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Seattle Yoga News – Unwinding into the Middle Way with Tias Little at 8 Limbs Yoga September 2010

Nikki Chau — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:39:36 +0000

This weekend I’ll be spending 3 days with Tias Little, a yoga teacher I met two years ago at this time of year. I had just started my 200-hour yoga teacher training then, and like the song goes, “oh how the years go by”. Though two years may seem like a really short time to [...]

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 [...]

Gary Kraftsow Workshop at Yoga Shala of Portland Recap

Nikki Chau — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:53:43 +0000

As you guys know last week I went down to Portland to see Gary Kraftsow. I didn’t really know what to expect, having had only learned about him through my teacher Kathryn Payne.

I carpooled down with Olivia Esuabana, a friend from the 500-hour teacher training, and a totally cool chick. It’s hard to describe Olivia. [...]

Seattle Yoga News: Anusara Yoga for Pregnancy with Jessica Jennings at Seattle Yoga Arts

Nikki Chau — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:15:07 +0000

Today and Sunday I’ll be seeing Jessica Jennings, hailing from Los Angeles, at Seattle Yoga Arts as she applies the principles of Anusara to yoga for pregnancy. I’m not an Anusara teacher, but I understand enough of the vernacular to flail along with the kula.

Jessica is a certified Anusara teacher and a doula. [...]

Never Say Never – How I Learned to Love Chanting

Nikki Chau — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:13:29 +0000

I had always thought that chanting was at best weird, and at worst, creepy. My earliest memory of chanting was visiting my grandmother on my dad’s side when I was five or six years old, and she would sit with a little bowl and wooden mallet saying namo namo namo. I had zero idea what [...]

Seattle Yoga News – A Cadaver Lab Course for Yoga Teachers and Body Workers

Nikki Chau — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:28:23 +0000

I have to admit one thing first, I always find the term “body worker” to be somewhat amusing, but I guess that’s the industry standard, so there it is.

Okay, as some of you know, I have been working with the director of the Basic Cadaver Anatomy course at Bastyr University for the past couple months. [...]

The Triadic Adventure with Ross Rayburn at Seattle Yoga Arts

Nikki Chau — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:18:45 +0000

Last Thursday night, after I taught my Beginner’s class at Village Green Yoga, I went out to dinner with Jean Massimo, who told me that Ross Rayburn, a Certified Anusara teacher, coming to Seattle Yoga Arts this weekend. This weekend? Like, this weekend this weekend? I asked Jean. Yup. Well, see, there’s a problem, I’m [...]

Study Sanskrit in Seattle with Kathryn Payne

Nikki Chau — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:57:16 +0000

Two years ago, when I decided that I would enroll in a yoga teacher training, I had no idea that I would be learning Sanskrit. Quite frankly, I didn’t even know such a thing existed, that’s how “not with it” I was. And now, I cannot be more glad to have been exposed to this [...]

Yoga Journal Conference San Francisco 2010

Nikki Chau — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:43:59 +0000

These were the classes I was interested in when I looked at the Yoga Journal Conference, SF 2010 schedule, way back in November 2009. However, I won’t be able to make it. If you do go, have lots of fun, and bring back tips, tricks, and stories!

Leslie Howard – The Female Pelvic Floor Monday, February [...]

Seattle Yoga News – Monthly Led Practice Class with Theresa Elliott

Nikki Chau — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:18:14 +0000

Theresa Elliott is one of those incredible Senior Yoga Teachers on the same par (if not above) some of the teachers you see at all those Yoga Conferences, and I count myself as a lucky duck for having her in Seattle to call my teacher.

[Warning: bragging about my teacher begins] She is the model for [...]