Melissa Bartlett, Hatha & Vinyasa Yoga
Melissa Bartlett is a Hatha & Vinyasa Yoga Teacher who enthusiastically teaches beginners as well as more advanced students.
She focuses on honoring the body and releasing tension while building strength and flexibility. Melissa Bartlett offers Hatha and Vinyasa flow yoga classes to share her love of yoga with others. Hatha yoga, which dates back to the 10th century, translates as hot, sun energy ("ha") and cool, moon energy ("tha") which together form a balanced practice. Students learn foundational yoga with particula
When you take time for yourself and discover moments where you can completely let go, you reset and refresh and everything seems possible✨
Happy International Yoga Day and Summer Solstice! May you bask in warmth and light🌞
Yoga is even more fun when practiced with friends
I bow to the only you that has ever been or ever will be~
I'm excited to see this kind of work going on at my alma mater!
For athletes interested in learning about the many benefits of yoga, here's a workshop for you!
More reasons to practice meditation!
Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain Meditation's benefits may derive from its impact on the shape of the brain, thickening parts associated with mind-wandering, memory and compassion, and shrinking the fear center
Flying Dragon Series to help you fly in the new year!
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." --Robert Louis Stevenson
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do." -- Helen Keller
Happy International Day of Peace!
One of my students shared this with the Soluna Yoga Community today. Anyone interested in paddling for peace?
Gentle rippling sounds
Clear, silky spray on my skin
Nourishing water
Great info from my friend, Jenni Tarma!
4 Ways Yoga Primes Your Body for Running | Running for Yogis If you can't remember when you last exercised with shoes on, it’s time to give running another shot. The good news? Your body is ready.
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
Happy Earth Day to all!
Calling all golfers and tennis players!
Dilbert, yoga is best practiced at a yoga studio where everyone feels safe and is welcomed.Please don't give up!
Sage Rountree, leading expert on yoga for athletes, and me after training with her this week at Kripalu Yoga Center. Extraordinary opportunity to learn from a phenomenal leader and impressive person.
May you find joy and beauty all around you as the year closes and a new one begins ~
From this week's New Yorker magazine -- Happy Halloween, yogis!
Early Fall session begins Monday, August 31!
Mon 6:00-7:15 pm, Wed 5:45-7:00 pm, Fri 10-11:15 am
“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
When was the last time you felt like you were on top of the world?
"Our path is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun." -- Ruth Westheimer, American s*x therapist
Wedding morning yoga
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman statesman and philosopher
After 50 Years In Captivity, This Freed Elephant Has The Reunion Of A Lifetime They've NEVER seen a reaction like this.
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice." --Dali Lama
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
-- Marcus Aurelius
8 week yoga session (3/9-4/29/15) is about to start! Openings:
Mondays 6:00 -7:15 pm
Wednesdays 5:45 - 7:00 pm
7:15 - 8:30 pm
"Remember the emphasis on the heart. The mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered." -- OSHO
Kalina Merriam, yoga student, model and photographer
"You'll be fine. Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You'll be okay. Even if you don't feel okay all the time." -- Louis CK