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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall - Using Mirrors in Yoga

Lately, I’ve been out and about with the Christmas and New Years Festivities, catching up with friends, reflecting on the old days, planning, hoping, dreaming for the days ahead.

One thing that would undoubtedly come up in the conversation is yoga. “How’s yoga going?”, is a popular question. “Do you teach hot yoga?”, is another popular [...]

Announcing the First Ever Sit-off, a Meditation Competition

Gentle blog readers of Yoga with Nikki Chau, can you hear it? The grumbling, the rumbling, the bottled-up shakti shakin’, the face-off of the century (so far) in the yoga world: is yoga a sport? Can it be competed? Can it be in the Summer Olympics? Hell, why not in the Winter Olympics too?

In the left [...]

Seattle Yoga News – Breathe Hot Yoga Slated to Open in South Lake Union

A couple weeks ago, I joked that “it’s gettin’ hot in hurr” when I wrote about Be Luminous, a new yoga studio opening in the Whole Foods complex in Denny Triangle in downtown Seattle. Little did I know how heated it really was going to be.

This afternoon I was talking to my friend Eric over [...]

10 Things Your Yoga Instructor *Will* Tell You, Part I

I recently read an article titled 10 Things Your Yoga Instructor Won’t Tell You from Smart Money Mag, and naturally have a thing or two to say. (Let’s forget for a moment the blind cowboy “buy now” advice, and that not everyone heeds their words, but I digress big time.)

(Caution, long post ahead, brew some tea [...]

Seattle Yoga News – Theft at Seattle Hot Yoga Studios

Seattle is getting colder, gloomier by the hour, and the rain has come back to resume its throne. In addition to pumpkin-spiced lattes by the fire and hibernating, a warm or even hot yoga studio sounds incredibly enticing to a lot of us, like a cat being drawn to a pile of warm laundry.

It’s perhaps [...]

The Pitfalls of a Health and Spiritual Quest

There are some things you can’t avoid, no matter how hard you try, like the alarm going off on Monday mornings, the saga of Jon and Kate plus 8, and the James Arthur Ray’s sweat lodge incident. I so very much actively ignored it, but it confronted me, so here are some of my thoughts [...]

Seattle Yoga News – One Less Bikram Studio On the East Side

I used to work on the Microsoft campus in Issaquah (18.5 miles East of downtown Seattle on I-90), and often made mad dashes to Hot Yoga of Issaquah to do yoga by 5:15pm. I still remember sweating like crazy even *before* I got in the heated room with the summer sun beating down on my [...]

Clearing Up the Ambiguity of Hot Yoga

When asked if I teach Hot Yoga, I often answer with a question, is it Hot aka Bikram yoga, or is it Hatha yoga done in a heated room?

Hot as in Bikram

Bikram yoga is composed of 26 poses done in 105 degree heat. Some studios and teachers call it Hot Yoga mainly to avoid litigation [...]

Seattle Yoga News – Less Bikram, More Studios

Rain City Yoga in the U-District has eliminated all Bikram yoga classes from their schedule, and the owners, Amber Tande and Colin Patterson are planning on opening Sutra Yoga and Wellness Center in Wallingford, next to their vegetarian restaurant Sutra on 45th street. The plan is to open by November 1st, 2009.

YogaLife owner Michael Suzerris [...]

Yoga Styles, According to YogaDawg

Oh YogaDawg, where have you been all my life?

This morning I discovered YogaDawg and literally howled with laughter as I clicked through the Yoga News Archive and Comics. (Ana Brett teaching yoga to Buddha, Patanjali, and Shakti? Why not?)

I totally admire the genius in the Yoga Schools and Styles descriptions, copied, cut, and quoted below for [...]