Restorative Yoga for Autumn

Slow down and align with the autumn season with this restorative yoga sequence for fall. These autumn restorative yoga poses will prepare  you to restore for winter’s long rest. With readings and poetry from John O’Donohue, Mary Oliver, David Whyte and Melissa West’s forthcoming book: The Elemental Self | Five Element Yin Yoga you will be soothed in fall restorative yoga poses while slowing down to prepare for a season of hibernation. 

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Our members will have the option to meet directly after the livestream for a reflective journal writing in their yoga journals. We will begin by collectively reviewing the front of our journals. From there we will do a journal writing practice that will support us in contemplating how we can personally expand the themes from the class based on the yoga journaling we are doing in our community.

Restorative Yoga for Autumn | Yoga with Melissa 590

Every Friday morning Dr. Melissa West releases a one hour free yoga class for you to enjoy. She is a yoga instructor who helps people to surrender to peace in their lives by connecting to the vital energy within their body through breath, cultivating optimal functional movement by harnessing the power of gravity and increase overall mobility by creating more suppleness in the spine.

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VAGUS NERVE Restorative Yoga | YWM 693 

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This calming vagus nerve restorative yoga will support your parasympathetic nervous system, in particular healthy ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation of your nervous system so that you leave feeling “zenned out, ” meditative and contemplative.

Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga Sequence
Restorative Locust Pose 
Restorative Hand to Big Toe Pose 
Restorative Child’s Pose 
Restorative Twist 
Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Say So Hung: The Ultimate Healing Tool
(https://www.3ho.org/meditation/ra-ma-da-sa-sa-say-so-hung-the-ultimate-healing-tool/ )
Savasana 
Props Needed: Bolster, 2 Blocks, eye pillow/blanket/or pillow, yoga strap meditation cushion or chair

VAGUS NERVE Restorative Yoga | YWM 693



This vagus nerve yoga nidra is designed to reset your nervous system from sympathetic activation or or dorsal shutdown. Whether you are feeling anxious and stressed or disconnected, depressed & drained of energy, this yoga nidra will engage neuroception to follow the three streams of awareness: inside your body, outside your body and in between to reset your vagus nerve.

In this Vagus Nerve Reset yoga nida, we invite deep relaxation. As I guide your awareness through your body, I invite a profound sense of stillness to envelop you. Breath awareness and practice will regulate and reset your vagus nerve. With each breath, we nurture connection to the present moment, fostering a sanctuary of peace within ourselves.

Through this practice, we cultivate a harmonious balance between body, mind, and spirit, tapping into the healing power of the vagus nerve to reset and restore inner calm.

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Vagus Nerve Reset Yoga Nidra – Yoga with Melissa Episode 692



Join me for a calming nervous system yoga session designed to soothe your nervous system. This gentle practice focuses on nervous system regulation, incorporating gentle and calming yoga poses, breath practices, and mudras to support your parasympathetic nervous system and vagus nerve. With Melissa's guidance, you'll activate your vagus nerve, promoting a sense of calm and relaxation. This is yoga for a calm and healthy nervous system. Leave feeling "zenned out," meditative, and contemplative.

Props Needed: Yoga Block

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Calm Your Nervous System Yoga | YWM 691



Our yoga nidra practice opens our neuroception to be grounded in the present moment, to be more regulated, calm and spacious. By gently moving our awareness around our body, we anchor in the present moment and create a sense of calm and presence.

In this calming Vagus Nerve Yoga Nidra practice, we invite deep relaxation. As I guide your awareness through your body, I invite a profound sense of stillness to envelop you. Breath awareness and practice will regulate your vagus nerve. With each breath, we nurture connection to the present moment, fostering a sanctuary of peace within ourselves.

Through this practice, we cultivate a harmonious balance between body, mind, and spirit, tapping into the healing power of the vagus nerve to restore inner calm.

Calming Vagus Nerve Yoga Nidra – YWM 690



Yoga to Let Go Into Love | Yoga with Melissa 689 

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This yoga class is about being connected to the presence of love in moving meditation. When we take this time each day to be in the presence of love, we will feel the expansiveness of unconditional love in our lives. It is not a doing, but a letting go and softening that allows us to connect into the expansiveness, vibrance and radiance of our hearts. When we align with the unconditional love that already exists in our hearts we can let go of the striving to try to be better people. This yoga class allows us to slow down and make space for the love that is always and already present in our hearts. It is a devotional practice to love itself. 

The gentle standing yoga postures in this class will align you and your body so that your aura is attuned to the essence of love for your own healing and for all those you connect with in all directions and kind. This loving healing is gentle, grounding, warm, expansive, soft love and love that is always safe. 

Additionally we will tend to anything that is in the way that is blocking us from connecting to the love in our heart. Anything that is keeping us from serving from our hearts and allowing us to be connected to the frequency of love throughout our day. 

Join us in this gentle yoga flow as we trust and follow the currents of love inside to lead others with the heart, this including ourselves and our own internal guidance. It is an honour to practice with all of you spiritual healers, teachers and guides. 

Props Needed: None - this entire class is done standing 

Poem: For a New Beginning - John O’Donohue

Restorative Yoga for Autumn | Yoga with Melissa 590

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