Living your Yoga with Dr Melissa West

Living your Yoga with Dr Melissa West episodes:

• 04.10.2020

  30 min Warrior Spirit Rise | Hatha Flow Yoga | Yoga with Melissa 526

  Hatha Flow Yoga Let your warrior spirit rise with this 30 minute hatha flow yoga class. The hatha yoga poses in this class will flow from your heart center to activate and kindness, generosity, compassion, and resilience. The intention behind the...

  
• 04.03.2020

  25 min Root Chakra Fear Release | Qigong Inspired Hatha Flow Yoga | Yoga with Melissa 525

  Hatha Flow Yoga This root chakra qigong inspired hatha yoga flow class will release the energy of fear from your body. Through qigong and hatha yoga fusion poses, we are going to focus on releasing the energy of fear. Instead of...

  
• 03.28.2020

  Daily Yoga Practice for Stay at Home Covid-19 Quarantine | Yoga with Melissa 524

  Restorative Yoga This daily Yoga Practice during Stay at Home Covid-19 Quarantine is designed for this time of uncertainty. I have been listening to your requests, most of you would just like a daily practice for when you are staying at...

  
• 03.20.2020

  30 min Stop Comparing YourSelf Meditation Yoga Nidra | Yoga with Melissa 523

  Yoga Nidra This 30 minute yoga nidra will allow you to stop comparing yourself to your past self, to a future idealized version of yourself and to others. Through this meditation you will be guided through the opposites in your body:...

  
• 03.13.2020

  30 min Hatha Yoga for Self-Forgiveness | Perfectionism Series | Yoga with Melissa 522

  Hatha Yoga In this 30 minute hatha yoga class we will use 2 blocks to cultivate core strength and back strength. We will practice self-forgiveness by opening to the possibility that mistakes are part of the process of learning. The poses...

  
• 03.06.2020

  30 min Hatha Yoga to Cultivate Curiosity | Perfectionism Series | Yoga with Melissa 521

  Hatha Yoga In this 30 minute hatha yoga class we will let go of controlling the perfect outcome and be curious about all the ways we can move our hip and shoulder joints. Options and modifications will be given from a...

  
• 02.29.2020

  Cozy Restorative Yoga in Your Pajamas | Yoga with Melissa 520

  Yoga in Your Pajamas Today we are going to do a cozy restorative yoga class in our pajamas. This pyjama yoga Friday is to celebrate some national media coverage that we received on CBC in an article called: Privacy and pyjamas:...

  
• 02.21.2020

  1 hour Relaxed and Comfortable Yin | Perfection of Pace | Yoga with Melissa 519

  Yin Yoga You may have perfectionist tendencies if you have excessive concern with details, you are extremely devoted to work and productivity at the expense of leisure, you are excessively conscientious, you are thrifty, you are inflexible and rigid when it...

  
• 02.14.2020

  30 min Hatha Yoga Slow Flow | Yoga for Perfectionism Series | Yoga with Melissa 518

  Slow Flow This 30 minute slow flow hatha yoga class will use a block to be present and open your awareness to how we are part of the flow of change in the world. The poses will focus on core strength,...

  
• 02.07.2020

  30 min Yoga Nidra Meditation for Self Love | Self Acceptance, Unconditional Value & Worthiness YwM 517

  Yoga Nidra This yoga nidra meditation will support you in cultivating self-love and unconditional self-acceptance, worthiness and value. This yoga nidra is part of our yoga series on Perfectionism. I would highly recommend checking out the rest of the series as...

  
• 02.04.2020

  1 Hour Restorative Yoga for Chronic Fatigue | Yoga with Melissa 516

  Restorative Yoga This restorative yoga class is going to leave you feeling renewed and rejuvenated. Chronic fatigue can leave you feeling tired, sleepy, experiencing headaches, dizziness, muscle aches, difficulty making decisions, irritable, moody, difficulty focusing, and low motivation. The restorative yoga poses in...

  
• 01.24.2020

  45 min Hatha Yoga with a Block | Choice & Freedom Perfectionism Series | YwM 515

  Hatha Yoga with a Block This intermediate hatha yoga class is a class with lots of options and choices. Some of them will involve fun options with a block inspired by the teachings of Jenni Rawlings. This class will create strength...

  
• 01.17.2020

  1 Hour Restorative Yoga to Let go of Guilt | Perfectionist Series | Yoga with Melissa 514

  Restorative Yoga This restorative yoga class will support you in letting go of guilt and shame through long-held restorative inversions, side bends, forward bends, twists and savasana. You will need all your yoga props including a wall, blankets, a bolster, blocks,...

  
• 01.10.2020

  Unstoppable Flow of Life | Hatha Yoga Flow | Perfectionism Series | Yoga with Melissa Episode 513

  Hatha Yoga Flow For this intermediate hatha yoga flow style class you will need the following props: Yoga Blanket, Mexican Blanket, Yoga Blocks, and hardwood floor. It is a unique style class inspired by Jenni Rawlings where we place the yoga...

  
• 12.22.2019

  Winter Solstice Restorative Yoga | Yoga with Melissa 512

  Restorative Yoga Winter solstice occurs between December 20 and 22nd in the Northern hemisphere and June the 20 and 22nd in the Southern hemisphere. It represents the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Here we sink into the...

  
• 12.19.2019

  Celebrate Your Unique Perfection | Yin Yoga for Perfectionism | Ywm 511

  Celebrate Your Unique Perfection In this one hour yin yoga class we will focus on skeletal bone variation and honour your unique bone structure through the principles of yin as part of our yoga series on Perfectionism. This yin yoga class...

  
• 12.13.2019

  Celebrate Your Unique Perfection | Yin Yoga for Perfectionism | Ywm 511

  Celebrate Your Unique Perfection In this one hour yin yoga class we will focus on skeletal bone variation and honour your unique bone structure through the principles of yin as part of our yoga series on Perfectionism. This yin yoga class...

  
• 12.06.2019

  Warrior Poses | Hatha Yoga for Acceptance through Courage | YwM 510

  Hatha Yoga This intermediate hatha yoga class will be a lot like last week’s class working with steady and rigorous foundational yoga postures to help prepare your body for warrior poses. These movements help to build greater mobility, flexibility and strength...

  
• 12.04.2019

  Intermediate Qigong Yoga Flow for Digestion

  Qigong Yoga Flow This intermediate qigong flow focuses on the earth element and spleen and stomach organ systems. Just like the stomach and spleen are central to our digestion and lie in the middle of our body, the earth is the...

  
• 11.29.2019

  Half Moon Balancing Pose | Why Does Perfectionism Develop? | YwM 509

  yoga and perfectionism In this intermediate hatha yoga class we will be working with steady and rigorous foundational yoga postures to help prepare your body for half moon balancing pose. These movements which will focus on your feet, legs, hips, shoulders,...

  
• 11.25.2019

  Restorative Yoga for Depression | Yoga with Melissa 508

  Restorative Yoga for Depression Restorative yoga for depression can be part of an overall support network including your medical doctor, psychiatrist, therapy, and perhaps other complementary medicine such as naturopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and other forms of body work from...

  
• 11.15.2019

  Hatha Yoga for Focus and Productivity | Yoga with Melissa 507| Attention Economy Series

  Hatha Yoga for Focus In the attention economy we are competing for our own attention because many markets and social media platforms are skilled at capturing our attention, sometimes for upwards of two hours a day. Of course we all want...

  
• 11.13.2019

  Intermediate Hatha Yoga Flow for Digestion

  Digestion This intermediate hatha yoga flow for digestion was designed to break the cycles of bloating, gas, constipation and diarrhea that are common with irritable bowel syndrome. The gentle flow of this hatha yoga class is designed to restore motility of...

  
• 11.08.2019

  Yoga Nidra Meditation for Deep Body Relaxation | Yoga with Melissa 506

  Yoga Nidra Meditation This full length Yoga Nidra Meditation for Deep Body Relaxation will help you let go of anxiety and stress to experience a deep inner peace and calm. Yoga nidra is a guided meditation that you do lying down...

  
• 11.06.2019

  How Yoga Hand Mudras Work

  Hand Mudras One of the things I hear from my students almost everyday is frustration over not being able to continue with their physical yoga poses for various reasons. Maybe they are confined to their beds recovering from surgery or healing...

  
• 11.04.2019

  Yin Yoga and Meditation on a Chair | Yoga with Melissa 505

  Chair Yin Yoga This yin yoga and meditation on a chair is the perfect introduction to yin yoga or chair yoga for beginners. We will go over the posture of meditation to begin and end the class as a way of...

  
• 10.30.2019

  Beginner Hatha Yoga for Digestion

  Yoga for Digestion This is a short beginner hatha yoga class for digestion. My beginner yoga classes focus on simple, easy to follow hatha yoga poses, with step by step instructions and lots of modifications. These beginner classes are actually for...

  
• 10.25.2019

  Full Body Yin Yoga | How to Deal with the Lie of Immediacy in the Attention Economy | YwM 504

  Full Body Yin Yoga In the attention economy not only is there an overwhelming amount of information, but we are constantly bombarded with the most current information. There is a sense of continual immediacy as the contemporary media accelerates the circulation...

  
• 10.18.2019

  Hatha Yoga for Strength Just for You | Yoga with Melissa 503 | Attention Overwhelm Series

  Hatha Yoga for Strength Over the last several weeks, we have been focusing on the attention economy in our yoga class. The theory of the attention economy is that there is an overabundance of information which means we get to be...

  
• 10.16.2019

  Intermediate to Advanced Myofascial Digestive Release with 9” Inflatable Ball

  Myofascial Digestive Release In this short advanced myofascial release practice for your digestive system, we will use a 9” inflatable ball to take a journey through your digestive system. The journey begins by stimulating your diaphragm and diaphragmatic breathing to bring more...

  
• 10.11.2019

  Yin Yoga Full Class | Yin is a Method that Helps with Scarcity of Attention | Yoga with Melissa 502

  Yin Yoga The premise of the attention economy is that a wealth of information creates a scarcity of attention. We live in a world of noise with more and more marketing, social media, emails, books, advertising, netflix series and all these...

  
• 10.04.2019

  Restorative Yoga for Intuition | Are You Making This Mistake with Wearable Tech? | YwM 501

  Restorative Yoga for Intuition One of the things that has captured our attention in the attention economy is wearable tech. Wearable tech can collect incredible amounts of data from our activity to our rest. Things from the number of steps that...

  
• 09.27.2019

  Beginner Hatha Yoga | How to do Yoga with Tim | Celebrating 500 Episodes and 10 Years on YouTube YwM 500

  Episode 500 To celebrate 10 years and 500 episodes on YouTube, Melissa goes behind the camera and Tim gets on the mat to welcome beginners and those with beginner's mind to try yoga. If Tim can do yoga, anybody can do...

  
• 09.18.2019

  Beginner Self Massage for Digestion

  Self Massage for Digestion This short beginner myofascial release for your digestive system is essentially a self-massage for your digestive system that you can do anytime. Just five minutes in the morning will free you up your entire body for the...

  
• 09.13.2019

  Heart Killing Busyness and Overwork in the Attention Economy | Yoga with Melissa 498

  Yin Yoga The Chinese character for busyness translates as heart killing. In the attention economy where everybody is vying for our attention, it is hard not to be affected by the noise of others. In the attention economy, there is a...

  
• 09.12.2019

  Beginner Diaphragmatic Breathing for Digestion

  Breathing for Digestion This short beginner diaphragmatic breathing class for digestion will activate your parasympathetic nervous system known as your rest and digest. It will help you avoid constipation, acid reflux and IBS. It will balance your alkalinity and reduce inflammation....

  
• 08.30.2019

  Yin Yang Yoga | Yin Yang Theory | Attention Economy Series | Yoga with Melissa 497

  Yin Yang Yoga In the attention economy brands and individuals, that is living and breathing human beings compete for continual growth of likes and followers on different platforms from YouTube to podcasts on ITunes, Facebook, Instagram to Snapchat. Our self worth...

  
• 08.26.2019

  5 Reasons Why Back to School is the Best Time for Yin Yoga

  Best Time for Yin Yoga Every year it happens. I swear it won't and yet somehow it does. Back to school rolls around and what starts as enthusiastic passion reveals itself as overburdening myself with too many activities and an overflowing...

  
• 08.09.2019

  Yoga Nidra for Mental Overwhelm | Attention Economy Series | Yoga with Melissa 496

  Yoga Nidra This 30-minute yoga nidra will take you out of the mind of emotional overwhelm and overthinking into a deeply embodied, relaxed and calm state.  In the attention economy, there are many external factors from smartphones, computers, marketing, to social media...

  
• 08.06.2019

  Restorative Yoga for Busyness | Attention Economy Series | Yoga with Melissa 495

  Restorative Yoga Over the last few weeks, we have been focusing on the attention economy and how this affects our physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual bodies.The idea that the explosion of information available to us has led to a battle...

  
• 08.01.2019

  Breathing Exercises, Digestion, and How to Grow Taller with Yoga

  breathing exercises This past month I listened to a Ted Talk by Max Strom called Breathe to Heal. This Ted Talk had quite an impact on me and in a moment, I will tell you why. Max Strom is just as gentle...

  
• 07.30.2019

  Taking a Break from YouTube | August 2019 Yoga with Melissa

  Taking a Break This video is going to explain a little bit more about the break that Tim and I are going to be taking from YouTube as well as what to expect in August of 2019. The launch of short 10...

  
• 07.26.2019

  Yoga for Unwavering Focus in the Attention Economy | Yoga with Melissa 494

  Hatha Yoga This hatha yoga class with balancing flows and probably more joy than you realized was possible with yoga blocks is going to be the most fun you had all week, plus it will help develop unwavering focus. The yoga...

  
• 07.24.2019

  How to Sit Cross Legged without Legs Falling Asleep

  How to Sit Cross Legged This short video explains how to sit cross legged without your legs or feet falling asleep. It answers the question, why you get pins and needles in your legs and feet when you sit cross legged...

  
• 07.23.2019

  Breathing Exercise for Anxiety | Lower Belly Breathing Part 3

  Lower Belly Breathing This breathing exercise for your lower belly to relieve anxiety will be preceded by a short yoga pose to release your low back. We will check in and notice how a yoga pose helps us to open up...

  
• 07.22.2019

  Why Breathing Calms You Down

  Breathing In this video I am going to explain how we can sometimes unintentionally use our sympathetic nervous system (our fight or flight) to turn on our parasympathetic nervous system (our rest and digest) and ultimately why breathing calms us down. A...

  
• 07.19.2019

  Intention Setting In Attention Economy | Yin Yoga for Gallbladder Meridian | YwM 493

  Yin Yoga This Yin Yoga Class from the Attention Economy Series focuses on Intention and our Human Goals vs. the goals that technology and the social media platforms have for us. Intention setting in yin yoga aligns well with your gallbladder...

  
• 07.17.2019

  Top 10 FAQ Yoga Exercises to Improve Eyesight

  Improve Eyesight In January of 2018 I released a video on How to Improve Your Eyesight with Yoga that has recently become incredibly popular on this channel. In this video I am going to answer your most FAQs from the comments...

  
• 07.16.2019

  Breathing Exercise for Anxiety | Lower Belly Breathing Part 2

  Lower Belly Breathing Part 2 This breathing exercise for your lower belly to relieve anxiety will be preceded by a short yoga pose to release your psoas. We will check in and notice how a yoga pose helps us to open...

  
• 07.12.2019

  Distraction Detox: Information Pollution in the Attention Economy | Yoga with Melissa 492

  Distraction Detox This is a hatha yoga class that focuses on balancing postures and moving with breath to cultivate focus in our attention economy. Yoga has become a spectacle in the attention economy, where many yogis have joined in the endless...