Melina Meza

Melina Meza

For the last 18 years, Melina Meza has explored the art of nutrition and yoga.

She utilizes her knowledge of Ayurveda, Hatha Yoga, nutrition, and healthy lifestyle promotion to create what she calls "Seasonal Vinyasa." Every yoga class, retreat, and workshop emphasizes alignment with nature and the crucial importance of sequencing. In addition to asana practice, Meza's works include understandings on physical health and nutrition as well as how to inspire self-knowledge that allows for the conscious adjustment of day-to-day choices.

Exuding in her love of yoga, Melina Meza's colorful and hopeful perspective on life, originates from her devotion to yoga and eating well, to teaching and nutritional counseling, and traveling and experiencing different cultures.

Until December 2011, Melina Meza was a yoga teacher in Seattle, Washington at 8 Limbs Yoga Centers, when she moved to Oakland. At the 8 Limbs Yoga Centers she was the Co-Director of the 8 Limbs Yoga Centers 200 and 500 Hour Teachers Training Program. She continues to grow as a teacher, and is influenced by studying with numerous teachers, including Dr. Robert Svoboda, Scott Blossom, Sarah Powers, Jin Sung, Gary Kraftsow and Seattle's Kathleen Hunt. Meza believes that retreats and sabbaticals are vital to her personal practice and bring her deeper reflection and inspiration.

Melina Meza is the author of the Art of Sequencing books and produced the Yoga for the Seasons video series, which premiered in September 2009 with the release of the Fall Vinyasa DVD.

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Bring heat and stimulation to digestive organs with a dynamic vinyasa sequence and classic hatha yoga postures.
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The Balanced You
Core strength, metabolism, internal flame: all of these things refer to the agni that we carry within our body's center. Every so often we should tend to our fire, stoking the embers and fanning the flames to ignite and invigorate. Melina Meza takes us through an agni-igniting practice that will make any belly a happy belly. Suffering from a burrito baby? This one's for you.
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Move fluidly and mindfully to balance your pitta dosha, helping you feel cool, calm, and relaxed. Start seated before flowing through standing postures, and close with savasana.
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Melina Meza
This is a great class if you are new to yoga or have taken a break and are ready to renew your practice. It will leave you feeling restored and relaxed.
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Melina Meza
Enjoy this relaxing yin practice focused on the hips while learning about the eight limbs of yoga. Also includes silence to explore meditation, the last three inner limbs.
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Melina Meza
This energizing practice with Melina Meza will warm up your core temperature and prevent kapha accumulation in the stomach and respiratory system. 
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Melina Meza
Bring your attention deep into your body, relax your senses, and engage the tissue surrounding your bones. Explore pranayama (breath work), backbends, and forward folds in this engaging practice.
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Melina Meza
This practice is designed to support the transition from winter to spring. Cleanse and detoxify, set new intentions, and plant internal seeds to ensure your vital energy is focused toward your blossoming future dreams. Move through flowing movement, twists, pranayama (breathwork), arm balances, hip openers, and standing leg work.
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Melina Meza
In the Five Element Chinese system, spring is a time to nourish the liver and gallbladder organs. These organs do many helpful things for our health including filtering toxins from the external environment and our food, as well as assisting in the breaking down of fats in the body. In general, winter is a time when the liver and gallbladder get overloaded, especially in our culture that emphasizes extra socializing, large meals and decreased exercise during the dark winter months. To restore balance after winter and begin your spring cleanse, these Yin poses taught by Melina Meza will channel liver chi through the inner legs and gallbladder chi through the outer leg meridians.
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Melina Meza
The winter season in Ayurveda is associated with the dosha – uneven energy pattern – called Kapha, which is composed of the elements Earth and Water and which promotes stability in our body and mind. In order to prevent the typical Kapha imbalance during December through February, such as weight gain or depression, the main intention behind this winter seasonal vinyasa practice is to help raise your core temperature and metabolism and increase circulation with dynamic, invigorating, rhythmic, sequences. This practice with Melina Meza includes sun salutation variations, back bends to open the front of your spine, forward bends to stimulate the backside of your torso, and inversions to promote blood circulation to the brain.
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Melina Meza
Explore poses to open the kidney meridian channels on the front of your spine, and urinary bladder channels on the back of your spine. By keeping the water element moving during this cold season you will feel fluid, confident, and emotionally well. The active rest phase in winter is necessary to replenish your internal batteries after the fall harvest.
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Melina Meza
This practice is a wonderful way to help restore your sense of balance after a long summer. In the autumn, the Chinese Five Elements system promotes the lung and large intestine meridian lines to ensure that sufficient heat is drawn inward and downward, preventing imbalances that may result in the common cold, constipation, or insomnia.
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Melina Meza
Creatively flow from pose to pose, balancing your energy patterns and grounding the vata dosha associated with the fall transition. Practice twists, balancing postures, and a variety of forward folds.
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Melina Meza
This summer practice emphasizes playful movements to reduce pitta’s intense personality. Explore cooling and restorative forward bends to help you to take shelter from the heat, and seated postures to improve overall circulation and blood flow.
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Melina Meza
Summer is a time to nourish the heart, small intestines, spleen, and pancreas. This practice is designed to balance the blood circulation from the summer with postures that support these organs.