Living Your Yoga With Dr Melissa West

Yin Yoga for Tight Hips & Low Back | Slow Release for Tension | YWM 753 Over 1, 000 videos in our membership library https://melissawest.com/membership  This yin yoga class is designed to gently ease tight hips and lower back through long, supported poses that allow your body to soften rather than brace. We will gradually open the hips from multiple angles and release common holding patterns around the pelvis and spine. Instead of pushing for flexibility, you will give your joints, muscles, and connective tissue time to relax, which helps reduce stiffness, gripping, and that familiar sense of compression in the low back. Over the course of the class, many students notice less pulling in the hips, more ease when standing or walking, and a quieter, more settled feeling in the lower back. This yin yoga for hips and lower back supports long-term comfort, not just a short stretch. The practice helps your body stop compensating through the spine when the hips are tight, which can ease ongoing lower back pain and

Restorative Yoga for a CALM NERVOUS SYSTEM | Yoga with Melissa 752 For more nervous system healing: Link to sign up: https://melissawest.com/membership This 60-minute restorative yoga class is designed to calm your nervous system. Through restorative yoga with props we will move your nervous system from sympathetic activation, stress and anxiety to a state of calm. This is restorative yoga for the nervous system, oriented toward parasympathetic settling. This restorative yoga is designed to calm you down. This is a full restorative yoga 1 hour practice designed for nervous system regulation and healing.  This class sits inside a larger framework I teach in my membership through the 1 month Settle Your Nervous System program. That program looks at how activation shows up across the body, thoughts, speech, and daily actions, and how regulation is rebuilt slowly over time. If this restorative yoga class resonates, the program offers a way to work with nervous system healing.  Link for members: https://www.mem

Transitioning into Winter’s Deep Rest Yoga Nidra | Yoga with Melissa 751

75-Minute ULTIMATE Restorative YIN for Deepest Nervous System REST

NOURISHING Beginner Yin Yoga to SOOTHE STRESS & RESET Your NERVOUS SYSTEM | YWM 749 Membership ➡️  https://www.melissawest.com/membership Book: ➡️ https://melissawest.com/book/ Welcome to Yoga with Melissa 749! Join me for this NOURISHING Beginner Yin Yoga session designed to SOOTHE STRESS and guide a full RESET** for your NERVOUS SYSTEM. This is a gentle yoga for anxiety practice that helps your body release deep-seated tension. This slow-paced, therapeutic yin yoga class is perfect for beginners or anyone seeking a powerful, healing yoga experience. We'll focus on poses that gently open the hips and back, key areas for holding stress, while naturally activating your parasympathetic nervous system. By holding these shapes, we stimulate the vagus nerve to foster deep regulation, relaxation and a calm mind. Use this time to unplug, find inner peace, and release emotional tension from your body. Timeline: Figure Four Pose Child’s Pose Reclined Twist Butterfly Forward Fold (Half Butterfly) Legs up the Wal

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30 minute BEGINNER PILATES to Wake Up & Strengthen Your Core |YWM 746 Membership ➡️  https://www.melissawest.com/membership  This beginner morning Pilates class is designed to wake you up and help you connect with your core in a way that feels grounded, kind, and sustainable. My intention is to make Pilates accessible for everyone, whether you’re new to it, rebuilding strength, or looking for a more mindful approach that honors your body’s limits.  In my own experience, many real-life classes move too fast or expect you to already be strong enough to keep up. They’re often expensive, and lack modifications, so I find I end up with neck pain or even migraines. This class is my offering to bridge that gap so you can experience the benefits of Pilates without strain and I will slowly build while offering lots of modifications and options. We’ll move gently through foundational Pilates exercises that engage your core, wake up your spine, and bring strength and mobility into your morning. You’ll build warmth f

Yin Yoga for TIGHT HIPS | Yoga with Melissa 745  Membership ➡️  https://www.melissawest.com/membership ✉️ Receive emails from me ✉️  https://bit.ly/melissamail  Meet the deep tension that gathers in your hips with this yin yoga class. Through long-held, floor-based poses, you’ll explore the principles of Yin Yoga: choosing an appropriate edge, softening, being still, and staying awhile. These four anchors guide your body to release resistance, deepen your breath and downshift your nervous system into safety. As the connective tissues around your hips, pelvis, and lower back begin to hydrate and unwind, space and ease naturally return to your movement and breath. Energetically, the practice supports the smooth flow of Qi through the Liver, Gallbladder, and Kidney meridians that run through the hips and inner thighs. These pathways are linked with flexibility, emotional release, and grounded vitality. This yin yoga for tight hips is designed to gently unwind deep-seated tension and restore mobility through

Melt Away Stress | Cozy Restorative Yoga | YWM 744 Settle into deep calm with this cozy restorative yoga class designed to help you unwind and destress. Through gentle, supported postures and slow, steady breathing, you’ll soothe your nervous system and create space for ease. This class offers a soft landing for when life feels full, helping you release layers of tension, anxiety, and overwhelm while grounding back into the body’s natural rhythm of rest and repair. As you linger in each pose, your body will begin to melt open, your mind will quiet, and your breath will lead you toward peace. This is your invitation to slow down, to reconnect with the quiet underneath the noise, and to experience true anxiety relief. Perfect for evenings or anytime you need a reset, this restorative practice helps you return to balance, supported, soothed, and deeply at ease. Props Needed: bolster, block, chair Poems: Between the Lines by Jeff Foster (adapted) Tree by Jane Hirschfield Sitting in a Quiet Room by Rosemerry W

This ROOT CHAKRA VAGUS NERVE YOGA is SO nourishing

Autumn Yoga Nidra | Yoga with Melissa 742  Prepare to Conserve Your Energy this Autumn: https://melissawest.com/membership  This Melissa West Yoga Nidra for Autumn is a 30-minute yoga nidra meditation created to help you align with the natural rhythm of the fall season. In autumn, nature turns inward light fades, leaves fall, and the season reminds us of impermanence and the preciousness of our human life. This autumn yoga nidra invites you to let go of busy-ness, productivity, and the weight of what no longer serves you. By releasing into stillness, you create space for renewal and conservation of energy, preparing for the deeper rest of winter. Whether you are searching for Melissa West Yoga Nidra for autumn sleep, fall yoga nidra, or yoga nidra for sleep, this practice will guide you into profound restoration. As you rest, your nervous system is gently restored, your energy conserved, and your body attuned to the wisdom of the season. Allow yourself to be supported as you plant seeds of stillness and cl

GENTLE PILATES for BEGINNERS | At-home Mat Pilates (No Equipment) YWM 741 Membership ➡️  https://www.melissawest.com/membership  Discover the foundations of Pilates in a way that is truly accessible for complete beginners. This gentle, mat-based class is designed to support your body and your nervous system, offering a calm and steady introduction you can return to anytime. With no equipment required, you’ll be guided step by step through simple movements that build strength and stability while keeping your body and mind at ease. Together, we’ll explore five key principles of Pilates in a supportive way: awareness of sensation, guiding your movement with care, centering from your core, attunement to your body’s feedback, and breathing that feels natural and unforced. These principles create a safe, steady foundation so you can move with more clarity, confidence, and connection.

Post-Walk Yoga Stretch | Ideal for 10,000-Step Days | YWM 740 Membership ➡️  https://www.melissawest.com/membership If you walk 10,000 steps a day, this beginner-friendly yoga for walkers class is the perfect way to recover, release tension, and keep your goal of walking 10 000 steps a day. This yoga for walking sequence includes walking stretches and walking stretching exercises designed specifically for after you walk. We’ll focus on walking stretches that relieve muscle soreness in your lower body and open your upper body for better posture. This class includes after walking stretches like a walking quad stretch, walking hamstring stretch, walking calf stretch, hip flexor release, glute and IT band stretches, plus simple myofascial release for your feet to care for your plantar fascia. This walking stretching workout supports the muscles most active during walking while also helping you stand with better posture. Alongside the lower body focus, you’ll open your chest and shoulders to counteract rounding

Wake up your whole body and feel your best with this energizing morning yoga practice. In this class, you’ll move through a dynamic flow designed to open your hips, lengthen tight hamstrings, strengthen your core, and challenge your balance. You’ll also work on releasing tension from your upper back and shoulders, helping you start the day with more ease, freedom, and vitality. This well-rounded sequence combines strength, mobility, and mindful movement so you can feel both grounded and uplifted when you step off the mat. This class is perfect for mornings when you want to boost circulation, improve posture, and bring your mind into sharp, present focus. Whether you’re easing into your day or preparing for a busy schedule ahead, the intentional combination of hip openers, balancing poses, and targeted strength work will leave you feeling centered, mobile, and strong. Grab a block, roll out your mat, and let’s practice together. Poem: The Once Invisible Garden by Laura Foley Props: Yoga Block and strap

Calming Vagus Nerve Yoga | Hatha into Yin Practice YWM 738 Membership ➡️  https://www.melissawest.com/membership The intention behind this class is to start standing to down regulate your nervous system from a state of activation into a state of regulation so that you can be more comfortable being still. If you come to your yoga mat, especially a class where there is a lot of stillness like yin yoga or restorative yoga and you find a lot of restlessness, it is incredibly important to move that trapped or repressed energy through first before you become still. Then it will be more comfortable when you are still.  This combination of hatha followed by yin gives the space to downregulate your nervous system, to release the excess energy that wants to fight or run away to prepare you to become still. So we will start standing with standing postures that release excess energetic tension from the body and gradually make our way to some seated yin yoga poses to be more comfortable in stillness. This is a great pr

Restorative Yoga When Sick

This MORNING YOGA is SO GOOD ✨ bright, easy + lingers all day | YWM 736 Join our Membership: https://melissawest.com/membership Wake up this morning with a bright, easy, hatha yoga class that will linger all day! This class will open your hips and hamstrings, and release your spine and shoulders. The class builds to variations on triangle pose. There are also some great core strengthening exercises, invigorating breath practices to energize you for the day and a fun forward fold sequence to round out the class. If you are looking for a 45 minute hatha yoga class for your morning routine, I’ve got you covered.  Want more like this?  Our membership library with over 1,000 ad-free videos, has an entire Morning Yoga section and monthly calendars to support your daily practice. Join us here: https://melissawest.com/membership Poem: Savasana  In Less Than Fifteen Minutes Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer  Props Needed: Yoga Strap, Block 

This beginner hatha yoga class is actually doable. Designed in my real yoga for real people supportive style, this class invites you to slow down. Don’t worry, this class has only simple movements and an unhurried pace. You’ll find a spaciousness in each posture. You don’t need any previous experience or any props. Expect a kind and confidence-building approach that doesn’t rush or overwhelm. You’ll move through foundational poses that relieve stress and tension, restore your energy, and leave you feeling more at ease in your body. This class is both relaxing and low-effort and is suitable for beginners, but I think my more seasoned students will appreciate its simplicity as well! Oh! And for those of you who are looking for a morning yoga class, this is a great class to start your day. Poem: U PICK by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

10 minute Yoga Nidra Full Body Scan | Yoga with Melissa 734 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership This 10 minute yoga nidra is a short guided practice that will take you through a full body scan. In this 10-minute Yoga Nidra, I’ll guide you through a deeply restorative body scan to help you feel both grounded and renewed. Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that supports your nervous system and offers profound rest. It can be especially helpful for insomnia, anxiety, stress, adrenal fatigue, and more. In this practice, you’ll be invited into a state of conscious rest physically relaxed, mentally calm, and emotionally at ease, while staying awake and aware. You’ll gently move through waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states, all while anchored in the present moment. This guided meditation often brings clarity, stillness, and spacious insight. Research suggests that an hour of Yoga Nidra may be as restorative as four hours of deep sleep. In just ten minutes, allow your body to release tension