Yoga Lifestyle with Melissa

INTERVIEW  Carolynne teaches empaths and sensitive souls how to create a collaborative relationship with their bodies through cozy, accessible yoga and self care practices in order to live a life filled with less doing and more being. She is a fellow Canadian who strives to offer a safe and welcoming space for people who might have felt discouraged by lack of options offered in other classes. She...

12 Year YouTube Anniversary Q & A Part 1 | Celebration! Why did you start doing YouTube? Do you still remember the first class you taught? What was your favourite filming location ever? (Brenda Bohun) When did you feel you found your style? (yogastanya) How do you always guarantee to renew your content (keep it fresh). Did you ever think about the positive impact your videos would have on people?

Rituals for Yoga In this video Sharlene Anders, creativity coach, and I will discuss yoga rituals to deepen your yoga practice.  What are yoga rituals?  When should I practice yoga rituals?  How can I deepen my yoga practice with ritual?  How can I start and end my yoga practice with ritual?  Why are yoga rituals important?  How your yoga practice can become more sacred through ritual. Morning yog...

#husbandwifetag Celebrate our twenty five year wedding anniversary with this sit down, casual Q & A with us from the beaches of beautiful British Columbia. When did we meet? What was your first opinion of me? When did you know I was the one? How long did it take to plan the wedding? When did we get married? How long have we been married? How did you propose? How many children did I want before mar...

Post Pandemic Friendships This video is about manifesting friends in the world of post-pandemic friendship. If  you are looking to recover your post-covid friendships or how to reconnect with your friends after you’ve grown apart in the 2020, 2021 years of coronavirus, then you are going to love my guest Andrea Schulman who teaches people about consciousness, spirituality and the law of attraction...

Book Writing Update July 2021 In this video I will take you through a day in the life of the writing of my forthcoming book The Elemental Self: Five Element Yin Yoga. A lot of you have been asking me when my book will be coming out, so I thought the best thing to do would be to film an update. This update is vlog style and I will show you exactly where I am in the writing process, you will even ge...

Best Glamping Nature’s Chef Tipi is hosted by Nature’s Chef Tom Kral. Tom is a private chef who forages from the land and sea just outside of Sooke B.C.  Upon arrival we were greeted with a wild, foraged charcuterie board and tepid tea infusion. This appetizer to hold us over until dinner was foraged from the land and the sea. It featured smoked bison jerky, fresh snap peas, young radishes and mus...

Top 5 Little Known Yoga Channels You Need to Follow Summer 2021  In this video my friend Matt Depuis and I are going to share with you some of our favourite heart centered yoga teachers who are sharing their yoga on YouTube that you may not have come across because they are “smaller” channels. These are teachers that are generously sharing their teachings on YouTube on a regular schedule, that hav...

Balancing Fire Element Fire element is the most yang of all the five elements. It is outward and expansive. Fire element people get their energy from being with other people. Today we are going to talk to one of my yoga students, Magdalena, who recently participated in one of our membership challenges and courses. Magdalena has a lot of fire and earth element in her. She will share with you how sh...

Back Massage Chair Pad Review This video is an unboxing and review of the RENPHO Back Massager with Heat, Shiatsu Rolling Chair Massage Pad for Full Back Shoulder Neck, Height Adjustable, Massage Cushion with Heat for Full Body Fatigue Relief for Relax.  The portable massage chair combines shiatsu, kneading, rolling,vibration and heat functions to help you eliminate fatigue, stress and relieve mus...

Food Therapy Kim Ashton and I met in a Yin Yoga Facebook group over a discussion about 5 element theory. Kim does something fascinating called: Qi Food Therapy.  In this interview we will talk about 5 element theory and the energetics of food.  I will ask her:  What is food energetics?  What is food therapy?  How does food energetics and food therapy affect our emotions?  How does five element the...

How to be an Authentic Person Today on Yoga Lifestyle with Melissa I am going to be interviewing an incredible human being that I discovered on YouTube through my love of oracle and tarot cards. Stormie Atlantis drew me in through her honest and raw authentic expression.  So today I am going to talk to her about:  Never have I ever Tarot on Arcane Panda  How to be authentically yourself?  How to b...

minimal cues yoga class vs. yoga classes In this video I am going to be talking about which is better: minimal cues yoga class vs. yoga classes with instruction. These are my thoughts and experiences on what is a minimal cues class, who they are for, when they are beneficial, why they are beneficial and why you would want to practice them. I am also going to talk about the place of yoga classes wi...

Prevent Constipation with Yoga In this video I share with you a more holistic approach to preventing constipation with yoga, one that focuses on the physical, mental and emotional bodies. There are physical postures that support us in preventing constipation and when we combine them with mindful intention and support for our mental body the healing potential of yoga is quite inspiring. In this vid...

Today’s video is about setting healthy boundaries for a balanced heart. A few weeks ago I released a social media post about tending to our “gates” Do you tend to your gates? Where in your life have you left your gate unintentionally open so that perhaps unconsciously energy is unintentionally flowing in and out without you even being aware of it? I’m talking about creating and maintaining secure...

How to Clear Your Mind with Yoga In this short video I am going to share with you how to clear your mind with yoga. I will show you which yoga poses work best to clear your mind. We will explore both the best types of yoga postures and the best yoga pose to clear your mind. This short demonstration with a yoga pose to clear your mind will help with brain fog and will cleanse your mind with a yoga...

Clear your mind We live in a world of noise, excess information, and overwhelm. We are often overloaded , with too much of a good thing and our bodies, minds, emotions, energy and spirits cannot possibly adapt. The result is anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, confusion, brain fog, difficulty poor concentrating and a hard time prioritizing what is important to us. In this video I am going to show you...

In this interview I have the honour of interviewing Norman Blair, author of Brightening Our Inner Skies: Yin and Yoga. I know Norman Blair as a yin yoga teacher and author of one of my most beloved and used yin yoga books: Brightening Our Inner skies. I personally go between 2 yin yoga books - Sarah Powers Insight Yoga and his Brightening Your Inner Skies. Of course, Sarah Powers wrote the forward...

Top 5 Little Known Yoga Channels In this video my friend, and fellow yin yoga teacher, Matt Depuis and I are going to share with you some of our favourite heart centered yoga teachers who are sharing their yoga on YouTube that you may not have come across because they are “smaller” channels. These are teachers that are generously sharing their teachings on YouTube on a regular schedule, that have...

In this video I share 5 tips for transitioning from beginner to intermediate level classes: 1 Foundational Knowledge of Yoga Poses 2 Knowledge of How to Modify Yoga Poses 3. Knowledge of Props and You have Yoga Props you can use 4. Ability to look after yourself - avoid injury 5. Inner Sovereignty

Divine Feminine We all have masculine 🕺 and feminine 💃 energy within us. In order to balance our masculine and feminine energy it is helpful to spend some time cultivating our divine feminine energy. It is no secret that most of our lives are spent in our masculine energy: focused on productivity, logic, actions and results. This is why I have recently spent a lot of time awakening the divine fe...

Trying a Vibrating 🥎 Massage Ball 🥎 for Pec Release and Shoulder Pain  10 Days of Yoga for Highly Sensitive People 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/hsp/  💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership  In this short video I will explain how vibrating massage balls work to reduce symptoms of delayed onset muscle soreness and how they create a neurological response to help increase range...

Top 5 Little Known Yoga Channels You Need to Follow Winter 2021  In this video my friend Matt Depuis and I are going to share with you some of our favourite heart centered yoga teachers who are sharing their yoga on YouTube that you may not have come across because they are “smaller” channels. These are teachers that are generously sharing their teachings on YouTube on a regular schedule, that hav...

Yoga Mudra for Constipation: Mahatrika Mudra Today I am going to show you how to do the mahatrika mudra to relieve pelvic congestion and constipation. So if you have abdominal cramping, are straining to have a bowel movement, or feel as though there is something preventing you from having a bowel movement stay with us for this simple and natural way to relieve your constipation. I don’t want you t...

The Yin and Yang of a Daily Yoga Practice In this video I am going to talk to you about balancing the yin and yang energies in our daily yoga practice. What is yin and what is yang and why would we want to think about balancing them in our daily yoga practice. We tend to live in a yang dominant culture. One that values competition, goal-setting, being in action, focuses on performance and growth,...