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Melissa Valentine
Dec 30, 20213 min read
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
Jul 7, 20206 min read
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...
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Melissa Valentine
Dec 20, 20183 min read
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 read
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
Jan 5, 20172 min read
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 12, 20163 min read
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 read
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 26, 20164 min read
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...
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