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...
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Melissa Valentine
- Aug 25, 2020
- 4 min
You really “should” read this blog
Recently I have added a list of triggering “shoulds”, (specifically Byron Katie’s list of Universal Beliefs) to my yoga therapy intake...
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Melissa Valentine
- Aug 17, 2020
- 4 min
What is my Yoga personality?
So, you are fully committed to practicing Yoga at home. You have your equipment, you have set aside time and carefully considered your...
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Melissa Valentine
- Jul 7, 2020
- 6 min
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 21, 2018
- 3 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, 2018
- 4 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
- Feb 8, 2018
- 8 min
Moving from the Inside, Out – Experiencing Anatomy through Movement
Next time your yoga teacher asks you to “rest” in that Down Dog for just a few more breaths, look around you – no two Down Dogs are quite...
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Melissa Valentine
- Jul 11, 2017
- 5 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, 2017
- 3 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, 2017
- 2 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, 2016
- 2 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
- Sep 26, 2016
- 2 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 26, 2016
- 4 min
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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Melissa Valentine
- Sep 2, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 3 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 14, 2016
- 2 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, 2016
- 2 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 18, 2016
- 3 min
Folding Forward
Remember you can’t reach what’s in front of you until you let go of what is behind you. ...
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Melissa Valentine
- Jun 8, 2016
- 2 min
Legs-up-the-Wall / Viparita Karani
It is not the load that breaks you down. It is the way you carry it. ~Lou Holtz Legs-up-the-wall is my very favorite pose – so easy...
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