Dr. Melissa West

Melissa West is a yoga therapist and yoga teacher heard weekly on Returning to the Body Mind on Contact Talk Radio and seen in the free weekly yoga video podcast, Namaste Yoga at www.namasteyoga.blip.tv. Melissa is interested in the profound relationship between our bodies, minds, emotions, spirits and lived experience. Melissa has an bachelor of music, a masters in music criticism and a Ph.D. in cultural studies and communication. She is just tickled to be writing album reviews for Spirit Voyage after being told by a professor of music criticism that her writing was quite frankly, atrocious. When Melissa isn't teaching yoga or giving yoga therapy sessions she can be found in her kitchen creating delicious, nutritious, raw and vegan meals for her husband Tim and daughter Trinity.