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Mudra to Induce Sleep

Do you have trouble sleeping? Today I’m going to show you a mudra, a yoga posture for your hands to help you sleep.

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

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Today I’m going to teach you a simple yoga posture for your hands, a mudra, which will scratch the surface of helping you to sleep but if you want to go deeper, with leading edge research and ongoing support from me stay tuned to the end I will tell you all about that.

Do you have difficulty falling asleep at night (onset insomnia) ? Maybe you fall asleep but you can’t stay asleep (maintenance insomnia) . You wake up in the middle of the night and have difficulty returning to sleep. Maybe you are going through a particularly stressful time in your life such as moving, a divorce or loss of work and you are having difficulty sleeping (acute insomnia). Maybe you’ve had insomnia for a LONG time (three nights a week for three months or longer) (chronic insomnia). Or maybe you have anxiety, depression, take certain meditations or have arthritis, restless leg syndrome or back pain that make it difficult to sleep (comorbid insomnia) Whatever the reason, not being able to sleep is stressful in and of itself.

Today I am going to share with you the Shakti mudra to induce a sound sleep. It will calm your mind and relax your body.

For this mudra, the Shakti Mudra to induce sleep, you will turn your palms so they face each other. Join the tips of your ring finger and baby fingers. Fold your thumbs into your palms and cover them with your index and middle fingers.

This mudra is to be done from a comfortable seated position, held in front of your heart center. Let your belly be soft and breathe naturally. Breathe with this mudra for 5-45 minutes.

If you would like more support to help you sleep I would recommend our Yoga for Insomnia Series in our membership community. This series includes a Yoga Class to dispel excess energy during the day, a yoga class to wind you down at night, breath practices to help you fall asleep and if you wake up in the night fall back asleep, a lecture to help you establish the best sleep practices, and cooking classes with a smoothie, main course, soup and spiced milk to help you sleep at night as well as a second lecture to help you choose foods that will best support your sleep.

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Give this video a thumbs up if it was helpful. Let me know in the comments if this mudra helped you to sleep. Thanks for watching.

Namaste, Melissa

 

Mudra to Induce Sleep Do you have trouble sleeping? Today I’m going to show you a mudra, a yoga posture for your hands to help you sleep. 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 […]

“Eagles” We started the week with some outdoor filming even though it has continued to be cold here in Victoria. Winter and snow and low temperatures still! We filmed in Beacon Hill Park. We toughed it out in the cold to film some Yoga Lifestyle videos for you! Tim talks to you about his new […]

Aromatherapy and Breath for Anxiety, Depression and Stress

Today I am going to show you something super simple you can do anywhere to help you with anxiety, depression and stress. I received a question on stress, anxiety and depression from Manjit in the UK:

Hi Dr Melissa West, hope you’re are well, needed your advice to help my sister who suffers with quite bad anxiety, stress and depression. She’s been to a Homeopathic doctor but nothing seems to help her. I’m getting quite concerned with her health and I do urgently need your help and advice. I would sincerely appreciate your time and efforts to let me know how and what to do to help her cope a better life. I thank you and await for your reply. Take care god bless you. Manjit (U.K.)

Today I am going to recommend alternate nostril breathing or nadi shodhana. This breath practice is calms and rejuvenates your nervous system. It relieves stress and anxiety. It is an incredibly balancing breath, in other words, it balances the solar and lunar channels of your body. Your left nostril represents your lunar and calming channel and your right nostril represents your solar and uplifting channel. So by balancing the two it is a good breath for anxiety, depression and stress.

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You can experience the benefits of practicing alternate nostril breathing in as few as five minutes. However for long lasting benefits I would recommend practicing alternate nostril breathing for 10-15 minutes a day.

If you would like more support for anxiety, depression and stress, I highly recommend our membership community. There we have several short classes for anxiety, a fabulous long yoga class for depression and weekly Live Meditation classes that focus on relieving tension in your body. These are all fabulous for depression, anxiety and stress. We would love to welcome you into our membership community.

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Let me know in the comments if you are feeling more balanced, less anxious, stressed, and more uplifted after doing this alternate nostril breathing. Give the video a thumbs up if you liked it. Subscribe for more videos like this. I will see you next week.

Namaste, Melissa

 

Aromatherapy and Breath for Anxiety, Depression and Stress Today I am going to show you something super simple you can do anywhere to help you with anxiety, depression and stress. I received a question on stress, anxiety and depression from Manjit in the UK: Hi Dr Melissa West, hope you’re are well, needed your advice […]

Vlog 56 : Victoria Fashion Week I started my week after my Monday morning Live class with our membership community saying hello to you from Esquimalt, across from Victoria. On Tuesday we took a nature break at a public beach on McNeil Bay to enjoy the beautiful spring day. Tuesday morning I had planned out […]

Soft Foam Roller Shoulder Release

Do you have tight shoulders and neck muscles from keyboarding, texting and hours at a desk? Then this video is for you.

If you keep your arms by the side of your body a lot for keyboarding, texting, desk work, eating, driving, you need this five minute fascial release. This foam roller fascial release targets your infraspinatus, teres major, and teres minor in your underarm. It also helps to stabilize your humerus (upper arm bone.)

Today is a super special video because I am going to gift you, absolutely free, exclusive content from our membership community, to give you a taste of the value added content our members have access to there.

Today I’m going to teach you how to release your shoulders with a soft foam roller which will scratch the surface of myofascial release with a soft foam roller but if you want to go deeper, with this leading edge research, support from me and our amazing community then you need to be part of our membership community, and I will tell you about that at the end.

* Lie on your side with your top knee bent.

* Place foam roller in underarm. Roll up and down, side to side, and take focused breaths.

Modify against the wall.

Using the soft foam roller breaks up adhesions in your soft tissue returning it to a flexible state. When you practice self myofascial release regularly it can lead to restoring the smoothness of your fascia, improved circulation, decreased pain and overall improved range of motion.

Thank you so much for watching. If your shoulders, neck, and upper back are feeling better now, be sure to let me know in the comments and hit that thumbs up button.

At the beginning I told you I would let you know where you could go to get the leading edge research on myofascial release with a soft foam roller and more support from myself and our amazing community.

I’ve just released six more classes just like this in our membership community to release your shoulders, neck, upper back, inner thighs, groin, glutes, quadriceps and IT band, in addition to our already existing 28 videos for your connective tissue in our membership community. That means we have 35 connective tissue classes to support you, all organized for you in a comprehensive playlist including instructions and support for how to start. We are even having fun weekly and monthly challenges for Fascia February. If you would like exclusive access to this amazing content then click here to become a member today.

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Pre Reclined Meditation Roll Out – 28 mins

This soft foam roller sequence is designed to release all the points that are connected to the floor during your reclined meditation, bring them into a more relaxed state and connect them more deeply to the ground. You will begin the night before by releasing your feet. Then we release your spine, and upper back. We move to your glutes, so that your buttocks can rest completely on the ground. We will return to your upper back and shoulders so this part of your body can thoroughly relax on the earth. There is a special sequence to soften your forearms for deeper relaxation of your shoulders and hands. Finally we will do a self-myofascial massage for your neck so that your head can rest completely on the ground.

Soft Foam Roller Shoulder Release Do you have tight shoulders and neck muscles from keyboarding, texting and hours at a desk? Then this video is for you. If you keep your arms by the side of your body a lot for keyboarding, texting, desk work, eating, driving, you need this five minute fascial release. This […]

Cadboro Bay and Kingzett Lake We started our week at Kingzett Lake which is better known as the Quarry at Shawnigan Lake by the locals. This was a beautiful, yet haunting space to spend some time getting out in nature. I continued to be sick this week so this was a nice little trip to […]