Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 718

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This soothing restorative yoga class is designed to gently support your parasympathetic nervous system, focusing on cultivating a healthy balance of ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation. By the end of the practice, you'll feel deeply relaxed, meditative, and grounded—a state many describe as feeling truly “zenned out.”

Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga Sequence

Vagus Nerve Reset

Restorative Child’s Pose

Eye Yoga

Restorative Locust

Diaphragmatic Breathing

Restorative Bridge

Mudra for Security

Props Needed: Bolster, 2 Blocks, meditation cushion or chair

Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717

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✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this beginner-friendly full-body yin yoga class, we’ll explore the principles of yin: finding your edge, softening, becoming still, and staying for awhile. This quiet, introspective practice focuses on the deeper layers of the body—connective tissues, ligaments, and joints—primarily in the hips, pelvis, and spine. Through longer holds and gentle surrender, you’ll cultivate patience, trust, and a sense of ease while encouraging your nervous system to relax and reset.

Whether you’re new to yin yoga or returning to your practice, this class offers a supportive space to slow down, soften, and let gravity do the work. I’ll provide options for props and show you how to use everyday items like pillows or blankets if you don’t have yoga props at home. Join me to release tension, find balance, and welcome the yin qualities of stillness, rest, and compassion.

Props Needed: Wall, Blanket, Block, Strap, Bolster (options will be given if you don’t have these props)

Poem: After Softening by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Full Moon Yoga Nidra | December Cold Moon | YWM 714

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This Full Moon Wolf Moon Yoga Nidra is designed to support your nervous system and guide you through a transformative practice of clearing and release. The Wolf Moon, named for the howling wolves of winter, symbolizes survival, resilience, and the instinctual need for connection and renewal. Under the light of the full moon—when energy builds to its peak—we are invited to let go of fear, resentment, guilt, and other accumulated stressors that weigh on our nervous system. Through this deeply restorative yoga nidra, you’ll access the unconscious patterns and beliefs that keep you stuck in survival mode, using intention and awareness to transmute them into higher vibrational states of love, peace, and vitality.

This yoga nidra is not just for the full moon; you can return to it anytime you need to support your nervous system, release stress, or create space for growth and transformation. With the power of the full moon, we’ll clear the energetic pathways in your body, bringing balance and resilience to your nervous system and aligning with your true essence. This practice is a gentle reminder of your capacity to reset, restore, and reconnect with the highest version of yourself. Take this time to honor your need for rest and renewal, and embrace the opportunity to clear what no longer serves you.

Morning Yoga for Winter | Qigong Yoga Flow | Yoga with Melissa 715 

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This 30-minute morning yoga stretch is designed to help you shake off the sluggish, low-energy that comes with winter’s dark, short days. ❄️ The perfect morning yoga for beginners or seasoned practitioners, this qigong yoga fusion class combines simple movements and breathing exercises to bring balance and vitality to your mornings.

Transform the stuck, stagnant, slow energy of the most yin time of year into uplifting, flowing energy. This gentle yet powerful morning yoga flow will:

✨ Boost vitality

✨ Awaken your natural energy

✨ Clear mental fog

✨ Shake off stagnant emotions

✨ Uplift your spirit

By stimulating circulation and breaking up stagnation, this class helps energize your body and awaken your spirit, so you feel ready to take on the day. 🧘‍♀️

Whether you’re feeling lethargic or need to clear stuck energy, this morning yoga for energy will leave you feeling refreshed, focused, and balanced without exhaustion.

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30 minute morning yoga sessions

Morning yoga for energy and focus

Morning yoga for winter mornings

Join me to energize your body, uplift your mood, and awaken your natural vitality with this revitalizing qigong yoga flow. Let’s transform winter’s low, slow energy into vitality and flow. 🌟

Full Moon Yoga Nidra | December Cold Moon | YWM 714

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This yoga nidra is for your deep rest, an internal retreat designed for the colder months of winter. Consider it a time to recharge, nourish yourself and conserve your energy for the inevitable growth that will arrive in spring.

This full moon is a perfect time to rest, recharge, nourish yourself and conserve your energy for the growth of the coming spring.

I’m Melissa and here on this channel I offer yoga nidra for deep rest and nervous system resilience.

This time of year is a perfect time for visioning and planning your new year and Yoga Nidra is a transformative practice that goes so far beyond rest. It leverages receptive brainwave states to embed intentions deeply, fostering profound personal growth and healing.

As always there will be an audio download for our members in our membership community. We have over 80 yoga nidras in our video library and a month-long rest incubator to renew your energy.

Like, Subscribe, & Share this practice to inspire others, and together let’s create a ripple of transformation. Let me know in the comments what you are visioning for 2025.

Neck & Shoulder Pain Relief | Yoga Qigong Fusion | YWM 713

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Start your day feeling relaxed and pain-free with this gentle yoga and qigong fusion class. Suitable for beginners and anyone looking to relieve neck and shoulder tension, this session focuses on moving your body to improve blood flow, release stagnation, and minimize pain. You'll learn how to move with ease, replacing tension with relaxation in every movement.

This practice isn't just about your neck and shoulders—it engages your whole body to create a sense of flow and balance. Perfect for the morning, it will leave you feeling refreshed, restored, and ready to take on your day. 💖✨

I’m Melissa and here on this channel I offer qigong yoga flows like this that you can practice outside with no props, not even a mat. 

Imagine a world where people experienced the pain relief of yoga—let’s make that vision a reality together. Like, Subscribe, Share with somebody you love who experiences neck and shoulder pain and put “my neck and shoulders feel so much better in the comments.

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Join me for a soothing Full Moon Yoga Nidra as we honor the luminous Full Beaver Moon, the final supermoon of the year, shining larger and brighter in the sky. This unique full moon calls us to gather our inner resources and prepare for the darker winter months, a time of deep rest and gentle reflection. Just as the beaver diligently constructs its lodge in preparation for the cold, we, too, can use this time to clear emotional and mental tension, creating spaciousness within ourselves. By releasing what we no longer need, we open up space for true rest, inviting peace and stillness into our hearts and minds.

In this Full Beaver Moon Yoga Nidra, we’ll explore the symbolism of the beaver’s cozy, protective lodge as a source of inspiration for creating safe, supportive environments around and within us. Winter invites us to slow down, conserve energy, and embrace the quiet transformation that comes with inward reflection. As we transition from autumn’s dynamic, transformative energy into the introspective stillness of winter, this practice will guide you to settle into your own inner sanctuary—a place where rest, renewal, and gentle growth can unfold. Let this yoga nidra be your time to pause, to connect with your natural rhythms, and to prepare for the season of quiet introspection ahead.

Yin Yoga for Sleep | Yoga with Melissa 711 

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Prepare to ease into rest with this 60-minute yin yoga for sleep class designed by Melissa West. This evening yin yoga for sleep and relaxation invites you into a receptive, passive state to cultivate deep relaxation. With calming 5-minute holds and abundant options, Melissa West’s Yin Yoga gently guides you through poses that support letting go, softening, and allowing gravity to do the work, mirroring the process of sleep itself. This yin yoga for better sleep class honors the transition to night, encouraging you to welcome stillness, tune into the quietude of yin energy, and align with your body’s natural sleep cues.

In this yin yoga for good sleep session, you’ll embrace darkness and enter a healing state of release, guided by Melissa West’s approach to yin yoga for better sleep. By creating an atmosphere of reverence and calming mental activity, this yin yoga to sleep well fosters a sense of inner peace and prepares the body for restful sleep. Melissa West’s Yoga is your companion for slowing down, connecting with your natural circadian rhythms, and opening yourself to the deep restorative powers of yin yoga for sleep. Let this 60-minute yin yoga for sleep journey invite you into a state of surrender and restoration.

Yin Yoga for Sleep Sequence 

Legs Up the Wall 

Keyhole

Frog

Bananasana 

Half Shoe Lace 

Cat Pulling It’s Tail 

Savasana

Props Needed: Wall, Blanket, Bolster

Restorative Yoga for Back Pain Relief | Yoga with Melissa 710

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In this restorative yoga class, we’ll gently explore ways to relieve back pain by cultivating patience, compassion, and self-kindness. Using restorative yoga poses for back pain, we’ll focus on accepting our current experience without forcing change, inviting a sense of openness and ease into the body. 

This practice is about creating space—both physically and emotionally—to release the layers of tension that often accompany chronic back pain. As we breathe deeply, we’ll calm the mind, activate the vagus nerve, and transition from a state of stress to relaxation.

Healing back pain is a journey, not a quick fix. I encourage you to celebrate each small victory, whether it’s finding comfort in a pose, feeling a subtle shift in pain, or noticing an increase in your emotional resilience. Restorative yoga gives us the space to be still, to release stored emotions, and to acknowledge that healing is not linear. Take this time to slow down, breathe deeply, and restore balance, as we allow the body to soften and open to its natural healing.

Legs up the Wall 

Keyhole 

Supported Bridge Pose 

Hand to Big Toe Pose 

Supported Bridge Pose 

Reclined Twist  Child’s Pose in Center Reclined Twist 

Savasana 

Props Needed: Wall, Block, Bolster, Yoga Strap

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In this yoga nidra practice, we will explore the deep restorative power of rest to heal from the exhaustion that comes from chronic stress and overwhelm. This session is designed to address dorsal vagal shutdown, a response in the nervous system where the body "shuts down" to conserve energy after prolonged periods of stress. This shutdown can manifest as profound fatigue, emotional numbness, and a need to withdraw from daily life.

Many of us, especially those who habitually overwork, over-give, and push past boundaries, experience this kind of depletion. When our nervous system is constantly activated, it can lead to a state of collapse, where both body and mind feel deeply drained.

Yoga nidra offers a pathway back to balance. Through this practice, we will create space for deep rest, allowing the nervous system to reset and recover. You will be guided through gentle body awareness, breathwork, and sensory relaxation, inviting your body to move from exhaustion into a state of healing. This practice is a powerful antidote to overdoing, helping you reconnect with your inner reserves and nourish yourself from within.

Rest as  remedy is central to this yoga nidra, emphasizing the importance of self-care and boundaries as essential tools in preventing further shutdown. Allow yourself the time and space to experience true rest, replenishing your energy and restoring your body’s natural rhythm.

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Playlist for the Navigate Your Nervous System Series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdFcYtDajz211W6al_imYcQfdPOL9l7Gn&si=IAA2LjVl1gOEOIVj