#meditation

Melissa Valentine

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...

Melissa Valentine

Yoga at Home: 10 steps to finding your way in the increasingly virtual world of Yoga

2020 has offered quite a few challenges for us – not the least of which has been finding a way to keep going on our own, without our...

Melissa Valentine

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...

Melissa Valentine

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...

Melissa Valentine

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...

Melissa Valentine

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...

Melissa Valentine

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...

Melissa Valentine

Restorative Retreat

In need of a mini-retreat but no vacation in sight? Take 40 minutes out of your day to try the following restorative sequence for a...