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Greetings friends, family and yoga enthusiasts!
It’s been awhile since you’ve heard from me, I know. But I promise - there are some valid reasons for my absence.
The last year has been very full.
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Last Fall & Winter I was tasked with the honor of leading an incredible group of yoga teachers through a 200 hour teacher training with my dear friend and partner-in-all things adventure and yoga, Jessica Winters.
Our Fall/Winter 200 Hour Cohort. An amazing group of thoughtful, dedicated yogis that I had an absolute pleasure training.
This past Spring, I branched out in my adventure skills world and took on the challenge of leading 6th and 7th graders in outdoor adventures, and then got to practice yoga waterside with a bunch of young-at-heart adults white water rafting the Salmon River and Sea Kayaking in the Salish Sea this summer with Wilderness Adventure Yoga.
Sea Kayaking the Salish Sea. My first time in a sea kayak AND we were gifted with an Orca sighting on this trip!
I’ve continued to teach when in Seattle at Junction Hot Yoga and am eternally grateful for the space and opportunity to lead group classes that the team there has offered me over the last several years. (Side note: They were recently named one of the Top 3 Yoga Studios in the Pacific Northwest - a huge and very well deserved honor!!!). In Montana, Nate and I are slowly working towards developing our slice of heaven in the woods and there is a sweet community that gathers the First Friday of the month at the Trego Pub to hold sangha and move together. There are quite a few wonderful yoga teachers in our small corner of Northwestern Montana and I can’t help but dream about the future retreats we will hold there.
The first of many cabin platforms to be built at Trego Ledges, the future retreat home of Yogabird Studios.
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Facebook memories reminded me last month that it was my anniversary of my first entrance into yoga 13 years ago. A groupon purchase turned into a regular practice turned into a lifestyle. It took me about 2 years of practice to know I wanted to teach and it’s now been a decade of teaching, learning and sharing my knowledge with others. If you are receiving this email, it is because our paths have crossed over this 13 year yoga journey of mine and I thank you for that. In reflecting on my tenure in yoga, I reminisced about the first few classes I taught and how some of you on this email list were in the room that day. I think fondly of a student turned dear friend who practiced with me while she was pregnant with her son and how he is now entering 2nd grade. I remember the first time I volunteered in an Adaptive Yoga Class and the immediate ‘yes’ I felt when asked if I would step into a leadership role with the organization. I recall with deep gratitude those of you who showed up every week online and in the front yard of my South Seattle home as we navigated a global pandemic. Resiliency through change is certainly something our yoga practice has helped us all with and I’m honored to have shared and been witness to our individual and collective resiliency.
And now, as we arrive in another Fall Season, one that suggests finding balance and securing values, it is time for me to make another big shift. While I intend on teaching yoga for the rest of my life, my work will be taking a slight detour for the next bit of time. Nate and I are excited to be bringing a new life into the world! Our baby boy will be arriving mid-November and with his birth will come my greatest transition and biggest career change of all as I become a mother.
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While this might seem like a goodbye note, it is not. I have a few more group classes before I make my way to Montana where I plan to deliver our son and nestle in with Nate for the next few months as we figure out how to be parents. We’ll continue our nomadic life in Moab, Utah for the rest of the Winter. For those of you in Seattle, I hope you’ll come visit me at Junction Hot Yoga in West Seattle this week. For those interested in what will be happening with Adaptive Yoga, I have some incredible teachers filling in for me while I’m on maternity leave. I plan to return to online teaching in January.
Scroll below to get all the details for what is coming, and then hit reply and let me know how YOU are doing! I’d love to hear from you - or even better see you in class over the next few days as I bid farewell to Seattle (for now;)
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Upcoming Events + Schedule!
Please visit my website to learn more about these offerings!
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Thursday October 19th - 4:30pm Vinyasa, 6pm Hatha
Sunday October 22nd - 9:30am
Tuesday October 24th - 4:30pm Vinyasa, 6pm Hatha
My last day of group class teaching in the Seattle area will be October 24th
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Please Note: This class meets online, no registration is necessary.
Click HERE to access the zoom links
Mondays @ 6pm
My last day of online teaching will be October 27th
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Warmly,
Nicole
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