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Yoga with Melissa
by Dr. Melissa West
Every Friday morning Dr. Melissa West releases a one hour free yoga class for you to enjoy. She is a yoga instructor who helps people to surrender to peace in their lives by connecting to the vital energy within their body through breath, cultivating optimal functional movement by harnessing the power of gravity and increase overall mobility by creating more suppleness in the spine.
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Yoga Nidra for High Functioning Anxiety & Burnout Recovery |YWM 762
Yoga Nidra for High Functioning Anxiety and Burnout Recovery YWM 762 Join the Yoga with Melissa Membership Community here: 👉 https://melissawest.com/membership Do you feel “tired but wired”? Like you’re constantly “holding it all together” while your nervous system is screaming for a break? If you identify with high-functioning anxiety or feel on the edge of […]
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Why Your Neck & Shoulders Stay Tight (Even When You Stretch) | Yin Yoga
Stop Stretching Your Shoulders Like This | Yin Yoga for Real Relief Feel Incomplete & Curious? 👉 https://melissawest.com/membership If your neck and shoulders keep tightening even though you stretch, do yoga, and try to relax… you’re not alone. For years I’ve taught yin yoga classes focused on deeper stretching and long holds, and I found […]
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30 Min Gentle Yoga for Strength Without Exhaustion | YWM 760
Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership If strength training leaves you sore, depleted, or needing days to recover, this class is for you. You can build strength without burning out. You can get stronger. You can build strength without burning out. In this 30 minute gentle yoga class, we work […]
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Full Body Yin Deep Tissue Release for Pain & Tension YWM 759
Full Body Yin Deep Tissue Release for Pain & Tension YWM 759 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Tension and pain in your body often builds slowly. Hours at the computer. Tight hips from sitting. Neck and shoulder tension that creeps up into headaches. A jaw that never lets go. Over time your body starts to feel stiff, compressed, and tired. This Full Body Yin Yoga Deep Tissue Release for Pain & Tension practice gives your body the time and space it needs to soften those patterns. In this class we stay in poses longer so the deeper connective tissues of the body can respond. We allow your body to gradually release holding in the hips, spine, shoulders, and feet. As the muscles relax, the deeper tissues begin to rehydrate and regain resilience. You may notice: less tension in the neck and shoulders • more space in the hips and spine • relief from chronic tightness patterns • a calmer nervous system • your body feeling more open and supported This is a slow, grounding practice that helps unwind the accumulated effort we carry through the day. If this class helps your body feel better, inside our membership we go deeper with myofascial release and somatic movement education. These practices help you get to the root of the tension patterns so they do not keep returning. 💕 Join the membership here: https://www.melissawest.com/membership For members: Myofascial Release Classes https://www.members.melissawest.com/connective-tissue-practices-2/ Somatic Movement Education Classes https://www.members.melissawest.com/courses/somatics/ You can also find my Yin Yoga book here: https://melissawest.com/book/ Thank you for practicing with me.
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Yin Yoga for Stress, Headaches & PMS | Spring Liver & Gallbladder Meridian Practice | YWM 758
Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Spring invites energy in the body to rise and move again after the quiet stillness of winter. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this upward movement is governed by the Wood element and the Liver and Gallbladder meridians. When this energy flows smoothly we experience clarity, […]
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Calming Vagus Nerve Yoga Nidra for Tired & Wired Nervous System | YWM 757
Calming Vagus Nerve Yoga Nidra for Tired & Wired Nervous System | YWM 757 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership If you feel exhausted but unable to settle… If your body is tired but your mind is still scanning… If you feel wired, tense, or overstimulated… This Yoga Nidra is designed to help your nervous system to downshift into regulation. This yoga nidra practice supports: Improved vagal tone • Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system • Relief from stress and anxiety • Enhanced mind-body awareness • Deeper rest and recovery • Reduced hypervigilance • Greater ease falling asleep • A more regulated nervous system baseline Through this yoga nidra you will train your nervous system to settle. Even a small shift matters. With repetition, this practice strengthens your capacity to move from wired and braced to steady and supported. Practice regularly to help your body learn how to return to regulation more quickly and with less effort. If you’d like deeper, progressive nervous system training, join us inside the membership community: https://melissawest.com/membership
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Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga for Brain Fog & Deep Nervous System Reset | YWM 756 | 30 mins
Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga for Brain Fog & Deep Nervous System Reset | YWM 756 | 30 mins Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership If you are feeling foggy, mentally tired, or like your thoughts are moving through mud, this restorative yoga practice gives your nervous system the conditions it […]
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MORNING Yoga for VAGUS NERVE Regulation | Yoga with Melissa 755
MORNING Yoga for VAGUS NERVE Regulation | Yoga with Melissa 755 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Start your day with this 30 minute morning yoga practice focused on vagus nerve regulation and nervous system flexibility. In this vagus nerve yoga class, you will explore how breathing and movement support […]
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30min Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest | Yoga with Melissa 754
30 min Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest | Yoga with Melissa 754 AD-FREE Yoga Nidra Audios in our membership library: https://melissawest.com/membership This Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest is an invitation to step out of effort and allow your system to settle on its own. The practice is not demanding, guiding you into a state where […]
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Yin Yoga for Tight Hips & Low Back | Slow Release for Tension | YWM 753
Yin Yoga for Tight Hips & Low Back | Slow Release for Tension | YWM 753 Over 1, 000 videos in our membership library https://melissawest.com/membership This yin yoga class is designed to gently ease tight hips and lower back through long, supported poses that allow your body to soften rather than brace. We will gradually […]
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Restorative Yoga for a CALM NERVOUS SYSTEM | Yoga with Melissa 752
Restorative Yoga for a CALM NERVOUS SYSTEM | Yoga with Melissa 752 For more nervous system healing: Link to sign up: https://melissawest.com/membership This 60-minute restorative yoga class is designed to calm your nervous system. Through restorative yoga with props we will move your nervous system from sympathetic activation, stress and anxiety to a state of calm. This is restorative yoga for the nervous system, oriented toward parasympathetic settling. This restorative yoga is designed to calm you down. This is a full restorative yoga 1 hour practice designed for nervous system regulation and healing. This class sits inside a larger framework I teach in my membership through the 1 month Settle Your Nervous System program. That program looks at how activation shows up across the body, thoughts, speech, and daily actions, and how regulation is rebuilt slowly over time. If this restorative yoga class resonates, the program offers a way to work with nervous system healing. Link for members: https://www.members.melissawest.com/roadmap/nervous-system-stabilization-settle-your-nervous-system/ Link to sign up: https://melissawest.com/membership
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Transitioning into Winter’s Deep Rest Yoga Nidra | Yoga with Melissa 751
Transitioning into Winter’s Deep Rest Yoga Nidra | Yoga with Melissa 751 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Receive emails from me: https://bit.ly/melissamail As the light fades and winter draws us inward, this Yoga Nidra supports a deliberate transition into long, deep rest. Winter is a gestation phase, a return to the dark where energy gathers and reorganizes. In nature, hibernation is a biological necessity. Bears slow their heart rates, breathe less often, and conserve life force so that renewal becomes possible. We carry the same seasonal intelligence. When we choose rest, our cells repair, our immune system recalibrates, and the nervous system settles into coherence. This practice invites you to question the cultural push toward constant output and instead attune to stillness, intuition, patience, and the quiet reset that winter naturally offers. Before you settle in, create your own hibernation den. Dim the lights. Support your body with a pillow or bolster under your knees if needed. Add a blanket for warmth and an eye pillow to help you drop into the winter darkness. This Yoga Nidra is a sanctuary for retreat, restoration, and receiving. As you rest, you align with the earth’s rhythm rather than resisting it. Choosing deep rest in winter is not withdrawal; it’s participation in a larger cycle. It’s a way of honouring your place in nature and letting your body remember its own timing. I’m enjoying the winter section of my book right now: Five Element Yin Yoga. Go to the blue tabs for water element and winter. Book: ➡️ https://melissawest.com/book/
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NOURISHING Beginner Yin Yoga to SOOTHE STRESS & RESET Your NERVOUS SYSTEM | YWM 749
NOURISHING Beginner Yin Yoga to SOOTHE STRESS & RESET Your NERVOUS SYSTEM | YWM 749 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership Book: ➡️ https://melissawest.com/book/ Welcome to Yoga with Melissa 749! Join me for this NOURISHING Beginner Yin Yoga session designed to SOOTHE STRESS and guide a full RESET** for your NERVOUS SYSTEM. This is a gentle yoga for […]
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Restorative Yoga & Breathwork for when you feel 😩DRAINED 🥱 YWM 748
Restorative Yoga & Breathwork for when you feel 😩DRAINED 🥱YWM 748 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership Book: ➡️ https://melissawest.com/book/ When you’re feeling emotionally exhausted, overstimulated, or simply too tired to push through another thing, this Restorative Yoga and Breathwork for when you feel drained offers a cozy space to rest deeply and recover your energy. In this […]
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MORNING YOGA to START YOUR DAY in the COZY AUTUMN🍁 & ❄️WINTER months
🌅MORNING YOGA to START YOUR DAY in the COZY AUTUMN🍁 & ❄️WINTER months Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership Book: ➡️ https://melissawest.com/book/ Welcome to this morning yoga to start your day with me, Melissa West 🌅 In the darker, shorter days of autumn and winter, it can be hard to get moving. This gentle morning yoga to wake […]
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45 minute BEGINNER PILATES to Wake Up & Strengthen Your Core |YWM 746
30 minute BEGINNER PILATES to Wake Up & Strengthen Your Core |YWM 746 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership This beginner morning Pilates class is designed to wake you up and help you connect with your core in a way that feels grounded, kind, and sustainable. My intention is to make Pilates accessible for everyone, whether you’re new to it, rebuilding strength, or looking for a more mindful approach that honors your body’s limits. In my own experience, many real-life classes move too fast or expect you to already be strong enough to keep up. They’re often expensive, and lack modifications, so I find I end up with neck pain or even migraines. This class is my offering to bridge that gap so you can experience the benefits of Pilates without strain and I will slowly build while offering lots of modifications and options. We’ll move gently through foundational Pilates exercises that engage your core, wake up your spine, and bring strength and mobility into your morning. You’ll build warmth from the inside out while staying connected to your breath and body. My aspiration is that this practice helps you feel stronger and more at home in your body, while also reminding you that accessible, high-quality movement doesn’t need to be expensive.
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Yin Yoga for TIGHT HIPS | Yoga with Melissa 745
Yin Yoga for TIGHT HIPS | Yoga with Melissa 745 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership ✉️ Receive emails from me ✉️ https://bit.ly/melissamail Meet the deep tension that gathers in your hips with this yin yoga class. Through long-held, floor-based poses, you’ll explore the principles of Yin Yoga: choosing an appropriate edge, softening, being still, and staying awhile. […]
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Melt Away Stress | Cozy Restorative Yoga | YWM 744
Melt Away Stress | Cozy Restorative Yoga | YWM 744 Settle into deep calm with this cozy restorative yoga class designed to help you unwind and destress. Through gentle, supported postures and slow, steady breathing, you’ll soothe your nervous system and create space for ease. This class offers a soft landing for when life feels full, helping you release layers of tension, anxiety, and overwhelm while grounding back into the body’s natural rhythm of rest and repair. As you linger in each pose, your body will begin to melt open, your mind will quiet, and your breath will lead you toward peace. This is your invitation to slow down, to reconnect with the quiet underneath the noise, and to experience true anxiety relief. Perfect for evenings or anytime you need a reset, this restorative practice helps you return to balance, supported, soothed, and deeply at ease. Props Needed: bolster, block, chair Poems: Between the Lines by Jeff Foster (adapted) Tree by Jane Hirschfield Sitting in a Quiet Room by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer January by Betty Adcock
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This ROOT CHAKRA VAGUS NERVE YOGA is SO nourishing 🌿 safety, calm + ease in your body | YWM 743
This ROOT CHAKRA VAGUS NERVE YOGA is SO nourishing 🌿 safety, calm + ease in your body | YWM 743 Full month vagus nerve + nervous system practices inside ➡️ https://melissawest.com/membership When life feels like it’s rushing you forward and your body responds with tightening, bracing, and agitation, this Root Chakra Vagus Nerve Yoga practice […]
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Autumn Yoga Nidra | Yoga with Melissa 742
Autumn Yoga Nidra | Yoga with Melissa 742 Prepare to Conserve Your Energy this Autumn: https://melissawest.com/membership This Melissa West Yoga Nidra for Autumn is a 30-minute yoga nidra meditation created to help you align with the natural rhythm of the fall season. In autumn, nature turns inward light fades, leaves fall, and the season reminds […]
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GENTLE PILATES for BEGINNERS | At-home Mat Pilates (No Equipment) YWM 741
GENTLE PILATES for BEGINNERS | At-home Mat Pilates (No Equipment) YWM 741 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership Discover the foundations of Pilates in a way that is truly accessible for complete beginners. This gentle, mat-based class is designed to support your body and your nervous system, offering a calm and steady introduction you can return to anytime. With no equipment required, you’ll be guided step by step through simple movements that build strength and stability while keeping your body and mind at ease. Together, we’ll explore five key principles of Pilates in a supportive way: awareness of sensation, guiding your movement with care, centering from your core, attunement to your body’s feedback, and breathing that feels natural and unforced. These principles create a safe, steady foundation so you can move with more clarity, confidence, and connection.
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Post-Walk Yoga Stretch | Ideal for 10,000-Step Days | YWM 740
Post-Walk Yoga Stretch | Ideal for 10,000-Step Days | YWM 740 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership If you walk 10,000 steps a day, this beginner-friendly yoga for walkers class is the perfect way to recover, release tension, and keep your goal of walking 10 000 steps a day. This yoga for walking sequence includes walking stretches and walking stretching exercises designed specifically for after you walk. We’ll focus on walking stretches that relieve muscle soreness in your lower body and open your upper body for better posture. This class includes after walking stretches like a walking quad stretch, walking hamstring stretch, walking calf stretch, hip flexor release, glute and IT band stretches, plus simple myofascial release for your feet to care for your plantar fascia. This walking stretching workout supports the muscles most active during walking while also helping you stand with better posture. Alongside the lower body focus, you’ll open your chest and shoulders to counteract rounding from long walks or daily posture habits. If you’re looking for walker’s stretch to support a 10,000 steps stretching session, or walking yoga for beginners, you’ll find this routine will help with those sore muscles. Practice it after walking to keep your 10, 000 step walking routine sustainable. In this class, I introduce some MFR (myofascial release) techniques, and inside our membership community I go into much more depth with many more videos to support your connective tissue health. Members can access all of these here: https://www.members.melissawest.com/connective-tissue-practices-2/ Not a member yet? Join here: https://melissawest.com/membership
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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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, […]
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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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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 […]
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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/ 💡 Track Your Nervous System & Recovery with Ultrahuman Ring 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 💰 Use Discount Code: MELISSAWEST10 for savings!
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 718
Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 718 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕 This soothing restorative yoga class is designed to gently support your parasympathetic nervous system, focusing on cultivating a healthy balance of ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation. By the end of the practice, you’ll feel deeply […]
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Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717
Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this beginner-friendly full-body yin yoga class, we’ll explore the principles of yin: finding your edge, softening, becoming still, and staying for awhile. This quiet, introspective practice focuses […]
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Full Moon Yoga Nidra | Wolf Moon January | YWM 716
Full Moon Yoga Nidra | December Cold Moon | YWM 714 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ This Full Moon Wolf Moon Yoga Nidra is designed to support your nervous system and guide you through a transformative practice of clearing and release. The Wolf […]
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☃️Morning Yoga for Winter ❄️| Qigong Yoga Flow | Yoga with Melissa 715
Morning Yoga for Winter | Qigong Yoga Flow | Yoga with Melissa 715 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/   This 30-minute morning yoga stretch is designed to help you shake off the sluggish, low-energy that comes with winter’s dark, short days. ❄️ The […]
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Full Moon Yoga Nidra | December Cold Moon | YWM 714
Full Moon Yoga Nidra | December Cold Moon | YWM 714 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ This yoga nidra is for your deep rest, an internal retreat designed for the colder months of winter. Consider it a time to recharge, nourish yourself and conserve your energy for the inevitable growth that will arrive in spring. This full moon is a perfect time to rest, recharge, nourish yourself and conserve your energy for the growth of the coming spring. I’m Melissa and here on this channel I offer yoga nidra for deep rest and nervous system resilience. This time of year is a perfect time for visioning and planning your new year and Yoga Nidra is a transformative practice that goes so far beyond rest. It leverages receptive brainwave states to embed intentions deeply, fostering profound personal growth and healing. As always there will be an audio download for our members in our membership community. We have over 80 yoga nidras in our video library and a month-long rest incubator to renew your energy. Like, Subscribe, & Share this practice to inspire others, and together let’s create a ripple of transformation. Let me know in the comments what you are visioning for 2025.
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Neck & Shoulder Pain Relief | Yoga Qigong Fusion | YWM 713
Neck & Shoulder Pain Relief | Yoga Qigong Fusion | YWM 713 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Start your day feeling relaxed and pain-free with this gentle yoga and qigong fusion class. Suitable for beginners and anyone looking to relieve neck and shoulder […]
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Full Moon Yoga Nidra | November Beaver Moon | YWM 712
💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Join me for a soothing Full Moon Yoga Nidra as we honor the luminous Full Beaver Moon, the final supermoon of the year, shining larger and brighter in the sky. This unique full moon calls us to gather […]
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Yin Yoga for Sleep | Yoga with Melissa 711
Yin Yoga for Sleep | Yoga with Melissa 711 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Prepare to ease into rest with this 60-minute yin yoga for sleep class designed by Melissa West. This evening yin yoga for sleep and relaxation invites you into a […]
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every Friday morning Dr. Melissa West releases a one hour free yoga class for you to enjoy. She is a yoga instructor who helps people to surrender to peace in their lives by connecting to the vital energy within their body through breath, cultivating optimal functional movement by harnessing the power of gravity and increase overall mobility by creating more suppleness in the spine.
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