Yoga with Melissa 22 is a yoga class to boost your immune system. This class starts with legs up the wall to stimulate your lymphatic system. The class focuses on opening your hips and shoulders to stimulate those main sites of lymph nodes in your body. The class finishes with a mudra for immunity.
Yoga with Melissa 21 is a fabulous class for back pain, stress, and exhaustion. In this yoga class we return to the kidney and bladder meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The kidneys are the dominant organ of winter and rule the water element and all the fluid systems in the body including circulatory, lymphatic, endocrine and urinary. The kidneys step up with energy when our energy is low, when we work overtime, become stressed or push too much even when we are exhausted. Kidneys also concern the health of the low back. Thanks Megan who lives in Germany, for requesting a show for low back pain, this one should fit the bill!
I remember when I first started filming these online yoga classes in 2009, it never even occurred to me that people would be watching and practicing with me from all over the world. Thank you for practicing with Yoga with Melissa.
Yoga with Melissa 20 is a yoga class to bring balance to Kapha dosha. Kapha is the dominant dosha of winter, it is dark, heavy and damp like winter. When the kapha dosha becomes imbalanced we can experience inertia, sluggishness, depression, lethargy, and fatigue. To bring some energy to this imbalance we will engage in a practice that is stimulating, moving, warming, lightening and energizing. This class includes sun salutations to stimulate kapha dosha and many backbends to get that excess mucous moving out of the chest.
In episode 19 of Yoga with Melissa, you will be lead through a series of hip and heart openers. The yoga class begins with some gentle movements to release your spine. Poses such as lunge, warrior I and natarajasana open the front of your hips, leading into a series of backbends that lengthen the front of the body while strengthening the back of the body. This simple class will leave you feeling strong, flexible and open.
In this episode of Namaste Yoga we will explore Traditional Chinese Medicine’s dominant organ of winter, kidneys, and their corresponding emotion, fear. Melissa encourages you to explore the theme of fear in your life from fear of the unknown to those general ongoing worries. Physically this practice opens the hips, the groin, and the heart center working along the meridians of the kidney and bladder.
Yoga with Melissa 16 is a perfect opportunity to reflect on the energy behind our new year’s resolutions. New Year’s resolutions are usually backed with an energy of will power, of resolving to make it happen. We can be very hard on ourselves as we push ourselves to exercise more, eat better, get out of debt, quit smoking, or cut back on alcohol consumption. The energy of self- control, determination, discipline and restraint can be quite exhausting. We will attempt to shift the perspective on our intentions by using the yamas of ahimsa, satya and brahmacharya. This asana practice gently releases the hips and shoulders and builds to eagles pose.
