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State of the Union in Nikki Yoga News - March 2010

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

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 [...]

Midwinter 2010 Newsletter from Nikki

Here’s my newsletter that I just sent out, like, literally. If you didn’t get one in your inbox and would like one, please email me at nikki@nikkiyoga.com.

You can also view the web version of this newsletter.

Is this email looking funky wonky? No problems! You can view it in your trusty web browser.

Happy New Year, Once More! [...]

Interview with Seattle Yoga Teacher Dylan Noebels

Dylan Noebels is a fellow teacher at Taj Yoga. Last week, I sat down and interviewed him on how he became a yoga teacher, and his new Immersion series at the Taj, which starts Monday March 1st. You can reach him at dylann @ gmail.com

Also check out a short clip of the interview of me [...]

Yoga Student Teacher Prayer

This is a prayer that we chant before the Sanskrit/Philosophy/Pranayama portion with our teacher Kathryn Payne in the 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Pacific Yoga.

Sanskrit:
oṃ saha nāvavatu
saha nau bhunaktu
saha vīryaṃ karavāvahai
tejasvi nāvadhī tamastu mā vidviṣāvahai
oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ

English:
May we be protected together.
May we be nourished together.
May we create strength among one another.
May our [...]

The Meaning of Namaste

For a long time, I said Namaste after doing yoga in class. And then, for a little while, I didn’t say it, either as a student or as a teacher. My inner 5-year-old was rebelling, asking why? Why do we do this, why do we do that? Why did I pay to lay around? What’s [...]

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

If you are interested in a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program, I highly recommend checking out Pacific Yoga in Seattle. The next training is slated for February to October 2010, as I wrote about in a previous post.

Don’t live within a reasonable commute time from Seattle? The schedule has been modified to make it easier [...]

The Relevance of the Upanishads in Teaching Yoga

Alright, it’s Friday night, I just had a pint of espresso gelato, and I’ve got some Ingrid Michaelson playing to help me continue from the last conversation, how is the study of the Upanishads relevant to the contemporary study of yoga?

What role might the teachings [of the Upanishads] have in how you teach yoga?

First, I’d [...]

The Relevance of the Upanishads in Contemporary Yoga

How is the study of the Upanishads relevant to the contemporary study of yoga, and what role might the teachings have in how you teach yoga?

These are the questions to an essay for my teacher training, and I keep staring at them and the blank space below. Some very childish part of me wants to [...]

Business of Teaching – Yoga Teacher Bios

I’m reminiscing now, one late winter afternoon in my 200-hour teacher training, we sat around in a circle awaiting the handouts. The topic du jour was the Art and Business of Teaching, specifically, how to write your yoga teacher bio.

Our teachers, Theresa Elliott and Kathryn Payne, have been teaching for at least 20 years each, [...]