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Yoga with Melissa
Dr. Melissa West
100 episodes
6 days ago
Yoga videos and Yoga Membership Site with Dr. Melissa West. Canadas 1 FREE One Hour Weekly Online Yoga Show. Yoga videos and yoga downloads.
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Fitness
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Yoga with Melissa
Full Body Morning Yoga to Feel Your BEST | YWM 739


Wake up your whole body and feel your best with this energizing morning yoga practice. In this class, you’ll move through a dynamic flow designed to open your hips, lengthen tight hamstrings, strengthen your core, and challenge your balance. You’ll also work on releasing tension from your upper back and shoulders, helping you start the day with more ease, freedom, and vitality. This well-rounded sequence combines strength, mobility, and mindful movement so you can feel both grounded and uplifted when you step off the mat.

This class is perfect for mornings when you want to boost circulation, improve posture, and bring your mind into sharp, present focus. Whether you’re easing into your day or preparing for a busy schedule ahead, the intentional combination of hip openers, balancing poses, and targeted strength work will leave you feeling centered, mobile, and strong. Grab a block, roll out your mat, and let’s practice together.

Poem: The Once Invisible Garden by Laura Foley
Props: Yoga Block and strap
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6 days ago
45 minutes 12 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Calming Vagus Nerve Yoga | Hatha into Yin Practice YWM 738


Calming Vagus Nerve Yoga | Hatha into Yin Practice YWM 738
Membership  https://www.melissawest.com/membership

The intention behind this class is to start standing to down regulate your nervous system from a state of activation into a state of regulation so that you can be more comfortable being still. If you come to your yoga mat, especially a class where there is a lot of stillness like yin yoga or restorative yoga and you find a lot of restlessness, it is incredibly important to move that trapped or repressed energy through first before you become still. Then it will be more comfortable when you are still. 

This combination of hatha followed by yin gives the space to downregulate your nervous system, to release the excess energy that wants to fight or run away to prepare you to become still. So we will start standing with standing postures that release excess energetic tension from the body and gradually make our way to some seated yin yoga poses to be more comfortable in stillness. This is a great practice to release the day, at the end of the day to prepare for bed so you can make that gradual transition from alert and maybe even buzzy to prepare your body to relax, rest and restore through sleep. 

Props Needed: Yoga Strap, blanket
Poem: The Crystal Gazer by Sarah Teasdale 

We have 22 vagus nerve classes in our membership designed to navigate regulating your nervous system with yoga. 

Here’s a link for members: https://www.members.melissawest.com/courses/ventral-vagus-activation/ 

Here’s a link to become a member:    https://www.melissawest.com/membership
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1 week ago
44 minutes 20 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Restorative Yoga When Sick 🤧| Yoga with Melissa 737


Restorative Yoga When Sick | Yoga with Melissa 737

This restorative yoga class is designed for when you're under the weather, whether it’s a cold like I have or your immune system is struggling. Every pose is supported to help ease congestion and exhaustion, with your head elevated to reduce sinus pressure and gentle postures that encourage lymphatic drainage in the armpits and groin.

Throughout the practice, you'll be guided by the poetry of Jeff Foster, his words offer a kind of presence that meets your illness with softness rather than resistance. This class will give you the  permission to rest rather than feel any need to push through. 

Yoga for Immunity Videos on YouTube

Best Video to Prevent Illness Before You Get Sick – Immunity Boost
This class is designed to support your immune system by activating your thymus, spleen, and lymphatic pathways while strengthening your energetic boundaries. You’ll finish the class feeling more resilient and grounded.

Members: Click Here

Best Yoga Videos Once You Are Sick
Yoga for Recuperation Series:

Restorative Yoga for Illness Acceptance – 36 mins

Yoga Nidra for Healing – 32 mins (member favourite)
Yoga for your Spleen – 25 mins

Yoga for your Thymus and Tonsils – 23 mins

Members: Click Here


I also love our lymphatic massage videos for prevention and recovery: 

Members: Click Here

Become a Member:
https://www.melissawest.com/membership/membership-sign-up/
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2 weeks ago
55 minutes 2 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
This MORNING YOGA is SO GOOD ✨ bright, easy + lingers all day | YWM 736


This MORNING YOGA is SO GOOD bright, easy + lingers all day | YWM 736
Join our Membership: https://melissawest.com/membership

Wake up this morning with a bright, easy, hatha yoga class that will linger all day! This class will open your hips and hamstrings, and release your spine and shoulders. The class builds to variations on triangle pose. There are also some great core strengthening exercises, invigorating breath practices to energize you for the day and a fun forward fold sequence to round out the class. If you are looking for a 45 minute hatha yoga class for your morning routine, I’ve got you covered. 

Want more like this? 

Our membership library with over 1,000 ad-free videos, has an entire Morning Yoga section and monthly calendars to support your daily practice.

Join us here: https://melissawest.com/membership

Poem: Savasana 

In Less Than Fifteen Minutes Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 

Props Needed: Yoga Strap, Block 
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1 month ago
46 minutes 21 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
This BEGINNER YOGA is ACTUALLY DOABLE! ✨simple, gentle + easy to follow | YWM 735


This beginner hatha yoga class is actually doable. Designed in my real yoga for real people supportive style, this class invites you to slow down. Don’t worry, this class has only simple movements and an unhurried pace. You’ll find a spaciousness in each posture. You don’t need any previous experience or any props.

Expect a kind and confidence-building approach that doesn’t rush or overwhelm. You’ll move through foundational poses that relieve stress and tension, restore your energy, and leave you feeling more at ease in your body. This class is both relaxing and low-effort and is suitable for beginners, but I think my more seasoned students will appreciate its simplicity as well! Oh! And for those of you who are looking for a morning yoga class, this is a great class to start your day.

Poem: U PICK by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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1 month ago
38 minutes 33 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
10 minute Yoga Nidra Full Body Scan | Yoga with Melissa 734


10 minute Yoga Nidra Full Body Scan | Yoga with Melissa 734

Membership https://www.melissawest.com/membership

This 10 minute yoga nidra is a short guided practice that will take you through a full body scan.


In this 10-minute Yoga Nidra, I’ll guide you through a deeply restorative body scan to help you feel both grounded and renewed.

Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that supports your nervous system and offers profound rest. It can be especially helpful for insomnia, anxiety, stress, adrenal fatigue, and more.

In this practice, you’ll be invited into a state of conscious rest physically relaxed, mentally calm, and emotionally at ease, while staying awake and aware. You’ll gently move through waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states, all while anchored in the present moment. This guided meditation often brings clarity, stillness, and spacious insight.

Research suggests that an hour of Yoga Nidra may be as restorative as four hours of deep sleep. In just ten minutes, allow your body to release tension, your breath to soften, and your awareness to settle into calm.

Ready to go deeper into rest, renewal, and nervous system nourishment?

Join us for our month-long REST incubator inside the membership, where you'll be supported with daily restorative practices and a space to truly exhale.

Membership https://www.melissawest.com/membership

You can find my full yoga nidra playlist on youtube here: Yoga Nidra Playlist 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhoiKGTgfb0&list=PLdFcYtDajz23N4cwJUNgJtFsV0wyz7L-D

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2 months ago
13 minutes 7 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Morning Deep Wake Up Stretch | Yin Yoga | YWM 733


Morning Deep Wake Up Stretch | Yin Yoga | YWM 733
Join our Membership https://www.melissawest.com/membership

Start your day with deep presence and poetic nourishment in this gentle Yin Yoga practice designed to awaken your body and spirit. Inspired by John O’Donohue’s A Morning Offering, this class invites you to meet the dawn not with urgency, but with reverence. Through long, supported holds and mindful stillness, we soften into the invisible geography of a new beginning, stretching deeply into your side body, shoulders, and hips while tuning into the quiet presence of your breath.

Each pose: Broken Wing, Bananasana, Dragon (Lunge), and Fish offers a space to find your appropriate edge, soften into sensation, and stay awhile. These 3-minute holds help rehydrate your fascia, release habitual tension, and invite in emotional clarity. You’ll close the practice with Fish Pose and a re-reading of John O’Donohue’s A Morning Offering, letting the resonance of poetry settle into your cells. Let this be a meditative start to your day.

Props: 2 blocks
3 minute holds in poses

Poem: John O’Donohue’s A Morning Offering

Ready to go deeper?
Join us inside the Yoga with Melissa Membership this June where we’re devoting the entire month to Myofascial Release (MFR) a gentle, science-backed way to hydrate your fascia, restore mobility, and reconnect with your inner energy matrix.

You’ll learn how to reorganize your tissue.

It’s not just about flexibility. It’s about coherence.
It’s not just physical. It’s energetic.

When your fascia is hydrated, you don’t just move better you feel more connected, more alive, more in tune.
Come experience the transformation that happens when fascia is met with love, pressure, and presence.
https://www.melissawest.com/membership
Let’s melt the tension and reawaken your body's living light together.
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2 months ago
32 minutes 48 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
15 Min Morning Yoga STRETCH to Feel CALM All Day | YWM 731


15 Min Morning Yoga STRETCH to Feel CALM All Day | YWM 731
Join Our Membership  https://www.melissawest.com/membership

Begin your day by gently coming home to yourself. In this 15-minute morning yoga stretch, we move with softness and presence, tuning into the steadiness beneath the surface. As you arrive on your mat, you’ll be guided to attune your body, breath, and energy to a grounded rhythm—one that invites clarity, calm, and centeredness to naturally unfold throughout your day.

This is a nourishing practice to support emotional regulation, nervous system balance, and inner spaciousness. Whether you woke up feeling rushed, scattered, or just needing a moment of quiet connection, this class offers a steady anchor. Let calm become your resting rhythm and carry it with you into whatever the day brings.

Want to take your stretching to the next level?
In June inside our membership, we’re diving deep into fascia-focused yoga. You’ll learn how slow, sustained myofascial release (MFR) can hydrate your tissue, restore elasticity, and support long-term flexibility and emotional resilience. If you’ve been feeling stiff, stuck, or overstimulated, this month is designed to gently unwind and reorganize your system—at the cellular level.

Join us for a full month of guided fascia release practices, live sessions, and somatic support:
Membership https://www.melissawest.com/membership
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3 months ago
18 minutes 38 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Restorative Yoga for Digestion & Deep Nervous System Reset | YWM 730


Restorative Yoga for Digestion & Deep Nervous System Reset | YWM 730 

This class is a gentle invitation to return to your body’s natural intelligence. When life feels too fast, too demanding, or too much to process, your digestion often reflects it — through tightness, bloating, or sluggishness. In this practice, we soften the nervous system’s need to control, brace, or push through. You’ll be guided to shift from sympathetic overdrive into the parasympathetic “rest and digest” state — where healing, nourishment, and true integration become possible.

This class supports both physical digestion and emotional release, using restorative shapes, energetic cues, and frequency alignment to remind your system: you are safe to receive. You don’t need to earn rest. You don’t have to fix or force anything. Let sensation move through without labeling it. Let your breath and presence do the digesting. In this space of allowing, regulation becomes your boundary, trust becomes your medicine, and love becomes your inner rhythm.

Want more support for your digestive health?
We have a whole section in our video library for members dedicated to digestion — including myofascial release, pranayama, self-massage, restorative yoga, and more.
13 classes in total to help you regulate, release, and receive.

Members, access the full digestion series here:
https://www.members.melissawest.com/courses/yoga-for-digestion-constipation/

Not a member yet? Join us here:
https://www.melissawest.com/membership
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3 months ago
57 minutes 38 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Yoga Nidra for Deep Energy Healing | Frequency Repair | YWM 729


Yoga Nidra for Deep Energy Healing | Frequency Repair | YWM 729
Embody Your Energetic Blueprint melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint

This deeply restorative Yoga Nidra is designed to support energetic healing and frequency repair across all levels of your being—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and ancestral. Everything you’ve ever experienced leaves an imprint on your body. Over time, these imprints can distort your natural energy flow, creating patterns of pain, fatigue, emotional overwhelm, or disconnection from your soul’s path. Through guided awareness, intention, and subtle sensing, this Yoga Nidra helps you gently release these distortions and reconnect with your original energetic blueprint—the coherent, radiant essence of who you are.

Whether you're navigating chronic illness, emotional trauma, spiritual awakening, or ancestral entanglements, this practice invites you to soften into a healing field of coherence and clarity. You'll rotate awareness through your body, reprogram limiting patterns, and allow your nervous system to seal in a new frequency—one aligned with vitality, peace, and truth. This is a safe space to recalibrate, restore, and remember your light.

Ready to take this healing work even deeper?
Join me this summer for Embody Your Energetic Blueprint, a powerful 9-week journey through the 9 centers of your Human Design—blended with nervous system wisdom, quantum healing, and deep energetic alignment.
This is for empaths, sensitives, and seekers ready to attune to their true frequency.

Early bird pricing ends May 15 → melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint
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3 months ago
45 minutes 28 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Calming Yin Yoga Before Bed | Yoga with Melissa 728


Calming Yin Yoga Before Bed | Yoga with Melissa 728
Sign up here to explore your Human Design Energetic Blueprint this summer: https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/

In this calming yin yoga before bed class, we will gently soften the subtle undercurrents of tension and control that often surface at the end of the day. Through slow, nurturing poses and invitations into wonder, surrender, and deep trust, you’ll soothe your nervous system and open to the quiet healing currents available to you as you drift toward sleep. This practice honors the wisdom of your body’s natural rhythms, allowing you to lay down the day’s burdens and receive the profound support of the Earth and stars that are already holding you.

Bedtime is a sacred, liminal threshold where your body, mind, and spirit become deeply receptive. This calming yin yoga practice will help you unwind from mental loops of "fixing" or "doing," and instead guide you into a space of pure receiving — magnetizing nourishment, wisdom, and repair during your sleep. Through breath, stillness, and gentle self-trust, you'll remember: you don’t have to hold it all together. You are already being lovingly carried by the greater field of life itself.

Poem: Surrender by Claudia Cummins

Props Needed: Yoga Blocks, bolster, blanket 

Ready to go deeper this summer?
Join me for Embody Your Energetic Blueprint, a 10-week Nervous System-Informed Human Design Summer School!
You'll explore how to regulate and honor your energy in a way that's aligned with your soul’s true blueprint — gently, sustainably, and with deep self-trust.
Learn more and sign up here: https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/
I'd love to journey with you!

If this practice nourished you, I want to thank you so much for being here.
Every time you watch, share, or comment, you're helping co-create a space where healing, rest, and true self-expression are possible.
By supporting this channel, you're not just watching a yoga video — you're helping grow a community rooted in nervous system gentleness, soul alignment, and deep embodiment.
So if you feel called, I invite you to like this video, subscribe to the channel, and share it with someone you care about.
It's such a simple way to be part of something meaningful — and it truly means the world to me.
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3 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 6 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Gentle Morning Full Body Yoga Stretch for a Grateful Start | YWM 727


June – Embody Your Energetic Blueprint: a 9-center Human Design Summer Immersion https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/

Gratitude as a profound, embodied state that aligns us with the cosmic heart and our multidimensional essence. Gratitude is not just an emotion but a transformative force that connects us to the divine and facilitates our evolution. When we embrace gratitude, we activate a form of prayer that transcends traditional boundaries, leading to a deeper connection with the present moment and the universal flow.

Gratitude is a transformative force that fosters healing, clarity, and a harmonious resonance with the universe. When we are humble and surrender in the practice of gratitude, it allows us to receive the full spectrum of light and love available to us. In this class we can wake up with gratitude, recognizing the sacredness in every moment and aligning ourselves with the higher dimensions of consciousness.
This gentle full body morning stretch is designed to awaken your body and open your heart. In this class, we meet the day with reverence. We allow gratitude to move through the breath and fom that place of embodied presence, we infuse our day with the energy of devotion and the sacredness of being alive.
Whether you’re just waking up or simply arriving more fully into your day, this class invites
you to experience gratitude as a frequency… a gentle current beneath every breath.

Props: Yoga Strap
Poem: Gratefulness by James Crews

Want to go deeper?
If the way I teach resonates with you

May – The Solar Plexus Portal: A Nervous System Map for Empaths & Sensitives
Members, this is available as part of your membership.
Click here to become a member: https://www.melissawest.com/membership

June – Embody Your Energetic Blueprint: a 9-center Human Design summer immersion. https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/

I’d love to have you with us.
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3 months ago
38 minutes 37 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Yoga Nidra for Cellular Healing | Yoga with Melissa 726


This Yoga Nidra for Cellular Healing is a portal into deep restoration—where your body’s innate wisdom can come forward and remember how to heal. In this guided practice, you’ll be gently attuned to the intelligence of your cells, the rhythm of your breath, and the quiet coherence of your inner field. Through awareness, golden light, and the frequency of stillness, your nervous system softens, your energy recalibrates, and healing becomes a lived experience.

If you’d like to take your rest even deeper, join our Yoga with Melissa Membership. Members receive audio downloads of all my Yoga Nidras, plus access to our month-long REST Incubator—a supportive space to soften, release, and truly restore. You can learn more and join us here: https://www.melissawest.com/membership

 
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4 months ago
36 minutes 3 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Restorative Yoga for Headaches 🤕| Yoga with Melissa 725


Restorative Yoga for Headaches | Yoga with Melissa 725 

If you’re in the middle of a headache or migraine, this class is for you. As someone who experiences them weekly, I know how exhausting and overwhelming they can feel. I also know that most yoga classes marketed for headaches simply aren’t doable when you're actually in it. That’s why I created this minimal-cue restorative yoga class — a quiet, prop-supported practice designed to meet you exactly where you are, without asking anything of you.

You’ll remain in inclined, supported positions to reduce head pressure, with optional extras like a heating pad for your neck and shoulders, an ice pack for your head, and an eye pillow if you’re light sensitive. There’s no talking once you are in the poses — just gentle guidance into stillness. My hope is that this practice can be a sanctuary when you need relief, softness, and permission to rest.

Props Needed: Bolster, Blocks, Blankets, Chair
Optional Extras: Eye Pillow, Heating Pad, Ice Pack 

Looking for more gentle support for headaches and migraines?
Inside my membership, you’ll find exclusive classes like:

Headache Soother – using a soft foam roller to gently release fascia around the skull, neck, and shoulders
Yoga for Headaches & Migraines – blending acupressure, self-massage, myofascial release, and mindful movement to retrain pain pathways

These practices are crafted with care from someone who truly understands. You’re so welcome to join us here:   https://www.melissawest.com/membership
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4 months ago
49 minutes 36 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
30 minuteYoga for Flexibility Slow Flow | Yoga with Melissa 724


In this slow flow yoga class, we explore the connection between physical flexibility and nervous system adaptability—a key to staying steady in times of change. You’ll move through standing postures that mirror the grounding qualities of lying-down poses, bringing a sense of ease and release into your flexibility practice. This dynamic yet soft sequence includes hip openers, shoulder releases, and flowing movements that encourage a free and easy flow in both body and mind. By embracing flexibility on the mat, we practice meeting life with openness and resilience.

We are also in wood element season, the time of spring renewal and growth. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the liver meridian governs flexibility—not just in our muscles, but in our ability to adapt and flow with life’s transitions. If you want to dive deeper into seasonal wisdom and meridian-based yoga, check out my book on 5 Element Yin Yoga!

Explore the Wood Element & Liver Meridian in the green section of My Book https://melissawest.com/book/

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Flexibility isn’t just about movement—it’s about understanding how your body responds to stress and recovery. I’ve been using the Ultrahuman Ring to track my HRV (Heart Rate Variability), sleep quality, and overall nervous system balance, and it has been a game-changer in my practice! If you're curious about biofeedback for your well-being, check it out here.

Ultrahuman Ring https://www.ultrahuman.com/ring/buy/global/?affiliateCode=yogalifestylewithmelissa
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5 months ago
25 minutes 42 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Yin Yoga for Liver & Gallbladder Meridian | YWM 723


Yin Yoga for Liver & Gallbladder Meridian | YWM 723
Membership https://www.melissawest.com/membership

Spring is the season of the Wood Element, when the Liver & Gallbladder meridians guide the smooth flow of Qi (energy). When these meridians are in balance, we feel ease, clarity, and emotional flexibility. However, when Qi stagnates, anger, frustration, and irritation can build up. This Yin Yoga practice supports emotional detox for spring, helping you release stuck emotions, restore flow, and soothe irritation. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) inquiry, we will explore anger and frustration, allowing them to be seen and gently transformed.

This class includes a reading of “I Remember You” by Dave Ursillo and uses blocks and a blanket for support. Let go of tension, clear stagnant Qi, and connect with the free flow of energy within.

Want to go deeper? The green section of my book, Five Element Yin Yoga, explores the Wood Element in full depth.
Get the book: https://melissawest.com/book/

Join us LIVE this Sunday for a Spring Equinox workshop-style class inside our membership!
Membership https://www.melissawest.com/membership
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5 months ago
56 minutes 49 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep 😴| Yoga with Melissa 722


Download this Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep (Audio Only) & Access Our Full Library:  http://bit.ly/ywmmembership  

Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep | Release Tension & Restore Your Body

In times of accelerated awakening and transformation, deep rest is more essential than ever. This Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep is designed to help you release tension, stagnation, and unprocessed emotions held in the body. As we navigate daily stressors, our nervous system may become overwhelmed, activating states of anxiety or shutdown. This practice offers a gentle and supportive space to unwind, process, and surrender into profound relaxation, allowing your body to fully restore during sleep.

Through guided awareness and soothing breathwork, you’ll be invited to soften into safety, deepen your rest, and experience cognitive and physical repair throughout the night. Whether you struggle with overactive thoughts, restlessness, or simply want to cultivate more peaceful, nourishing sleep, this practice will guide you into a state of deep stillness—where healing naturally unfolds.

Want to Track Your Sleep & Recovery? I use the Ultrahuman Ring to monitor my sleep cycles, HRV, and recovery—helping me optimize deep rest! Get yours here :http://ultrahuman.com/yogalifestylewithmelissa Discount code: MELISSAWEST10

Love Yin Yoga? Explore the wisdom of the Five Elements and deepen your practice with my book: 5 Element Yin Yoga – Get Your Copy Here: https://melissawest.com/book/
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5 months ago
30 minutes 16 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
50 minute Gentle Morning Full Body Yoga Stretch | YWM 721


Join our membership for guided morning yoga practices that fit your energy level—plus 900+ videos to support you all day long! http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 

Get the Ultrahuman Ring AIR with my special link → http://ultrahuman.com/yogalifestylewithmelissa Discount code: MELISSAWEST10

Feeling stretched and open? Take your practice deeper with my book, 5 Element Yin Yoga, where you’ll learn how to balance your energy through the wisdom of the five elements! https://melissawest.com/book/

Start your day with softness and presence in this gentle full-body yoga morning stretch. This 50-minute hatha yoga practice with Melissa West is designed to help you ease into your morning with slow, mindful movement, releasing stiffness and awakening energy. Perfect for beginners and those looking for a calm, grounding start, this sequence focuses on opening your body with gentle stretches that bring balance and flow to your entire body. Whether you're looking for a morning yoga stretch, a beginner-friendly hatha yoga session, or a full-body yoga stretch, this practice will set the tone for a peaceful and centered day ahead.

If you love this morning yoga for beginners, explore more with Melissa West's 50-minute yoga classes inside our membership community, where you’ll find a full library of yoga designed to support your body and nervous system every day. Want to take your practice deeper? My book, 5 Element Yin Yoga, is perfect for learning how to balance your energy and cultivate a sense of harmony through yin yoga. Join me on the mat and embrace the day with ease!  

Props Needed: Yoga Strap, folded blanket 

Poem One Morning by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 
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6 months ago
51 minutes 13 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
Restorative Yoga for Hips & Low Back | YWM 720


Restorative Yoga for Hips & Low Back | Yoga with Melissa 720 

Ready to take this deeper? Join our membership for a structured journey into nervous system regulation through yoga. http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 

Our hips and lower back hold the energetic tension between flexibility and stability, expansion and support. This restorative yoga practice invites you to explore the deeper psycho-spiritual meaning of these areas through somatic experiencing and Internal Family Systems (IFS), offering space to gently unwind patterns of control, tension, and holding. By settling into long-held, supported postures, we create an opportunity to notice where we grip, where we soften, and where we can invite more fluidity, creativity, and trust in the body's wisdom. Rather than focusing on stored emotions or trauma, this class embraces the hips as a center of life force energy, adaptability, and creative flow, while the lower back reminds us of the balance between personal strength and the need for external support.

Through guided awareness and intentional pauses, you will have space to listen to the quieter parts of yourself—the parts that strive to hold everything together and the parts that long to release. With a nervous system-informed approach, this practice encourages small, sustainable shifts in how we meet resistance, how we recover, and how we expand our capacity to move through life with greater ease. Whether you’re feeling physically tight or energetically overwhelmed, this class is an invitation to trust your body's natural rhythm, find grounding amidst change, and cultivate a deep sense of spaciousness within.

If this class resonated with you, inside my membership, we are taking this even deeper this month with a guided pathway for Nervous System Regulation Through Spiritual Ascension. Each week, we integrate practices like this one into a supportive community where you can ask questions, receive guidance, and deepen your experience. You can join us inside.

Deepen Your Practice with Yin Yoga – Winter is the perfect time to nourish your low back, kidneys, and water element through deep, replenishing rest. My Yin Yoga book is filled with poses to support your hips and lower back, bringing balance to your body and mind. Get your copy here https://melissawest.com/book/
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6 months ago
48 minutes 44 seconds

Yoga with Melissa
10-Minute YOGA NIDRA RESET | Clear the NERVOUS SYSTEM Pathways | YWM 719


Get my Yin Yoga Book https://melissawest.com/book/ 
Join Our Membership Community http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 

This transformative 10-minute yoga nidra is designed to gently clear and renew your energy. Guided by the compassionate and purifying energy of the violet flame, this practice helps release fear, anger, resentment, and guilt while transmuting energies from past traumas, unresolved emotions, and stress into higher vibrations of love, peace, and clarity.

Through deep relaxation and guided visualization, you'll invite the violet flame to flow through your body, clearing energetic blockages and creating space for emotional balance and restoration. This practice offers a sanctuary of calm to reset your nervous system, release tension, and reconnect with your inner light. Whether you’re seeking to let go of heavy emotions or refresh your energy, this yoga nidra provides a nurturing, empowering experience of renewal.

This 10-minute yoga nidra reset is a condensed version of a powerful energy transmission I did with our members designed to clear and reset your nervous system pathways. In this shorter practice, you'll gently release unresolved patterns, but in the membership version we cleared blockages in your aura, chakras, and energy field, and purified their physical body, thoughts, and emotions. If you are interested in creating space for alignment with your divine essence, supporting spiritual growth, creativity, and a deep sense of inner peace consider becoming a member. 

 

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