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The healing power of yoga and self care with Melissa Aguirre
Description
Melissa Aguirre is a certified C-IAYT, ERYT 500, YACEP, Holistic Life Coach and Stress Management Specialist educating and guiding the San Antonio community in Adaptive Yoga Therapeutics. Additionally, Melissa is a Lululemon Ambassador and has trained almost 200 yoga teachers across the country and specializes in working with the military population through mindfulness programs such as milmindbody and opening the first yoga studio on a military installation. Melissa owns MelMarie Yoga, Boerne Yoga, and subsidiary partner locations and studios across south Texas. As yoga teaching is the craft that comes most natural for and blissfully for Melissa, poetry is her practice. Creatively, Melissa blends the two through intuitive and meditative sequencing and powerful languaging providing a dynamic experience in self care through her yoga classes and workshops. You can order Melissa's newest book "From Deserts To Gardens" from Amazon today!
Today we talk about the healing power of yoga and self care and how self care creates real changes in your brain.
Highlights from the episode:
- What is adaptive therapeutic yoga and the benefits
- The many facets of self care and how Melissa utilizes these in her studios
- What exactly are the benefits of yoga and the various styles of yoga
- How Melissa is helping the US military with yoga therapy
- Yoga is more than just woo-woo
- Self care actually causes changes in your brain
- How can you start your own self care regimen
- The connection between poetry and yoga
Resources:
Innate Design by Melissa Aguirre and Kyle Hoedebecke
From Deserts to Gardens by Melissa Aguirre
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For some more free resources to help you on your journey, click HERE to download my Guide to Seed Cycling and HERE for my guide on Minerals for Chakra Balancing and Longevity (a personal favorite because mineral balancing is my jam!)