About: Melissa Smith
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In 2012, “I will get out of my own way!” & 12 Other Transformational Manifestations.by Melissa Smith on Apr 22, 2012 A beautiful and intimate festival this winter in Crested Butte gave me these nuggets of wisdom that have seeped into my life as affirmations for transformation. And, I’m working toward this powerful mantra from Shannon Paige “In 2012, I will get out of my own way!” 277 views |
Serendipity & the Kindness of Strangers.by Melissa Smith on Mar 29, 2012 “I hear about stories like this but when they happen to you personally, it moves you and gives you hope for all the things that are so good and magnificent in the world.” 939 views |
The Story of a Solider Illustrated by a Painted Hand. {Video by Virgilio Villoresi}by Melissa Smith on Mar 9, 2012 Brilliant animation by Italian filmmaker, Virgilio Villoresi that tells the story of birth, life and death of a soldier through a painted hand. 233 views |
Yoga Coalition: A New Community for Post-Anusara Teachers.by Melissa Smith on Mar 2, 2012 Yoga Coalitions’s letter is an open invitation to anyone who wants to participate in a conversation for creating bridges for the rest of community. It was not meant to be “the cool kids club”. “We’ve come out of a culture where there was rampant favoritism. The YoCo wants diversity.” 2,398 views |
Top 10 Most Mispronounced Sanskrit Words.by Melissa Smith on Feb 22, 2012 Nicolai Bachman shares the mispronunciations and correct pronunciations of 10 Sanskrit words. If you teach yoga, you need to hear this. 8,061 views |
10 Things Yoga Therapy Taught Me.by Melissa Smith on Feb 18, 2012 “I am not a yoga therapist, Yoga is therapy.” Inspiration from teacher and Texas Yoga Confernce Presenter, Chrys Kub. 936 views |
Your Love Is My Lifeline, A Steve Gold Serenade.by Melissa Smith on Feb 14, 2012 Take one step at a time 620 views |
14 Love Songs (With An Edge) You Should Download Now.by Melissa Smith on Feb 8, 2012 These songs, like the 30 Best Songs of the Year that should be on your Playlist now, are include a few that I somehow left off which happen to be written for the majority of us in mind: imperfectly perfect beings who are not quite in the place they want to be with love and thick in messy stuff of life. 5,791 views |
The Journey (to Thailand) by Mary Oliver.by Melissa Smith on Jan 31, 2012 I am forced to look my life in the eye and tell it I’m ready NOW. Come, save me from what I hope for and instead, clear space for me to be mended. I don’t want to miss my life. 939 views |
3 Kinds of Love By Martin Luther King, Jr.by Melissa Smith on Jan 16, 2012 Eros..a romantic love for your mate. It’s inevitably a little selfish. You love your lover because there is something about your lover that moves you. It may be the way he talks or the way he walks or the personality or the physical beauty or the intellectual power– but it’s always based on that there’s something that attracts you.–Martin Luther King, Jr’s teaching on Love. 3,761 views |
30 Best Songs of the Year that should be on your Playlist now.by Melissa Smith on Jan 1, 2012 Wanna dance, move, smile, change the world or at the very least change yourself? Listen to these songs. 16,761 views |
The Fulfillment of Hope.by Melissa Smith on Dec 26, 2011 And as the rain poured down on and made gentle patterning noises on the roof, I continued to read: “New water pours over us, as we surrender to the wave. We will wash ourselves clean of the yesterdays that stick to us. This is not death. We are not drowning.” It is the beginning. 344 views |
Yogis Unite for Holiday Yoga Flash Mob!by Melissa Smith on Dec 20, 2011 Texas Yogis Unite for Yoga Flash Mob! 893 views |
Acro Yoga CommUNITY.by Melissa Smith on Dec 13, 2011 When I get an opportunity to fly someone their first flight, I consider it a privilege. It’s like being someone’s first yoga teacher because they have nothing yet to compare it to. A blank slate. Offering them a therapeutic flying experience and observing the look of dazed bliss on their face when they float back to the ground, now that is pure mudita. Feeling vicarious joy or pleasure in delighting in their experience is slightly addictive. 670 views |
Sick of the Yoga Girl Video? Give me Thumbs Up for Rock and Roll instead.by Melissa Smith on Dec 9, 2011 Every time I turned around this week Hey Yoga Girl? video was reposted on Facebook or emailed or tweeted by a friend, yoga teacher or studio owner. Viral but more like a virus. Come on now Waylon, is everything all about sex, after all? 742 views |
Waking up a different person.by Melissa Smith on Dec 3, 2011 Awake to the possibilities, I got up one morning and figuratively jumped off the most terrifying and daunting cliff of my life. I woke up a different person. 782 views |
Love Letter to the Vulnerable Warrior of the Heart.by Melissa Smith on Nov 28, 2011 Six years ago, I entered a hospital room in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with an extra 32 pounds on my already thick frame. Ankles so swollen they resembled the stump-like shape of an elephant’s. 636 views |
Pledge to Live.by Melissa Smith on Oct 29, 2011 Balancing on one foot felt impossible. On two feet: a struggle. The teacher’s assistant asked if I’d like something. “Water, please.” Instead she returned with an energy bar. Confused, I finally wobbled out of the room, only to shiver in the cool lobby for the next hour or so while thumbing through a self-help (or Self Enlightenment, as they’re called these days) book I found. 578 views |
She Walks In Beauty Through Words of Poetry & the Soundtrack of Life.by Melissa Smith on Sep 23, 2011 While poetry ignites my creativity and reveals the beauty I often deny resides within me, music goes beyond the depth of words read or spoken. Life, like movies, should have a soundtrack. 1,197 views |
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