
Welcome to the self-care movement! I’m Melissa, I help people with chronic pain and fatigue put self-care & wellness first
Why a movement and not a revolution? I'm too tired for that! I have other things to do. Let's start small together...
Go from
- The push through model to the self-care model
- What are these conditions I live with to a solid understanding with management plans
- “Try to get better sleep” to practical deep rest strategies
- Stressed and overwhelmed to calming strategies
- Trying to do all the things to intentional efficiency
The rules
- We deserve a great quality of life
- The push through model didn’t improve our symptoms or quality of life
- The self-care model improves our quality of life and makes us better partners, parents, employees, caregivers – people contributing to this world
- Deep rest is a wonderful tool for self-care and can’t be employed too often
- This is a safe haven for you to find what you need
- Learn about the self-care model (and how that complements the work you do with your medical team)
Build your daily toolkit with accessible yoga and chronic pain and fatigue management principles
Yoga can't cure you but it CAN (four reasons to join us):
>Give you practical tools you can use yourself (self-efficacy is linked to better outcomes for us)
>Gentle movement your way (lack of movement is linked to lower life expectancy and other health issues)
>Supportive team (no isolation here, even if you can't leave the house right now)
>Tackle the central nervous system overdrive which leads to depression, anxiety, insomnia, pain amplification and more.
I can't wait to share this with you
How do I build my toolkit?
Each month you will be on a guided journey. You will receive a container with four accessible yoga classes:
- Gentle movement
- Restorative class
- Meditation
- Breathing or other self-care practice
All designed to help you breathe, stretch and rest well.
Each month you retain access to the previous containers, building a library of options.
In addition to this we will learn some key concepts to managing chronic pain and fatigue well:
- How to assess your baseline
- Tracking your symptoms,
- Create symptom management plans
- Learn about pacing
- and more.
These are in easy to understand booklets with worksheets and templates to guide you.
You will also receive access to our exclusive members’ group.
- Supportive team.
- You can ask me questions
- Extra information and resources.
- You also get a front row look at new resources I create.
This is a hybridized program designed to meet you where you are.
Just want the yoga? You can choose the guided journey through the modules, or you can jump into The Rest Lounge or the Breath Lab depending on what you need. Unsure what to do, simply ask in the group!
Want extra support in the group? Join in.
Need the workbooklets to create your symptom management plans? You can access it anytime from month two.
Level up or down as you like each month.
You have to do the work
This program is right for you if you are willing to take these tools and use them.
The only thing I ask you to do is to commit to practicing. Even for just 10 minutes a day.
I have designed this to be as easy as possible for you to navigate. Each month you will receive access to a new module with a gentle movement class, restorative (restful) class, meditation and a breathing and/or self-care printable/practice. On your first scheduled practice day (that you have committed to) choose one of the new practices to try. It's nice to get through all of the new practices over the month so that you can see what suits your body and what your favourites are. This way you will know what to come back to.
In my opinion, the most important practices are the Yoga Nidra guided meditations. If you do nothing else for the next 3,6 or 12 months, let it be a consistent Yoga Nidra practice. It will help you gain profound rest in the moment and help to balance your central nervous system. Something that is good for everyone living in this hectic world. But especially for people with chronic pain and fatigue.
In addition to the yoga, you will start tracking your symptoms, create a symptom management plan, flare plans, learn about pacing and more.
What would you pay to improve your sleep, even a little? To experience true relaxation, for even a moment? To create a toolkit of things you can do for yourself whenever you need?
To be able to enjoy movement again and avoid flares when doing it?
Priceless? Me too! So take advantage and join us now!
Join the Movement
Yoga for the Chronic Life
This is a monthly subscription, you retain access for as long as you are a member.
Yoga for the Chronic Life - Founding Members
This price is for earlybird members who get the mission and join us from the start.
Once you lock in this price it is yours for the duration of the membership, even when it goes up for new members.
THANK YOU for supporting the mission.

I want you to have tools that can help you manage your symptoms every day
Hi, I’m Melissa!
I live with chronic symptoms (CFS and FMS). My mission is to share what I've learnt on my journey in the past 20 years living with chronic illness. And the past 10 improving symptoms.
I make adaptable, accessible yoga and combine that with pain and fatigue management principles.
We need different options (bed, chair, floor), varying class lengths, sometimes we just need an efficient nap (Yoga Nidra).
Because I don't want you to spend as long as I did with no help and no tools.
The side benefits of the right yoga for us is nothing to turn our noses up at either. Good yoga can help:
• calm the autonomic nervous system
• improve sleep
• reduce fatigue
• reduce pain
• increase physical capacity
• decrease myofascial pain
• lessen anxiety
• reduce depression
• induce relaxation
• bring a mindfulness of movement
• help with awareness of proper alignment
And more
I LOVE knowing that I can induce deep rest, alleviate muscle tension, gently release my neck (a 24/7 issue to manage) MYSELF. It is profoundly satisfying to have tools, know when I need them and be free to use them almost anytime, anywhere.
I am so excited to have you join me on this MISSION to create a yoga studio specifically for people with chronic pain and fatigue.
Course curriculum
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1Yay & Everything You Need to Get Started
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2Yoga Info
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4Mindful Movement: Pose Library
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6Yoga for the Chronic Life Module One
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7Yoga for the Chronic Life Module Two
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8Yoga for the Chronic Life Module Three
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10The Rest Lounge
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11The Breath Lab
What you see is just the beginning. There will be 12 modules total, with a full Rest Lounge and Breath Lab. You gain access to a new module each month you are a member and retain access to prior modules. You also get to shape future content by making suggestions/requests in the group.
Join the Movement
Yoga for the Chronic Life
This is a monthly subscription, you retain access for as long as you are a member.
Yoga for the Chronic Life - Founding Members
This price is for earlybird members who get the mission and join us from the start.
Once you lock in this price it is yours for the duration of the membership, even when it goes up for new members.
THANK YOU for supporting the mission.


What Students Say
“I like being able to go at my own pace. Each video is very well explained so I am able to follow easily. I especially like that you included bedtime yoga.” – Shelly
"I love yoga with Melissa Reynolds it has helped me feel more relaxed, less cramping, less pain." - Danny from Health-Hats.com
“I used the chair yoga on a day where my pain was extremely high. I had already decided that my day was canceled. Going out was not gonna be possible but I did the series and about 10 mins after I noticed I felt more alert and less pain . Before I knew it I was dressed in the car and driving to my sister’s house. I ended up spending the evening there and then going to the grocery store after that. I would have never imagined being able to do a program and have such immediate results.” - Latoya @fibroflash
"For the first time I'm in a yoga class that I feel like I'm actually going to get it...I really can do this and I love how it feels." -Meshea from mesheacrysup.com
"You have made it possible for people with multiple issues to be able to get benefits of yoga without the stress and pain." - Mimi Diz






FAQs
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Use this YOUR way for your goals.
- On demand accessible yoga designed for bodies with chronic pain and fatigue, to help us improve our quality of life. A new module with four types of classes comes out monthly for 12 months. Then you retain access to the whole library.
- Community - join the exclusive, supportive community
- Learn - the additional workbooklets, trainings and Q&As with Melissa is an advanced masterclass in chronic pain and fatigue management. Engage as much or as little as you'd like.
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Yes. Please discuss trying yoga with your medical team. There are many options here and it can be tailored to what your body needs, but you need to know your limitations and what your medical team recommends.
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Yes (if you are following your medical teams guidance). Even if you are not participating in the physical practice right now (including the bed yoga), I believe you will find benefit from the Yoga Nidra guided meditation, breathwork, community and extra trainings.
All classes are carefully explained, well paced (with the option to slow the speed down), and do not have background music or distracting lights/noises.
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I have practiced yoga for more than a decade through many changing physical abilities.
In addition to this, I have practiced Yoga Nidra guided meditation every day for nearly 10 years with odd exceptions.
I trained to be a yoga teacher specifically to share yoga for people like me. I got sick of trying to find yoga that didn't send me into a flare or make me feel bad. The more I learnt the more I came to value the side benefits above anything else (especially calming the nervous system).
I am a 200 hour Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT) and 200 hour Certified Meditation Teacher (CMT) with extra professional development in Chair Yoga, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra.
I use the tools I share in this studio myself daily. I am very passionate about these tools and what they have done for me.
In addition, I am the founder of www.melissavsfibromyalgia.com with over 300 articles about managing chronic pain and fatigue. I run a YouTube channel with over 300 videos. I've written three books, including Pregnancy and Fibromyalgia. I run two Facebook groups supporting people with chronic pain and fatigue. I also have additional training in life coaching to support this work. Fun fact: My diagnosis story is very wonky but I don't actually meet the main diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia. I live with ME/CFS and myofascial pain syndrome (which I believe made it look like I have fibromyalgia.)