Point of Departure – a new look at resolution
If you don’t choose a different present, then your past will choose it for you. Rod Stryker As January 1st approaches we are again asked...
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Melissa Valentine
Dec 20, 20183 min
2019 is on the Horizon – Can you SEE it?
As each year closes, we face the urge to toss out undesired habits, start fresh and to move in new directions. Maybe you look forward to...
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Melissa Valentine
May 30, 20184 min
Solving the Unsolveable: 4 Steps in a Path to Healing & Preventing Chronic Pain
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the...
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Melissa Valentine
Jul 10, 20175 min
Lineage – “Please, Tell Us About the Wall!”
In yoga terminology, lineage refers to the historical succession of knowledge passed from teacher to teacher. With the foundation of...
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Melissa Valentine
Feb 10, 20173 min
Moving Up to the Next Level: Progression in Yoga
“Remember it is not how deep into a posture you go – what does matter is who you are when you get there” ~Max Strom My students ask me...
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Melissa Valentine
Jan 5, 20172 min
Moving Your Mind in 2017
If we can make just 1% of the population meditative, the world will be a different place” ~Sadhguru If you listed among your New Year’s...
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Melissa Valentine
Oct 26, 20162 min
VATA- Grounding Ourselves for the Winds of Change
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills” ~Chinese Proverb As my students entered the house...
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Melissa Valentine
Oct 12, 20163 min
A Full Moon Ritual: Making Room for the Freedom to Choose Something Different
This Saturday a full moon will rise in a (very likely) clear North Carolina sky. Lately, I have been working with how to “let go” of...
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Melissa Valentine
Sep 26, 20162 min
A Good Retreat
A good retreat is better than a bad stand” ~Irish proverb As I was preparing to leave for my Yoga Retreat at Aldermarsh in the...
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Melissa Valentine
Sep 2, 20162 min
Yoga – “The Everlasting Gobstopper”
You can suck ’em, and suck ’em, and suck ’em, and they never get any smaller” ~Willie Wonka I really love Gene Wilder and the...
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Melissa Valentine
Aug 23, 20162 min
Putting “Therapy” into Your Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~BKS Iyengar I am often asked “What is Yoga Therapy?”...
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Melissa Valentine
Jul 29, 20163 min
Finding Your Yoga Off the Mat
Go from a human being doing yoga to a human being yoga” ~ Baron Baptiste When your yoga teacher goes on vacation – what do you do? Do...
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Melissa Valentine
Jul 13, 20162 min
PITTA – Embracing and Balancing the Heat of Summer
Sometimes it takes a meltdown to cool down. ~Evinda Lepins I’m hot, really hot. Literally, I am actually HOT and wet, according...
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Melissa Valentine
Jun 18, 20162 min
“Accessibility” / Yoga for ALL
If you can breathe, you can do yoga. ~Krishnamacharya This Tuesday, June 21st 2016, marks the...
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Melissa Valentine
Jun 2, 20163 min
Good Intentions
Setting an Intention is like drawing an arrow from the quiver of your heart. ~ Bruce Black If you have ever been to my class, you know...
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