Feeling emotionally exhausted or running on empty? This week’s Restorative Yoga + Breathwork class is your invitation to rest deeply and restore your energy. 💫
We’ll move through fully supported poses with the help of a bolster, blankets, and gentle breathing to release tension and reconnect with peace in your nervous system.
🕯️ Practice now: https://youtu.be/9HuePOGC0IY
Join our Membership for full-length classes, courses, and community support ➡️ www.melissawest.com/membership
Explore my book Five Element Yin Yoga ➡️ melissawest.com/book/
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🍁 New Class: Morning Yoga to Start Your Day in the Cozy Autumn & Winter Months ❄️
When the mornings are dark and slow, it’s easy to stay curled up in bed.
This gentle morning yoga practice will help you ease into your day with softness, warmth, and care. We’ll stretch, breathe, and reawaken your energy so you can meet the day feeling grounded and good in your body.
Watch here ➡️ 🌅 https://youtu.be/2HX-dKfKc5U
If you love practicing with the rhythm of the seasons, you’ll feel right at home in our membership community, where each month we align with nature’s element for deep nourishment.
Join here ➡️ www.melissawest.com/membership
And for a deeper dive, my book 5 Element Yin Yoga explores the Metal Element of autumn and Water Element of winter ➡️ melissawest.com/book/
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🌕 Full BEAVER MOON Yoga Nidra for Wednesday, November 5
This week’s Full BEAVER MOON is the final supermoon of the year. It’s a time to pause, gather your inner resources, and prepare for the quiet descent into winter.
Just as the beaver builds its cozy lodge before the cold sets in, we, too, can use this moment to release tension and create space for stillness within.
Join me for a deeply restorative YOGA NIDRA designed to help you clear emotional and mental clutter, rest deeply, and reconnect with your inner sanctuary.
🕯️ Watch now ➡️ https://youtu.be/bqzs_UJoVEs?si=YcUVB...
✨ **For Members:**
You’ll find an exclusive **Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra for the Beaver Moon** in your library — a 75-minute experience for preparing body, mind, and spirit for the winter season.
Watch here ➡️ www.members.melissawest.com/courses/yin-yoga-works…
Not yet a member? Join us and align your yoga practice with the rhythms of nature 🌿
Join here ➡️ melissawest.com/membership
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🌞 New Video! Beginner Pilates to Wake Up & Engage Your Core | YWM 746
I want to thank everyone who shared such thoughtful feedback on the first Pilates class we did together. The response was beautiful and heartfelt. Ra said they appreciated the mindful approach compared to the usual “bang it out” style. Viviana shared that it was super easy to follow with clear explanations. And Donna’s comment made me smile: “You heard my soul prayers, Melissa! Yay! 🌻”
You inspired me to create more accessible, gentle Pilates that builds strength without strain. This new class will help you wake up your spine, engage your core, and start your day feeling grounded and strong.
👉 Watch it here: https://youtu.be/tSbbIVR1tY0
💛 Membership for deeper practice: melissawest.com/membership
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Yin Yoga for Tight Hips | Deep Release + Nervous System Reset
If your hips have been feeling tight, tense, or stuck, this new Yin Yoga class will help you soften and create space again. We’ll move slowly through long-held poses, following the 4 Yin principles: choose your edge, soften, be still, and stay awhile.
This practice supports both the physical and energetic release of tension, hydrating fascia, improving mobility, and calming your nervous system.
🧘♀️ Watch now: https://youtu.be/sb4dQl6mWMQ
✨ Members: Did you know one of my first ever DVDS from over 18 years ago is available online in our community - it’s called Happy Hips and it is a 70 minute practice www.members.melissawest.com/courses/yoga-for-hips/…
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Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or just stretched thin?
This week’s new class is your invitation to pause and soften.
🕯️ Melt Away Stress | Cozy Restorative Yoga
A deeply calming, nervous-system-soothing practice to help you unwind, destress, and find ease again.
Perfect for evenings, low-energy days, or anytime you need to reset.
💫 Watch now → https://youtu.be/KloKQKqBlnc
How are you creating moments of deep calm for yourself this season? 🍂
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Feeling overstimulated, tight, or on edge? This week’s new class connects the Root Chakra and Vagus Nerve to bring you back into safety, calm, and ease in your body. Think grounding, nourishing, and deeply regulating.
🧘♀️ Watch here: https://youtu.be/7xtOO6d1Ric
✨ Inside my membership, I’ve dedicated an entire month to your vagus nerve and nervous system with practices that restore balance and resilience. Join us here ➡️ melissawest.com/membership
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Good morning friends, it has been a few weeks since we released a Yoga with Melissas and I was really hoping to release one today. We were away last week getting some R & R up island. This week, the weather changes of the seasonal transition caught up with me and today is the first day I haven't had a migraine.
Tim and I are hoping to set aside some time to film a Yoga with Melissa this weekend and will upload the next one as soon as we can. It's a good one too, you're going to love it: This ROOT CHAKRA VAGUS NERVE YOGA is SO nourishing 🌿 safety, calm + ease in your body
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🍂 New Autumn Yoga Nidra is here! 🍂
This 30-minute fall yoga nidra meditation will help you slow down, release busy-ness, and align with the rhythm of autumn. Let go of what no longer serves you and prepare your body and mind for winter’s deep rest.
Already a member? This is the perfect season to take advantage of your REST Incubator: www.members.melissawest.com/r-e-s-t-incubator/
Watch here: https://youtu.be/z4Lx6f9uVtA
Not a member yet? Learn more and join here: melissawest.com/membership
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You asked… and I listened 💫
When I shared the poll asking if you’d be interested in gentle, mindful Pilates classes here, 88% of you said yes! Pilates was actually part of my teaching life before YouTube. I taught in-person classes and even made some Pilates DVDs back in the day. It feels so good to bring this part of my practice back and to share it with you here.
This new class is a nervous system–informed, slow, body-honoring introduction to Pilates. It’s designed for complete beginners, no equipment needed, and it connects beautifully with the way we practice yoga together with care, attunement, and awareness.
👉 Try the first class here: https://youtu.be/b14EsopzOOQ
Let me know in the comments if you’d like me to continue creating a beginner’s series.
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We are REAL YOGA FOR REAL PEOPLE.
Devoted to Daily Heartfelt Yoga
Author of: Five Element Yin Yoga: Practising & Teaching in Harmony with the Seasons
Let go of resistance and tension by aligning with the natural rhythms of the season and your body with five element yin yoga.
Rest and restore your nervous system with restorative yoga, yoga nidra, vagus nerve yoga, and hatha yoga.
An adaptable, supportive program with a variety of yoga classes and lengths to meet the changing energy and needs of your day-to-day life with kindness and compassion is available through our membership community.
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