Welcome — I’m Monica Merleau, a yoga teacher, mindfulness mentor, and wellness guide with over 30 years of experience.
This channel offers mindful yoga, Yin practices, calming breathwork, and gentle movement created especially for women navigating midlife, menopause, emotional shifts, and life transitions.
Here you’ll find practices to help you:
. Tools to age well
• Build strength, balance & mobility
• Release tension through Yin & restorative yoga
• Support your nervous system with breathwork
• Cultivate inner peace and clarity
• Move through midlife with grace and wisdom
This is a nurturing space to reconnect with your body, slow down, and honor this powerful chapter of your life.
✨ Slow down. Breathe deeply. Come home to yourself.
Subscribe to join our midlife mindfulness community.
Mindful Yoga & Midlife Wisdom
🌿 New Video Tomorrow!
Have you ever felt like your mind is racing, your body feels heavy, and you’re just… stuck?
Tomorrow, I’m sharing a brand-new 20-minute Gentle Yoga Flow designed to help you move through restless energy, reconnect with your breath, and gently reset your mind and body.
I filmed this practice in one of my favorite peaceful spots in the park, and I can’t wait to share it with you.
💛 Premieres tomorrow! I hope you’ll roll out your mat and join me.
🧘♀️ Feeling Stuck? A Gentle Yoga Flow to Reset Your Mind & Body
I always love hearing from you—what helps you feel unstuck when life feels overwhelming? 🌿
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🌿 Opening the Heart… One Breath at a Time 🌿
Today’s heart-opening sequence invites you to soften, breathe, and create space—not just through the chest, but within yourself.
✨ Puppy Pose – surrender and open through the shoulders and heart.
✨ Sphinx Pose – gently awaken the spine while encouraging an open, steady heart.
✨ Camel Pose – a deeper invitation to expand, trust, and welcome new energy.
💚 My new 20-minute Gentle Outdoor Yoga practice premieres tomorrow. I can’t wait to share it with you!
See you then. 🌿🙏
Monica
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🌿 New video coming Wednesday!
I had such a wonderful time filming this one, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you.
Until then, I hope you make a little space this weekend to enjoy the simple pleasures—fresh air, sunshine, nature, and a quiet moment for yourself.
Wishing you a peaceful and restorative weekend. 💚
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When life feels overwhelming, let’s go outside together.
I spent the morning filming beside the water and listening to the birds. This new practice is an invitation to pause, breathe, and refill your cup.
🌿 Coming Wednesday
When You Feel Emotionally Drained
The Power of the Pause
Have you had a chance to spend time in nature this week?
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🌿 200 Subscribers 🌿
A small milestone, but one I’m grateful for.
Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this journey of mindful movement, gentle yoga, and midlife wisdom.
Every view, comment, and subscription means more than you know.
This channel continues to grow slowly and steadily, just like a yoga practice—one breath, one step, one day at a time.
Thank you for being here.
With gratitude,
Monica
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New gentle reset practice coming tomorrow.
If life has felt heavy lately, this one is for you. 🤍
🙏💗
Monica
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Mindful Moment:
As you breathe… do not disappear.
For many years, I believed keeping the peace meant staying quiet, overextending myself, or saying yes when something didn’t feel right.
Lately, I’ve been learning that honoring myself can feel uncomfortable in the moment — but it also creates a deeper sense of peace.
Sometimes self-respect sounds like:
“That doesn’t work for me.”
“I need time.”
“No, thank you.”
“This feels more aligned for me.”
And what I’m realizing is that when we stop abandoning ourselves, others often respond with more respect than we expect.
Your voice matters.
Your needs matter.
Your truth matters.
Pause. Breathe. Be fully you.
— The Pause Between
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Mindful Moment for Parents & Caregivers 🌿
Sometimes life unfolds in ways we never expected.
Plans change.
Paths shift.
Energy feels stretched.
And yet… within the unexpected, there can still be meaning.
This reflection reminds us that not everything needs to be figured out all at once.
We are not meant to anticipate every step.
Sometimes growth appears quietly — through challenges, through change, through moments we did not choose.
If you are supporting a child, a family member, or navigating a season that asks more of you than you imagined…
you are not alone in feeling this.
Today, a gentle invitation:
• soften the need to have everything resolved
• allow space for what is still unfolding
• trust that something meaningful can emerge even in uncertainty
Pause.
Breathe.
Let this moment be enough.
Sometimes what feels unexpected… may still guide us toward strength, understanding, and connection.
With care,
Monica
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A simple evening practice to help you slow down, release tension, and reconnect with your breath.
If your day felt full or your body feels tight, this gentle 15-minute practice offers space to soften and let go.
You can find the practice here:
https://youtu.be/AbOzY3Uq6Ro?si=OHwU7...
Wishing you a peaceful evening,
Monica
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Life is a school where we learn to remember what our soul already knows.
In my teaching, what matters most is not perfection, but how people feel:
calmer
supported
more connected to themselves
My intention is to offer gentle practices that help regulate the nervous system and create space to breathe — especially for those holding a lot.
Sometimes a small pause is enough to begin again.
Pause Between
Breathe • Reset • Reconnect
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