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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 [...]

The Seed of Yoga

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

Honoring the Tradition

Up until recently, I had not paid very much attention to the idea of the yoga “lineage” or “tradition”, in the broad sense of the word.

I have nothing against it; I’ve just not felt any real kinship to any lineage or tradition. They all seem to have something good, something bad, and something in between, [...]

500-hour Teacher Training Begins!

This weekend marks the start of my 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Pacific Yoga in Seattle. My classmates have come from such diverse background and traditions, from Iyengar to Kripalu to Baptiste Vinyasa, and from all walks of life, as artists, scientists, builders, technologists…  

I found myself to be the youngest person in the group, [...]