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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, [...]

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall – Using Mirrors in Yoga

Nikki Chau — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:08:22 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:01:28 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:37:58 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:45:50 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:02:55 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:28:21 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:45:24 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:09:31 +0000

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

Nikki Chau — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:15:55 +0000

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 [...]