A Yogi Kitchen Off The Mat

Happy November Lives! We're starting a new month on a Sunday? What? You all know how much I love a beginning. A new month and a new week? I'm m in heaven. AND we have a new word! There's a lot of excitement around here lately as we are growing and increasing our Presence in our community. Grab your journal cause I have some intention setting homework for you! I love you, Melissa 💚

I see you! You're doing the work and life is getting so sweet. It's October and our word is Presence. It's inviting you to show up more, take up space, be bolder, be louder and you're doing it! You're sharing your stories and experiences and how Presence is helping you unravel to reveal some of your truths. I shared some of my a-has and even how Presence is helping me go back and shed light on pas...

Happy Thursday Loves! How are you? How are you feeling our word, Presence? It's not easy, but life is delicious. Know why? Cause of Presence. It wasn't an easy day, it hasn't been an easy moment, but Presence makes everything good. How is Presence showing up for you? I love you and I think about you all the time! presence. I love you, Melissa 💚

Happy Tuesday Loves! I'm sitting waiting to have lunch with one of my favorite long term students. It's Tuesday and one of our local bars, John Eddy',s has some of the best fish tacos in town. It's October and it's a gorgeous day. Be Here Now. Where are you? What's around you? Notice the smells, the sounds, how you're feeling and what you're doing. Be IN it and enjoy this moment. This is how we in...

Happy Friday Loves! I am overwhelmed by gratitude this week after the big karmic cleanse of the Harvest Full Moon. How are you feeling? Do you feel the energy shift? On Fridays I always invite you to celebrate this wins. I babbled a bit about my wins, but made sure to remind you how wonderfully special you are. There will never be another you and that makes you extra special. If nothing else, cele...

Happy Tuesday! I recorded today after the most beautiful Stretch! community class I sat upstairs in the yoga space, which is also the kickboxing, boxing and tai chi space and just enjoyed the energy and the views and recorded about this big full moon. The Harvest Full Moon is always about abundance, but this one was also about endings. What kind of ending do you need to work on. Working in your en...

Happy Fall My Loves! I started this new episode by just sharing my gratitude about our break in the weather and our cool temps that hit today. A new season is the perfect way to sink into our new yoga session and our new word. I've talked many time about how our early summer session on Love helped me sink into Self-Love and be honest and real with myself and then we focused on Worth and that l...

Happy Sunday Loves! We're moving towards the end of Worth, our word of the session. It's been such a lovely short session. Self-Worth has been the best part of this session for me. It stemmed for the work we did around Love, specifically around Self-Love. It just got my brain humming and my heart opening. Reflecting on my sense of self-worth and sharing my thought process with all of you h...

Happy Sunday! On Sundays we set intention for the week. it's a habit I learned from the fabulous Jennifer Lee, heart-centered business coach and former yoga teacher. It's a time to be still and quiet and be present with how you're feeling, what you truly desire for yourself in the small chunk of a week. it's a way of slowly, week by week growing your comfort with intention, it'...

Happy Friday Loves! It's time to celebrate the wins! That's what we doz in Fridays and it's been a while since I popped in to share with you on the podcast. First, perhaps is thinking about the question Are You Treating Yourself Like You're Worthy? I don't always and it's one of the reasons I wanted this to be our word for the session. As my world shifts and changes I'm figuring out how I perceive...

Happy Wednesday Loves! We are breathing into Worth! How has it been feeling to you? Last episode I invited you to speak it, chant it l, sing it, yell it. Did you take time to record your observations. Today I invite you to breathe into a meditation with me. Relax into our higher vibration from focusing on Love so you can get right with Worth. Explore where the obstacles are. Listen to who you are...

Happy August Lives! Most of You know that I LOVE a new beginning and I Love. Change. So the first Monday of the month is a great time to start a new session Today I shared how every facet of Love brought me right to where I believe my worthiness lies. I wasn't seeking it, I wasn't working on it, but worth kept popping up. And you shared that you were feeling the same way. So, here's my journey fro...

Hello Loves! What a yoga session! We've moved from Love to Self-Love, Community Love, Platonic Love and now we're at Romantic Love. We just have a few more weeks focusing on Love. Take a moment to close your eyes and meditate with me in Romantic Love and, of course, I have a bit of homework for you. Enjoy! Love you, Melissa 💚

Happy Saturday Loves! I have a last few thoughts about Community Love to share with you and then we're moving into our first meditation around Platonic Love. Take some time to breath into the people in your live that share their lovingkindness, care and compassion with you, to those that you share yours and the beautiful friendships where it moves easily between you and another. Find a relaxing sp...

Happy Tuesday Loves! Our word for the session is Love and my word for the year is Magic. They are swirling together and flying around me in the absolute best way. I'm sharing the arch of my journey that's brought me to this moment. Today is a beautiful day of seeing everything I've been dreaming and asking for one to bear fruit. AND...it's my birthday month! How perfect is that?!?! I love you, I h...

Happy Tuesday Loves! I Love this time of year. After taking time for so much death and grief over the last few years, I'm eager to have a real and true birthday month. Recently I traveled a bit and had a few obstacles to posting and I'm so happy to be back and in the swing of things. I repeated the Self-Love meditation that we practiced in our Restorative Yoga pop-up last night. Take a moment to l...

Happy Love! Yes, I meant to write that. We're focusing on Love and I MEAN happy Live! This is my favorite word that we focus on all year. Mostly the word changes and we repeat a word every few years. Love has become a word that we focus on every year at this time. Last year Love was our word for the whole yoga session. This year we're braking it down. We're looking at all the different kinds of Lo...

Happy Tuesday loves! It's mid May and you know what that means? We're focusing on Love! I originally planned Love to coincide with Pride month. It was just a lovely coincidence that June is my birthday month. Now I can't imagine a better time of the year to practice Love. This first week of a new session I call getting clear. It's a way of feeling sensations in your body, in your heart and sparkin...

Happy Tuesday Loves! We are in the last week of focusing on Santosha. We started the yoga session with an all-level definition of the word, Enough. Then we moved to the most commonly accepted definition, contentment. This last week, I'm inviting you to focus on and do work around a more complex definition, Peace. Listen as I lead you through a centering Santosha meditation and read, 1.33 from Pant...

Happy Friday Loves! Today we celebrate our wins from the week. This episode is a bit of a hodge-podge. It's been a hard week. I wanted to share that and also what tools and poses I've been using to manage a difficult time. Join us for pop-ups. Join us for Intro to Chakra Yoga and Root Chakra Yoga May 16. Love you, Melissa 💚

Happy April! Hahaha! I JUST realized that I said today was April 5th in this new episode. Today is actually the 6th. Happy Monday! It's the first Monday of a new month, lovelies. How are you? Are you enjoying the new energy of this renewal and rebirth season. I absolutely felt it hit and feeling more inspired and active. How do you when you can say I've Done Enough? We're exploring that feeling th...

Happy March 19 Loves! I accidentally posted a September episode in place of this one. I'm so sorry. I'm not sure why I'm having such difficulty. Below is the original description I posted. Enjoy! Are wondering if you read that right? You did! We're starting a new season. Can you feel this new energy? I'm noticing my sleep patterns change. My appetite is changing. It's a brand new everything! I hop...

Hello Loves! Do you feel it? We are in the midst of so many energy shifts. Are sleeping better or having trouble? Feeling tired all of the time or not at all? Having trouble focusing or feeling lasers in? Honestly with everything that's going on is could go any which way. I took some time, but I'm feeling a renewed since of purpose and way more energy. Today I shared all my new plans and all of th...

Happy Tuesday Loves! We're one week into the new lunar year, Year of the )94/2. How are you feeling. I had a huge a-ha moment that made me cry. I didn't realize how much I'd been shedding in this 9 year cycle that just ended. Stevie B helped me see it. Still from wherever he is, he's still teaching me and helping me learn about myself. So ask yourself, how am I doing, make a record and enjoy! Love...

Happy New Year Loves! I'm so crazy excited about Year of the Fire Horse. It's going to be pure Magic! I started the episode with a gentle meditation that helps you connect with your power, strength, freedom and intuition. The Fire Horse is dragging you into your wildest dreams. I shared some of my desires, how I'm moving forward and what I released. I love you all and I'm so excited for this new y...