Yoga with Melissa

Absolute Beginners Today’s yoga class is designed for the absolute beginner. You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions […]

Harmonize Over the last fourteen weeks we have nourished our energy, flowed to the depths of our support, gathered our energy reserves, reflected on our inner needs, slowed down, connected with our belly, turned inward, made space, restored our energy, cleared our mind, protected our energy and connected with our energy. This invisible life force […]

Connect with Your Energy Members I recommend you practice this before this class: Hand Connective Tissue Class: click here When we re-establish our connection with the life energy inside of ourselves, our scattered, exhausted Self comes to wholeness again. Instead of allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed or entertained by outside stimuli, we have the choice […]

Preserve your Energy There are three aspects to your energy: the quantity of energy you have running through your system, the quality of your energy and the content of your energy, that is the programming or message of your energy. Each person’s energy has a specific content, for example, you can watch a film that […]

Clear Your Mind We tend to rely on our minds to interpret our experience of the world. Yet our thinking mind interprets the world through cultural constructs that are separate from our true, direct, spontaneous experience of life. We hold thought with great value and yet they are simply interpretations of a collection of cultural […]

Restore Your Energy : Our lives are busy, demanding, challenging, noisy, full of toxins, information overload and non-stop activity. It is not surprising that we feel drained, stressed, scattered and run down. Today’s practice will focus on restoring your energy, but this takes time and focused concentration. Consider this. You spend one hour a day […]

Yoga to Declutter : Members: I would recommend you practice this week’s Weekly Challenge prior to practicing this class as it will prepare your fascia for this class and make it easier to practice: On our membership site we practiced a Transitioning into the New Year retreat this year between December 26th and December 31st. […]

yoga for focus : In our culture our attention tends to be pulled out in many different competing directions. Information technology and multimedia fragments our attention flickering from one stream to another moment to moment. Multi-tasking or dividing our attention from one task to another in rapid succession drains our energy. Our wonderful world of […]

restorative yoga We are coming through a holiday season in Western culture where over consuming and over-activity are part of our daily landscape. Many of us have spent the last two weeks rushing around, staying up late, spending and buying more. Although the festivities can be fun this culturally imposed agenda is at odds with […]

yoga sequence for third chakra In Japanese culture a person is not considered an adult until they have “made their belly.” In yoga we recognize this energy center as your third chakra or solar plexus. Your body’s center is also known as your hara or the brain of your cells. What does making your belly […]