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SOL - Yoga with Melanie, The Hague (2025)

22/11/2023

The perfect way to slow down, ground and reconnect with yourself before sliding into the buzzing, festive days.🌟This Candlelight Christmas Yin is packed with:

- Gentle heart opening stretches
- Grounding meditation & breathwork
- Soothing, acoustic Christmas tunes
- Flickering candlelight

All to help you ground, drop back into your self, rest your nervous system and nourish your soul.

Feel welcome to join this gentle practice. All proceeds of this class will be fully donated to Doctors without Borders in Gaza. Your presence on the mat does really make a difference.🧡

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Feels too far away or wanna decide last moment? I feel you. But if this resonates, it’s best to pre-book your mat now. Spots have been filling up super fast already, and we are down to the last 2! ➡️ www.studio-bondi.com/workshops

🙏 With much thanks to Studio Bondi for making this special possible

22/11/2023

The perfect way to slow down, ground and reconnect with yourself before sliding into the buzzing, festive days.🌟This Candlelight Christmas Yin is packed with:

- Gentle heart opening stretches
- Grounding meditation & breathwork
- Soothing, acoustic Christmas tunes
- Flickering candlelight

All to help you ground, drop back into your self, rest your nervous system and nourish your soul.

Feel welcome to join this gentle practice. All proceeds of this class will be fully donated to Doctors without Borders in Gaza. Your presence on the mat does really make a difference.🧡

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Feels too far away or wanna decide last moment? I feel you. But if this resonates, it’s best to pre-book your mat now. Spots have been filling up super fast already, and we are down to the last 2! ➡️ www.studio-bondi.com/workshops

12/11/2023

MATTERS OF THE HEART

In a time & society that easily falls into opposition and division, I feel little reminders to take care, embrace your humanness and connect from a place of authenticity, are incredibly important. So here I am, hoping to bring a smile or tear to the face, a warmth to the heart or bring awareness to the simple recognition that we are all human. All the same. We unite in our imperfections, our messiness and vulnerabilities, our joys and hopes, our fear and not-knowing. And with that in mind, let me share a short story. One about courage in tough times. For real strength arises from daring to be vulnerable. Allowing yourself to be seen - by yourself and the world - just as you are. 🌟

A while ago, my friend lost a loved one. A hard time began for her. Yet, a few days later she rolled out her mat and showed up for my Yin yoga class. It touched me, quite deeply. Because let’s face it: showing up for yourself is not always easy. Especially not when your inner world feels like a wind storm, where challenging feelings like grief, sadness, anxiety, insecurity, groundlessness or numbness are swirling around.🌪️ Or when you're going for a slow-paced and meditative practice, like Yin. 'Cause when there is nothing much to do - like in Yin yoga - you are left with only one option: to be with what is. But what if what's here feels really uncomfortable, painful or scary?

Well, to start with: let’s to go easy on ourselves, making sure we are on our own side, feeling held by our own tenderness. And trust me: I know this is a tough cookie!🍪 Especially when your loud and chatty inner critic is not afraid to take over the show. But hey, we can practise holding space for ourselves. Again, and again, and again... And when we do, we are much more able to explore how to lay out the welcome mat for our friend, called sadness. We get to bring our own soothing attention to grief. We learn to sit with our naked vulnerability. And that isn’t always pleasurable or what we are most pulled to do. Nor easy. But the good news is: self-care or healing doesn’t always need to be. 🧡

👉Continue reading in comments below & read the full letter via link in bio

05/10/2023

IMMUNITY BOOST🍁

Whether you are currently feeling under the weather or want to prevent sneezes & sniffles, these 2 postures - waterfall and dangling pose - are great to do if you’d like to support your immune system. Here’s why👇

Did you know that our lymphatic system works optimally in driving toxins out of our body, when it can flow from our toes to our head? Woops. That’s the opposite direction of how we stand, sit and walk throughout our day. Time to bring the body upside down! 🤸🏽‍♀️By lifting our feet in the air, for example (squeeze in a cushion underneath the bum for extra support). Or lowering our upper body in a dangling pose. In either posture, it’s absolutely fine to keep a gentle bend in the knees.

Relax into each pose for about 3 minutes, allowing each exhale to soften your body & mind a little further. The breath is another important key to our health & vitality, so let your breath support you throughout the practice - and beyond. Deep, nourishing inbreaths, long and easy outbreaths - maybe sighing it out on your exhale to release even more profoundly.

No better way to wrap up this immunity practice than with a cup of warming cinnamon & ginger tea (anti-bacterial & anti-viral qualities) or make a fresh brew of sage leaves combined with a slice of lemon. 🍋🫖

A nourishing way to slow down, tend to your well-being and slide into the colourful autumn season. Enjoy! 🍁

14/09/2023

YOGA EVERYWHERE 🌊

Last week I guided this playful, all-level workshop for a group of 21 teachers. We gazed at the blue sky, mindfully listened to sound of waves rolling in and out - and all of that while breathing deeply and wiggling our puppy pose.🐶 it was great fun!

Rijnland Lyceum decided to incorporate a yoga session as part of their teambuilding day. Cause only when we find that connection with ourselves, we can truly connect to others.

With a similar philosophy behind it, I am happy to see yoga being more and more part of shared activities outside the traditional yoga studio as well. For example, I guided the actors and director of The National Theater, in preperation for their rehearsals and upcoming play - which helped the crew to harmonize, set focus and embody their characters more profoundly. Or how about that bachelorette party where I shared a yoga practice, just to find a moment of calm in between the ecstatic festivities? Students with whom I dropped into a mindfulness meditation, right before an important exam training. And let’s not forget about the supershort yet powerful sessions of yoga or breathwork during a workbreak at the office. Clearing the busy mind and increasing productivity during the rest of the day.

Yes, ! 🙌

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Wanna learn more about the possibilities of yoga & mindfulness in your (team) event, school or work? Let’s chat! Feel free to reach out or check: solyogawithmelanie.com 🧡

16/08/2023

New Yin Yoga class!bondi
Every Thursday 9.30-10.30

Last few months I paused my yoga guiding. I felt I needed to direct my energy inwards, rather than outwards. And so I devoted myself to my own practice, went on adventures in Aussie and Bali, filled myself up with new practices, inspiration and connections. From woman’s wellbeing - e.g. hormonal (dis)balances - to trauma sensitivity. Born from my intrinsic drive for health & wellbeing for everyone, and pure fascination about the body’s wisdom. And now I am bursting of excitement to share all of it again with you. Just from one human to another. As - in this beautiful life - we are all walking each other home.
Thank you .bondi for sharing your beautiful place & vibes for this!🙏

Craving an easeful practice? Nourish yourself with the calm, feminine, intuitive and grounding yin energy. Starting tomorrow, 17 August, with a wonderful heart opening practice, accompanied by acoustic guitar tunes. Will I see you on the mat? 🧡

Book your class via www.studio-bondi.com.

13/08/2023

YIN & YANG - A story about Popeye gangsters and sweet surrender

Today I went to the gym. Whaaat? Yep. This girl landed right between the Popeye gangsters, jumping onto big ass equipment, conquering fictive mountains on the crosstrainer.🏔️ Must admit: to me the environment is uninspiring as hell, but you know what? It felt good.

And this is the reason why:

I needed my yang. Or perhaps in more human language: I needed the drive, the radiant energy, the inner lion 🦁, the ‘whoa let’s rock and roll mentality’. Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Yin - hence my love for teaching this style of yoga. I feel the softness and the intuitive, feminine quality to it, is much needed in our yang-focused society. There is so much gold to be found in the introspection, stillness, surrendering and letting go. But there is a reason Yin (the moon) & Yang (the sun) form a beautiful symbol together: they need each other to be in balance. And continuously finding that balance in ourselves is like riding a 🚲: we got to keep tuning in, feel towards which side our energy is leaning a little too much and respond accordingly. Each moment again.

An overkill of Yin energy often makes me feel a bit passive, stuck and sluggish. There are moments where my body just nééds to move. Dance. Run. Letting the energy out. Or where I need to be reminded of my strength, which often reaches far beyond what I initially think I’m capable of. I want to jump, do, conquer, use my energy to create and act. That’s what drove me into the gym today. But it could as well have been a run through the dunes or dusting off my painting tools and make some art.🎨

In contrast, there are times where I feel my doing mode is taking me for a ride. I am not allowing myself enough time to pause and feel what’s going on in my body, mind and soul, cause ‘sh*t needs to be done, woman!’ That’s exactly - after many years of rebellious trial and error, believe me🙃 - when I know I need to roll out my mat, grab 100 pillows, and connect to the Yin-energy. Softening, feeling, letting myself be. Creating space for new energy to arise.

➡️ Read more in comments below or in my brand new newsletter (link in bio).

11/08/2023

THE WAY WE DO THINGS MATTERS

Finding yourself exhausted at the finish line: feeling tensed, depleted, but hey: you made it! 💪 You have absolutely smashed this deadline. Nailed that Crow Pose on your yoga mat. Managed to tick off 5 to-do’s in one day. Forced yourself into meditation. Tried to be everything for everyone. Yet, now that you have finally reached what you thought you wanted, ease & enjoyment are nowhere to be found.

Ha! Sounds familiar? No worries, I think we’ve all been there at some point.

I remember realizing that forcing myself into any shape or form - whether that would be a yoga pose, a job or a relationship - in order ‘to get it right’, was NOT the way for me. God knows I’ve tried. Many, many times. And I still do, occasionally. Just to be sure. But life keeps showing me: this isn’t your road. Stuff can (and perhaps should) be done differently... You CAN dance lightly with it all.

Afterall, if we aim to feel good and relaxed in life, does it really make sense to struggle & stress ourselves down the road? How we feel in the process, determines how we feel once we ‘get there’.

So what if we would experiment with taking our eyes of the prize and getting much more interested in the road ahead? The journey we travel, one step at a time. 🥾Day by day, carving our way consciously. Knowing that in each moment we can stumble upon a crossing and choose again:

✨ Which road supports me best, right now?
✨ Which one feels light, open and playful?
✨ Which road allows me to fill my cup the most, so that I have plenty to give to those around me?

And once you love the road you choose to travel, who cares where you end up going? 🙂

12/06/2023

Olé, summer wedding #1 of my dear friend. Can’t ever get enough of celebrate love love love 💕

01/06/2023

Smiley face with these lush yoga views 🍀- Bali & Aussie land

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