Living Your Yoga With Dr Melissa West

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

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 pr

Restorative Yoga When Sick

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 

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 kind and confidence-building approach that doesn’t rush or overwhelm. You’ll move through foundational poses that relieve stress and tension, restore your energy, and leave you feeling more at ease in your body. This class is both relaxing and low-effort and is suitable for beginners, but I think my more seasoned students will appreciate its simplicity as well! Oh! And for those of you who are looking for a morning yoga class, this is a great class to start your day. Poem: U PICK by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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 renewed. Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that supports your nervous system and offers profound rest. It can be especially helpful for insomnia, anxiety, stress, adrenal fatigue, and more. In this practice, you’ll be invited into a state of conscious rest physically relaxed, mentally calm, and emotionally at ease, while staying awake and aware. You’ll gently move through waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states, all while anchored in the present moment. This guided meditation often brings clarity, stillness, and spacious insight. Research suggests that an hour of Yoga Nidra may be as restorative as four hours of deep sleep. In just ten minutes, allow your body to release tension

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 urgency, but with reverence. Through long, supported holds and mindful stillness, we soften into the invisible geography of a new beginning, stretching deeply into your side body, shoulders, and hips while tuning into the quiet presence of your breath. Each pose: Broken Wing, Bananasana, Dragon (Lunge), and Fish offers a space to find your appropriate edge, soften into sensation, and stay awhile. These 3-minute holds help rehydrate your fascia, release habitual tension, and invite in emotional clarity. You’ll close the practice with Fish Pose and a re-reading of John O’Donohue’s A Morning Offering, letting the resonance of poetry settle into your cells. Let this be a medit

Rest Day Restorative Yoga | Yoga with Melissa 732

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.

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 system’s need to control, brace, or push through. You’ll be guided to shift from sympathetic overdrive into the parasympathetic “rest and digest” state — where healing, nourishment, and true integration become possible. This class supports both physical digestion and emotional release, using restorative shapes, energetic cues, and frequency alignment to remind your system: you are safe to receive. You don’t need to earn rest. You don’t have to fix or force anything. Let sensation move through without labeling it. Let your breath and presence do the digesting. In this space of allowing, regulation becomes your boundary, trust becomes your medicine, and love becomes your inner r

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 imprints can distort your natural energy flow, creating patterns of pain, fatigue, emotional overwhelm, or disconnection from your soul’s path. Through guided awareness, intention, and subtle sensing, this Yoga Nidra helps you gently release these distortions and reconnect with your original energetic blueprint—the coherent, radiant essence of who you are. Whether you're navigating chronic illness, emotional trauma, spiritual awakening, or ancestral entanglements, this practice invites you to soften into a healing field of coherence and clarity. You'll rotate awareness through your body, reprogram limit

Calming Yin Yoga Before Bed | Yoga with Melissa 728

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  

Restorative Yoga for Headaches

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!

Yin Yoga for Liver & Gallbladder Meridian | YWM 723

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