Welcome — I’m Monica Merleau, a yoga teacher, mindfulness mentor, and wellness guide with over 30 years of experience.
This channel offers mindful yoga, Yin practices, calming breathwork, and gentle movement created especially for women navigating midlife, menopause, emotional shifts, and life transitions.
Here you’ll find practices to help you:
. Tools to age well
• Build strength, balance & mobility
• Release tension through Yin & restorative yoga
• Support your nervous system with breathwork
• Cultivate inner peace and clarity
• Move through midlife with grace and wisdom
This is a nurturing space to reconnect with your body, slow down, and honor this powerful chapter of your life.
✨ Slow down. Breathe deeply. Come home to yourself.
Subscribe to join our midlife mindfulness community.
Mindful Yoga & Midlife Wisdom
🌿 200 Subscribers 🌿
A small milestone, but one I’m grateful for.
Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this journey of mindful movement, gentle yoga, and midlife wisdom.
Every view, comment, and subscription means more than you know.
This channel continues to grow slowly and steadily, just like a yoga practice—one breath, one step, one day at a time.
Thank you for being here.
With gratitude,
Monica
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New gentle reset practice coming tomorrow.
If life has felt heavy lately, this one is for you. 🤍
🙏💗
Monica
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Mindful Moment:
As you breathe… do not disappear.
For many years, I believed keeping the peace meant staying quiet, overextending myself, or saying yes when something didn’t feel right.
Lately, I’ve been learning that honoring myself can feel uncomfortable in the moment — but it also creates a deeper sense of peace.
Sometimes self-respect sounds like:
“That doesn’t work for me.”
“I need time.”
“No, thank you.”
“This feels more aligned for me.”
And what I’m realizing is that when we stop abandoning ourselves, others often respond with more respect than we expect.
Your voice matters.
Your needs matter.
Your truth matters.
Pause. Breathe. Be fully you.
— The Pause Between
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Mindful Moment for Parents & Caregivers 🌿
Sometimes life unfolds in ways we never expected.
Plans change.
Paths shift.
Energy feels stretched.
And yet… within the unexpected, there can still be meaning.
This reflection reminds us that not everything needs to be figured out all at once.
We are not meant to anticipate every step.
Sometimes growth appears quietly — through challenges, through change, through moments we did not choose.
If you are supporting a child, a family member, or navigating a season that asks more of you than you imagined…
you are not alone in feeling this.
Today, a gentle invitation:
• soften the need to have everything resolved
• allow space for what is still unfolding
• trust that something meaningful can emerge even in uncertainty
Pause.
Breathe.
Let this moment be enough.
Sometimes what feels unexpected… may still guide us toward strength, understanding, and connection.
With care,
Monica
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A simple evening practice to help you slow down, release tension, and reconnect with your breath.
If your day felt full or your body feels tight, this gentle 15-minute practice offers space to soften and let go.
You can find the practice here:
https://youtu.be/AbOzY3Uq6Ro?si=OHwU7...
Wishing you a peaceful evening,
Monica
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Life is a school where we learn to remember what our soul already knows.
In my teaching, what matters most is not perfection, but how people feel:
calmer
supported
more connected to themselves
My intention is to offer gentle practices that help regulate the nervous system and create space to breathe — especially for those holding a lot.
Sometimes a small pause is enough to begin again.
Pause Between
Breathe • Reset • Reconnect
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✨ The Pause Between
Deep Rest + Nervous System Reset
I’m hosting a quiet Sunday workshop in Montreal on April 12 for anyone needing deep rest and nervous system reset.
🌿 Welma Studio
🌿 4:00–5:45 PM
🌿 Limited spots
👉 Registration link in bio
square.link/u/rmb5xi9k?src=sheet
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There are moments in life when the nervous system carries more than usual.
Yin Yoga offers a space to slow down, release held tension, and return to a place of calm and steadiness.
I’m opening space for 3 private Yin Yoga sessions this week. These are gentle, supportive sessions designed to help regulate the nervous system and allow the body and mind to reset.
If you feel called to receive this kind of support, you’re welcome to message me or email:
monica@monicamerleau.com
With care,
Monica
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Gentle Twists for Grounding & Ease is now live 🌿
In this practice, we focus on slow, supported twists to help release tension — especially around the belly and low back.
Twists are incredibly supportive for digestion. And when digestion feels more relaxed and flowing, the whole body often softens. We feel calmer. More grounded. More embodied.
This is not a forceful practice. It’s about unwinding gently and allowing things to move more smoothly.
If you practice, I’d love to know — did you notice a shift afterward?
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Mindful Moment 🌱
“Worry is a problem that seems urgent, but it rarely serves us.”
Today’s Taoist reflection reminded me that worry doesn’t create change — action and compassion do.
Do what is in your power.
Help where you can.
Then walk on without carrying it with you.
This is not indifference.
This is compassion without exhaustion.
What are you ready to release today?
🌿If you need support grounding back into the present, gentle practices are always here on this channel.🌿
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