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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 [...]

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 [...]

Seattle Yoga Teacher Dylan Noebels on his Immersion Series at Taj Yoga

Here’s a short clip of me interviewing Dylan at Kuan Yin Tea House in Wallingford.

Virtual World Yoga Conference 2010

Yoga Conferences are big business. If you’ve had the fortune *and* misfortune of having been to one, you know that the experience can be both awesome and awful.

The Awesome part about Yoga Conferences is you get to check out a whole host of teachers in one location in a short amount of time. The Awful part [...]

Spiritual Paraphernalia - High Energetic Sand

In my last post I casually mentioned how interesting it would be to have a collection of spiritual paraphernalia. It was a passing thought, until I thought about it a little more, and said to myself, hey, why not?

So here we go, I present to you the first find: Energetic Sand from India. For only [...]

Yoga Journal Conference San Francisco 2010

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 [...]

Your Gym is a Terrible Place to Do Yoga – What Your Yoga Teacher Will Tell You, Part 3

This is part 3 of What Your Yoga Teacher Will Tell You, a response to the Smart Money article: 10 Things Your Yoga Teacher Won’t Tell You. Read Part 1 and Part 2.

6. “Your gym is a terrible place to do yoga.”

Not surprisingly, gyms have jumped on the yoga bandwagon. Although most gyms try to hire good [...]

Chanting the Gayatri Mantra

Here is a quick video of me chanting the Gayatri Mantra, something I did quite a bit after my bike accident.

You can follow along with the Sanskrit words here:

oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
tat savitur vareṇyaṃ
bhargo devasya dhīmahi
dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt

An Open Letter of Grace

One of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson, once wrote:

Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize.

To be here now; alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to [...]