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Vlog 18 Meet a Yogi

I started the week with a crystal singing bowl circle on Sunday which was a relaxing way to start the week. I didn’t film again until Thursday as a lot of my focus was on recovering from a migraine episode this week.

The highlight of my week was meeting one of you! Linda is a Namaste Yogi and member visiting in Victoria BC for a few months and we went for a lovely walk and ice cream in Victoria. I think Linda should start her own vlog what do you think?

Saturday afternoon we went for a bike ride through Beacon Hill Park. I was riding Betsy the Beachcomber, she is fun to ride on flats, she has no gears. We went down to the beach and admired the stones. We show you the world’s tallest totem pole 🙂 We stop and smell the roses.

We finished the week in Ross Bay cemetery. The week finished with 30 C weather. I reflected back on my experience of the last two weeks of my experience of living with migraines. I am so grateful to be surrounded by the strength of the people around me. Thank you Ulrika, Diane, Claire, hannah, Fiona, Alice, Michelle, Linda, Michele, Ivy, Bonnie, Jeff and Tim – your presence in my life brings me strength 🙂

How do you restore your energy? Who supports you in your life when your energy is low physically, mentally, emotionally?

Namaste, Melissa

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Vicious Goats : Vlog 17

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Goats and New Gimbal

I start the week bright and early with a weekly challenge with going with the flow 🙂 I share with you my morning practice to start the week 🙂 The bowing practice allowed my spine to be really fluid. I spoke about why neck nods are important for your brain and your body – here it Tim’s video that he did for us that explains more:

I set the intention to “Smile, breathe and go slowly” and put one foot in front of the other for Monday. We had a fun work break at the Victoria day parade with all the marching bands 🙂

Thursday morning we went for a lovely walk at Cattle Point with our Nature Victoria Explorations group 🙂 We saw beautiful wild chives on our walk. The park was filled with goreous Gary Oak trees. I think we may have found an excellent location for filming walking meditation members 🙂

Thursday afternoon we went to the farms to get our fresh fruits and vegetables. We stopped at Dan’s to get apples, peanut butter balls and samosas … and to feed the goats. The goats are cute and funny. 🙂

A special thank you for your donations to our epic video campaign. The LanParte handheld gimbal stabilizer arrived this week! 🙂 So much gratitude 🙂

Tell me if you can see the difference in the video smoothness from the bear walk on! 🙂 Witty’s lagoon was a beautiful location for the walk with streams, waterfalls and a beautiful forest. Please excuse all the self-indulgent videography as we tested out the gimbal 🙂

Albert’s head was a treasure to find – it was like Long Beach in Tofino, only way closer to home. Tim was making friends with all the dogs on the beach.

Stay tuned next week for lots of sound healing 🙂

Namaste, Melissa

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Three Mountains in One Day! Vlog #16

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Three Mountains in One Day!

Thank you so much for your support for our epic video campaign. Tim and I are filled with gratitude and appreciation for your support in purchasing a new drone and gimble. We are so excited about the new content that we are going to be able to create for you.

We went on a couple of lovely hikes this week, starting with one on Wednesday at Elk Lake and Beaver Lake with our friends Nature Victoria Explorations. We walked through a lot of marsh lands and enjoyed the birds. I show you some native blackberries (so now you will know the difference between our local native blackberries and the Himalayan blackberries).

Thursday we filmed Namaste Yoga on a sunny, cool and windy day. You get to hear me speak about the challenges of outdoor filming. Amazing I can complain in such beautiful surroundings. We scouted out a new location for filming in View Royal as well. 🙂

I got to hang out with our friend Justice (from our videographers meetup) on Friday evening and so I show you a fun roof top location with Urban Smart Farms. On Friday night we went to the opening of the Victoria Kite Festival. It was so cool to see all the kites lit up at night.

Saturday we went on one of the hardest hikes I have done here so far in B.C. to Mount McDonald, Mellow Malcom Mountain and John Stick Peak. You get to see us climb and climb and climb some more. You get to see some amazing lookout points.

We finished the week at the kite festival with some super fun kites. Thanks for another great week everybody 🙂

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Forest Tea Party and Crystal Singing Bowls

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Strawberry Beaches Forever: Vlog #15

My week started with a Forest Tea party and foraging for herbs from the forest to make tea for a tea party. Our forest tea had blackberry leaves, grand fir needles and licorice fern root and tasted like Frances King Forest. 🙂

I met and visited Boreal Folk at a local market this week I got some bath salts that look and smell like the forest as well as a shampoo bar. I am looking forward to interviewing Boreal Folk and showing you their fun van.

Before Mail Time I tell you about the Just Like Me Interviews that we do in our membership community where I interview our members and tell their stories of how they came to yoga and interact with yoga. Thank you for your mail Ivy. My lip balm finally arrived from Jane Ellen’s Etsy shop.

Please excuse Tim’s music for my art. I think he didn’t get it 😉

You get to see where we filmed Namaste Yoga at Government House this week. I taught about meditation and dispelled a lot of myths about meditation. Thanks for all your feedback on the class, I’m glad you have found it helpful. 🙂

On Thursday we filmed two membership classes and one Living Your yoga video. I filmed a Traditional Chinese Medicine Yoga class for your liver meridian and a brain yoga class to help you with your standing balancing yoga postures. I also filmed a video with a hand massage for stiff hands and wrists. You get to see some of the challenges of finding an outdoor filming space amongst so much noise pollution.

My week finished on a high note with the Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls concert with Nancy Watters. They are crystal singing bowls that vibrate with the healing properties of the crystals. I found the vibrations to be incredibly cleansing, healing, restorative and uplifting. The sound vibrations cleared the residual of the migraine I was experiencing. I slept deeply and woke up feeling more rested than I have in years.

Went to Victoria Videographers meetup on Saturday morning. Great group of GUYS! I am the only woman who comes consistently 🙂

Strawberries are out at Gobind Farms in Victoria which makes Tim and I giddy and turns us into a giggling mess if you make it all the way to the end of the vlog.
Can you tell I am a vatt and Tim is a kapha? While I wax poetic about fruit, Tim manages to hoover in about half a dozen strawberries! Ha ha!

Have a great week everybody. Thank you for your presence here. Namaste, Melissa

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Slugs and Jeff on Vlog 14

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Slugs, Whales and Jeff

We start out our week with some collaborative filming with Jeff Chand from Coastal Acupuncture and Wellness in Victoria B.C. We filmed a few videos together drawing on Jeff´s expertise of traditional Chinese medicine and had a lot of laughs.

On Wednesday we took a trip to Saturna Island. It is a gorgeous island with a population of about 350 people. We went with a naturalists’ meetup group. It was fantastic because they identified so many plants for us! James Colwater, the leader of the group is an ornithologist and in addition to knowing the behaviour of birds, he is an excellent botanist. We saw eagles, humpback whales, seals, sea lions, otters, deer, wild goats, slugs, loads of birds and wildlife.

There was loads of stinging nettle on the island. I had an amazing stinging nettle latte from a fun converted double decker bus. I then recreated the stinging nettle latte at home. I share with you the benefits of consuming nettle.

On Thursday morning we filmed Namaste Yoga. We ran into Dale, one of the makers of the Moss lady. He shared with us some of the fun facts and history of Beacon Hill Park. He told us about the hundred and twenty seven year old rhododendron. We filmed in front of a nutmeg tree. I showed you how much some of the plants have grown in Beacon Hill park.

We finish up our vlog with mailtime this week. I received lots of mail from you. Thanks to Jenn Ashton for the meditation deck. Thanks to Shambhala publishers for the books to review. I am looking forward to interviewing your authors.

Watch all the way to the end for some fun outtakes with Jeff.

Namaste, Melissa

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Nature Inspires Me – Vlog12

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Nature’s Inspiration

This week started with some incredible weather so we decided to head out for some kite flying at Clover Point. It was so nice we took a little tour around Victoria and drove up to some lookout points to enjoy the views. Monday continued the gorgeous 20C weather and so we headed out to film some videos for my friend (and yours) Tim Anderson at Original Strength down on the beach.

I got some great used books this week for collaging backgrounds for my art. A huge dictionary and a brass rubbing book.

I share with you an incredible experience I had connecting with Goddess energy this week and how she communicated with me through pink clouds.

You get to meet my weekly challenge team and some of the people that support our membership community in practicing yoga daily in our weekly challenge leadership meeting. 🙂 Thank you so much to the generosity of my leaders, especially Hannah, Ulrika, Diane, Claire, Fiona and Victoria who attended two leadership meetings (maybe even three) this month!

The summer weather continued through Wednesday and blessed our filming of Namaste Yoga this week. It was such a joy to film in Beacon Hill park as couples and families enjoyed picnics. There were so many musicians in the parks and people sun bathing.

Happy Birthday to all our members who have birthdays in May! There are at least 12 that I know of and probably more! 🙂

I finished up my week with an indulgent trip to the art store and a walk through Government House Gardens where we visited the deer. I am so inspired by the art here in Victoria, especially the first nation’s art, the totem poles, and all the inspiring colours in nature. One thing I have said to Tim many times is that this place has made artists out of us. You cannot be around this much beauty and not have it turn into a symbiotic relationship.

We finished our week with a real treat, brunch at Bubbies, thanks to our friend Femke. She took us out to thank Tim for filming her benefit concert 🙂 Oh and a double chocolate ice cream sandwich for Tim at Cold Comfort 🙂

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