Yoga with Nikki Chau » Teacher Training

Sexy Yoga and Meditation

Nikki Chau — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:15:12 +0000

Okay, I admit it, the word “sexy” didn’t need to be in the title of this post. I literally spent at least five minutes trying to figure out how to work the words “sexy” or “hot” in with the words “meditation”, to no avail.

I suppose that’s why meditation, or Patanjali’s Dhyāna, gets nowhere near the attention [...]

Relax and Renew ™ Restorative Yoga Training with Judith Hanson Lasater Roundup

Nikki Chau — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:19:31 +0000

Greetings from San Francisco! This week I’m in a 5-day Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Judith Hanson Lasater at Yoga Tree SF in the Castro. Today is the last day of the training, which has gone by too fast, which is always the case for me when I see Judith. (For those of you who’s [...]

The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits

Nikki Chau — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:40:13 +0000

One of my favorite movies of all time is Before Sunrise, which I have seen so many times the disc is completely scratched up. One of the memorable scenes that seems to be permanently stuck in my mind is when Ethan Hawke’s character recites the poem As I Walked out One Evening by W.H. Auden.

‘The [...]

State of The Union in Nikki Yoga News, March 2010

Nikki Chau — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:05:39 +0000

Here in Seattle, there’s an indie alternative newspaper called The Stranger, wherein there’s a column called Last Days, which accounts for notable news of the last days in the last week, and it’s the inspiration for this blog’s format in Nikki Yoga News (NYN).

My Heart Will Go On The 2nd installment of Intro to Yoga at [...]

Goal vs. Intention – Yoga Teacher to Yoga Teacher

Nikki Chau — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:41:46 +0000

This is another video in the New Yoga Teacher to New Yoga Teacher series, part of my work to support new yoga teachers. Here I talk about how to deal with both good days and bad days, and yes, they do happen. As they say about riding and laying down a motorcycle: it’s not a [...]

The Seed of Yoga

Nikki Chau — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:49:41 +0000

This past weekend during my 500-hour teacher training, Denise Carrico came to talk to us about teaching yoga for people with cancer. Denise is a yoga teacher in the Integral tradition who has been teaching yoga for 20+ years and for people with cancer for 12 years at Seattle Cancer Lifeline in Phinney Ridge and [...]

Seattle Yoga News – 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Pacific Yoga

Nikki Chau — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:33:07 +0000

If you are looking for a quality Yoga Teacher Training Program, look no further than Pacific Yoga Teacher Training & Advanced Studies.

The next 200-hour training (PDF) is set to start on February 19, 2010, and ending on October 24, 2010. The program includes the studies of Yoga Asanas, Pranayama, Anatomy (gross and subtle body), Sanskrit, [...]

Art of Teaching – Some Reflection on Starting Out

Nikki Chau — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:33:57 +0000

What does it mean to teach yoga? For me, the decision to take up teacher training came when I realized I had wandered far enough into the woods to point out what a tree looks like (groaning allowed here), but not yet far enough that I could confidently find all the floras and faunas, and [...]

Experiential Anatomy Training with Judith Lasater

Nikki Chau — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:11:52 +0000

Greetings from Feathered Pipe Ranch, Montana.

I’m currently half way through the Experiential Anatomy Teacher Training with Judith Lasater, who’s also the author of Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana. Apart from the beautiful setting, awesome food, and great people, the workshop is proving invaluable to my growth as a yoga student, teacher, and human being.

In her [...]

Teacher Training Retreat Reflection

Nikki Chau — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:55:31 +0000

I spent this past week fully living in yoga, from morning to night, with a schedule packed with Yoga Asanas, Pranayama, Philosophy, Art of Teaching, and the Business of Yoga.

Without going into exhausting details of everything we did (and it was exhausting, physically and mentally), I will say that it brought me closer to my [...]