VEDA ALIVE Online School of Yoga & Ayurveda
Feel more alive, vital, and whole. Discover your innate healing intelligence & transform through the timeless teachings & practices of Yoga & Ayurveda.
It's time. Learn the Hart Approach to Yoga™️
It's time for you to receive the healing and transformation support that you've been looking for. Through courses, programs, and retreats, Meredith offers support, guidance, and education so that you can live from your truest Self - and feel and know a deep sense of embodied ease, grace, and peace.
Steeped in the Vedas, Meredith offers The Hart Approach to Yoga™️ and Holistic Healing where she covers a deep yet wide range of Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, and Somatic Education. Her sharp intuitive sense and creative intelligence points her towards what is needed for each of her students and clients. She's been at this for over two decades! She is deeply grateful to all of her teachers and she leans heavily into the teachings and practices that make it truly accessible to reliably heal and transform on all levels.
Below you will see her current offerings. Enjoy and be in touch soon.
"Yoga classes with Meredith are transformative. With gentle precision, she guides us in and out of poses, taking care to ensure that everyone is safe, supported, and getting the most out of the session. No matter how I feel going in — stressed, stiff, shut down — I come out feeling opened up, integrated, and balanced, body and mind."
"I began attending Meredith's classes and workshops in person in 2019 and found them deeply restorative in body and mind. Then, as the Covid pandemic arrived, I was deeply grateful that Meredith continued to offer her workshops via zoom. I benefit enormously from her dedication to teaching this practice which continues to bring me physical ease and mental calm."
"Meredith breaks the pose down into its pieces sequentially so that I know where I am headed. Her cues reinforce what I learned from the demo, but they add hints to the more subtle dimensions of the asana and how to continue the asana's dynamism even if it is seemingly silent on the outside."
"I am never confused about the mechanics of an asana and manage to find my way to inner clarity about the effects through my direct experience."
"Over time, I have felt my bones settling into more comfortable and less protective positions, I have much greater flexibility, and am ready to take more risks knowing that the smallest movement is not going to break me."
"Meredith is my most trusted and go-to person for all physical and metaphysical questions, needs and support. She is one of those truly rare and special people who possesses incredible depth AND breadth within her fields of practice."
"Meredith trained me to practice at home so that I can do it whenever I need, to be more at peace. The most important fact for me is that the weekly class is a kind of 90-minute meditation. It's a practice that really gives me the opportunity to let go and to be with my body from moment to moment. Learning to relax and becoming still. This is the real Yoga, not the kind of gymnastic that it became here in the west."
Core Essentials of Therapeutic Yoga Program
Learn and practice Embodied Release™️ Yoga and discover how good it feels when you release tension in the core of your body. You'll explore through your own direct experience how unwinding the tight muscles and decompressing the spine is essential for moving in an integrated and functional way.
In Embodied Release™️ Yoga group work, each class builds on the previous class giving you the foundational practices of yoga poses (asanas) and breathwork (pranayama) that target the tightest muscles along your spine. You'll find that when the core of your body opens and releases, the rest of your body can move and function more optimally. With more space on the inside, your mind can follow your body's lead and find more quietude from the hectic pace of our modern-day living.
New Series beginning in January 2025 - Tuesday Mornings - 9am to 10:30am Pacific Time.
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Samadhi Gentle Classical Yoga for Women
Support a life of ease with a gentle classical yoga and pranayama practice that focuses on both activity and rest, paving the way for your meditation.
The experience of the Self, of transcendence of pure consciousness is called Samadhi in the Yogic literature.
Enjoy the effortless weaving of somatic-based yoga practice with the discovery of the timeless and very relatable themes of the Yogic literature and the feminine. This slow, receptive, somatic, and kind approach includes poses (asana), sacred hand positions (mudra), and breathwork (pranayama).
Both activity and rest invite the harmonizing of all systems and aspects of the body and mind, fostering a synthesis and coordination that paves the way for the practitioner to experience Wholeness within, which is the ultimate goal of all Yoga.
Join Meredith and learn her unique, gentle, somatic, and therapeutic approach to classical Yoga practice.
Held online every Wednesday from 8:30 am to 9:45 pm Pacific Time.
To join, contact Meredith directly.
Spring Home Cleanse - Coming in March 2025
This course will take you through a 21-Day Gentle Cleanse providing deep nourishment, rejuvenation, and detoxification. Learn the importance of seasonal cleansing and the foundational principles of Ayurveda. Contact Meredith directly for details.
Private Individualized Healing & Learning Programs
Get the 1:1 support you need for deep change and healing.
Perhaps you know that you are looking for deep change and healing and you aren't ready for the community or group programs just yet. Not to mention you really need dialed-in support for your healing. You can't seem to find healing physically and you experience stress, overwhelm, and lack of empowerment on a daily basis. You've tried everything and you don't know what to do or who to turn to next. Yet, you do know that you want to get your foundation set up and receive more personalized support, you're just not quite sure where to start.
Working individually with Meredith through one-on-one online sessions is the best place to start. She's been at this for over two decades and will create, teach, and counsel you your unique individualized Vedic healing home practice that incorporates yoga therapy, breathwork, food, and sound practices. Maybe you are here just for the yoga therapy. Or a deep reset wellness retreat (a rejuvenation-based Panchakarma). Or maybe you feel really called towards mantra therapy. Or maybe you want to dial in on your relationship with food. Whatever you need support in, she's with you all the way.
You'll easily find your way to freedom and healing with her support. Sign up for a free connection call with Meredith and discover what the possibilities are.
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Trainings
Learn to Teach Yoga | Earn Your Degree & Become a 200 Hour Level RYT
As the Director of the Maharishi International University Yoga Specialization program, Meredith invites you to add a 1000 hour certificate program to your undergraduate or graduate degree. You'll be trained in the profound philosophy of the Veda and in Maharishi's teachings as well as in Meredith's Hart Approach to Yoga™️. The next cohort begins in Fall 2025.
Continuing Your Education with an RYT300 in the Hart Approach to Yoga™️
Deeper dives for all levels - for those who would like to teach and for those who are already teaching and would like to develop. Look ahead and make plans for your future in offering transformation and healing through the practices of somatic-based therapeutic Yoga, the Hart Approach to Yoga™️. The next cohort for these advanced trainings begins in Fall 2025. More information to come.
Healing Mudras
Learn the energetics of how mudras (sacred hand positions) can cultivate healing. This course is designed for everyone - for those who would like to dive in deeply into this Vedic technology and for yoga teachers who are looking to continue their education and bring it into their yoga classes.
Details to come - this online course will go live online in summer 2025.
The Power of Chetanasana
Take your yoga teaching to a whole new level by weaving in more stillness and deep rest. Learn the background, history, and benefits of Chetanasana and expand your offerings and expertise. This is open to everyone, with an emphasis on facilitating Yoga Nidra or Yogic Sleep.
Details to come - this online course will go live in the early fall 2025.
Classical Salutations
Learn the Classical Surya (Sun) and Chandra (Moon) Namaskar practices with their corresponding directions, asanas, and mantras. Each Namaskar aligns the practitioner on an energetic and cosmic level with the Sun or the Moon, bringing deep benefit and harmony.
Details to come - this online course will go live in the late fall 2025.
Become a Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher
Dive Deep & Continue Your Education
This foundational course in becoming a Trauma-informed yoga teacher is a key component of Hart Approach to Yoga™️ Therapeutics. It offers you deeper study and training in Yoga, taking your teaching to a newer and deeper level. It's what makes the Hart Approach to Yoga™️ special. Open to all, and offers Continuing Education credits with Yoga Alliance.
Take your practice, teaching, and practitioner skills to a whole new level - through deep Spiritual inquiry, Self-Care, Deeper Practices, and reflection.
Expand into your light by gently and lovingly uncovering the so-called "Shadows" that hold you back. You've paved the way with your asana, pranayama, meditation, and dinacharya practice and now it's time to work with your mind. The Vedas offer us so much in this regard. You'll learn that to find relief from pain and suffering, a softening must take place. In this approach, we lean into the support of external props and into the precise alignments to then discover we have the support within our very physical structure, in our bones and organs.
We do the same thing when we work with our minds. To find relief from mental suffering, we soften into the support of compassionate self-inquiry. It's time to work with our minds and bridge the gap.
Join Meredith on this journey of self-discovery, where she'll weave in Yoga and Holistic Healing (Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, and Somatic Education) with self-inquiry all designed to take you deep into yourself.
Shed the light and love on the shadowed obstacles and places inside yourself. Heal from the inside out, so you can hold space for and help others on their journeys of self-discovery.
Coming in Fall of 2026 with culminating with an in-person practicum in Spring 2027. Contact Meredith directly to learn more.
