Move With Mel Yoga

Grateful to be featured in The Hope Standard, our local newspaper, this morning for yoga in the park.

Come out for some FREE yoga every Saturday morning at 10 am in July and August. Memorial Park stage.

Yoga in the park is a program I created to help make yoga more accessible to everyone. With funding kindly provided by Advantage Hope, Hope Health & Well-being, and Fraser Health I and my partnered yoga teachers are able to do that. We'll see you on the mat starting July 4!

Stay tuned for updates, schedule, and more details.



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Grateful to be featured in The Hope Standard, our local newspaper, this morning.

Yoga in the Park kicks off July 4 at Memorial Park 10-11 am. Come enjoy FREE yoga every Saturday morning in July and August.

Sightseeing, songs, and stretching coming to Hope this summer - Hope Standard Tourism initiatives bring thousands of people to town from June to September

Grateful to be featured in the Hope Standard, our local newspaper, this morning!

Yoga in the Park kicks off July 4 at Memorial Park 10-11 am. Come enjoy FREE yoga every Saturday in July and August.

Sightseeing, songs, and stretching coming to Hope this summer - Hope Standard Tourism initiatives bring thousands of people to town from June to September

🔥 The creative fire is real lately!

I have so many ideas and new inspirations swirling around that I often find myself wishing for a few extra hours in the day. But yoga constantly reminds me to breathe and take my time. I don’t have to share everything all at once. In fact, the magic is usually in the slow simmer.

Over the next few months, I’ll be gently rolling out some new elements and techniques in my classes. If you caught my last posts, you know I’ve been diving deep into the power of sound. Behind the scenes, I’m also weaving in refined hands-on assists, chanting, meditation, and storytelling.

One of the most transformative skills I learned during my recent 300-hour advanced training was the art of theme planning and creative sequencing. Stepping into this next chapter as a 500-hour registered yoga teacher, my biggest goal is to bring an even deeper level of intention to every single class we share.

I can’t wait to explore these new layers with you on the mat. What’s an element of practice—like storytelling, sound, or deep meditation—that you’ve been craving lately? 👇✨

Friends were made. 💕 Twelve complete strangers came together for a month to eat, live, and breathe yoga. We laughed together, cried together, held space for one another, and grew together.

There's something special about that and they will always be my Yandara YTT- 300 family. Every single one of these people have influenced my practice and how I plan to teach this summer. I am so grateful for the time we shared and for getting to meet every single one of you.

Musings from vision quest. Near the end of my 300-hour training at Yandara Yoga Institute, we went on a vision quest. Time to sit in nature by ourselves to meditate, breathe, and just be.

During that time I meditated on the beautiful, blue Pacific ocean in front of me and asked "what is her secret?" I repeated this question over and over in my mind while watching her for an hour and these are the lessons I heard her share with me:

1. Allow yourself to be stretched
2. Colour outside of the lines
3. Keep moving
4. Share your space with others
5. There are ups and downs in life, but none are permanent
6. There's beauty in being a little rough around the edges
7. Tranquility lies within
8. Don't be afraid to make waves
9. Spreading joy is as easy as waving at someone

BONUS: Those who only see your edges, miss out on the beauty beneath the surface 🤿 🐠

💗 If we look for them there are things to learn from everything and everyone around us.

What have you learned from nature?

While I was at Yandara Yoga Institute for the 300-hour yoga teacher training, we were encouraged to show up as our authentic selves and to accept one another for their true selves.

In a world that often asks us to polish our edges, being in a space where 'enough' was the starting point was really transformative. It wasn't about the postures; it was about the permission to be raw, to cry or to laugh, to be quiet or to be loud. I'm carrying that sense of radical acceptance back with me and I can't wait to share that same energy in my classes this summer.

Summer programming in the works now. Stay tuned for details.

P.S If you made it to the last photo, muffins are not actually that healthy 😉 ...but sometimes we need to treat ourselves, right? I found this sign at a cafe in Todos Santos on one of our days off and couldn't resist snapping a photo of it.

It's silly 🚽🧻

You know what my biggest fear of coming to Yandara Yoga Institute was? It wasn't the amazing friends I would make, or the tent I would be living in for a month. It wasn't the long hours of learning, practicing, and studying, or the food I would be eating (and if you know me, you know I love good food).

It was the outdoor bathrooms. It might seem silly, but past experiences with outdoor bathrooms did not go well for me. They were always uncomfortable, exposing, and frequented by bugs, lizards, and other surprises. One time, something flew very close to my face in the night while I was using an outdoor bathroom.

Thankfully, to my extreme relief, the facilities at Yandara were clean, well kept, well lit for nighttime visits, and there weren't any surprises (except for a dog one morning popping his head under the door to say hi 🐶).

What do you think? TMI? Be honest.

Despite my fears, I booked anyways and I'm so glad I did. Somehow I knew this place would offer me what I felt I was missing in my teaching and it didn't disappoint. I was challenged, accepted, encouraged to show up as my authentic self, and transformed because of it.

More to come in the coming weeks as I continue to share my experience of yoga teacher training at Yandara.