Melinda Emily Thomas

Category: Wellness

  • Yoga Nidra – A Gift For You

    Welcome to 2021.!? I’m not sure which punctuation to use. If 2020 taught me anything, it was the reaffirmation that we never know what comes next. The unknown is our constant companion and learning to embrace it, respond, and work skillfully with the way life unfolds is one of the great benefits of a yoga…

  • I Wrote a Book – It’s Called “Sacred Balance”

    Dear friends, I have some good news to share. On October 13th my book, Sacred Balance: Aligning Body and Spirit Through Yoga and the Benedictine Way, published by Broadleaf Books will be released! I’ve spent the better part of the last 18 months writing, and then recovering from writing, this book. Studded with illustrations of basic…

  • A Pandemic, A Poem, and a Pose

    Hello dear friends, There are pieces of paper all over my house, stuck in the desk drawer and various books and sections in my planner with short lines, notes to myself about some profound essay I want to write about this pandemic. There’s the personal angle, “I don’t want to go back to normal. Normal…

  • With Love from Ireland

    Last week I was in Ireland, a country I’d never thought much about visiting. But now I am in love.  Before my departure, people told me, “You’ll love it there! The Irish are so friendly and have a great sense of humor.” Seemed like a broad generalization but they were right. Everyone I met was…

  • The Race

    I commit to a lifetime of ongoing conversion and transformation, recognizing that I am always on a journey with both gifts and limitations. ~ Christine Valters Paintner, Monk Manifesto Rex Stout, author of the Nero Wolf mystery series, was a genius. Once a word was down on paper he never changed it. For one who…

  • Summer Sabbath

    “Sabbath is one of the profound gifts of a generous and abundant divine presence who says that work is good and rest is necessary.” ~ Christine Valters Paintner Every summer, Christine Valters Paintner of Abbey of the Arts (you know the woman, I work for her and quote her often) takes time off from newsletters…