Learn the habits of enlightened living that are your birthright and your ticket to healing, radiance, and longevity. Energy,Sleep,Rejuvenation,Focus, all Enhance your natural abilities. Get to Yoga Class regularly, practice some form of meditation, breathing exercises and breathing deeply, eat Whole Foods, hydrate, get out in nature, connect with like minded community, and relax at night, wind down, go to bed early, and get up early. Feel amazing and activate your rejuvenation and longevity mojo!
North of Boston Folks:Blue Hot Yoga in Swampscott ( Bikram Style) ( studio only) MON 8am-WED 8:30am ( this yoga class has sound healing ad yoga nidra meditation component) & FRI 8:30am – class 3x a week ( Mon/Wed/Fri) with me and change your life!
Cape Ann Folks: Treetop Yoga Gloucester ( studio & streaming) Slow Gentle Yoga with (Iyengar Style) Restorative Postures ( a form of hatha yoga and meditation suitable for any level – older students and beginners will love this ) MON 11am & TUE 10:45am 1x A MONTH Tara Illuminated Feminine Empowerment Goddess Circle meditation class, teachings of Tibetan Goddess Tara (includes transformative sequences of visualization, mantra, seed syllables, and meditation) next class NOV 16 THURS NITE 6:45pm
Cape Ann Power Yoga – Gloucester ( studio & streaming) EVERY TUE NITE: 7pm “ Power & Peace” Simple Baptist Vinyasa Sequence with Sound healing and Guided Yoga Nidra Meditation ( includes advanced Śaiva Tantra & Buddhist Vajrayana meditation techniques in the Yoga Nidra container) WED NOON – Baptist Power Yoga Vinyasa 60 min
Melisa Abbott is the author of Tara Illuminated The Mandala of the 21 Tara’s and the Mandala of the 21 Tara’s practice deck – link to buy: https://linktr.ee/melissaabbott
Published by Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation Podcast
A lifelong meditator, learner and seeker, Melissa started her journey with a Hatha Yoga class in 1970 at age 17. Later after a stint in Art School and extensive travel, Melissa became a resident at Shree Muktananda Ashram in upstate NY studying Siddha Yoga meditation practices and is a disciple of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and the Siddha Lineage Of Swami Muktananda and Bhagwan Nityananda. There she became acquainted with Shaiva Tantra Meditation from Kashmir, while studying with Dr. Paul Mueller Ortega, Dr.Douglas Brooks, Sally Kempton aka Swami Durgananda and many other teachers residing there at that time. Melissa also studied Tibetan Buddhist Practices of the Sakya Lineage with Luding Khenchen Rimpoche. Melissa has had a 40+ year meditation practice receiving many initiations and transmissions from many great contemporary teachers.
Currently, since 2017 Melissa has been studying with Christopher Wallis a Sanskrit Scholar Phd covering “The Recognition Sutras”, “Vijnana Bhairava”, “Spanda Karikas”, and “Tantraloka”. Melissa is an avid reader, studying with the scholarly works of Christopher Wallis PhD, Alexis Sanderson Phd.Oxford University , Christopher Tompkins PHd Candidate University Of CA Berkley, and James Mallinson from SOAS in London. A member of Academia.org, Melissa keeps up with the latest translations of historic Yogic Writings by contemporary scholars.
On the Hatha Yoga front, Melissa has studied Iyengar and Anusara Hatha Yoga in the 1990’s and later took her first hot yoga class 10 years ago with Suzanne Elliott in Merritt Island, FL, becoming a Raja Hot Core Hatha Yoga 500 hour Teacher in 2016 with Craig Villani. In 2017 she became a USA Yoga Coach and started judging video submissions in 2019. In 2018 Melissa studied with Jimmy Barkan Level 2 Hot Vinyasa Training in Ft Lauderdale and 2019 Adi Westerman’s Teaching 26/2 Plus Training. A member of the Original Hot Yoga Asso OHYA and a Hot Yoga Teacher at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates in Epping NH www.steamhousenh.com and Blue Yoga Group in Swampscott, MA. “Melissa Abbott Yoga and Meditation” has a weekly Visionary Tantric Yoga & Yoga Nidra Podcast available on Spotify, ITunes Podcasts, Podbean and YouTube.
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