Melinda Emily Thomas

Category: Class Theme

  • Fill Your Hands with Mud

    I’m feeling ambivalent about the holidays this year. Until a few months ago I thought ambivalent meant not caring. But then, while watching the Daniel Tiger episode “Daniel’s Day of Many Feelings,” I learned that to be ambivalent is to have mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about someone or something. In stressful years past, by…

  • Why Yoga Works

    “Being known by love has its challenges. I think lots of us are also trying to be known as having right answers about things reserved for wonder.” ~ Steve Daughtry I’m a little embarrassed that I can’t explain how or why yoga works. I can’t show you a chart of subtle body anatomy (or gross body…

  • Get Your Cit Together Part II: With a Little Help from My Friends

    It’s not surprising that my 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse has turned into the 50-ish day cleanse. One can only do so much with an infant. Has it helped? Yes. Do I find myself more connected to my soul’s deeper purpose? In a way. Do I recommend everyone do this? Sort of. While I think it’s…

  • The Spaces In Between

    “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you might miss it.” This from the great sage, Ferris Buller 🙂 Everything is changing. As I move into my final weeks of pregnancy, as I stand at the threshold of motherhood, this statement is perhaps more true for me…

  • The Spaces In Between

    “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you might miss it.” This from the great sage, Ferris Buller 🙂 Everything is changing. As I move into my final weeks of pregnancy, as I stand at the threshold of motherhood, this statement is perhaps more true for me…

  • Space: “Why didn’t you list that among our assets in the first place?*”

    The Mahabhutas, or 5 great (maha) elements (bhutas) is one of my favorite topics to study and to teach because they make such simple, beautiful metaphors for engaging the full opportunity of being. Going further, the more I study and engage and play with the elements in my own life the more I develop a…