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Don’t Bite the Hook: A Lesson in Working with Anger

Nikki Chau — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:31:38 +0000

As some of you guys know, I’m on a Twitter/Facebook/Social Media diet. This month, I’m only checking whats-the-haps in the world once a week, on the weekend.

Today, as I had *just* signed on to Twitter, Waylon Lewis, the editor of Elephant Journal, sent out a tweet about the Yoga Eco Nissan ad featuring Tara Stiles. I [...]

The Day I Did “Real Yoga”

Nikki Chau — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:37:20 +0000

I have had a really hard day of traveling, starting off with a mobile boarding pass crashing, some poor planning on my part, some technology failure, long lines at the airport, missing a flight, working with the general anxiety of the consequences of running around worrying about the potential fees I’d have to pay, wondering [...]

The Value of Yoga and What We Are Willing to Pay For

Nikki Chau — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:43:45 +0000

The week before last week, something came through my inbox that made me cringe for about 10 seconds. It was a deal from LivingSocial, the wildly popular site where you can get one wickedly awesome deal daily. The deal was for 20 sessions of Bikram yoga for $20 at a Bikram Yoga studio in Shoreline, [...]

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. [...]

Brain Injuries, The Army, and Yoga

Nikki Chau — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:02:46 +0000

This past Wednesday evening, being early for my 6pm class, I sat in my car listening to NPR, totally engulfed in a story about soldiers with brain injuries being left behind: With Traumatic Brain Injuries, Soldiers Face Battle For Care.

Traumatic brain injury is considered the “signature injury” of soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. An [...]

Seattle Yoga News: Benefit Class at Santosha Yoga for Girls Rock! Seattle

Nikki Chau — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:21:36 +0000

Meghan Werner, a Seattle yoga teacher, is teaching a benefit yoga class at Santosha Yoga studio this Sunday, June 6 2010 at 2pm for Girls Rock! Seattle. GR!S is a non-profit organization dedicated to building positive self-esteem in girls and encouraging creative expression through music via their Rock ‘n’ Roll summer camps for girls & young [...]

Guns N’ Roses, Fame, Marketing, and Yoga

Nikki Chau — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:04:10 +0000

I had always figured the band name Guns N’ Roses was an arbitrary choice, depicting a certain image of a certain lifestyle and all that. Then, last week, I found out how they really got their name: it was from the names of the band members Axl Rose and Tracii Guns (hey, thanks Cary!). I [...]

Support Your Local Yoga Teacher

Nikki Chau — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:57:16 +0000

I’ve been giving this post a lot of munching, mulling, and milling. In other words, I’ve been procrastinating. It’s not because I don’t want to write about it, it’s because I keep convincing myself that I don’t have enough: not enough information, not enough well-thought out reasons, not enough cohesive call to action, etc. In [...]

Support Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Laura DeFreitas

Nikki Chau — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:09:03 +0000

I first got to know Laura DeFreitas about a year and a half ago when she became an independent yoga teacher and started teaching at Taj Yoga, where I teach now, and where I was doing my yoga teacher training with Pacific Yoga at the time. Wanting to support her new business, and as a [...]

Support Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Greg Owen

Nikki Chau — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:42:08 +0000

I first met Greg Owen at a Tias Little workshop in Seattle. I had been taking notes all day on my iPhone, making Greg curious enough to ask if I was really taking notes or just texting the whole time. After showing him how I took notes, my super duper tapping skillz impressed Greg so [...]