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This week, in what might be the funniest episode yet, Molly and Emese are joined by co-stars Amy Schumer and Brianne Howey. They get candid about motherhood, career evolution, and their new film, Kinda Pregnant —which unexpectedly led to Amy’s latest health discovery. Amy opens up about how public criticism led her to uncover her Cushing syndrome diagnosis, what it’s like to navigate comedy and Hollywood as a mom, and the importance of sharing birth stories without shame. Brianne shares how becoming a mother has shifted her perspective on work, how Ginny & Georgia ’s Georgia Miller compares to real-life parenting, and the power of female friendships in the industry. We also go behind the scenes of their new Netflix film, Kinda Pregnant —how Molly first got the script, why Amy and Brianne were drawn to the project, and what it means for women today. Plus, they reflect on their early career struggles, the moment they knew they “made it,” and how motherhood has reshaped their ambitions. From career highs to personal challenges, this episode is raw, funny, and packed with insights. Mentioned in the Episode: Kinda Pregnant Ginny & Georgia Meerkat 30 Rock Last Comic Standing Charlie Sheen Roast Inside Amy Schumer Amy Schumer on the Howard Stern Show Trainwreck Life & Beth Expecting Amy 45RPM Clothing Brand A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us at @sonypodcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this beginner-friendly full-body yin yoga class, we’ll explore the principles of yin: finding your edge, softening, becoming still, and staying for awhile. This quiet, introspective practice focuses on the deeper layers of the body—connective tissues, ligaments, and joints—primarily in the hips, pelvis, and spine. Through longer holds and gentle surrender, you’ll cultivate patience, trust, and a sense of ease while encouraging your nervous system to relax and reset. Whether you’re new to yin yoga or returning to your practice, this class offers a supportive space to slow down, soften, and let gravity do the work. I’ll provide options for props and show you how to use everyday items like pillows or blankets if you don’t have yoga props at home. Join me to release tension, find balance, and welcome the yin qualities of stillness, rest, and compassion. Props Needed: Wall, Blanket, Block, Strap, Bolster (options will be given if you don’t have these props) Poem: After Softening by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this beginner-friendly full-body yin yoga class, we’ll explore the principles of yin: finding your edge, softening, becoming still, and staying for awhile. This quiet, introspective practice focuses on the deeper layers of the body—connective tissues, ligaments, and joints—primarily in the hips, pelvis, and spine. Through longer holds and gentle surrender, you’ll cultivate patience, trust, and a sense of ease while encouraging your nervous system to relax and reset. Whether you’re new to yin yoga or returning to your practice, this class offers a supportive space to slow down, soften, and let gravity do the work. I’ll provide options for props and show you how to use everyday items like pillows or blankets if you don’t have yoga props at home. Join me to release tension, find balance, and welcome the yin qualities of stillness, rest, and compassion. Props Needed: Wall, Blanket, Block, Strap, Bolster (options will be given if you don’t have these props) Poem: After Softening by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Restorative Yoga for Hips & Low Back | Yoga with Melissa 720 🌿 Ready to take this deeper? Join our membership for a structured journey into nervous system regulation through yoga. ➡️ http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Our hips and lower back hold the energetic tension between flexibility and stability, expansion and support. This restorative yoga practice invites you to explore the deeper psycho-spiritual meaning of these areas through somatic experiencing and Internal Family Systems (IFS), offering space to gently unwind patterns of control, tension, and holding. By settling into long-held, supported postures, we create an opportunity to notice where we grip, where we soften, and where we can invite more fluidity, creativity, and trust in the body's wisdom. Rather than focusing on stored emotions or trauma, this class embraces the hips as a center of life force energy, adaptability, and creative flow, while the lower back reminds us of the balance between personal strength and the need for external support. Through guided awareness and intentional pauses, you will have space to listen to the quieter parts of yourself—the parts that strive to hold everything together and the parts that long to release. With a nervous system-informed approach, this practice encourages small, sustainable shifts in how we meet resistance, how we recover, and how we expand our capacity to move through life with greater ease. Whether you’re feeling physically tight or energetically overwhelmed, this class is an invitation to trust your body's natural rhythm, find grounding amidst change, and cultivate a deep sense of spaciousness within. If this class resonated with you, inside my membership, we are taking this even deeper this month with a guided pathway for Nervous System Regulation Through Spiritual Ascension. Each week, we integrate practices like this one into a supportive community where you can ask questions, receive guidance, and deepen your experience. You can join us inside. 📖 Deepen Your Practice with Yin Yoga – Winter is the perfect time to nourish your low back, kidneys, and water element through deep, replenishing rest. My Yin Yoga book is filled with poses to support your hips and lower back, bringing balance to your body and mind. Get your copy here 👉 https://melissawest.com/book/…
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Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership This transformative 10-minute yoga nidra is designed to gently clear and renew your energy. Guided by the compassionate and purifying energy of the violet flame, this practice helps release fear, anger, resentment, and guilt while transmuting energies from past traumas, unresolved emotions, and stress into higher vibrations of love, peace, and clarity. Through deep relaxation and guided visualization, you'll invite the violet flame to flow through your body, clearing energetic blockages and creating space for emotional balance and restoration. This practice offers a sanctuary of calm to reset your nervous system, release tension, and reconnect with your inner light. Whether you’re seeking to let go of heavy emotions or refresh your energy, this yoga nidra provides a nurturing, empowering experience of renewal. This 10-minute yoga nidra reset is a condensed version of a powerful energy transmission I did with our members designed to clear and reset your nervous system pathways. In this shorter practice, you'll gently release unresolved patterns, but in the membership version we cleared blockages in your aura, chakras, and energy field, and purified their physical body, thoughts, and emotions. If you are interested in creating space for alignment with your divine essence, supporting spiritual growth, creativity, and a deep sense of inner peace consider becoming a member. 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 Yoga with Melissa recommends consulting your physician or other healthcare provider before starting any yoga or movement program. You should understand that there is a risk of injury associated with participating in any physical movement. This is not medical advice and should not be taken as such. By voluntarily participating in this exercise program or using the information provided, you assume all risk of injury to yourself and release and discharge Yoga with Melissa/Melissa West from all claims or causes of action, known or unknown, arising from use of this video or information therein.…
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Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 718 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕 This soothing restorative yoga class is designed to gently support your parasympathetic nervous system, focusing on cultivating a healthy balance of ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation. By the end of the practice, you'll feel deeply relaxed, meditative, and grounded—a state many describe as feeling truly “zenned out.” Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga Sequence Vagus Nerve Reset Restorative Child’s Pose Eye Yoga Restorative Locust Diaphragmatic Breathing Restorative Bridge Mudra for Security Props Needed: Bolster, 2 Blocks, meditation cushion or chair…
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Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this beginner-friendly full-body yin yoga class, we’ll explore the principles of yin: finding your edge, softening, becoming still, and staying for awhile. This quiet, introspective practice focuses on the deeper layers of the body—connective tissues, ligaments, and joints—primarily in the hips, pelvis, and spine. Through longer holds and gentle surrender, you’ll cultivate patience, trust, and a sense of ease while encouraging your nervous system to relax and reset. Whether you’re new to yin yoga or returning to your practice, this class offers a supportive space to slow down, soften, and let gravity do the work. I’ll provide options for props and show you how to use everyday items like pillows or blankets if you don’t have yoga props at home. Join me to release tension, find balance, and welcome the yin qualities of stillness, rest, and compassion. Props Needed: Wall, Blanket, Block, Strap, Bolster (options will be given if you don’t have these props) Poem: After Softening by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer…
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Full Moon Yoga Nidra | December Cold Moon | YWM 714 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ This Full Moon Wolf Moon Yoga Nidra is designed to support your nervous system and guide you through a transformative practice of clearing and release. The Wolf Moon, named for the howling wolves of winter, symbolizes survival, resilience, and the instinctual need for connection and renewal. Under the light of the full moon—when energy builds to its peak—we are invited to let go of fear, resentment, guilt, and other accumulated stressors that weigh on our nervous system. Through this deeply restorative yoga nidra, you’ll access the unconscious patterns and beliefs that keep you stuck in survival mode, using intention and awareness to transmute them into higher vibrational states of love, peace, and vitality. This yoga nidra is not just for the full moon; you can return to it anytime you need to support your nervous system, release stress, or create space for growth and transformation. With the power of the full moon, we’ll clear the energetic pathways in your body, bringing balance and resilience to your nervous system and aligning with your true essence. This practice is a gentle reminder of your capacity to reset, restore, and reconnect with the highest version of yourself. Take this time to honor your need for rest and renewal, and embrace the opportunity to clear what no longer serves you.…
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Morning Yoga for Winter | Qigong Yoga Flow | Yoga with Melissa 715 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ This 30-minute morning yoga stretch is designed to help you shake off the sluggish, low-energy that comes with winter’s dark, short days. ❄️ The perfect morning yoga for beginners or seasoned practitioners, this qigong yoga fusion class combines simple movements and breathing exercises to bring balance and vitality to your mornings. Transform the stuck, stagnant, slow energy of the most yin time of year into uplifting, flowing energy. This gentle yet powerful morning yoga flow will: ✨ Boost vitality ✨ Awaken your natural energy ✨ Clear mental fog ✨ Shake off stagnant emotions ✨ Uplift your spirit By stimulating circulation and breaking up stagnation, this class helps energize your body and awaken your spirit, so you feel ready to take on the day. 🧘♀️ Whether you’re feeling lethargic or need to clear stuck energy, this morning yoga for energy will leave you feeling refreshed, focused, and balanced without exhaustion. 📌 Perfect for: 30 minute morning yoga sessions Morning yoga for energy and focus Morning yoga for winter mornings Join me to energize your body, uplift your mood, and awaken your natural vitality with this revitalizing qigong yoga flow. Let’s transform winter’s low, slow energy into vitality and flow. 🌟…
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Full Moon Yoga Nidra | December Cold Moon | YWM 714 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ This yoga nidra is for your deep rest, an internal retreat designed for the colder months of winter. Consider it a time to recharge, nourish yourself and conserve your energy for the inevitable growth that will arrive in spring. This full moon is a perfect time to rest, recharge, nourish yourself and conserve your energy for the growth of the coming spring. I’m Melissa and here on this channel I offer yoga nidra for deep rest and nervous system resilience. This time of year is a perfect time for visioning and planning your new year and Yoga Nidra is a transformative practice that goes so far beyond rest. It leverages receptive brainwave states to embed intentions deeply, fostering profound personal growth and healing. As always there will be an audio download for our members in our membership community. We have over 80 yoga nidras in our video library and a month-long rest incubator to renew your energy. Like, Subscribe, & Share this practice to inspire others, and together let’s create a ripple of transformation. Let me know in the comments what you are visioning for 2025.…
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Neck & Shoulder Pain Relief | Yoga Qigong Fusion | YWM 713 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Start your day feeling relaxed and pain-free with this gentle yoga and qigong fusion class. Suitable for beginners and anyone looking to relieve neck and shoulder tension, this session focuses on moving your body to improve blood flow, release stagnation, and minimize pain. You'll learn how to move with ease, replacing tension with relaxation in every movement. This practice isn't just about your neck and shoulders—it engages your whole body to create a sense of flow and balance. Perfect for the morning, it will leave you feeling refreshed, restored, and ready to take on your day. 💖✨ I’m Melissa and here on this channel I offer qigong yoga flows like this that you can practice outside with no props, not even a mat. Imagine a world where people experienced the pain relief of yoga—let’s make that vision a reality together. Like, Subscribe, Share with somebody you love who experiences neck and shoulder pain and put “my neck and shoulders feel so much better in the comments.…
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💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Join me for a soothing Full Moon Yoga Nidra as we honor the luminous Full Beaver Moon, the final supermoon of the year, shining larger and brighter in the sky. This unique full moon calls us to gather our inner resources and prepare for the darker winter months, a time of deep rest and gentle reflection. Just as the beaver diligently constructs its lodge in preparation for the cold, we, too, can use this time to clear emotional and mental tension, creating spaciousness within ourselves. By releasing what we no longer need, we open up space for true rest, inviting peace and stillness into our hearts and minds. In this Full Beaver Moon Yoga Nidra, we’ll explore the symbolism of the beaver’s cozy, protective lodge as a source of inspiration for creating safe, supportive environments around and within us. Winter invites us to slow down, conserve energy, and embrace the quiet transformation that comes with inward reflection. As we transition from autumn’s dynamic, transformative energy into the introspective stillness of winter, this practice will guide you to settle into your own inner sanctuary—a place where rest, renewal, and gentle growth can unfold. Let this yoga nidra be your time to pause, to connect with your natural rhythms, and to prepare for the season of quiet introspection ahead.…
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Yin Yoga for Sleep | Yoga with Melissa 711 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Prepare to ease into rest with this 60-minute yin yoga for sleep class designed by Melissa West. This evening yin yoga for sleep and relaxation invites you into a receptive, passive state to cultivate deep relaxation. With calming 5-minute holds and abundant options, Melissa West’s Yin Yoga gently guides you through poses that support letting go, softening, and allowing gravity to do the work, mirroring the process of sleep itself. This yin yoga for better sleep class honors the transition to night, encouraging you to welcome stillness, tune into the quietude of yin energy, and align with your body’s natural sleep cues. In this yin yoga for good sleep session, you’ll embrace darkness and enter a healing state of release, guided by Melissa West’s approach to yin yoga for better sleep. By creating an atmosphere of reverence and calming mental activity, this yin yoga to sleep well fosters a sense of inner peace and prepares the body for restful sleep. Melissa West’s Yoga is your companion for slowing down, connecting with your natural circadian rhythms, and opening yourself to the deep restorative powers of yin yoga for sleep. Let this 60-minute yin yoga for sleep journey invite you into a state of surrender and restoration. Yin Yoga for Sleep Sequence Legs Up the Wall Keyhole Frog Bananasana Half Shoe Lace Cat Pulling It’s Tail Savasana Props Needed: Wall, Blanket, Bolster…
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Restorative Yoga for Back Pain Relief | Yoga with Melissa 710 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this restorative yoga class, we’ll gently explore ways to relieve back pain by cultivating patience, compassion, and self-kindness. Using restorative yoga poses for back pain, we’ll focus on accepting our current experience without forcing change, inviting a sense of openness and ease into the body. This practice is about creating space—both physically and emotionally—to release the layers of tension that often accompany chronic back pain. As we breathe deeply, we’ll calm the mind, activate the vagus nerve, and transition from a state of stress to relaxation. Healing back pain is a journey, not a quick fix. I encourage you to celebrate each small victory, whether it’s finding comfort in a pose, feeling a subtle shift in pain, or noticing an increase in your emotional resilience. Restorative yoga gives us the space to be still, to release stored emotions, and to acknowledge that healing is not linear. Take this time to slow down, breathe deeply, and restore balance, as we allow the body to soften and open to its natural healing. Legs up the Wall Keyhole Supported Bridge Pose Hand to Big Toe Pose Supported Bridge Pose Reclined Twist Child’s Pose in Center Reclined Twist Savasana Props Needed: Wall, Block, Bolster, Yoga Strap…
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1 Yoga Nidra Rest as Remedy for Nervous System Exhaustion | Navigate Your Nervous System #6 | YWM 709 33:12
Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ In this yoga nidra practice, we will explore the deep restorative power of rest to heal from the exhaustion that comes from chronic stress and overwhelm. This session is designed to address dorsal vagal shutdown, a response in the nervous system where the body "shuts down" to conserve energy after prolonged periods of stress. This shutdown can manifest as profound fatigue, emotional numbness, and a need to withdraw from daily life. Many of us, especially those who habitually overwork, over-give, and push past boundaries, experience this kind of depletion. When our nervous system is constantly activated, it can lead to a state of collapse, where both body and mind feel deeply drained. Yoga nidra offers a pathway back to balance. Through this practice, we will create space for deep rest, allowing the nervous system to reset and recover. You will be guided through gentle body awareness, breathwork, and sensory relaxation, inviting your body to move from exhaustion into a state of healing. This practice is a powerful antidote to overdoing, helping you reconnect with your inner reserves and nourish yourself from within. Rest as remedy is central to this yoga nidra, emphasizing the importance of self-care and boundaries as essential tools in preventing further shutdown. Allow yourself the time and space to experience true rest, replenishing your energy and restoring your body’s natural rhythm. Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ Playlist for the Navigate Your Nervous System Series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdFcYtDajz211W6al_imYcQfdPOL9l7Gn&si=IAA2LjVl1gOEOIVj…
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Yoga Nidra for Burnout Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ Welcome to the second month of our Navigate Your Nervous System Series. This is the fifth class in the series. Burnout occurs when our body gets stuck in the dorsal shutdown freeze response of the nervous system, triggered by prolonged periods of stress and activation. It arises when we push past our limits, exhausting our physical, mental, emotional, and energetic bodies beyond their capacity to rest and restore. Burnout is more than just physical fatigue—it's a deep soul exhaustion, a sign that the nervous system is in need of regulation. This isn’t your fault. We live in a world that constantly pressures us to be productive, with financial and personal responsibilities pulling us in different directions. It's no wonder we don’t always take the time to recover fully, which only deepens the cycle of depletion. We often override our natural rhythms, pushing through stress and fatigue without proper recovery. But there is hope. By tuning into the body’s natural rhythms of repair and restoration, we can heal from burnout. This yoga nidra practice will not only help you recover from burnout but also prevent future episodes. Yoga nidra goes beyond simple rest—it restores your nervous system, reconnecting you with your body’s innate wisdom. The more we embrace slowness and moments of stillness in our lives, the more we heal and build resilience. Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ Playlist for the Navigate Your Nervous System Series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdFcYtDajz211W6al_imYcQfdPOL9l7Gn&si=IAA2LjVl1gOEOIVj…
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Yoga Nidra for Depression | Navigate Your Nervous System Series #4 | YWM 707 Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ Welcome to the second month of our Navigate Your Nervous System Series. This is the fourth class in the series. This Yoga Nidra for Depression is a compassionate practice designed to support those navigating the weight of depression by fostering gentle connection, self-compassion, and a sense of safety. Drawing from the teachings of Deb Dana and Polyvagal Theory, this guided journey helps you tune into your body’s natural intelligence, acknowledging the protective role of the nervous system. Through mindful awareness, you will be invited to explore the dorsal vagal response, which can manifest as disconnection or numbness, and gradually shift toward states of connection and ease. With each step, you'll be guided to honor your body’s responses with kindness, without rushing or forcing change. In this practice, we use tools like mindful breathing, awareness of opposites, and a compassionate body scan to gently reconnect with yourself. As you move through the practice, you will be invited to hold space for yourself with compassion, curiosity and non-judgment. The practice encourages a deep sense of self-compassion, allowing you to return from the experience with a renewed sense of connection and safety, both within your body and in your external world. Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ Playlist for the Navigate Your Nervous System Series: CLICK HERE…
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1 12 Yoga Poses for Positive STRESS Response | Navigate Your Nervous System Series #3 | YWM 706 38:49
12 Yoga Poses for Positive STRESS Response | Navigate Your Nervous System Series #3 | YWM 706 Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ In the third class of the navigating your nervous system series, we will explore sympathetic activation. Over the last two weeks we have explored the “negative” sides of the “fight and flight” responses of your sympathetic activation. However, in this class we will explore how sympathetic activation can often be employed for positive outcomes in our bodies and throughout our day. In this class, we explore the concept of navigating the nervous system through mindful movement and breath, embracing the sympathetic nervous system’s activation as a natural and necessary part of life. Stress, when managed with care, can become a source of growth, learning, and resilience. By working through postures that activate and release stress, we practice balancing sympathetic arousal with relaxation, recognizing that stress signals engagement in meaningful aspects of our lives. Throughout this practice, we cultivate compassion, allowing ourselves to move through stress with kindness and a deeper understanding of its role in our personal evolution. 12 Yoga Poses for Positive Stress Response Sequence Spinal Warm Up Kapalabhati Breath Frog Pose Lunge Pyramid Knocking on the Door of Life Knocking on Meridians Breath of Joy Uttanasana Camel Child's Pose Reclined Twist Props Needed: Yoga blocks, bolster, meditation cushion Go to 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ to download your Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat sheet…
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1 Yin Yoga to Release Anger & Frustration | Navigate Your Nervous System Series #2 | YWM 705 1:00:25
Yin Yoga to Release Anger & Frustration | Navigate Your Nervous System Series #2 | YWM 705 Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ Welcome back to the Navigate Your Nervous System Series! This will run through September & October here on YouTube and in our membership community. This week, we will continue exploring your Flight Response of your nervous system, with anger, frustration and irritation. Physiological responses of your nervous system under threat “fit in, fawn, fight, flight and freeze” have corresponding emotions and behaviors Your Sympathetic Nervous system fight response begins with irritation, moves to frustration, then anger, then rage as the threat or perceived threat escalates Anger, frustration, irritation and resentment are the emotions associated with the liver organ system and wood element season. Throughout this class I will guide you into yin yoga postures and teachings about anger and the nervous system from my book, Five Element Yin Yoga. Our members will get and an elevated, deep dive into a PREMIUM ELITE TIER where they navigate fitting in responses of the vagus nerve in September. This week they will receive teachings on boundaries and a yoga class on having Strong and Flexible Boundaries. Props: Blocks, Blanket, My book Poem: A Great Wild Goodness by Annie Lighthart Go to 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ to download your Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat sheet 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/…
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Yoga for Anxiety | Navigate Your Nervous System Series #1 | YWM 704 Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat Sheet 👉 📄 https://melissawest.com/navigate/ Welcome to the Navigate Your Nervous System Series! This will run through September & October here on YouTube and in our membership community. We will begin by exploring the Flight Response of your nervous system with Anxiety. This class has several nervous-system sensitive tools to bring to the yoga class from grounding, resourcing, orienting, sounding, breathing, self-contact, and as always trauma informed cueing. This class combines the best of classic hatha yoga along with some qigong inspired flows. I have a gift for you - a Navigate Your Nervous System PDF download - today we will be going through the Flight Response in the Sympathetic Nervous System - September on YouTube we will focus on Sympathetic Nervous System Our members will get and an elevated, deep dive into a PREMIUM ELITE TIER where they navigate fitting in responses of the vagus nerve. Go to melissawest.com/navigate to download your Navigate Your Nervous System Cheat sheet Props Needed: Yoga Strap, yoga blocks, Poem: Primary Wonder by Denise Levertov…
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💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this Yoga Nidra for sleep session, inspired by modern sleep science and ancient yogic wisdom, we will explore the essential, non-negotiable nature of sleep as described in Matthew Walker’s book, "Why We Sleep." Sleep is crucial for the daytime functioning of our brains and bodies, but in today's fast-paced world, we find ourselves not just physically tired, but also mentally and emotionally exhausted. Our nervous systems are overworked, and our spirits are in dire need of regeneration. This Yoga Nidra session will guide you into a deep, restorative sleep by addressing not only the physical need for rest but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion that many of us face. As yogis, we recognize that sleep transcends the material world. Our physical bodies are just one aspect of our sleeping experience. In this Yoga Nidra practice, we will step into a realm where our energy bodies, mental bodies, emotional bodies, and intuitive and imaginative capacities are also nurtured and restored. By allowing total relaxation to permeate all dimensions of our being, Yoga Nidra offers a profound level of rest and recuperation. This multidimensional rest is what makes Yoga Nidra so effective in enhancing our sleep quality. Join me, Melissa West, as we journey together into a state of complete relaxation, allowing every aspect of our being to be rejuvenated and restored. There will be no close-out in this yoga nidra so you can drift off into deep sleep. As always, there will be an audio download of this yoga nidra for members in our membership community.…
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Yin Yoga for Kidney Meridian | Rest & Reset Series #5 | YWM #702 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ The kidneys are the essence of your energy body, serving as the root of your life force and the reservoir of your deepest nourishment. By pulling and pressurizing the tissues of the kidney meridians in our yin yoga practice, we gather all the scattered energy and draw it inward to connect with our true nature. This practice allows us to slow down, breathe into our lower back and kidneys, and cultivate the deep, quiet pool of energy in our lower dantien. This is a practice of rest and deep renewal. Our practice honors the softer edges, nurturing ourselves for authentic healing and rejuvenation. In this yin yoga class, we will use our breath and visualization to gather and direct the flow of qi in our bodies. The principles of yin guide us to find a balance between comfort and challenge, fostering change and ease simultaneously. The kidneys, work overtime when we are stressed, pushing on even when we are exhausted. By cultivating an appropriate rhythm and living in balance, we can rebuild our vital life force. This class allows us to pause, move qi into the bones and deeper connective tissues, and create space for energy and inspiration to emerge within us. Through stillness and softening, we support our kidney meridians, recharging our energy. Yin Yoga for Kidney Meridian Sequence Centering Child’s Pose Butterfly Dragonfly Reclined Twist Savasana Poem: Self-Care by James Crews…
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1 Nervous System Yin Yoga | Release Stress, Tension & Anxiety | Rest & Reset Series #4| YWM 701 51:15
In this Nervous System Yin Yoga class, part 4 of our Rest & Reset Series, you'll embark on a transformative journey designed to release stress, tension, and anxiety. By focusing on the Bladder Meridian, which runs along either side of your spine and down the backs of your legs, we will pull and pressurize the tissues to affect your nervous system. This practice will release stress, tension and anxiety as it helps to relieve muscle tension, improve the flow of qi, and stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system. You will learn to activate your parasympathetic nervous system, which is essential for rest and recovery, allowing you to move away from the constant state of fight-or-flight that depletes your energy and leaves you feeling exhausted. Pulling and pressurizing the tissues along the Bladder Meridian releases emotional tension. By the end of this session, you will feel a deep sense of calm and relaxation, ready to face life with renewed energy. Join me, Melissa West, for this soothing yin yoga practice with a special focus on restoring balance and harmony in your nervous system. Nervous System Yin Yoga Sequence: Toe Stand Hand to Big Toe Pose Half Happy Baby Pose Reclined Twist Half Dragonfly Savasana Poem: In the Flow by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Props Needed: BLocks, Bolster, Blanket, strap 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/…
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Restorative Yoga to Replenish Energy Reserves | Rest & Reset Series # 3 | YWM 700 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Welcome to a very special milestone, my dear Yoga with Melissa YouTube Yoga Community! This is the 700th episode of Yoga with Melissa, and I am so grateful to have you all with me on this daily yoga journey. To celebrate, I have a special class, designed to deeply replenish your energy reserves. In this restorative yoga class, we will embrace the art of restoring our energy with LONG holds—700 seconds per pose, which is about 11.5 minutes each. These extended holds are a tribute to our 700th episode, symbolizing not only the depth and longevity of our practice together over the last 15 years, but also the potential of restorative yoga to replenish our energy reserves. What to Expect: Deep Relaxation: Each pose will be held for 700 seconds, allowing you to sink deeply into relaxation and truly let go. These long holds will help activate your parasympathetic nervous system, promoting profound rest and recovery. Energy Replenishment: Through these restorative poses, we'll focus on gently opening the body and encouraging the free flow of energy. This practice is designed to help you recharge your energy reserves, leaving you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Stillness & Silence: The extended time in each pose will give you the space to cultivate quiet and peace, creating a parasympathetic nervous system state that supports both rest and renewal. Let’s honor this incredible journey together with a practice that embodies the essence of restorative yoga—long, luxurious holds that allow you to reset and recharge deeply. Thank you for being part of this yoga with Melissayoutube community, and here’s to many more episodes of yoga nidra, restorative yoga, yin yoga, hatha yoga and qigong yoga flows. Join me for this special class, and let’s celebrate the 700th episode of Yoga with Melissa in the most relaxing and rejuvenating way possible. Yours in Yoga, Melissa Restorative Yoga to Replenish Energy Reserves Sequence: Restorative Locust Pose Restorative Child’s Pose Restorative Twist Restorative Fish Savasana Poem: Of Goodness by Mary Oliver Props Bolster, Blocks, Blankets, Eye Pillow…
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It is easy to feel burned out and running on fumes, especially in summer when high temperatures make doing life even more exhausting. This qigong yoga flow is designed to nourish the kidneys so that we can recover and store energy. Our kidneys are responsible for storing and distributing our vital energy throughout our body, so if we are looking to recover energy, this is the best place to create an energy reserve within. The kidneys are the root of life and provide the fundamental energy we need for our physical strength and endurance. Join me for this qigong yoga flow class where we will recover and store energy in our kidney organ system.…
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Yoga Nidra | Healing Power of Rest | YWM 698 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ Welcome to the first class in the Rest and Reset Series. This 70 minute yoga nidra for healing is a deeply healing and restorative guided meditation for when you need physical and emotional healing. Deep rest is essential to our overall physical, mental and emotional well-being. When we take time to deeply rest, our bodies can be healed at a cellular level. Our parasympathetic nervous system, lymphatic system and organs can do their natural work of repair. When you are experiencing illness, pain and emotional depletion this guided meditation for deep inner healing will allow you to tap into your own body’s innate capacity for healing. In this yoga nidra meditation for healing we will trace your awareness through the network of cells, tissues, and organs to improve the free flow of energy along the pathways for your body’s wellbeing. This meditative sleep yoga allows you to open your awareness into different parts of your body to mobilize your own innate healing power. This free flow of energy will greatly assist your body’s innate healing capacity. This return to your inner world for healing is a kind of revolution. One that puts aside the demands of our capitalist consumer culture, one that demands that we are aways producing and doing. Because there is a part of your inner being that knows there is deep value in rest and repair, we can call upon it to support us in our healing. This is a radical act of reclamation and the first step towards healing our world. I hope you enjoy this extra long yoga nidra. May all beings be healthy. May all beings be at ease. Sign up for my Emails to stay in the loop about the Reset and Reset Series: https://melissawest.activehosted.com/f/3 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/…
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Vagus Nerve Reset Yoga to Welcome Abundance 697 ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership This hatha yoga qigong fusion class will combine hatha yoga with qigong. We will begin by releasing the scarcity and poverty thinking with qigong purging exercises. Then we will focus on the kinds of abundance that you want to draw into your life. Additionally, this class will open up your lungs so that you can breathe in more inspiration and good quality and integrity of qi. We will practice fountain pose from easy pose and finish our class in savasana with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. This short yoga class for abundance will focus on drawing in prosperity and abundance in a simple and easy way. It would be a great class to practice during the full moon to celebrate abundance and prosperity and to release the scarcity and poverty mindsets that are keeping you from experiencing abundance in your life.…
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Emotional Release Qigong Yoga Fusion | YWM 696 💸Abundance Code 1:1 Reading 💸 https://melissawest.com/abundance/ 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ Cleanse, Clear & Heal your Emotional Body in this qigong yoga fusion class. Emotional pain often manifests in our bodies as tension, tightness, or even chronic discomfort, particularly when emotions become stuck and unexpressed. This can leave us feeling heavy, burdened, and disconnected from our true selves. In our Emotional Release Qigong Yoga Fusion class, you will be guided through a gentle yet powerful practice designed to help you release these trapped emotions and cleanse your emotional body. Drawing from both Qigong and Yoga, this class will support you in letting go of emotional burdens that may not even be yours, creating space for healing and renewal. Through mindful movements and guided visualizations, you will activate the flow of healing energy, clear emotional blockages, and restore balance within your emotional body. Whether you are dealing with emotional dysregulation, nervous system dysregulation, stress, sadness, anger, anxiety, or other challenging emotions, this practice offers a compassionate and nurturing space to support your emotional well-being. Join me for a powerful emotional cleansing, release and healing class.…
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Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Thank you so much for your feedback. Thanks to your requests, we are re-releasing this yoga nidra with VOICE ONLY for your enjoyment. Our yoga nidra practice opens our neuroception to be grounded in the present moment, to be more regulated, calm and spacious. By gently moving our awareness around our body, we anchor in the present moment and create a sense of calm and presence. In this calming Vagus Nerve Yoga Nidra practice, we invite deep relaxation. As I guide your awareness through your body, I invite a profound sense of stillness to envelop you. Breath awareness and practice will regulate your vagus nerve. With each breath, we nurture connection to the present moment, fostering a sanctuary of peace within ourselves. Through this practice, we cultivate a harmonious balance between body, mind, and spirit, tapping into the healing power of the vagus nerve to restore inner calm.…
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Yoga Nidra for Deep Healing 70 mins | Yoga with Melissa 694 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership This 70 minute yoga nidra for healing is a deeply healing and restorative guided meditation for when you need physical and emotional healing. Deep rest is essential to our overall physical, mental and emotional well-being. When we take time to deeply rest, our bodies can be healed at a cellular level. Our parasympathetic nervous system, lymphatic system and organs can do their natural work of repair. When you are experiencing illness, pain and emotional depletion this guided meditation for deep inner healing will allow you to tap into your own body’s innate capacity for healing. In this yoga nidra meditation for healing we will trace your awareness through the network of cells, tissues, and organs to improve the free flow of energy along the pathways for your body’s wellbeing. This meditative sleep yoga allows you to open your awareness into different parts of your body to mobilize your own innate healing power. This free flow of energy will greatly assist your body’s innate healing capacity. I hope you enjoy this extra long yoga nidra. May all beings be healthy. May all beings be at ease.…
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VAGUS NERVE Restorative Yoga | YWM 693 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership This calming vagus nerve restorative yoga will support your parasympathetic nervous system, in particular healthy ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation of your nervous system so that you leave feeling “zenned out, ” meditative and contemplative. Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga Sequence Restorative Locust Pose Restorative Hand to Big Toe Pose Restorative Child’s Pose Restorative Twist Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Say So Hung: The Ultimate Healing Tool (https://www.3ho.org/meditation/ra-ma-da-sa-sa-say-so-hung-the-ultimate-healing-tool/ ) Savasana Props Needed: Bolster, 2 Blocks, eye pillow/blanket/or pillow, yoga strap meditation cushion or chair…
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This vagus nerve yoga nidra is designed to reset your nervous system from sympathetic activation or or dorsal shutdown. Whether you are feeling anxious and stressed or disconnected, depressed & drained of energy, this yoga nidra will engage neuroception to follow the three streams of awareness: inside your body, outside your body and in between to reset your vagus nerve. In this Vagus Nerve Reset yoga nida, we invite deep relaxation. As I guide your awareness through your body, I invite a profound sense of stillness to envelop you. Breath awareness and practice will regulate and reset your vagus nerve. With each breath, we nurture connection to the present moment, fostering a sanctuary of peace within ourselves. Through this practice, we cultivate a harmonious balance between body, mind, and spirit, tapping into the healing power of the vagus nerve to reset and restore inner calm. Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership…
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Join me for a calming nervous system yoga session designed to soothe your nervous system. This gentle practice focuses on nervous system regulation, incorporating gentle and calming yoga poses, breath practices, and mudras to support your parasympathetic nervous system and vagus nerve. With Melissa's guidance, you'll activate your vagus nerve, promoting a sense of calm and relaxation. This is yoga for a calm and healthy nervous system. Leave feeling "zenned out," meditative, and contemplative. Props Needed: Yoga Block If you'd like to check out the outfit from Silverwind and would like 20% Off use Melissa20 at check out! 1. Colorblock X Sports Bra: https://bit.ly/3WAZyfx 2. Two-tone Flow Leggings - Tardis Blue: https://bit.ly/3y6RvNw…
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