🌻🌻🌻I am, as always, a sunflower🌻🌻🌻

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

YES!

I am a cornflower. I am blue! Thank you both as always. 💓 Your hair looks fab Melissa.

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great wallflower class! My heart, shoulders and neck feel opened up like a flower - really needed this--Thank you so much!

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

So glad it was supportive Sharon

A peony! Thank you Melissa! 🥰

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

That class was super juicy, thank you Melissa!! 🍓 I love so many flowers, for today I’m a magenta pink peony :)

@drmelissawest

2 ай бұрын

Oooh I love peonies 🌸

after many years of practicing yoga, i finally decided to sign up for yoga teacher training just for myself. i think of you as one of my yogi inspirations and hope my future yoga will remain informed by your unique style and wisdom 😌

@kirstymacfarlane1620

5 ай бұрын

That's fantastic! I've done my ytt online and only have my final written, a 45 min class for labourers, and my practical, which my daughter has very kindly offered to be my student. I've got a lot wrong with my spine and yoga has helped so much. I feel I need to pay back and help others like myself. While I won't be doing headstands, I'm going to do my absolute best to bring my students what they need. I wish you the best of luck. Here's to a successful future as yoga teachers 🥂🙏🏼🧘🏼‍♀️💜

@shinystar1781

5 ай бұрын

@@kirstymacfarlane1620headstands will never be in my repertoire, nor will crow pose and other poses i dislike🤭 i wish you luck in your yoga training and healing journey

@kirstymacfarlane1620

5 ай бұрын

​@@shinystar1781thanks so much. I'll be the same, I want to bring more breath work and meditation to my students. I loved my teacher but felt that part of yoga was lacking in her classes. I would've preferred 10 minutes less of poses and that time spent on teaching meditation or doing yoga nidra instead of a 5 minute savasana. I live in Scotland and when I enrolled for the course, I told them what kind of teacher I want to be and they said the yoga community is desperate for teachers like me. I understand wanting to make a class mostly about the poses but I want to bring something a bit special to my students. I paid £30 for a class that was 90 minutes of yin, sound bath and yoga nidra. I was so excited because I'd only done a sound bath and yoga nidra at home. The sound bath was a small singing bowl, like my own, which she played for about 2 minutes and passed around the class, she didn't do a yoga nidra either. Talk about disappointed! If I tell my students there's going to be a sound bath, they're going to get a good 10-15 minutes of tibetan singing bowls. Even if it is a recording on Spotify 😂😂. It feels nice communicating with someone who is starting a new venture in life. I'm so excited for you and you'll be an amazing teacher. Probably my favourite thing about the yoga community is how supportive and accepting people are, makes such a difference

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Congratulations! That is so exciting!

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

I think one of the biggest misconceptions I had when I did my yoga teacher training is how much time I thought I would spend teaching headstands. Which is like NEVER now. For me, I look at what a pose can do for people and I am way more interested in helping people restore their energy, relieve pain, regulate their nervous systems and reconnect with their hearts these days. Headstands are definitely not necessary.

My flower is purple 🪻 Thank you so much for a well needed opening 🙏🥰

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

So glad it helped

Thank you from a blooming rose🌹

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

Love roses

I'm a wallflower now - surprising (or maybe not...) how repeating the same holds brings so much more opening.

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

It is definitely a highly overlooked technique in yoga.

Thanks Melissa .. flower power !!!! 🌼🌸🌺🪷

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Love it!

I really enjoyed this class and how open my chest is feeling, thank you so much! I had randomly grabbed a pair of green sweatpants this morning from the way back of my bottom drawer and throughout the entire practice seeing my legs as these vibrant green stems - just awesome how that aligned for me today 🙏😁

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

That is so perfect Kelley!

Thank you Melissa. Love your classes - always

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Jessica, so glad to be connected in yoga.

Thank you, Melissa! I am an orchid opening :)

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Beautiful Barbara!

I didn’t like doing the heart opening pose, but I’m so glad that I stuck with it. My upper body is thanking me and I thank you also for a great practice.

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

I'm so glad it was worth sticking with

Thanks Melissa, loved this practice 🙏🏼💜🧘🏼‍♀️

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Yay! I'm so glad!

Thank you Melissa 🌺💐🌸🌼🌻

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Wow Melissa! This was very powerful for me. Thank you 🙏🏼

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

I'm so happy to hear that!

Wonderful class, thank you

@drmelissawest

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for practicing with me today.

Thanks!

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Sandy, that is so kind of you!

I am a California Giant Zinnia especially after that traction on the countertop but I know it will relieve my pain in my upper back, shoulders and neck.

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Perfect!

I am a zinnia. Thank you

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Love it Sandy!

In that first pose do the legs should be straight or with a slight bend?...

@drmelissawest

5 ай бұрын

Whatever is most comfortable for you, for me it was more a more comfortable edge to have a slight bend in my knees.