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Support Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Laura DeFreitas

Nikki Chau — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:09:03 +0000

I first got to know Laura DeFreitas about a year and a half ago when she became an independent yoga teacher and started teaching at Taj Yoga, where I teach now, and where I was doing my yoga teacher training with Pacific Yoga at the time. Wanting to support her new business, and as a [...]

Support Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Diana Bonyhadi

Nikki Chau — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:04:38 +0000

I met up with Diana Bonyhadi, a fellow graduate of Pacific Yoga Teacher Training, at Grimaldi’s, a great local coffee shop in Issaquah, Washington. Her husband showed up for a short minute to give her a kiss and shared a cookie with us, and was off to work, leave me to chat with her.

What made [...]

Let the Music Play

Nikki Chau — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:17:34 +0000

Sophomore year. 19 years old. I was studying in France. Traveling alone half the time. I had taken a night train to Milan to meet a boy (don’t ask). We were going to spend two weeks in Rome together. After breakfast, he put on some music and laid there on the couch. “What are you [...]

The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits

Nikki Chau — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:40:13 +0000

One of my favorite movies of all time is Before Sunrise, which I have seen so many times the disc is completely scratched up. One of the memorable scenes that seems to be permanently stuck in my mind is when Ethan Hawke’s character recites the poem As I Walked out One Evening by W.H. Auden.

‘The [...]

When One Door Closes

Nikki Chau — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:56:19 +0000

Last week I told you guys that a climbing gym where I had been teaching Yoga for Climbers decided to discontinue the program. As someone who enjoys synthesizing the two together big time, I was bummed for not having a place to share that with my fellow climbers and yoga practitioners.

Two days later, an awesome [...]

Adapting Your Yoga Asana Practice and Diet for Spring

Nikki Chau — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:29:49 +0000

Recently, I was contacted with an article submission for my blog. The author is none other than Melina Meza, an accomplished Seattle yoga teacher with 16+ years of experience under her belt.

From the bio on her website:

Melina has been teaching yoga full time at 8 Limbs Yoga Centers (Seattle, Washington) since 1997 and is the [...]

A Moment of Living in the Moment

Nikki Chau — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:42:19 +0000

I am writing this post with fast and furious fingers and sweaty palms, quite possibly from my morning coffee or the bright spring sunshine walloping all of Seattle right now. I am also experiencing a ginormous sense of overwhelm. Not overwhelm in the common sense of being eaten alive by to-do lists, but overwhelm in the [...]

Being a Yoga Teacher, Being an Entrepreneur

Nikki Chau — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:42:59 +0000

This is another post in the series I call New Yoga Teacher to New Yoga Teacher. It’s written specifically for… well, new yoga teachers, but I think it applies equally to anyone new to owning and operating their yoga business.

I came to this realization a couple months into being a brand new yoga teacher, and every [...]

Blind Items Yoga

Nikki Chau — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:57:50 +0000

In self reflection, I realized that I have developed a few traits over the years, like a certain sense of skepticism and snarkiness, all wrapped in a tongue in cheek live and let live perspective. I’d like to think that I can blame this on the years and years of reading websites like Gawker and [...]

Santosha, and Resistance and Acceptance

Nikki Chau — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:31:33 +0000

Talk about weird cosmic timing. I made a short video about Santosha a couple days ago, and today in my inbox, I received the latest blog post from Arnold Ilgner, the author of The Rock Warrior’s Way: Mental Training for Climbers about Resistance and Acceptance.

I absolutely enjoyed reading what Arnold had to say. He said [...]