Yoga with Melissa

☀️ Gentle Morning Full Body Yoga Stretch for a Grateful Start
Now live on the channel 🌿
This morning practice is all about waking up through the body — gently, intuitively, and with reverence.
We meet the day with gratitude, not as a feeling to chase, but as a frequency we embody — a current beneath the breath.
🎥 Watch the class now → (link to video)
🌀 Want to go deeper with me this spring + summer?
🌞 May – The Solar Plexus Portal: A Nervous System Map for Empaths & Sensitives
Included in your membership → melissawest.com/membership
🌈 June – Embody Your Energetic Blueprint: A Human Design Summer Immersion
→ melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint
We’re creating something sacred — and I’d love to have you with us. 💛
With gratitude,
Melissa

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There’s something stirring...

I can feel it — a shift toward deeper presence, emotional clarity, and embodied alignment.
Something is rising beneath the surface... and it begins in the emotional solar plexus center.

🌊 This May, we’ll open a new kind of journey inside our membership — one that invites you to explore your energy through your emotional rhythm, not just chakras or Human Design.

And that’s just the beginning.

In June, something even deeper is coming — a way to embody your Human Design energetic blueprint, center by center, in a way that’s nervous system-informed, frequency-based, and soul-grounding.

✨ For now, feel into this: What if your sensitivity was a strength?
What if your emotional energy wasn’t something to manage… but something to honor?

You’ll hear more soon.
But just know — something sacred is unfolding.
And you’re invited. 💛

With love,
Melissa

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1 week ago | [YT] | 40

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🧬 NEW: Yoga Nidra for Cellular Healing is now live 🌙✨
This guided nidra is a sacred invitation to recalibrate your nervous system, attune to your body’s innate wisdom, and let your cells remember their original blueprint of wholeness. We’re weaving golden filaments of coherence—together.
💛 Members: You’ll find the audio download and this month’s REST Incubator inside the membership portal.
🌿 Not a member yet? Join us here:
👉 www.melissawest.com/membership
Comment below: “My cells are healing.” Let your presence be a part of this healing field.

1 week ago | [YT] | 10

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New Class: Restorative Yoga for Headaches & Migraines


This class is different — because I live with headaches and migraines too. I know what it's like to need relief without being able to tolerate light, sound, or movement.


This is a quiet, minimal-cue restorative class, with supportive props and an inclined setup to reduce head pressure. Optional: heating pad, ice pack, and eye pillow — anything that helps you soften into rest.


💫 May it offer you the care I’ve needed myself, again and again.


🎥 [Watch the Class Here]
https://youtu.be/QSDSkWXqYL8

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 7

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✨ A Moment to Reflect + A Special Practice for You ✨

This past month has been big—astrologically, energetically, and personally.
I’ve felt it deeply in my own journey.

So much has been stirring…
Moments of reflection, growing awareness, and a beautiful deepening into my purpose—not as a teacher delivering information, but as a frequency holder.

Yesterday’s somatic meditation [membership exclusive] was one of the most profound experiences I’ve had in guiding our practice together.
If you're a member, I truly hope you’ll give yourself the gift of this session:
www.members.melissawest.com/courses/introduction-t…

Here’s a glimpse of what came through…

OH. MY. GOSH.

That somatic meditation was incredible.
As we moved through it, something shifted. I dropped the notes... and it was like stepping into another realm.

✨ First, I was guided to bring forward the energy of stagnation, not tension. Light entered those places, like luminosity reawakening.
✨ Then came the fascia tangles—gently unraveling through awareness.
✨ Then the nadis, and the smooth return of flow as presence cleared the blockages.
✨ And finally, we entered the hormonal system—thymus, thyroid, pineal—lighting up in sequence.

It felt so seamless, like something (or someone) beyond me was guiding.
My only job was to step aside and let embodied awareness lead.

As much as I want to keep creating and sharing, I’m listening deeply to what my body and heart are asking for.

My father-in-law has been visiting all month, and behind the scenes we’ve also been immersed in the very grounded work of preparing our books for tax season (you know how that goes 😅).
It’s been beautiful—but I haven’t had a full day off in weeks.

So today, I’m taking a pause.
There won’t be a new class tomorrow—but I have so many beautiful sessions planned for you in April, and I can’t wait to share them.

Thank you for being part of this space.
Thank you for practicing with me.
And thank you for holding the frequency with me.

With love and luminosity,
Melissa 💚

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🧘‍♀️ New Class Alert!
30-Minute Yoga for Flexibility | Slow Flow 🌿
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In this new class, we’re exploring more than just physical flexibility—we’re flowing with the kind of flexibility that supports your nervous system in times of change. 💫

This 30-minute slow flow includes gentle hip openers, shoulder releases, and standing postures that echo the ease of lying-down poses. It’s dynamic, soft and soothing.

As we move through this sequence, we’re not just stretching—we’re learning to meet life with a little more openness, fluidity, and resilience in these times of rapid change and spiritual ascension.

🌺 Practice now: https://youtu.be/BR05HUKFFD8?si=PPdFG...
Let me know how it feels in your body 💗

1 month ago | [YT] | 58

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🌿 NEW Yin Yoga Class for Liver & Gallbladder! 🌿
Spring is the season of the Wood Element, where the Liver & Gallbladder meridians support the smooth flow of Qi (energy). But when Qi stagnates, anger, frustration, and irritation can build up. This Yin Yoga class is designed to release stuck emotions, restore flow, and soothe irritation using gentle poses, breath awareness, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) inquiry.
✨ Watch the class here ➡️ https://youtu.be/Y0tktWXYxLw?si=GWLFN...
💚 Want to go deeper? Inside my membership, we’re doing a 6-week Wood Element course to explore the Liver & Gallbladder meridians in depth, helping you harmonize with spring and clear emotional & energetic stagnation. 🌱
🔥 Join the membership here ➡️ www.melissawest.com/membership
Let’s reset, restore, and flow together this season! 💫

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 39

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🌊✨ Reflecting, Realigning, and Moving Forward ✨🌊

Hello beautiful souls! 💙 Lately, I’ve been taking some time to reflect deeply on what I truly value and how my offerings align with my inner truth. 🌿💫

💜 Pisces season (Feb 18 - Mar 20) is all about intuition, spiritual exploration, and aligning with our dreams. As an Aquarius ♒️, this time of year lights up my second house—a space of self-worth, personal values, and making sure my outer world reflects my inner essence. ✨

I had hoped to release a Pisces New Moon Yoga Nidra 🌑💤 but with all this reflection & recalibration, I just couldn’t get it all done this week. And with Tim away 🎥 on a big filming job in Vancouver, it just felt right to honour the natural flow rather than force it. 🌊

Meanwhile, our amazing members 💛 met on Wednesday for a somatic meditation practice 🧘‍♀️💫 as we wrap up our month on Nervous System Regulation through Spiritual Ascension and step into March’s theme: HSP Superpowers! ⚡🌿

🚀✨ But don’t worry—exciting things are on the way!
👉 A Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep 💙💤 is coming next week.
👉 New additions to YouTube in March that I can’t wait to share with you! 🎉

Thank you for being here and for your patience as I take this time to ensure everything I offer deeply aligns with my heartfelt intention. 💛 What are YOU reflecting on this Pisces season? Drop a 🌊 if you’re feeling the dreamy, intuitive energy too!

Much love,
Melissa 💙✨

1 month ago | [YT] | 91

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My favourite translation of the Yoga Sutras by Nischala Joy Devi is on sale on Amazon right now for $1.99 (kindle edition)
I picked up the revised & expanded edition yesterday because I have been loving my original edition for 17 beautiful years.
Let me know if you pick it up, or if you already have it!

3 months ago | [YT] | 36

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Eighteen years ago today, I made it through one of the most challenging parts of my life.

Have you ever been in a situation where the odds felt stacked against you, and the only way out was through?

For me, it was during my Ph.D. dissertation. It wasn’t just the grueling 10 years of study, the endless rewrites, or my advisor’s insistence that I work 10 times harder than everyone else because I was a woman and Canadian. It was all of that... plus writing my qualifying exams while eight months pregnant.

And then, mid-qualifying exams, my water broke.

I’ll never forget calling my advisor from the car on the way to the hospital to tell her I couldn’t finish the exam.

I called myself the dragon slayer.

Every rewrite, every qualifying exam, every obstacle became part of the journey to that final milestone: successfully defending my dissertation.

My research explored how consumer capitalist culture shapes our ideas, values, and beliefs, embedding itself so deeply in society that it becomes invisible, accepted as “normal” or “common sense.”

This invisible influence is something that I still weave it into my yoga teachings. Over the next couple of months in our membership community, we’ll be exploring this question: Who profits from our insecurities?

Today, I celebrate the day I became a dragon slayer, the day I successfully defended my dissertation.

What about you? What’s a major milestone in your life that you like to recognize each year?

Let me know in the comments and let's celebrate those victories together. 💬

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