melissa West, Yoga with Melissa 351, community, Just Like Me...
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Feb 8, 2017
02/17
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Chriska Yoga
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Are you curious about Yoga Flow classes? This video will answer all your questions and more! This week, special guest Christina from the channel ChriskaYoga will be talking to you about vinyasa flow yoga and what it’s all about. She tells you what vinyasa means, the key components of yoga flow classes, and the benefits of practicing this style of yoga.
Topics: what is yoga flow, what is vinyasa flow, vinyasa, vinyasa flow yoga, yoga, chriskayoga, yoga with...
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Jul 29, 2016
07/16
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Dr Melissa West
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http://www.melissawest.com/342/ For show notes click on the link above Subscribe Here: http://bit.ly/RMV4hC Here's my Website: http://www.melissawest.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yournamasteyoga Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drmelissa Follow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/drmelissawest# Follow me on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/drmelissawest/ Follow me on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DrMelissaWest/posts Join our Membership Site:...
Topics: Poetry In Motion, Yoga and Poetry, Poetry and Yoga, John O’Donohue, For a New Beginning, starting...
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Jun 11, 2018
06/18
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Dr. Melissa West
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This week we are going to take you behind the scenes of the redesign of our membership community, your membership community. Currently our membership community is going through a big overhaul to make it more user friendly, visually pleasing and easy to use. We thought we would be completely transparent and show you what we have done. We have made a complete MESS! The truth is, back in 2011 when we started our membership community, nobody in the yoga community was doing this. The interfaces were...
Topics: behind the scenes yoga with melissa, behind the scenes redesign, behind the scenes yoga with...
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May 5, 2017
05/17
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As Jack Kornfield says, for many of us judgment is a painful theme in our lives. Our reaction to it is to see what is wrong with it and the judging itself continues to be strong and painful. Trying to get rid of our judging is another judgment in and of itself. We notice our judging and then we say to ourselves, ¨I shouldn't be judging. More judgment. We judge ourselves. We have our standards of what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. On Tuesday of this week I went on what Tim would call...
Topics: yoga for self judgment, yoga for self criticism, yoga for self acceptance, yoga letting go of...
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Feb 24, 2017
02/17
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Have you noticed you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, ungrounded, disconnected, and restless? At this time there is a need for grounding in our bodies and healing in our hearts. I have designed this new yoga series to connect with our hearts in a grounded way. The first class in this series will allow you to settle into your body to feel the stable foundation and support of the earth underneath you, while you connect with the compassion and peace in your heart. The hatha yoga postures in this...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 372, yoga every day, yoga with...
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Nov 4, 2016
11/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Today’s beginner yoga class is all about relaxation. Throughout the class we will focus on letting go of unnecessary tension in our body. Instead of bracing our bodies against gravity, we will allow the support of the earth to release our tension. During this class we will continually bring our attention to our physical bodies and notice where our bodies are connecting to the ground. Through this connection we can relax more deeply into the support of gravity. Additionally we will be scanning...
Topics: yoga for complete beginners, yoga for beginners, yoga poses for beginners, beginners yoga,...
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Nov 9, 2016
11/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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Is it good to be in legs up wall if I'm menstruating? Love this class! Yoga with Melissa #263 (Restore Your Energy) Namaste, Madeline Dear Madeline, This is such a great question, and as always, I am not a medical doctor, but rather a Ph.D. in communications and cultural studies, so as always the last word goes to your medical doctor particularly if you have menstrual issues and complications. The reason why this question comes up is that there is an important guideline to avoid inversions...
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Jun 16, 2017
06/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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This hatha yoga video will take you step by step in a yoga sequence to build up to dancer pose. This hatha yoga class is called the dance of experience. Experience comes into being for a little time, in a certain form, then it ends and a new form replaces it moment by moment. Our dance with experience arises in the present moment, does it dance and then disappears. We are a constantly changing process, not a fixed being. In this way, we can appreciate the mystery of our lives as they unfold in...
Topics: how to do dancer pose, preparatory poses dancer pose, yoga and buddhism, heart opening yoga, hatha...
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Jun 8, 2017
06/17
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Aprille Walker
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Today we have a special guest on Yoga with Melissa - Aprille Walker from The Yoga Ranger Studio. Aprille offers a variety of practices online including Yin Yoga, Restorative, Flow, Pranayama (breath regulation) and Meditation. Aprille invites a turning inwards and quiet reflection in her yoga classes. Her yin yoga offers long holds so that you can be with your own inner experience and that is what I appreciate most about her teaching style. This practice is all about connecting with your...
Topics: yin yoga, yin, the yoga ranger studio, Aprille Walker, yoga, yin yoga for connection, yin yoga for...
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Mar 25, 2017
03/17
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Dr. Melissa West
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The speed of our everyday lives, both online and offline can leave us feeling frustrated and disconnected from our patience, stillness and compassion. It is not unusual to feel like our minds, bodies and emotions are endlessly spasming and it is no wonder we feel scattered and unsteady. When we come to our yoga practice we notice just how disconnected and scattered we actually feel. It takes an enormous amount of patience to meet ourselves with friendliness and let go again and again to the...
Topics: calming yoga, yoga for stress relief, yoga to calm your nerves, yoga to clear your mind, relaxing...
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May 11, 2017
05/17
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In order to relate to the experience of worry, today´s hatha yoga class is built around a recent experience I had of taking an exam. I will share with you the way worry showed up in my body and mind, how I reacted to worry and what my story of worry revealed to me. We will begin our hatha yoga class by tuning into our body in heart bed class and recalling what worry feels like in our bodies. From here we will turn to grounding postures by coming into our legs and feet. We will start with...
Topics: yoga for worry, yoga to let go of worry, yoga poses to reduce worry, yoga to release worry, yoga...
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Feb 3, 2017
02/17
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Today’s Yoga with Melissa class will strengthen your lower body and improve your balance and focus. We will be learning how to balance in chair pose, also known as utkatasana or awkward pose. In this class you will lengthen your side body and release your QL muscles or your quadratus lumborum. You will also strengthen your your feet, ankles, calves, knees, buttocks and quadriceps or upper thighs. This yoga pose will not only help you to improve your balance, but it will also build your focus...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa 369, yoga for balance, yoga chair pose, chair pose yoga, how...
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Nov 15, 2019
11/19
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Dr. Melissa West
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This hatha yoga class for focus and productivity will take your attention away from distractions like social media and marketing with simple eye yoga exercises, pranayama like alternate nostril breathing which is balancing and calming, as well as hip opening poses, shoulder releases and balancing yoga poses for focus. The hatha yoga poses and sequences in this class will gather your attention throughout with the use of unique movements, yoga props, and variations on some of your most loved...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa balance, yoga with melissa hatha yoga, attention economy,...
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Dec 9, 2016
12/16
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Dr. Melissa West
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This is REal Yoga for REal People so you can move better, feel better and connect with your true nature, Welcome back to the Moving at the Speed of our Body Series, this class is about the transition between the poses This past weekend in our Monthly Motivation Meetup, one of our members, Sandrine, spoke about how she takes time when she gets home instead of rushing to the next thing. She makes a ritual of it. She takes off her hat and and her coat and she sits down for a moment or two. She...
Topics: yoga with melissa, yoga with melissa west, yoga with melissa 361, yoga transitions, supported yoga...
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Today’s back to school yoga class we are taking a spare. As a culture we tend to be too much up in our heads, scattered, anxious and thinking too much. We are going to rectify that with this back to basic class on grounding. We will connect with the earth through our hands, feet and belly, slow down, breathe and feel the sensations in our body. Taking time to slow down and connect with our bodies will allow us to relieve stress, reduce anxiety and find focus in today’s fast pace life. I...
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