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A free weekly yoga show designed for real people doing real yoga. Come and join Dr Melissa West every week for a unique yoga experience. In the first episode of Namaste Yoga we explore the theme of our relationship to our own bodies.

Namaste Yoga 1- From http://www.melissawest.com/

This practice asks you, "What kind of relationship do you have with your body? What does your body have to say?" The idea is that if your body is one of the greatest sources of wisdom available to you, what kind of relationship to you have with your body? Are you even listening to it?. The first episode of Namaste Yoga offers a fun and playful practice featuring poses such as dead bug, happy baby, and breath of joy. This uplifting class is designed to allow us to take a light- hearted and compassionate look at our relationship to our bodies. The copyrighted theme in this program is based on the work of Michael Lee in the book, Turn Stress into Bliss and is used with his permission. http://www.turn-stress-into-bliss.com/

Melissa West is a yoga and pilates instructor who helps people to surrender to peace in their lives by connecting to the vital energy within their body through breath, cultivating optimal functional movement by harnessing the power of gravity and increase overall mobility by creating more suppleness in the spine.

Melissa West specializes in teaching yoga and pilates to adults aspiring to decrease stress in their lives, rehabilitate from motor vehicle accidents and chronic back pain, and improve the overall function of their bodies from brain longevity to digestion and optimal organ function to muscular and skeletal balance.

After discovering yoga and pilates as a way to cope with the stress of academia during her studies in a Masters of Arts in Music Criticism and a Ph.D. in Communications and Cultural Studies, Melissa now helps people find peace amidst the turmoil of their anxiety-ridden lives.

Teaching yoga and pilates is a natural extension of the creative expression she learned first through performing music and later through the writing she did during her degrees. Her skills as a scholarly researcher combined with her experience teaching adults within the university institution adds to the pedagogical skills Melissa brings to her teaching.

Melissa is dedicated to her professional development and continues to study as a movement educator with her teachers Tama Soble at Esther Myers Yoga Studio and Margot McKinnon at Body Harmonics Pilates Studio.