Warrior One Hi I’m Dr. Melissa West Welcome to Yoga Lifestyle with Melissa Today we have a question that comes via my website contact form: Today’s question comes from Marcelys from Venezuela

Appreciation for You #Thankful I started this week getting ready for our Members Motivation Meetup and then doing some art with fire! The art journal was incredibly cathartic. We art journaled and then burned pieces of it and then put it into our art journal. This was an exercise with Mary Beth Shaw from Stencilgirl […]

Advice for sitting cross legged Hi I’m Dr. Melissa West Welcome to Yoga Lifestyle with Melissa Props Needed: Blocks Today we have a question from Ellen from Facebook

Short but Fun in Victoria I started my week on Thursday. We filmed Weekly Yoga with Dr. Melissa West on a gorgeous beach. Tim did some drone flying to show you the amazing views. We did a fun yoga fusion of yoga and qigong with animal play. Moss Street Paint in was so fun with […]

Yoga for Upper Body Strength Today we are going to be talking about yoga for upper body strength, why it is so important, why yoga is good for strength and muscle and which yoga poses in particular are good for upper body strength. Why is upper body strength so important? The more muscle mass you […]

Across the Land and Sea We started this week with our hiking group, Nature Victoria Explorations, with a walk called where the land meets the sea. Watch and see lots of living creatures from the tidal pools. On Tuesday morning we filmed Yoga with Melissa episode 339 on the poem Be Danced by Jewel Mathieson. […]

Brain Yoga and Pregnancy Hi I’m Dr. Melissa West, Welcome to Living Your Yoga. I have one of our favourite guests here for you today here on Living Your yoga. Tim Anderson is here to offer some modifications for rolling for pregnant woman. One of the questions I get asked a lot is what precautions […]

New Beginnings This week started with a very special visitor, one of my best friends in the whole world came to visit me. Many of you will know her as well as Kelly from Kelly’s Bake Shoppe, Lettuce Love Cafe and now the author of Made with Love Cookbook. Kelly made a trip to Vancouver […]

Tim Anderson Hi I’m Dr. Melissa West and welcome to Living Your Yoga. Today I am here with one of your favourite guests, Tim Anderson of Original Strength. A few weeks ago, Tim did a fabulous video for us all about head nods. We talked all about how head nods stimulate your vestibular system and […]

Milestones We started our week with a seaweed walk with the CRD. I learned so much from Katie. Did you know that seaweed forests account for 80% of our oxygen. We also did a photoshoot for Squeezed that day. Tim and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this week. Trinity finished middle school this week […]