A Yogi Kitchen Off The Mat

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...

Happy Wednesday Loves! The Magic is electrifying! Do you feel it? I took even more time to be still and quiet and it is sprouting so much Magic. Busyness is draining us for no reason. It’s making us less productive, more stressed and exhausted. It’s taking away our creativity, making it harder for us to feel connected, to connect with a higher frequency and feel good about ourselves Busyness never...

Hello Loves! Are you loving Magic? It’s such a good word. Today I shared how it’s really opening me up and connecting me with some of our great words from the near past. Do you feel Magic connecting you with Joy? Gratitude? Community? I’ve been craving more community after the last year of being fairly quiet. This week one of our yoga sisters, Diane, shared food with me and reminded me that Food i...

Happy Thursday! The pixie dust is starting to sprinkle and I can feel the Magic in the air. Do you feel it? For the next few weeks we’re focusing on more and more Magic in our lives. Do you know how to feel it more clearly? Release. Get really clear by retting things go that you don’t want or need any more. Feel how your frequency shifts. This isn’t easy work. Most people don’t do the big work, bu...

Happy Tuesday loves! Yesterday I had a craving for more connections dm communication. Like magic the old habit Monday Meetings popped into my head. I think I must have stopped when my mom was in the hospital. So, I recorded the episode and then promptly forgot to publish it. Often when I do that I’ll just publish the next day. Today, I decided to just record again and make it a Tuesday meeting. I...

Happy 2026! Everything is new and nothing is new. It’s a new year, but we’re in the same season. So, it’s still time to rest, dream, nap and be still. It’s not time to be busy, which the man-made calendar year asks us to do. We’re going to jump into new energy as we approach Year of the Horse and the Spring Equinox. Right now we’re planting seeds for what the time of renewal and germinating looks...

Happy Day Loves! Well, I was so proud and happy with myself for recording about our pop-up week as soon as o knew all the details. Then I didn’t post. Well, to be perfectly honest, I must not have hit publish, cause I can’t find anything I wrote. So here we are in the last few days of 2025 and I want to invite you to one last pop-up to release anything that still may be lingering. Don’t worry if y...

Happy Sunday Lives! We’re in the last few days of focusing on Joy. My biggest Joy? The quiet, rest and napping that this seasons begs you to do. Holy crap! It’s my new super power. My rested brain is magic. The biggest shift that’s been happening is this last push of energy around release. What is your life inviting you to release? To end? To let go? I don’t who released whom, but it feels like St...

Happy Saturday and Welcome Back Melissa! Loves, I took more quiet time. I processed, rested and was still. It was the best thing I could have not planned. I’ll talk more soon, but it was the one year anniversary of Steve’s death. I was quiet. I waited for the inspiration to record and I’m so glad I did. This weekend is the new moon arms am open portal for manifesting all the way into mid 2026. I h...

Hello my loves! I’ve been quiet, taking naps, resting and being still and it’s been absolute Joy. I love how powerful my brain gets when I step away from being busy and I take care of any mental or emotional exhaustion right away. At first I got quiet because Thanksgiving was the last milestone without Steve, my last first and then this powerful Cold Full Moon rolled in and it just really hit me....

Happy Tuesday Loves! I hope you had a lovely long weekend full of family, friends, love and most of all, Joy! I have overflowing Gratitude for all of you and how you show up with your love and support for me, but especially how we all took care of our community members for the holiday. Thank you so much! I also have a lot of gratitude for a quiet week, being still and reflecting, napping, assessin...

Happy Wednesday Loves! Last week we pulled the Listening card and I took some time to listen to the rhythm I’ve been craving mind/body/spirit. So, I didn’t record all week till today. My brain started filtering for Joy! Has yours made the shift? It took me a little longer than it sometimes does. It’s another part of Listening and Serenity, the other card I pulled last week. I have so much gratitud...

Happy Wednesday Loves! Our word is Joy and while I didn’t mention it in this episode, I want to remind you to do a mind-week check-in. How Aligned are you with the intention you set Sunday with Joy? I’ll admit I wasn’t doing so great. Today I finally shifted from our last word, Align to fully step into deepening my joy practice. It’s sooo good. What are you doing to step into joy? I also mentioned...

Happy Sunday! Let’s take a bit of time together to he quiet and focus in on Joy. This week I had a little trouble moving away from focusing on Align to put all of my attention o. Joy. It worked in my favor and I’m starting to see a future that’s well Aligned with my heart. How was your week? Did you shift into Joy better than I did? It’s all a journey and things are happening the way they’re suppo...