Chanting the Gayatri Mantra
Here is a quick video of me chanting the Gayatri Mantra, something I did quite a bit after my bike accident. You can follow along with the Sanskrit words here: oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat...
View ArticleNikki Chau Video Blog Yoga Update
Happy December! Here’s some stuff I talk about in this vblog: + The Men Who Stare at Goats + 500-hr Teacher Training + Had an awesome Turkey gone Down Dog workshop!
View ArticleYoga Teachers are Humans Too
This is a video I made after my friend Carlo, the photographer behind the awesome pictures used in this site, asked me to write about how yoga teachers are imperfect like the rest of humanity.
View ArticleInterview with Yoga Teacher Dylan Noebels
Dylan Noebels is a fellow teacher at Taj Yoga. Last week, I sat down and interviewed him on how he became a yoga teacher, and his new Immersion series at the Taj, which starts Monday...
View ArticleGoal vs. Intention – Yoga Teacher to Yoga Teacher
This is another video in the New Yoga Teacher to New Yoga Teacher series, part of my work to support new yoga teachers. Here I talk about how to deal with both good days and...
View ArticleWhen One Door Closes
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...
View ArticleSupport Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Diana Bonyhadi
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...
View ArticleSupport Your Local Yoga Teacher – An Interview with Laura DeFreitas
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...
View ArticleRecap from Seattle Insight Meditation Society First 2011 Meeting
I went to the first meeting of 2011 held by the Seattle Insight Meditation Society (SIMS) last week. I typically don’t attend any group sit, with the rationale that inevitably, I wouldn’t be able to...
View ArticleWhat Yoga is Good For
Needless to say, yoga has been found to be pretty beneficial. Scientists have learned about a great deal about the benefits of yoga, and they’re still discovering new ones everyday. (Here is a list of...
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