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Namaste Yoga 79 Dharma

This week's class is about dharma: right action and living your truth. Dharma often gets translated as life purpose but I think in our culture that gets read rather narrow mindedly as "career." Dharma...

Namaste Yoga 78 Karma with Dr. Melissa West

This is the much requested and long awaited class on karma. Although karma is popularly understood as punishment for our sins or rewards for our good deeds, in truth it is much more complex...

Namaste Yoga 74 Drishti with Dr. Melissa West

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...

Throat Chakra ~ Namaste Yoga 68: Special Series Chakras and Their Archetypes

In the fifth of a series of class on the chakras and their archetypes we focus on the throat chakra and connecting with our capacity to communicate. The throat chakra is all about self-expression,...

Namaste Yoga 50: Edge with Dr. Melissa West

Episode 50 of Namaste Yoga is all about edge. We will spend the whole class finding that ever changing place that is not too much, not too little, but just right. We will explore...

Namaste Yoga 34: Special Series on Yamas Niyamas: Satya

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....