Yoga with Nikki Chau

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 [...]

Finders, Minders, and Grinders – More on Being a Yoga Teacher and Entrepreneur

Nikki Chau — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:37:09 +0000

This morning in my Technorati twitter feed came this post: Three Personality Types that Help Drive Business.

I’m not a big fan of the terms the author used. (Last I checked no one enjoyed “the daily grind.” Who wants to be considered a “grinder”?) But the post is so pertinent to what I wrote last night [...]

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 [...]

State of The Union in Nikki Yoga News, March 2010

Nikki Chau — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:05:39 +0000

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 [...]

Four by Four, Sit by Sit

Nikki Chau — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:25:50 +0000

Alright, it’s March! That means the First Nikki Challenge 28-Day Sit-off Meditation Competition is ovar! How’d it go for you? As you recall the rules were minimal. All I asked was for you to sit. That’s it! 60 seconds, 60 minutes, it didn’t matter. The goal was to create a habit, and as all of us [...]

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 [...]

Feel All Emotions

Nikki Chau — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:05:23 +0000

I have been reading A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life by Judith Lasater since December 2007 (thank you, Amazon Orders History). Every time I read the daily entry, I get a new perspective and insight.

Today, February 27, the entry reads:

If you want to embrace the light, you must also [...]

Seattle Yoga News – Studio Closing, Opening, and Name Changing

Nikki Chau — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:16:55 +0000

The Yoga studio scene in Seattle is seeing some changes as we transition from February to March.

+ Om Yoga of Redmond is closing its doors after 2 years. Owner Karen Herold is an amazing woman for having a full time executive job, coaching her daughters’ sports teams, and of course, teaching and running a small [...]

The 2nd Niyama: Santosha

Nikki Chau — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:16:46 +0000

Last night in class I put my students in a Restorative Yoga pose. I asked that the students let their mind stay in their body. One strategy to do so is to hang on to something you can hear or feel, such as the breath and sensations in the body.

It was especially noisy outside the [...]