Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep | Rest & Reset Series # 6| YWM 703

Living your Yoga with Dr Melissa West

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💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this Yoga Nidra for sleep session, inspired by modern sleep science and ancient yogic wisdom, we will explore the essential, non-negotiable nature of sleep as described in Matthew Walker’s book, "Why We Sleep." Sleep is crucial for the daytime functioning of our brains and bodies, but in today's fast-paced world, we find ourselves not just physically tired, but also mentally and emotionally exhausted. Our nervous systems are overworked, and our spirits are in dire need of regeneration. This Yoga Nidra session will guide you into a deep, restorative sleep by addressing not only the physical need for rest but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion that many of us face. As yogis, we recognize that sleep transcends the material world. Our physical bodies are just one aspect of our sleeping experience. In this Yoga Nidra practice, we will step into a realm where our energy bodies, mental bodies, emotional bodies, and intuitive and imaginative capacities are also nurtured and restored. By allowing total relaxation to permeate all dimensions of our being, Yoga Nidra offers a profound level of rest and recuperation. This multidimensional rest is what makes Yoga Nidra so effective in enhancing our sleep quality. Join me, Melissa West, as we journey together into a state of complete relaxation, allowing every aspect of our being to be rejuvenated and restored. There will be no close-out in this yoga nidra so you can drift off into deep sleep. As always, there will be an audio download of this yoga nidra for members in our membership community.

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Restorative Yoga for Digestion & Deep Nervous System Reset | YWM 730 57:38

1 day тому57:38

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Restorative Yoga for Digestion & Deep Nervous System Reset | YWM 730 This class is a gentle invitation to return to your body’s natural intelligence. When life feels too fast, too demanding, or too much to process, your digestion often reflects it — through tightness, bloating, or sluggishness. In this practice, we soften the nervous system’s need to control, brace, or push through. You’ll be guided to shift from sympathetic overdrive into the parasympathetic “rest and digest” state — where healing, nourishment, and true integration become possible. This class supports both physical digestion and emotional release, using restorative shapes, energetic cues, and frequency alignment to remind your system: you are safe to receive. You don’t need to earn rest. You don’t have to fix or force anything. Let sensation move through without labeling it. Let your breath and presence do the digesting. In this space of allowing, regulation becomes your boundary, trust becomes your medicine, and love becomes your inner rhythm. 💛 Want more support for your digestive health? We have a whole section in our video library for members dedicated to digestion — including myofascial release, pranayama, self-massage, restorative yoga, and more. 🧘‍♀️ 13 classes in total to help you regulate, release, and receive. 🔗 Members, access the full digestion series here: https://www.members.melissawest.com/courses/yoga-for-digestion-constipation/ 🌿 Not a member yet? Join us here: https://www.melissawest.com/membership…

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Yoga Nidra for Deep Energy Healing | Frequency Repair | YWM 729 45:28

9 днів тому45:28

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Yoga Nidra for Deep Energy Healing | Frequency Repair | YWM 729 Embody Your Energetic Blueprint melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint This deeply restorative Yoga Nidra is designed to support energetic healing and frequency repair across all levels of your being—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and ancestral. Everything you’ve ever experienced leaves an imprint on your body. Over time, these imprints can distort your natural energy flow, creating patterns of pain, fatigue, emotional overwhelm, or disconnection from your soul’s path. Through guided awareness, intention, and subtle sensing, this Yoga Nidra helps you gently release these distortions and reconnect with your original energetic blueprint—the coherent, radiant essence of who you are. Whether you're navigating chronic illness, emotional trauma, spiritual awakening, or ancestral entanglements, this practice invites you to soften into a healing field of coherence and clarity. You'll rotate awareness through your body, reprogram limiting patterns, and allow your nervous system to seal in a new frequency—one aligned with vitality, peace, and truth. This is a safe space to recalibrate, restore, and remember your light. ✨ 🌟 Ready to take this healing work even deeper? Join me this summer for Embody Your Energetic Blueprint, a powerful 9-week journey through the 9 centers of your Human Design—blended with nervous system wisdom, quantum healing, and deep energetic alignment. This is for empaths, sensitives, and seekers ready to attune to their true frequency. ✨ Early bird pricing ends May 15 → melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint…

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Calming Yin Yoga Before Bed | Yoga with Melissa 728 1:07:06

16 днів тому1:07:06

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Calming Yin Yoga Before Bed | Yoga with Melissa 728 🔗 Sign up here to explore your Human Design Energetic Blueprint this summer: https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/ In this calming yin yoga before bed class, we will gently soften the subtle undercurrents of tension and control that often surface at the end of the day. Through slow, nurturing poses and invitations into wonder, surrender, and deep trust, you’ll soothe your nervous system and open to the quiet healing currents available to you as you drift toward sleep. This practice honors the wisdom of your body’s natural rhythms, allowing you to lay down the day’s burdens and receive the profound support of the Earth and stars that are already holding you. Bedtime is a sacred, liminal threshold where your body, mind, and spirit become deeply receptive. This calming yin yoga practice will help you unwind from mental loops of "fixing" or "doing," and instead guide you into a space of pure receiving — magnetizing nourishment, wisdom, and repair during your sleep. Through breath, stillness, and gentle self-trust, you'll remember: you don’t have to hold it all together. You are already being lovingly carried by the greater field of life itself. Poem: Surrender by Claudia Cummins Props Needed: Yoga Blocks, bolster, blanket 🌟 Ready to go deeper this summer? 🌟 Join me for Embody Your Energetic Blueprint, a 10-week Nervous System-Informed Human Design Summer School! You'll explore how to regulate and honor your energy in a way that's aligned with your soul’s true blueprint — gently, sustainably, and with deep self-trust. Learn more and sign up here: https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/ I'd love to journey with you! 🌿✨ 🙏 If this practice nourished you, I want to thank you so much for being here. Every time you watch, share, or comment, you're helping co-create a space where healing, rest, and true self-expression are possible. By supporting this channel, you're not just watching a yoga video — you're helping grow a community rooted in nervous system gentleness, soul alignment, and deep embodiment. So if you feel called, I invite you to like this video, subscribe to the channel, and share it with someone you care about. It's such a simple way to be part of something meaningful — and it truly means the world to me. 💗…

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Gentle Morning Full Body Yoga Stretch for a Grateful Start | YWM 727 38:37

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🌈 June – Embody Your Energetic Blueprint: a 9-center Human Design Summer Immersion https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/ Gratitude as a profound, embodied state that aligns us with the cosmic heart and our multidimensional essence. Gratitude is not just an emotion but a transformative force that connects us to the divine and facilitates our evolution. When we embrace gratitude, we activate a form of prayer that transcends traditional boundaries, leading to a deeper connection with the present moment and the universal flow. Gratitude is a transformative force that fosters healing, clarity, and a harmonious resonance with the universe. When we are humble and surrender in the practice of gratitude, it allows us to receive the full spectrum of light and love available to us. In this class we can wake up with gratitude, recognizing the sacredness in every moment and aligning ourselves with the higher dimensions of consciousness. This gentle full body morning stretch is designed to awaken your body and open your heart. In this class, we meet the day with reverence. We allow gratitude to move through the breath and fom that place of embodied presence, we infuse our day with the energy of devotion and the sacredness of being alive. ☀️ Whether you’re just waking up or simply arriving more fully into your day, this class invites you to experience gratitude as a frequency… a gentle current beneath every breath. Props: Yoga Strap Poem: Gratefulness by James Crews 🌀 Want to go deeper? If the way I teach resonates with you 🌞 May – The Solar Plexus Portal: A Nervous System Map for Empaths & Sensitives Members, this is available as part of your membership. Click here to become a member: https://www.melissawest.com/membership 🌈 June – Embody Your Energetic Blueprint: a 9-center Human Design summer immersion. https://melissawest.com/embody-your-energetic-blueprint/ I’d love to have you with us.…

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Yoga Nidra for Cellular Healing | Yoga with Melissa 726 36:03

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This Yoga Nidra for Cellular Healing is a portal into deep restoration—where your body’s innate wisdom can come forward and remember how to heal. In this guided practice, you’ll be gently attuned to the intelligence of your cells, the rhythm of your breath, and the quiet coherence of your inner field. Through awareness, golden light, and the frequency of stillness, your nervous system softens, your energy recalibrates, and healing becomes a lived experience. ✨ If you’d like to take your rest even deeper, join our Yoga with Melissa Membership. Members receive audio downloads of all my Yoga Nidras, plus access to our month-long REST Incubator—a supportive space to soften, release, and truly restore. You can learn more and join us here: https://www.melissawest.com/membership…

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Restorative Yoga for Headaches 🤕| Yoga with Melissa 725 49:36

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Restorative Yoga for Headaches 🤕| Yoga with Melissa 725 If you’re in the middle of a headache or migraine, this class is for you. As someone who experiences them weekly, I know how exhausting and overwhelming they can feel. I also know that most yoga classes marketed for headaches simply aren’t doable when you're actually in it. That’s why I created this minimal-cue restorative yoga class — a quiet, prop-supported practice designed to meet you exactly where you are, without asking anything of you. You’ll remain in inclined, supported positions to reduce head pressure, with optional extras like a heating pad for your neck and shoulders, an ice pack for your head, and an eye pillow if you’re light sensitive. There’s no talking once you are in the poses — just gentle guidance into stillness. My hope is that this practice can be a sanctuary when you need relief, softness, and permission to rest. Props Needed: Bolster, Blocks, Blankets, Chair Optional Extras: Eye Pillow, Heating Pad, Ice Pack 🌿 Looking for more gentle support for headaches and migraines? Inside my membership, you’ll find exclusive classes like: 🌀 Headache Soother – using a soft foam roller to gently release fascia around the skull, neck, and shoulders 🌸 Yoga for Headaches & Migraines – blending acupressure, self-massage, myofascial release, and mindful movement to retrain pain pathways These practices are crafted with care from someone who truly understands. You’re so welcome to join us here: ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership…

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30 minuteYoga for Flexibility Slow Flow | Yoga with Melissa 724 25:42

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In this slow flow yoga class, we explore the connection between physical flexibility and nervous system adaptability—a key to staying steady in times of change. You’ll move through standing postures that mirror the grounding qualities of lying-down poses, bringing a sense of ease and release into your flexibility practice. This dynamic yet soft sequence includes hip openers, shoulder releases, and flowing movements that encourage a free and easy flow in both body and mind. By embracing flexibility on the mat, we practice meeting life with openness and resilience. We are also in wood element season, the time of spring renewal and growth. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the liver meridian governs flexibility—not just in our muscles, but in our ability to adapt and flow with life’s transitions. If you want to dive deeper into seasonal wisdom and meridian-based yoga, check out my book on 5 Element Yin Yoga! 📖 💚 📖 Explore the Wood Element & Liver Meridian in the green section of My Book ➡️ https://melissawest.com/book/ 💡 Track Your Nervous System & Recovery with Ultrahuman Ring Flexibility isn’t just about movement—it’s about understanding how your body responds to stress and recovery. I’ve been using the Ultrahuman Ring to track my HRV (Heart Rate Variability), sleep quality, and overall nervous system balance, and it has been a game-changer in my practice! If you're curious about biofeedback for your well-being, check it out here. 🔗 Ultrahuman Ring ➡️ https://www.ultrahuman.com/ring/buy/global/?affiliateCode=yogalifestylewithmelissa 💰 Use Discount Code: MELISSAWEST10 for savings!…

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Yin Yoga for Liver & Gallbladder Meridian | YWM 723 56:49

9 weeks тому56:49

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Yin Yoga for Liver & Gallbladder Meridian | YWM 723 🌿Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership Spring is the season of the Wood Element, when the Liver & Gallbladder meridians guide the smooth flow of Qi (energy). When these meridians are in balance, we feel ease, clarity, and emotional flexibility. However, when Qi stagnates, anger, frustration, and irritation can build up. This Yin Yoga practice supports emotional detox for spring, helping you release stuck emotions, restore flow, and soothe irritation. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) inquiry, we will explore anger and frustration, allowing them to be seen and gently transformed. This class includes a reading of “I Remember You” by Dave Ursillo and uses blocks and a blanket for support. Let go of tension, clear stagnant Qi, and connect with the free flow of energy within. ✨ 📖 Want to go deeper? The green section of my book, Five Element Yin Yoga, explores the Wood Element in full depth. ➡️ Get the book: https://melissawest.com/book/ 🔆 Join us LIVE this Sunday for a Spring Equinox workshop-style class inside our membership! 🌿 Membership ➡️ https://www.melissawest.com/membership…

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Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep 😴| Yoga with Melissa 722 30:16

10 weeks тому30:16

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🌙✨ Download this Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep (Audio Only) & Access Our Full Library: http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 😴💤 Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep | Release Tension & Restore Your Body 😴✨ In times of accelerated awakening and transformation, deep rest is more essential than ever. This Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep is designed to help you release tension, stagnation, and unprocessed emotions held in the body. As we navigate daily stressors, our nervous system may become overwhelmed, activating states of anxiety or shutdown. This practice offers a gentle and supportive space to unwind, process, and surrender into profound relaxation, allowing your body to fully restore during sleep. Through guided awareness and soothing breathwork, you’ll be invited to soften into safety, deepen your rest, and experience cognitive and physical repair throughout the night. Whether you struggle with overactive thoughts, restlessness, or simply want to cultivate more peaceful, nourishing sleep, this practice will guide you into a state of deep stillness—where healing naturally unfolds. 🌙💤 📊 Want to Track Your Sleep & Recovery? I use the Ultrahuman Ring to monitor my sleep cycles, HRV, and recovery—helping me optimize deep rest! Get yours here :http://ultrahuman.com/yogalifestylewithmelissa Discount code: MELISSAWEST10 📖 Love Yin Yoga? Explore the wisdom of the Five Elements and deepen your practice with my book: 5 Element Yin Yoga – Get Your Copy Here: https://melissawest.com/book/…

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50 minute Gentle Morning Full Body Yoga Stretch | YWM 721 51:13

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👉 Join our membership for guided morning yoga practices that fit your energy level—plus 900+ videos to support you all day long! 🧘‍♀️ ➡️ http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 🔗 Get the Ultrahuman Ring AIR with my special link → http://ultrahuman.com/yogalifestylewithmelissa Discount code: MELISSAWEST10 ✨ Feeling stretched and open? Take your practice deeper with my book, 5 Element Yin Yoga, where you’ll learn how to balance your energy through the wisdom of the five elements! 🌿📖 👉 https://melissawest.com/book/ Start your day with softness and presence in this gentle full-body yoga morning stretch. This 50-minute hatha yoga practice with Melissa West is designed to help you ease into your morning with slow, mindful movement, releasing stiffness and awakening energy. Perfect for beginners and those looking for a calm, grounding start, this sequence focuses on opening your body with gentle stretches that bring balance and flow to your entire body. Whether you're looking for a morning yoga stretch, a beginner-friendly hatha yoga session, or a full-body yoga stretch, this practice will set the tone for a peaceful and centered day ahead. If you love this morning yoga for beginners, explore more with Melissa West's 50-minute yoga classes inside our membership community, where you’ll find a full library of yoga designed to support your body and nervous system every day. Want to take your practice deeper? My book, 5 Element Yin Yoga, is perfect for learning how to balance your energy and cultivate a sense of harmony through yin yoga. Join me on the mat and embrace the day with ease! 🌿✨ Props Needed: Yoga Strap, folded blanket Poem One Morning by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer…

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Restorative Yoga for Hips & Low Back | YWM 720 48:44

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Restorative Yoga for Hips & Low Back | Yoga with Melissa 720 🌿 Ready to take this deeper? Join our membership for a structured journey into nervous system regulation through yoga. ➡️ http://bit.ly/ywmmembership Our hips and lower back hold the energetic tension between flexibility and stability, expansion and support. This restorative yoga practice invites you to explore the deeper psycho-spiritual meaning of these areas through somatic experiencing and Internal Family Systems (IFS), offering space to gently unwind patterns of control, tension, and holding. By settling into long-held, supported postures, we create an opportunity to notice where we grip, where we soften, and where we can invite more fluidity, creativity, and trust in the body's wisdom. Rather than focusing on stored emotions or trauma, this class embraces the hips as a center of life force energy, adaptability, and creative flow, while the lower back reminds us of the balance between personal strength and the need for external support. Through guided awareness and intentional pauses, you will have space to listen to the quieter parts of yourself—the parts that strive to hold everything together and the parts that long to release. With a nervous system-informed approach, this practice encourages small, sustainable shifts in how we meet resistance, how we recover, and how we expand our capacity to move through life with greater ease. Whether you’re feeling physically tight or energetically overwhelmed, this class is an invitation to trust your body's natural rhythm, find grounding amidst change, and cultivate a deep sense of spaciousness within. If this class resonated with you, inside my membership, we are taking this even deeper this month with a guided pathway for Nervous System Regulation Through Spiritual Ascension. Each week, we integrate practices like this one into a supportive community where you can ask questions, receive guidance, and deepen your experience. You can join us inside. 📖 Deepen Your Practice with Yin Yoga – Winter is the perfect time to nourish your low back, kidneys, and water element through deep, replenishing rest. My Yin Yoga book is filled with poses to support your hips and lower back, bringing balance to your body and mind. Get your copy here 👉 https://melissawest.com/book/…

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10-Minute YOGA NIDRA RESET | Clear the NERVOUS SYSTEM Pathways | YWM 719 12:48

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Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉https://melissawest.com/book/ 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership This transformative 10-minute yoga nidra is designed to gently clear and renew your energy. Guided by the compassionate and purifying energy of the violet flame, this practice helps release fear, anger, resentment, and guilt while transmuting energies from past traumas, unresolved emotions, and stress into higher vibrations of love, peace, and clarity. Through deep relaxation and guided visualization, you'll invite the violet flame to flow through your body, clearing energetic blockages and creating space for emotional balance and restoration. This practice offers a sanctuary of calm to reset your nervous system, release tension, and reconnect with your inner light. Whether you’re seeking to let go of heavy emotions or refresh your energy, this yoga nidra provides a nurturing, empowering experience of renewal. This 10-minute yoga nidra reset is a condensed version of a powerful energy transmission I did with our members designed to clear and reset your nervous system pathways. In this shorter practice, you'll gently release unresolved patterns, but in the membership version we cleared blockages in your aura, chakras, and energy field, and purified their physical body, thoughts, and emotions. If you are interested in creating space for alignment with your divine essence, supporting spiritual growth, creativity, and a deep sense of inner peace consider becoming a member. 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 🍃 💚 🌿 Yoga with Melissa recommends consulting your physician or other healthcare provider before starting any yoga or movement program. You should understand that there is a risk of injury associated with participating in any physical movement. This is not medical advice and should not be taken as such. By voluntarily participating in this exercise program or using the information provided, you assume all risk of injury to yourself and release and discharge Yoga with Melissa/Melissa West from all claims or causes of action, known or unknown, arising from use of this video or information therein.…

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Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 718 54:04

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Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 718 Get my Yin Yoga Book 🙏👉 💕Join Our Membership Community 💕 This soothing restorative yoga class is designed to gently support your parasympathetic nervous system, focusing on cultivating a healthy balance of ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation. By the end of the practice, you'll feel deeply relaxed, meditative, and grounded—a state many describe as feeling truly “zenned out.” Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga Sequence Vagus Nerve Reset Restorative Child’s Pose Eye Yoga Restorative Locust Diaphragmatic Breathing Restorative Bridge Mudra for Security Props Needed: Bolster, 2 Blocks, meditation cushion or chair…

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Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717 1:03:01

17 weeks тому1:03:01

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Beginner Yin Yoga Full Body Stretch | Yoga with Melissa 717 💕Revive & Thrive Incubator 💕http://bit.ly/ywmmembership 📕Get My Yin Yoga Book Here 👉https://melissawest.com/book/ ✨1:1 Abundance Code Readings ✨https://melissawest.com/abundance/ In this beginner-friendly full-body yin yoga class, we’ll explore the principles of yin: finding your edge, softening, becoming still, and staying for awhile. This quiet, introspective practice focuses on the deeper layers of the body—connective tissues, ligaments, and joints—primarily in the hips, pelvis, and spine. Through longer holds and gentle surrender, you’ll cultivate patience, trust, and a sense of ease while encouraging your nervous system to relax and reset. Whether you’re new to yin yoga or returning to your practice, this class offers a supportive space to slow down, soften, and let gravity do the work. I’ll provide options for props and show you how to use everyday items like pillows or blankets if you don’t have yoga props at home. Join me to release tension, find balance, and welcome the yin qualities of stillness, rest, and compassion. Props Needed: Wall, Blanket, Block, Strap, Bolster (options will be given if you don’t have these props) Poem: After Softening by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer…

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Full Moon Yoga Nidra | Wolf Moon January | YWM 716 39:29

18 weeks тому39:29