This week's class focuses on the yoga concept, "drishti." Drishti means point of focus. It is a gentle gaze outwards that brings awareness inwards. In sanskrit drishti translates as vision, point of view, intelligence...
In this first of an eight class series on the organ body we introduce the organs we will be working with. The heart and lungs are representative of the precious balance between giving and...
Episode 58 of Namate Yoga with Dr. Melissa West marks the end of our series on listening with our whole body. We take a review journey back through edge, our breath, our body, our...
Episode 55 of Namaste Yoga is about listening to your emotions, how you feel. Emotions are fluid deepening awarenesses and part of listening with your whole body is about attuning yourself to your continuous...
This is the second in an eight-part series entitled, Listening with Your Whole Body. In this class we will listen with our breath to learn what our breaths can tell us about ourselves and...
This week marks the first week we enter into the niyamas which are in a sense, the internal yamas. The whereas the yamas are about our relationship to the the world, niyamas outline a...
This week in Namaste Yoga we explore the last of the yamas or ethical principles as outlined by Patanjali in the yoga sutras. Aparigraha means non-hoarding or non possessiveness. It is said that when...
In the second of a series of classes on the yamas and niyamas Melissa explores what it means to cultivate satya, or truthfulness in yoga asana and in the larger context of your life....
Very cool video, I will definitely ...
Excellent, amazing, sooo super cool...
This class was so beautiful!...