100+ Amazing podcasts by Dr. Melissa West

Dr. West shares this amazing web series that, as of writing this, features 90+ full classes.

Below I’ve copied her bio taken from her website (melissawest.com) that contains many more hours of teachings.

I’ve not yet reviewed the radio show section but I certainly will since it features great interviews such as “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows”

BIOGRAPHY

Yoga & Pilates 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.