Private Yoga & Massage Working out of Baltimore & Annapolis!! Private and group classes available. Annapolis Tues/Wed/Thurs
Yoga at Prana Studio Mon/Fri
I currently work at Alchemy Healing Arts Center in Annapolis MD. Schedule here:
Jackie Melsopp of In Touch Healing offers you an integrated and specialized treatment for what y
our body needs every session. Goals change with each session depending on how you feel that specific day. I often combine therapies and modalities to obtain maximum results. I love utilizing a combination of myofascial release and sometimes, deep work. Chronic injuries that cause daily unnecessary pain are my favorite challenge. Whether you are looking to relax, deal with an old injury or just connect, I love to work with my clients as a team to help them get exactly what they’re looking for. Jackie's Vibe Yoga:
I teach a vinyasa class that challenges my students to get out of their heads and into their bodies. By challenging them physically, and encouraging them to stay connected to their breath, my goal is to help them surprise themselves, break their limits and let go of whatever may be holding them back. I LOVE to come up with new sequences that aim at various muscle groups, pain patterns and challenging target poses. Incorporating arm balances, inversions and often a bit of yin, I love to give my students a range of postures, variations and options each class; showing them that no matter the day, level of fatigue or stress they may have, anything is possible. Vinyasa is on Friday mornings 8 am at Prana Studio in Annapolis and in Baltimore at YogaWorks in Fells Point Sundays at Noon. In true balance, I also teach a Yin class on Monday nights at 6:30 at Prana Studio. Yin classes are the opposite of the vinyasa class described above. Like Yin and Yang, light and dark, up and down, in and out, yoga practices are best balanced with a combination of some yang (vinyasa) and yin elements. In my yin classes, as with private clients, we take a meditative approach to the practice. We practice seeing ourselves, watching for the subtleties of the body, following the ease of the breath and practice a sense of presence, receiving and allowing in the body and mind. Yin postures are done on the floor and in a way that works with the connective tissue, while dropping the body into the parasympathetic nervous system (restoration). I offer private Yin sessions in combination with myofascial release work at Alchemy (see the website for more details). If you're curious about yin or vinyasa, you should come check out class at Prana and YogaWorks!! We'd love to have you :)
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I teach an all levels vinyasa (flow) class that challenges my students to get out of their heads and into their bodies. By challenging them physically and encouraging them to stay connected to their breath, my goal is to help them surprise themselves and let go of whatever may be holding them back. I love to come up with sequences that work muscle groups together, connecting top and bottom halves, integrating a strong foundation and centering the breath while building towards target postures. Incorporating vinyasas that demand your full presence, inversions and often a bit of yin, I love to give my students choices and variations each class- showing them that no matter the day, level of fatigue or stress they may have, anything is possible. By giving variety and options, my intention is to encourage students to listen and decide what feels right for themselves.
Vinyasa is on Friday mornings 8 am at Prana Studio in Annapolis and in Baltimore at YogaWorks in Fells Point Tuesday/Thursday mornings at 6:30 am
In true balance, I also teach a Yin class on Monday nights at 6:30 at Prana Studio. Yin classes are the opposite of the vinyasa class described above. Like Yin and Yang, light and dark, up and down, in and out, yoga practices are best balanced with a combination of some yang (vinyasa) and yin elements.
In my yin classes, as with private clients, we take a meditative approach to the practice. We practice seeing ourselves, watching for the subtleties of the body, following the ease of the breath and practice a sense of presence, receiving and allowing in the body and mind. Yin postures are done on the floor and in a way that works with the connective tissue, while dropping the body into the parasympathetic nervous system (restoration).
---I offer private Yin sessions in combination with myofascial release work at Alchemy (see the website below for more details)---
-Yoga Privates-
I’ve been teaching yoga since 2010. The more bodies I work with, the more anatomy I study, the more I realize that Yoga, and yoga alignment are not a one size fit all thing.
While this seems obvious- given it isn’t a team sport and instead a much more individual practice- I don’t feel like this fact is not given so much attention. I think that’s because we usually find a strong sense of community when we find yoga. However, no amount of community will change the fact that your body is different from mine, your bodies history is different than mine and your bone structure is different than mine. Therefore, shouldn’t your cues and alignment be different than mine? Please, don’t get me wrong, I love group classes. I love to teach to a community of students all breathing in sync, encouraging each other, connecting to each other; There’s such power in that. However, I can also acknowledge that teachers cannot teach to each individual student, in a group setting.
Add to this the unfortunate reality that most yoga injuries are repetitive stress injuries. This means that they are injures that don’t hurt the first time you do an action- they hurt after you’ve done them repetitively for a prolonged period of time. Can anyone say Chaterunga? Sun Salutations? Inversions? Folds? We do these quite repetitively in a vinyasa class.
Working one on one with a yoga teacher will change the game for you-whether you’re brand new to yoga or already have a relationship to your practice. The reason? Working one on one helps you learn what YOUR body needs. It helps you recognize what alignment for familiar postures feels like in YOUR body. It teaches you modifications for YOUR body. Then when you go into a group setting, you’re able to be in your body confidently aware of YOUR alignment and free to move in class without fear of injury.
We can work these individual sessions how you want them. The best place to start is with a conversation :)
-Massage-
I work at Alchemy Healing Arts Center in Annapolis MD. Schedule here:
https://alchemyhealingartscenter.as.me/jackie
My goal is to offer you a specialized treatment for what your body needs each session. I intend to listen to how you’re feeling and do my best to hear what you’re goals are. Treatment changes each session depending on how you feel that specific day. I often combine therapies to be as efficient as I can with the time we have. I specialize in Myofascial Release. I often combine myofasical work with deeper work as well as passive stretching and yin postures. Myofascial work can be extremely helpful with chronic pain.
I’ve really enjoyed bringing the myofasical work into yin yoga sessions. These sessions introduce yogic themes of mindfulness and physical presence in combination with bodywork.
I’ve seen such remarkable shifts by simply adding the yin practice to the bodywork I’ve been doing for years. Students/Clients are connecting with themselves and their breath- learning to look inward, and healing as they go. One of the best take aways from the yin sessions, is that fact that due to the very nature of the session, clients are given tangible tools to use on their own. This knowledge empowers them on HOW to take care of themselves when something starts to ache after a long day, or that usual pain starts to flare up. These sessions are a space where clients are able to learn about their body and how they might be to better able take care of themselves at home. Whether you are looking to relax, deal with an old injury or just connect, I love to work with my clients as a team to help them get exactly what they’re looking for.
Please give Alchemy a call or check our website if you have any questions. If you're curious about yin or vinyasa, you should come check out class at Prana and YogaWorks!! We'd love to have you!!
