Melanie de Villiers

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Explore articles on yoga practice, meditation, wellbeing, recipes, chakras, yoga teaching, and philosophy to support you at every stage of your journey.

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Melanie De Villiers sitting crossed legged in a temple near Pune India
Yoga Instructor Blog

The Underground of Yoga​: A Personal Yoga Journey

I found some interesting shocks and knocks along the way. When you are vulnerable, you attract vultures looking for prey. The spiritual world is full of well-meaning manipulators. A single stay at an ashram in India can reveal a kaleidoscope of light and dark rays, reflected in pumping pop studios all over the West.

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Melanie de Villiers sitting crossed leg doing yin yoga on a beach
Yoga Instructor Blog

How Yin Yoga Helped Me Find Wholeness Again

Last year, over Easter, my world shattered. Depleted, I locked myself inside my yoga studio in solitude. Rain poured outside, and my crying body curled into Yin postures. I was lost. Everything I believed in had collapsed. It felt like a mid-life crisis—but instead of divorcing my husband, I broke up with the yoga style I’d been married to my entire life.

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