Dr. Melissa West

Yoga with Melissa

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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.

Author

Dr. Melissa West

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Health

Podcast website

melissawest.com

Latest episode

Jun 27, 2026

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Episodes

Yoga to Let Go Into Love | Yoga with Melissa 689 Video 12.04.2024

Yoga to Let Go Into Love | Yoga with Melissa 689  Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/   💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership  This yoga class is about being connected to the presence of love in moving meditation. When we take this time each day to be in the presence of love, we will feel the expansiveness of unconditional love in our lives. It is not a d...

Yin Yang Yoga for Liver and Gallbladder | YWM 688 Video 05.04.2024

In this Yin Yang Yoga for your liver and gallbladder we balance the dynamic bursts of yang wood element energy with soothing yin. In this session, we blend the gentle, introspective practice of yin yoga with the fluid movements of hatha flow qigong, all centered around the theme of connecting with your vision/intention/aspiration in a balanced way. In spring, your liver and gallbladder organs are...

Fall Back Asleep Yoga Nidra 🌙🌃| YWM 687 Video 22.03.2024

🌙Middle-of-the-Night Sleep Support 🌙 Waking up in the middle of the night is completely normal, but it is also completely normal for your mind to be racing and worrying and then it can be really hard to fall back asleep. 🌌This yoga nidra guided meditation is meant to be a gentle guide to ease you back to sleep when you wake up in the middle of the night. Through gentle breathing and intentional...

🌸Wallflower Yin🌸Deepen Your Practice with the Wall | YWM 686 Video 15.03.2024

In this gentle and nurturing class, we'll explore the profound benefits of Yin Yoga while using the support of the wall to deepen our practice. 🧘‍♀️ This class combines the best of upper body, chest opening and shoulder releasing yin yoga along with hip opening yin yoga with the wall. We will begin by releasing your chest and shoulders with your heart meridian and the lung meridian. These yin yog...

Soothing Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 685 Video 11.03.2024

🧘 Dive into the healing practice of vagus nerve restorative yoga 🌿 Find peace amidst the chaos of overstimulation by embracing slow, still movements that ground you in your body. 🌟 In a world constantly pushing for hustle and achievement, restorative yoga offers a sanctuary to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and embrace rest and digest mode. 💆‍♀️ Moving slowly is an intentional pr...

12 Poses You Should Do Every Day | Yoga with Melissa 684 Video 01.03.2024

You guys LOVED the first 45 minute Daily Hatha Yoga Routine 12 Poses You Should Do Daily | Yoga with Melissa 479 It has over 46K views, so I made a second one 12 Poses You Should Do Every Day in 30 minutes - Wrist Free YWM 639 and it has over 7K views. I hear from so many of you that you put these 2 classes into your regular rotation. So, I decided to create yet another version of daily hatha yoga...

30 min Yoga Nidra for 😴Deep Rest 💤🛌| YWM 683 Video 23.02.2024

You Deserve Rest! This 30 minute yoga nidra sleep meditation is for deep rest. Yoga nidra powerfully heals and restores your body on a physical level giving you an opportunity for deep rest in a reclined meditation.  This yoga nidra is designed to give all parts of your body deep rest. All the organs and systems of your body from your ventral vagus nervous system, your heart, your lungs, your kidn...

Dopamine Detox Yoga Nidra 🧘‍♂️🚫📱🧘‍♀️ | YWM 682 Video 02.02.2024

Yoga nidra is a guided meditation where you lie down and are led through a calming experience that is a mix of a nap and reclined meditation. It is a way for your body and mind to take a break that feels super relaxing. 😴💤🌙😌 During yoga nidra you focus on your breath and sensations in your body. This helps your brain take a break from constant external stimuli and find joy in simpler quieter m...

Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 681 Video 19.01.2024

This calming vagus nerve restorative yoga will support your parasympathetic nervous system, in particular healthy ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation of your nervous system so that you leave feeling “zenned out, ” meditative and contemplative. Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga Sequence Vagus Nerve Reset Restorative Twist Eye Yoga Restorative Down Dog Diaphragmatic Breathing Psoas Release...

Surrendered Heart Hatha Flow | Yoga with Melissa 680 Video 12.01.2024

Surrendered Heart Hatha Flow is an all-levels hatha yoga class, suitable for beginners, dedicated to cultivating love, healing, and opening your heart through the practice of bhakti yoga. In this session, we'll embark on a soulful exploration, focusing on yoga for heart opening, heart healing, with mobility for your shoulders and hips. The fusion of asanas such as Supported Fish Pose, Dancer Pose,...

Gentle Yin: A Beginner’s Guide to Full Body Stretching | YWM 679 Video 05.01.2024

This yin yoga class is a beginner’s guide to fully body stretching. But actually in yin yoga, stretching is not the goal. We're not trying to stretch our tissues; we're trying to give them a gentle stress. This stress helps our body make important changes at a small level, keeping our joints and tissues healthy. Most types of yoga focus on our muscles. But in Yin Yoga we go deeper into our body to...

Winter Sky Night Yoga Nidra | YWM 678 Video 15.12.2023

🌌✨ Winter Night Sky Yoga Nidra, is a guided meditation where we'll immerse ourselves in the beauty of the stars, the moon, and the quiet of winter. To circulate your awareness through your body, we will illuminate each part of your body like stars lighting up the night sky. Poetry from Mary Oliver and John O’Donohue will inspire our winter journey.  As we approach the end of 2023, this yoga nidr...

Winter Cocoon of Comfort Restorative Yoga | YWM 677 Video 08.12.2023

Order my Book 📙👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Inspired by the wisdom of nature, this restorative yoga class embraces the stillness and darkness of winter season. This restorative yoga class will create a warm and cozy sanctuary for you to burrow into a den of relaxation. Just like animals hibernating in burrows, we'll draw from the co...

Legs Up the Wall Yin Yoga Winter Rejuvenation | YWM 676 Video 01.12.2023

Order my Book 📙👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership This Yin Yoga class designed for Winter Rejuvenation is practiced entirely at the wall. As we descend into winter and water element season this practice focuses on the kidney and bladder meridians. This yin yoga class focuses on winter rejuvenation by encouraging introspection and replenis...

Hatha Yoga to Cultivate Gratitude | Yoga Sutra 2.30 Ahimsa | YWM 675 Video 22.11.2023

Hatha Yoga to Cultivate Gratitude | Yoga Sutra 2.30 Ahimsa | YWM 675 Order my Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership This full body hatha yoga class is focused on cultivating gratitude through the practice of ahimsa as outlined in Yoga Sutra 2.30 translated by Nischala Joy Devi in The Secret Power of Yoga. In this 60 minute full body ha...

Attune to Autumn Energy Restorative Yoga | YWM 674 Video 17.11.2023

Attune to Autumn Energy Restorative Yoga | YWM 674  Order my Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/  💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership  There is a dissonance between the overactive demands of our external world and the inner peace of our True Nature. In this restorative class, we slow down, allowing our awareness to settle within the present moment, reconnecting with th...

Yin Yoga to Release Painful, Aching Neck & Shoulders | YWM 673 Video 10.11.2023

This Yin Yoga practice is designed to release your painful and aching neck and shoulder tension. In one hour yin yoga class, we'll focus on gentle yin yoga stretches and poses that target the connective tissues responsible for neck and shoulder pain. Several of the yin yoga poses are chosen to open up the chest and shoulders. Opening your chest, helps in improving shoulder mechanics and reducing s...

Empowered Beginner Yin Yoga: Full Body Stretch for Vitality | YWM 672 Video 03.11.2023

This is an Empowered Beginner Yin Yoga class for full-body vitality! In this Yin Yoga class for beiginners, we will explore the transformative power of yin to create bring balanc to the deeper connective tissues of your body. Yin yoga targets the yin tissues of the body, such as ligaments, bones, and joints. Unlike yang styles that focus on warming and stretching the muscles, yin yoga applies gent...

Yoga Nidra for Immunity | YWM 671 Video 28.10.2023

This Yoga Nidra meditation for immune support will offer you profound healing and rejuvenation. Deep rest is the cornerstone of physical, mental, and emotional well-being, allowing your body to heal at its core. During this meditation, you will nurture your parasympathetic nervous system, lymphatic system, thymus, tonsils and spleen, enabling them to carry out their natural immune functions. This...

Legs Up the Wall Yoga for Nervous System Healing | YWM 670 Video 20.10.2023

In this healing nervous system restorative yoga class we focus on the healing power of support through self-regulation. In this class, we create the conditions for support and nervous system healing with the wall. The wall and the earth together are the foundations that will invite deeper nervous system healing. When we find ourselves fully supported by props, such as the strap and the wall, a co-...

Restorative Yoga for Immune System Support | YWM 669 Video 14.10.2023

This 60-minute Restorative Yoga class designed to support your immune system. In this session, we'll explore therapeutic poses that are designed to activate your lymphatic system, thymus glands and vagus nerve. By activating the parasympathetic nervous system, the restorative yoga poses encourage relaxation and reduce the production of stress hormones which suppress your immune system. There are s...

Vagus Nerve Reset Gentle Hatha Yoga | YWM 668 – 60 Mins Video 07.10.2023

Our vagus nerve sends signals from our internal organs to our brain. When it is balanced and engaged we feel open and curious, compassionate and mindful, in the present moment, we are able to ask for help and offer it in return, we feel safe and connected (to ourselves and our environment). Sometimes we need to “reset” our vagus nerve if we are experiencing sympathetic arousal of our nervous syste...

Gentle Hatha Yoga to Soothe Overwhelm & Body Tension | YWM 667 Video 16.09.2023

This gentle hatha yoga class will support you in dealing with information overload, overstimulation, overwhelm and nervous system regulation. By easing your way back into your body with gentle and grounding yoga practices we can support nervous system dysregulation symptoms like anxiety, energy drain, and releasing intense emotions. Gentle and supportive movements will reduce physical tension and...

Intro to 5 Element Theory Yin Yoga Wood Element | YWM 666 Video 01.09.2023

This is the second class in a 5-class series that will introduce you to 5 - element theory in 1 hour yin yoga classes. We will begin by describing what 5 element theory is. From there we will go into wood element, its organs, meridians, the emotions associated with it, the colour and direction. Intro to 5 Element Theory Yin Yoga Wood Element Sequence Centering Butterfly Bananasana Hand to Big Toe...

Intro to 5 Element Theory Yin Yoga Water Element | YWM 665 Video 25.08.2023

This is the first class in a 5-class series that will introduce you to 5 - element theory in 1 hour yin yoga classes. We will begin by describing what 5 element theory is. From there we will go into water element, its organs, meridians, the emotions associated with it, the colour and direction. Intro to 5 Element Theory Yin Yoga Water Element | YWM 665 Sequence Wide Legged Child’s Pose Sphinx Pose...

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