Yoga with Melissa

Guided Meditation for Pain Relief This guided meditation was inspired by my own experience with chronic pain and was specifically designed to bring compassion and kindness to those of you who are going through the physical and emotional challenges of dealing with pain. Pain is a normal part of our human experience. Globally it is estimated that about 1 in 5 people or 1.5 billion people worldwide experience chronic pain.  This meditation is designed to bring acceptance, relaxation and softening to the experience of pain in your body. Each time you listen you will deepen the loving kindness, compassion, acceptance and  softening around pain that is possible through breathing and visualization. Repeated listening is recommended.  Affiliate Links  Ice Packs https://amzn.to/3fV4XXm  Heating Pad https://amzn.to/39zp5gS  Yoga Essentials:  Yoga Mat Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/3eD8Pfh  Yoga Blocks Cork Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Yoga Blocks Foam Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Yoga Strap Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/358Y4hG  Yoga Bolster Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/358XYXm  Meditation Cushion Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Zabuton Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc  NOTE: These links are affiliate links that Yoga With Melissa earns a small percentage from.

60 min Restorative Yoga for Immune System | Yoga with Melissa 551 This 60 minute restorative yoga class for your immune system will focus on 3 primary organs of your immune system: your thymus, lymph nodes and your spleen.  Your thymus is located behind your breastbone above your heart. Your thymus is responsible for T cells which move through your body and continually monitor the surface of your cells for changes. We will practice restorative backbend to stimulate your thymus glands.  Your lymph nodes occur anywhere there is a crease in your body. Think armpits, groin, elbow, behind your knees. Your lymph nodes act as filters trapping germs and activating antibodies in your blood. If your lymph nodes are swollen your immune system is active and fighting and infection. We will practice restorative yoga poses to access the groin, armpits and knees in this class.  Your spleen is located in your upper left abdomen underneath your diaphragm. It stores immune cells called scavenger cells that filter germs that get into your bloodstream. We will be practicing a restorative side bend to stimulate your spleen in this restorative yoga class for your immune system.  Our Poem Today is: 'All that is gold does not glitter' by J.R.R. Tolkien From Poetry Pharmacy https://amzn.to/39huWHd    Yoga Essentials:  Yoga Mat Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/3eD8Pfh  Yoga Blocks Cork Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Yoga Blocks Foam Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Yoga Strap Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/358Y4hG  Yoga Bolster Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/358XYXm  Meditation Cushion Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc  Zabuton Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca https://amzn.to/36afzxc   More Restorative Yoga  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkNYjO5ztQ8&list=PLdFcYtDajz223XO-PG40a2dalVOSv96Dv   Hatha Yoga for Immunity  https://youtu.be/BkijquQ6iGs    Hatha Yoga for a Strong Immune System https://youtu.be/1k2uGws6Re8  Healing Yoga Nidra https://youtu.be/0cBdC6yyn6k

Gratitude Sleep Meditation Fall Asleep with Gratitude By giving our attention to the simple but profound miracle of our body we can pause to surrender our day before falling asleep. This guided gratitude sleep meditation will allow you to fall asleep with gratitude each night. Through this guided meditation you will be given a moment to pause and reflect on your day. Each listening will deepen your reverence and appreciation of the simple things in your life that you may have previously taken for granted. Gratitude will light up what is already present in your life. You don’t have to improve yourself, you don’t have to do more or work harder. Through this guided meditation we will shine the light of awareness on the blessings that are present in our lives. This meditation is designed to support you in releasing the day with gratitude and surrendering into rest. Yoga Videos for Sleep Gratitude Yoga Classes Become a Member Yoga Essentials: Yoga Mat Amazon.com  Yoga Blocks Cork Amazon.com Yoga Blocks Foam Amazon.com Yoga Strap Amazon.com  Amazon.ca Yoga Bolster Amazon.com  Amazon.ca Meditation Cushion Amazon.com  Amazon.ca Zabuton Amazon.com  Amazon.ca The Little Book of Gratitude: Create a life of happiness and wellbeing by giving thanks Gratitude Works!: A 21-Day Program for Creating Emotional Prosperity

10 min Yoga Nidra Full Body Scan This 10 minute yoga nidra is a short guided practice that will take you through a full body scan. You can find my full yoga nidra playlist on YouTube here: Yoga Nidra Playlist - Click Here In this 10 Minute Yoga Nidra, I will guide you through a body scan that will leave you feeling relaxed yet energized. Yoga Nidra is a form of meditation that helps with insomnia, anxiety, stress, adrenal fatigue, ptsd and so much more. Through this guided meditation I will lead you into a form of conscious sleep where you will be physically, mentally and emotionally relaxed and yet aware. You will move through your waking state, travel through the dreaming state and enter into a deep sleep state, all while remaining fully awake. In this state of deep relaxation you will receive clarity of mind, stillness and calm. The restorative quality of this meditation often leads to deep insight. Research on yoga nidra suggests that just one hour of yoga nidra is equivalent to four hours of healthy sleep. Prepare to release tension and anxiety while being rejuvenated to a state of inner calm in this short 10 minute yoga nidra full body scan. Yoga Essentials: Yoga Mat Amazon.com - Click Here Yoga Blocks Cork Amazon.com - Click Here Yoga Blocks Foam Amazon.com - Click Here Yoga Strap Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca - Click Here Yoga Bolster Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca - Click Here Meditation Cushion Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca - Click Here Zabuton Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36afzxc Amazon.ca - Click Here Yoga Nidra Books: Yoga Nidra The Art of Transformational Sleep Amazon.com - Click Here Become a Member Yoga Nidra Playlist Yoga for Sleep full Videos Short Tips for Sleep 7 Days to Better Sleep

30 minute Yin Yoga to Relax | Yoga with Melissa 548 Today’s class is a 30 minute yin yoga class to relax. For this 30 minute YouTube yin yoga class you will need a folded blanket and 2 blocks. This 30 minute yin yoga class is designed to support you in slowing down so you can feel your embodied sensations, emotions and allow relaxation to unfold. The yin yoga class begins with a centering so you can slow down and breathe, feel the always present support of the earth and the sensations that are present in your body. We will move into wide-knee child’s pose to feel the release in your low back and breathe deep into your low belly and low back. Easy pose twist will allow you to further release tension in your back and allow time for your emotions to be digested. Butterfly pose will give more space to relax and allow the energy to be gathered into your lower dantien. All yin poses will be held for five minutes. We stay for a while to pull and pressurize the deeper connective tissues that wrap around the joints and bones. Our poem is Today by Mary Oliver and will be enjoyed in savasana. Yin Yoga Class Playlist - Click Here Pin a Comment to the top - If you liked this video definitely check out Relaxed Yin https://youtu.be/G_RVvze0SYk

Relieve Frozen Shoulder Pain One thing about having a frozen shoulder this time around is the constant pain. It has meant that lying down on the ground is less accessible and legs up the wall is mostly out of the question. Or is it? What I have learned from having frozen shoulder for second time is that the way I recovered the last time is not necessarily the way I am going to be able to recover this time. If any of you have frozen shoulder or have had frozen shoulder you will know that sleeping is difficult and over time that leads to exhaustion. As yogis, our go-to pose for exhaustion is legs up the wall. This time, with a frozen shoulder, lying on the ground is painful. What I share in this class, is what if restorative yoga doesn’t have to look like it always did? What if we gently move our shoulders in these inverted “up the wall poses” to keep our shoulders happy? The result is a restorative yoga class at the wall to relieve frozen shoulder pain and exhaustion. If you would like my best 7 days of yin, restorative and short yoga videos for your upper back, neck and shoulders click here:

Chair Yoga Class with Sherry Zak Morris - Neck, Shoulders & a Whole Lot More! Everyday functional movements require shoulder mobility that we may take for granted. In this class, we will explore your range of motion in every joint. Sure it is always nice to feel the power of a strong Warrior 2 pose, but Yoga also helps us to go about our everyday activities with less aches and pains. In Yoga class, we get to move in different ways so that our joints stay limber and our muscles stay strong. Here's some shoulder love for those every day movements! And of course we include the full body too! Sherry Zak Morris Founder, www.YogaVista.com CEO, www.YogaJP.com Director, www.YogaVistaAcademy.com Get Certified to Teach Gentle, Senior and Chair Yoga! Online Training and Certification Programs https://www.YogaVista.TV - Join us! Streaming Video Library https://www.facebook.com/YogaJourneyProductions http://www.YouTube.com/YogaJP http://www.linkedin.com/in/sherryzakmorris Check out FREE Yoga for 50+ Classes! Learn and Share!

30 minute Modified Hatha Yoga Class for Frozen Shoulder These are 7 Poses You Can Do Right Now, no matter how much pain, stiffness or lack of mobility you are experiencing. My name is Melissa, I have been teaching yoga on YouTube for the past 11 years. I am going to do something I have never done before. I am going to teach without a script or a plan and share with you my process for yoga practice when I come to my yoga mat. This class is not going to be for people who do not want to hear talking as I share a lot of my inner process, insights and awareness as I go through this class. If you are still with me, this is a wrist free, hand free, shoulder free class that evolved during filming in response to my experience with frozen shoulder by tuning into the needs of my body in the moment. It includes 7 poses that you can do now if you are experiencing a shoulder injury or frozen shoulder. It is not a practice about rehabilitation or recovery, rather it is about tuning into the inner wisdom of our bodies and responding to their needs, moment by moment, on all levels from our physical body, mental body, emotional body, energetic body and spiritual body. In this class I talk about how injury is a gateway to letting go of old ways of being. One of the old ways of being that is being released right now is the hierarchy between teacher and student. We are all our own teachers and this is why I felt it was so important to share my process as a student in an open and vulnerable way. I also speak about how their are seasons to our practice, literally from autumn, through winter, spring and summer, but also in various seasons of our lives. May this class be of benefit.

What is an Emotional Release in Yoga? What do you do when you have an emotional release in yoga?  When I trained with Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy as a yoga therapist, yoga teacher and group facilitator my teacher and mentor there, Elissa Cobb explained all about how emotions get held in our bodies. In fact I trained for several years as a yoga therapist, yoga teacher and group facilitator on how to help people to release emotions that were held in the body.  In this video I am going to talk to you about how emotions get held in the body, why emotions come out in yoga classes, what to do when emotions come out in yoga classes, what not to do when emotions come out in yoga classes and some general energy emotional maintenance that you can do so that emotions don’t start coming out at inopportune times.  Namaste, Melissa

Yoga Nidra to Calm Your Mind, Soothe Your Heart & Rest Your Spirit In this yoga nidra you are going to move from alpha to theta to delta brainwave states to calm your mind, soothe your heart and rest your spirit. Today you are going to need a yoga mat, blanket, bolster, and eye pillow. There will be no close out today so that you can sink into the inner temple of your calm mind, heart and restful spirit, so thank you for subscribing, liking before watching and leaving the comment, ¨My brain waves are slowing down” in the comments. For those of you who are following the Yoga & Simple Mindfulness Practices for Everyday Life series, this week we are focusing on the place where our spirit rests, our altars. This is the place in our homes where our heart and soul is eased and where we can express gratitude. So take the time to tidy, clean, clear the clutter and dust your altars this week. If you would like my 7 days of yoga for sleep my best yoga, ayurveda, self massage and breath practices to fall asleep go to: melissawest.com/sleep put your email in and we will deliver that right to your inbox 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 introduction, it starts right with the spoken guided yoga nidra that you can download onto your phones and devices to take to listen in your earbuds. Link Here May this guided yoga nidra meditation be of benefit calm your mind, soothe your heart and rest your spirit. Namaste, Melissa