Teacher Bios
Melanie graduated from the Vajra Pani Yoga Teacher Training at the Shasta Yoga Institute in Mount Shasta California. The training is fundamentally grounded in the lineage of teachings offered by T. Krishnamacharya and his student B.K.S. Iyengar.
The theme for Melanie's first seven classes was chakras. Each week the class focused on poses to help balance the individual chakras, working through all seven chakras as the weeks progressed.
Melanie recently received a Yoga Tune Up® certification.
Yoga Tune Up® is a fitness therapy format built around the three P's – Pain, Posture and Performance. It helps eradicate pain, improve posture and enhance performance through a unique blend of yoga, Corrective Exercise, Self-Massage, and Breath Strategies. By helping to identify and target your "body blind spots"; areas that are most overused, underused, or misused, YTU heals damaged muscle, increases strength and establishes healthy movement patterns.
The YTU format includes dynamic and static range of motion exercises to target these blind spots to improve proprioception (body sense), interoception (physiological listening) and motor control (performance). This format utilizes unique exercises that educate each practitioner about their body biomechanics and their personal relationship to how they use their body on a daily basis. Mindset work surrounds and infuses each YTU lesson so that subtle and gross awareness evolve to help every practitioner live better in their body.
Yoga with Melanie | Friday, January 10, 2025 - 11:00am |
Private - M | Friday, January 10, 2025 - 1:30pm |
Yoga with Melanie | Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:00am |
Private - M | Friday, January 17, 2025 - 1:30pm |
Yoga with Melanie | Friday, January 24, 2025 - 11:00am |
Nadia began her yoga journey when she was 16 years old. While backpacking through South America, Europe and Africa, she started practicing yoga trapeze and dance yoga. In 2005 she finished her training for theater dance in Argentina, and a few years later, while teaching theater dance in Nigeria, she became interested in learning breath work and deepening body awareness. In 2018, she went to India to study vinyasa flow and Ashtanga, completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training course, and since then has been teaching yoga.
As a teacher, Nadia is friendly, dedicated and passionate, motivating and encouraging her students to be positive at all times. She grounds her students in an ongoing awareness of breath while guiding them through poses. She provides thoughtful Yoga classes and private sessions that are a mix of movement, breathing work and meditation, and she is committed to the development of her unique teaching.
Nadia specializes in vinyasa classes in which each movement is synchronized to a breath, creating a sequence of stillness, strength and flexibility. Each unique class inspires students to relax, connect and understand there bodies. For the past several years, Nadia has found great joy in teaching gentle yoga and helping adults 60 years and older into vitality and strength.
Nadia is now a certified Thai Yoga Body Worker. Please call or text her at 408-663-3107 to learn more about Thai Yoga Body Work or to make an app't for a Thai yoga massage.
Her mission is to create a space where people can connect with themselves and others, to promote a healthy style of life and inspire a deeper sense of confidence with their body and mind.
Gentle Yoga - N | Wednesday, January 8, 2025 - 11:30am |
Thai Yoga Massage (by appt.) | Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 5:00pm |
Vinyasa Flow Yoga - N | Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 10:00am |
Thai Yoga Massage (by appt.) | Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 11:30am |
Thai Yoga Massage (by appt.) | Monday, January 13, 2025 - 12:00pm |