Nico Luce

Nico Luce

Nico offers practices with a sense of humor and levity infused with his experiences as a long-time world traveler and global citizen. Nico is certified to teach vinyasa, restorative, yin, and ashtanga yoga styles, as well as meditation and Pilates. Practitioners can expect physically and spiritually challenging vinyasa practices and sweet slow practices infused with the deep wisdom of yogic philosophy. Nico fell in love with the way yoga aligns the mind, body, and soul and began teaching yoga for the joy of it. Now, he teaches with a focus on embodying spirit. Nico finds joy in the simple pleasures from his current home of Switzerland - the sweetness in being physically exhausted, snacking on toast with peanut butter and jam, and the power of a good night’s rest. Discover more about Nico: https://www.nicoluce.com/

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Get grounded in this slow-paced practice focused on your hips. Through gentle floor-based hip openers, spinal movements, and twists, you will find an easy seat leaving you calm, steady, and peaceful.
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Fire up and shift your perspective in this energizing practice building to variations of transitions into forearm stand, aka peacock feather pose. Start with standing shoulder movements, core strengthening, and leg warm-ups to spark activation in your muscles. Move down to the mat to practice the shoulder integration needed to get upside down and boost your energy for the day.
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For yoga teachers, learn the step-by-step biomechanics to teach and practice wild thing, a fun and empowering backbend. Warm-up your body through shoulder integration, an invigorating flow of sun salutations, larger one-legged balancing poses, and a warrior-based flow to find added strength and stability.
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Release tension, restore mental balance, and become more grounded with this short pranayama (breathwork) practice. Explore three accessible breathing techniques: ujayi (victorious) breath seated on your shins, nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) in sukhasana (easy seat), and three-part breath in supta baddha konasana (reclined bound angle pose).
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Backbends ultimately teach us to move forward in life with an open attitude. Work into a variety of squatting, lunging, and twisting postures to build strength in your legs and core in preparation for backbending. Travel to your mat for belly down spine strengthening and a playful exploration of one-legged down dog variations then close out your practice with an expansive heart opener in camel pose.
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Long travel days often involve hours of sitting still. Work through shoulder and hip openers and a short standing series of poses to decompress and find ease in your body.
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To challenge "head-on" means choosing to deal with obstacle directly with determination. Travel through a gentle class of common standing poses and integrate your shoulders and core in a confident way to prepare step-by-step toward supported headstand.
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Find ease and peace in this four posture yin practice to help end the day in a soft way. Use sustained holds and gentle breathing to enter into a calm, sleep-ready state.
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Embodying Dharma
Sync with the pulse of Mother Earth in this grounding flow of seated postures. Begin with an earth salutation sequence, and then continue warming up while connecting with the fire energy.
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Embodying Dharma
Yin yoga is all about moving into stillness and making peace with whatever arises in the present moment. In this class, we'll call in the rich Taoist philosophy taught in the Tao Te Ching and integrate some of the deep teachings of this masterpiece both on and off the mat.
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Embodying Dharma
The Buddha himself left behind a powerful image known as the Wheel of Samsara, illustrating the impermanence of all things and the fluctuations of our emotional self. In this quiet yin practice, explore the meaning of this image and internalize its profound teachings as we hold seated hip-openers and meditate on the feelings that arise.
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Skill in Action
Challenge your stability and alignment in this energizing and uplifting practice. Focus on the harmonious expression of balancing poses, twists, flow, arm balances, and backbends such as wild thing and upward facing bow pose.
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Skill in Action
Embrace core integration to explore backbends and arm balances in this carefully composed vinyasa class. This practice will help you learn the muscular action necessary to bring controlled power to all of your asanas. Begin with kapalabhati (skull-shining) breath to create heat, then move through hamstring opening and twists in preparation for variations of side crow and hurdler's pose.
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Skill in Action
An enlightened asana practice that will draw your awareness to your physical foundation as you work through poses like forward folds and balancing postures. Adding in these key biomechanical principles allows you to feel a deeper sense of stability in your practice and in your life.
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Explore the intensity of your inner flame through the practice of purification and cleansing. Find the opposing actions in grounded hip- and shoulder-openers such as cow face pose, forward bends, and twists. Close in a restorative heart opener to balance the mind, body, and spirit.
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Practice the art of letting go (Aparigraha) and create more space in your life for exciting new adventures. Join Nico Luce in this unique Vinyasa practice where you will move slowly from pose to pose without the aid of your sight.
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Embody asteya (non-stealing) by trading effort for sensitivity and balancing intensity with sensory perception in this steady and mindful practice. Experience strong standing postures, twists, and hip- and shoulder-openers to support deeper backbends such as wild thing and king pigeon variation.
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Nico Luce guides this challenging vinyasa practice. Unearth your radiant gem as you dig through forward bends and balancing poses to remember what you are really made off.