Yoga with Melissa

Yin Yoga

This 30 minute yin yoga sequence is a full and complete yin yoga class that will support you in letting go. This mindful yoga will guide you into deep yin yoga stretches that will support your relaxation and release symptoms of anxiety as well so that you can surrender to your inner flow.

This yin yoga class will support your full body with the use of props including bolster, blocks, blanket, yoga strap and eye pillow.

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Hatha Yoga

This hatha yoga full class on youtube will get you up and moving. It is a class that is appropriate for beginners with lots of modifications but will also challenge intermediate level yogis as well. This is a great guided hatha yoga practice that will bring joy to your morning practice and one that you could practice daily as well. Melissa West is a trained hatha yoga teacher and is known for her hatha yoga videos here on YouTube.

You are going to love this hatha yoga sequence which will combine standing postures with some hatha yoga clow. It is a 30 minute hatha yoga class that includes some standing twists, side bends, eye yoga, breath of joy. You will be doing a hatha yoga flow between chair pose, warrior three and revolved warrior three.

There will be another hatha yoga flow sequence between wide legged standing forward fold and goddess victory squat along with some variations of goddess victory squat.

This class includes some movement in warrior two and cobra. Work your core with boat pose. Modifications will be given for those with back issues. We will finish with twists in easy pose and a poem in savasana. Our poem today is: Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve - Adam Zagajewski

Pick A Card Yoga

01:48 - 14:52 Pile 1

14:54 - 24:17 Pile 2

24:18 - 35:36 Pile 3

Today I am coming out of the spiritual closet with one of my favourite glimmers - oracle cards! You may or may not have seen the pick a card videos on YouTube. One of my favourite channels is Teacup Tarot. It got me thinking, why not create a pick a card yoga class. Basically there will be 3 piles each one represents a different yoga class.

These hatha yoga sequences are suitable for level 1 or level 2, beginner or intermediate level hatha yoga students. The first two classes are more hatha yoga in style and sequencing. The first class you will need a wall. The third class you will need a block. The third class is more restorative in nature. There are some

Spoiler! If you don’t want to know what is in your class don’t read below!

Pile 1 Hatha Yoga Sequence:

Legs Up the Wall with Alternate Nostril Breathing

Legs Up the Wall with Eagles Legs and Eagles Arms

Lunge Pose or Anjaneyasana

Warrior 1

Savasana

Pile 2 Hatha Yoga Sequence:

Cat Pose

Breath of Joy

Goddess Victory Squat

Savasana

Pile 3

Props Needed - Block

Supported Bridge Pose with Block

Supported Locust Pose

Basic Exercise

Savasana

Yin Yoga Wall

This 60 minute yin yoga sequence with minimal cues will get into your hips, shoulders and upper back. It is a deep stretch that is calming and will provide you with stress relief. Over 60 minutes we will give you a deep stretch in your upper and lower body through this yin yoga wall sequence. Consider this a full body yin yoga sequence that is deep stretch for your upper and lower back using the wall. At the same time it is gentle yoga at the walm that will leave you feeling calm and relaxed.

We will be holding each of the yin yoga poses at the wall for five minutes.

Legs Up the Wall - 5 mins

Keyhole - 5 mins

Dangling 5 mins

Broken Wing Against the Wall 5 mins

Melting Heart Against the Wall 5 mins

Legs Up the Wall 5 mins

Yoga Nidra for Anxiety

This full length guided yoga nidra/sleep yoga for anxiety and insomnia will help you let go of anxiety and stress to experience a deep inner peace and calm for a night free of insomnia. Through the practice of yoga nidra we can surrender the ceaseless running of the restless mind, let go of the accumulated tension in the body, stop, let go of controlling the uncontrollable and rest into our body's own well-being for deep night’s sleep. 

When we are caught up in a cycle of anxiety, we are often trying to do too much. We are caught in a cycle of doing, doing, doing. It is excessive urgency. We feel like we have to control everything and manage everything by doing. To control the anxiety we just try to do more. 

Through yoga nidra your body and mind will be led  into a relaxation response and excess stress hormones such as cortisol are removed from the system. Your muscles relax, your heart slows down, your breath deepens. Your body releases GABA which is calming, as well as melatonin and serotonin. Yoga nidra restores the parasympathetic nervous system balance, reversing the tendency to move into anxiety under stress allowing you to have deep sleep and let go of insomnia. 

In this yoga nidra video for anxiety and insomnia you are going to connect you with your capacity for self and emotional regulation to relieve anxiety and insomnia.  

This will give you a small taste of my 5 day #clearyourmindchallenge from April 19-23. 

We live in a world of noise, excess, overwhelm, overload, overrun with too much of a good thing and our bodies, minds, emotions, energy bodies and spirits cannot possibly adapt 

The result is anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, confusion, poor concentration and difficulty prioritizing 

Each day we will practice one yin yoga postures which will support you in absorbing the exact nutrients and dosage that you need each day to radiate the balanced expression of your True self in the world. 

We will step back from overfeeding ourselves or feeding ourselves the wrong things - physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, spiritually. Through yin yoga, one posture a day our bodies will be able to tune in #clearyourmindchallenge 

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There will be no close out today so that you can enjoy the peace in your body or drift into sleep, so thank you for putting “I am calm and relaxed” in the comments, subscribing and liking this video before your start. 

I will put the direct link to the downloadable audio file for our members in the show notes and a link to become a member if you would like access to the downloadable file which is just the yoga nidra without any YouTube advertising or promotion, it starts right with the spoken guided yoga nidra that you can download onto your phones and devices to listen anywhere in your earbuds. 

Today you are going to need: 2 blankets, bolster, eye pillow.

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Yin Yoga for Small Intestine

This 30 minute yin yoga class for your fire element and small intestine meridian will pull and pressurize the tissues of your upper back, shoulder and neck supporting you in clearing your mind. By pulling and pressurizing the deep tissues of your upper back, shoulders and neck you will be stimulating the flow of chi along the energy pathways of your small intestine meridian which will leave you with a clear mind.

Your small intestine meridian starts at the outside of your baby finger and runs up the outside of your forearm to the back of your shoulder, the back of your neck. One branch runs internally through your heart, through our stomach and to your small intestine. Another branch runs externally across your neck, to your cheek, to th router corner of your eye and then enters your ear. There is a third short branch which runs to the inner corner of your eye which connects with the bladder meridian.

Qi stagnation is causes pain. In terms of pain in your upper back neck and shoulders we can look to your small intestine meridian channel. Biologically your small intestine meridian is responsible for breaking down your food and absorbing its nutrients. From the traditional chinese medicine perspective, your small intestine meridian system supports you in breaking down your experiences, relationships, thoughts, and emotions.

This yin yoga class will support you in taking a small step back to reflect on the root causes of anxiety, insomnia, and circular thoughts by making sure that we are not overfeeding ourselves or feeding ourselves the wrong things - physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, spiritually.

If you would like to go further and explore the teachings of this class in depth, I invite you to join me for my 5 day #clearyourmindchallenge

5 Day #clearyourmindchallenge April 19-23, 2021

We live in a world of noise, excess, overwhelm, overload, overrun with too much of a good thing and our bodies, minds, emotions, energy bodies and spirits cannot possibly adapt

The result is anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, confusion, poor concentration and difficulty prioritizing

Each day we will practice one yin yoga postures which will support you in absorbing the exact nutrients and dosage that you need each day to radiate the balanced expression of your True self in the world.

We will step back from overfeeding ourselves or feeding ourselves the wrong things - physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, spiritually. Through yin yoga, one posture a day our bodies will be able to tune in #clearyourmindchallenge

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Yin Yoga

This 30 minute yin yoga class for your fire element and small intestine meridian will pull and pressurize the tissues of your upper back, shoulder and neck supporting you in clearing your mind. By pulling and pressurizing the deep tissues of your upper back, shoulders and neck you will be stimulating the flow of chi along the energy pathways of your small intestine meridian which will leave you with a clear mind. 

Today’s class is a 30 minute minimal cues yin yoga to clear your mind. There will be no instruction except when to come in and out of the yin yoga poses. In this class we assume you have knowledge and experience of the yin postures and the principles of yin. You will be holding your yin postures for 3-5 minutes. Modifications and Options will be given, but briefly to honour minimal cues. 

If you would like to go further and explore the teachings of this class in depth, I invite you to join me for my 5 day #clearyourmindchallenge 

5 Day #clearyourmindchallenge 

We live in a world of noise, excess, overwhelm, overload, overrun with too much of a good thing and our bodies, minds, emotions, energy bodies and spirits cannot possibly adapt 

The result is anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, confusion, poor concentration and difficulty prioritizing 

Each day we will practice one yin yoga postures which will support you in absorbing the exact nutrients and dosage that you need each day to radiate the balanced expression of your True self in the world. 

We will step back from overfeeding ourselves or feeding ourselves the wrong things - physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, spiritually. Through yin yoga, one posture a day our bodies will be able to tune in #clearyourmindchallenge 

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Yin Yoga

Today’s class is a 60 minute minimal cues yin yoga to support you in coming home to your heart and taking a mental break. There will be no instruction except to cue you to come in and out of the yin yoga poses. In this class I assume you have knowledge of the yin postures and the principles of yin. You will be holding your yin postures for 5 minutes. Modifications and Options will be given, but briefly to honour minimal cues.

Props Recommended: bolster, blocks, eye pillow, blanket, yoga strap

Yoga with a Strap

This is a 30 minute, real time yoga class on how to use a yoga strap. In this class we will use a yoga strap or a yoga belt and I will demonstrate several yoga strap yoga exercises that are suitable for yoga beginners to intermediate yoga practitioners. 

The focus will be on using the yoga strap in yoga postures to release your hips and hamstrings. So we will be using the yoga strap for hips stretches and we will be using the yoga strap for hamstring stretches. Additionally I will be using the yoga strap to for shoulder stretches and to improve your shoulder mobility. A lot of focus will be given to how to use the yoga strap for posture as we practice our standing yoga poses. I will show you how to use your yoga strap in boat pose to strengthen your abdominals. 

Time throughout the class will be given to show you how to tie the yoga strap in the various postures from savasana or corpse pose, to boat pose, to yoga poses for posture. 

Props Needed: 8 or 10 foot yoga strap 

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10 min Yoga Breath to Purge Inner Anger

In just 10 minutes I am going to offer you 3 yoga breathing techniques to support you in purging inner anger, rage, frustration & resentment. These simple and easy to perform yoga breathing techniques will support you in releasing anger when it feels stuck inside you. According to traditional chinese medicine, anger resides in our liver and so we will spend extra time with yoga breathing to release anger from our liver organ for when anger feels stuck inside our bodies. This is a 10 minute guided yoga breathing to purge the repressed anger, to calm resentment and frustration. You do not need any props for this class. It is all done from a standing position.