Ep. 30 Melissa McKim: The Future of Yoga- The Practice, The Training, The Teaching. How Breath Can Alter the Devastation of Anxiety.

RYT500 Melissa joins Paulette for a heartfelt conversation about how yoga can change your life for the better.  Melissa McKim from Marshfield MA is a student and Yoga Alliance registered graduate of Sacred Space Yoga School's 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training.  Melissa started her healing and transformation journey back in the late 90’s when she felt lost, confused and hurting and she had no idea why.  Her life looked great on the outside but it felt ugly and painful on the inside and it was yoga that saved her.  Paulette invites Melissa to be her guest as she knows how common Melissa's experience is.  We all at some point in our lives struggle with feelings of anxiety and yoga and the study and practice of pranayama are highly effective.  Melissa's Video with Rodney Yee, hot power yoga classes were the start of her journey but she still didn't feel any lasting effects of the practice.  She would take classes and sit in my car, break out in hives and try to calm herself down.  Melissa continued to go but knew she needed something deeper, something more soothing, something tangible.  She knew she needed to find a yoga teacher training to be able to understand the history, theory, and philosophy of yoga and not just a choreographed sequence of movements.  There was something that was helping her and she needed to know what that was and why it was working. Heated practice was throwing Melissa's (Pitta) fire on fire. Melissa found Maureen Spencer, Paulette's original mentor, and guru.  What we see in group classes is effective but her teachers weren’t giving her the science behind it. In 2014, RYT500, Reiki Master Owner director Unplug and Be Mindful Yoga in Marshfield MA Developing your own YTT and how that affecting your teaching More aware and patient, Handle daily life with ease Still passionate able to channel them in a different way Called to open the studio Moving into healing energy of Reiki  Balance the subtle energetic body Very peaceful experience  Helping the whole person heal instead of just the body symptoms  How can yoga help me in a healing way? Where are they in their life? We meet people where they are Have perception looking for exercise Given that there are 5500 RYS and 60,000 yoga teachers registered with YA 80% of Yoga teachers are only 200 hour a lot of pieces of training that are quick programs held over a month.  I was called to teach deeply Give them a really good base Teaching adults and teens with Anxiety Anxiety is still taboo Indie films "Angst" They suggest tools to go grab some ice cubes and put them in your hands I use ice cubes to build sympathy for expected fathers for the mother in labor I ignore him and give my attention Didn’t touch on breath or yoga Mother of 3 amazing kids and one in particular with special needs Definition of dedication to causes with many Philanthropic causes and chairs Last year got involved with a group Help Imperatives Battered women Escaping dysfunctional relationships and marriages Go into their house to teach children They really need to be brought out of their environment Trauma-informed yoga Give them choices Ask permission Aware of boundaries Boston Trauma-informed yoga sensitive teacher Teach yoga to women incarcerated and on probation Things can come up Forget at 37:17 all of the pictures that you see online Yoga is felt and experienced The Future of Yoga Studio and their ability to be focused on holistic wellness POV and “exercise”