A Yogi Kitchen

What is your loss? Let’s release some of the pain and heaviness around loss. We’ll end the year feeling a bit lighter, everything feeling a little easier and start the new year feeling brighter.

It’s Friday so let’s celebrate! What are your wins? Also...What do we do here? Unexpected time away has given me time to polish my rebellion thoughts. We’re empowering with mindfulness and mental fitness.

Creating clarity, awareness and intention around mental health. Let’s start to think about mental health differently. Let’s manage our mental health the way we manage physical health.

Do you know how you are? Or who you are? I didn’t. It took me awhile to figure out what purpose and meaning meant for me. Join me as we talk about ways for you to connect.

It’s starting to feel a bit like fall. Intention around a new season and how I’m getting fired up. Let’s start thinking about mental health differently. What’s coming up to help you bring mindfulness to your mental health.

It’s been a rough, not-so-pretty month. Health scares, death, a funereal, birthdays, houseguests and family drama. I’ve been thinking about what makes us keep walking to the other side.

I want to share my week with you and let you know a bit about the new schedule, the new website and talk about setting intention for Nutrition Week.

Mindfulness and seeing other people’s shiny, happy parts when I feel like I’m failing

Building wellness into your life, what to do with check-ins and how I learned about my Gemini side. And, oh yeah, it’s my birthday season!!

How I’m reflecting, meditating and setting intention for my fiftieth year, plus a second session of BreatheOnlune in one summer! Set your intention for the week with a little mindfulness.

How to mindfully manage your mental health.

During mid-week check-in I encouraged the community to separate what it feels like from what’s true. Take a deep breath, close your eyes and feel the difference between your feelings and what’s true.

Living in bed and getting ready for greater creativity, more energy and higher activity. We’re in crisis management mode and I’m learning to give myself permission to do whatever it is I need. It’s not always pretty.

Bringing mindfulness and intention to clearing the clutter. What brings you joy about your living space? How can you increase that joy?n . Can you spread that joy to your loved ones and even people you've never set eyes on?

What are those little things that you can do RIGHT NOW to increase your wellness? The holidays are full of stress and busier lives for everyone, no matter what you celebrate. So, take baby steps to increase your wellness.

We've been talking about getting grounded, scarcity and luck. How can you access what you really want? How do you stay out of scarcity thinking? Wise Mind! Join me as I share with you this morning's client questions about Wise Mind. Also, what is Wise Mind?

I've been having feelings of scarcity and then I remembered about luck. I added a check-in and meditation to help us get quiet, grounded and clear.

I've been pushing ahead and not taking note and not taking a breath to reset. i've just been jumping into new situations all year. It's biting me in the ass. Here's how I'm changing it. Let's do Tree Pose together, cause it's the perfect pose to focus on resetting.

It's Thanksgiving week and managing this week can take some extra skills. How can you cope ahead and take breaks to manage difficult family members and full schedules.

What do we do when inspiration and/or motivation takes a hiatus? How do we get back there? How do we stay there? The answer is in mindfulness!

How do you get out of high emotion or times of panic when you're completely aware of where you are and what's going on? Five Things.

I recorded the newsletter!

A self-care question. CoffeeTime is a break for us to take together where I answer the questions you send in.

Extending our glow of lovingkindness and compassion

Self-Care Challenge. What's one thing you can do today, at this moment to make you more energy rich, boost your immune system and en the year better than it's going to end right now?

It's day four of the FREE Self-Care and we're going to warm up together with a short yoga practice to work out the creaky-cranky places and warm up the spine.

First day of Self-Care Challenge, Mindful Monday. You Are Enough. You are perfect just the way you ware. The universe conspired to make you exactly the way you ware. All of it, everything is just the way it's supposed to be.

It's CoffeeTime! Pour yourself a cup and grab a chair at our virtual kitchen table. We're talking about self-care. How to do it, how to make time for it. WHY you desperately need and it and why it's making me swear

Our first check-in for BreatheOnline. It's six weeks of tools and skills to mindfully manage our mental health. This first week the core concept called Let's Get Clear, about growing awareness and understanding how our mental health is affecting our life. So, get to your sacred space, get comfortable and let's check-in so we can Get Clear!

Today, I tell a little of my story. You asked and I explained a little of my journey so far.

What is intention? How is it different than goals? Let's set intention together for your week!

Minisode-a quick reminder that it’s Wednesday afternoon and to take a moment to be mindful about your wellness needs.

A gentle MelissaYoga beginning practice. If you've been in class with me before, this is normally the first 15 minutes of class or so. This is for you Deena Wilson!

Do you have to sit still with a perfectly empty mind? What if you were washing dishes? Can you make the mundane mindful?

What Is it? Why it’s important. What it isn’t. Join the challenge!

My fail at mindfulness and how to do it better than I did.

Got a question about mind/body/spirit connection? Or about mindfully managing your mental health? Ask it here and I’ll answer on Fridays!

Our final episode around Grief Journal Week. Thank you so much for joining me.

What are the unexpected gifts around Loss?

A quick and simple writing prompt that I pulled out of my back pocket for a difficult day.

This is my realization that I just need to be me-again. This lesson repeats itself in my life. How about yours?