Melinda Emily Thomas

Category: Yoga

  • Winter Wisdom

    Welcome to deep winter. Whether your geographic locale brings cold and snow, cold and rain or (as we tend to have here in the Carolinas) fluctuation between dreary cold days and warm sunshine sticking with your yoga practice and some basic self care routines will help you remain balanced and healthy. Here are some Basic Winter…

  • Harmonious Holidays

    Enjoying balance during the Holiday season or any other time when you are likely to be very busy is a matter of choosing what is meaningful to you and aligning your thoughts, actions and commitments with your core values. But in the midst of this busy time, even that can be difficult. Click here to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Humble Spaces

    I am often surprised at the lack of glamor that surrounds radical transformation. The big shifts in life appear to happen in a moment of instant awakening, coming like a thief in the night, are really the product of long term commitment to Self-study and small, daily changes. When transformation happens, or at least when…

  • What We Carry

    A few days before the Christmas of 1994 my family packed up our belongings and began our journey south to Alabama where my dad had been called to be the rector of an Episcopal Church. Ten miles out of town the odometer broke in our recently serviced van beginning a comedy of errors that saw…