Nichole Golden

Nichole Golden

Nichole’s teachings stand out for their delicate balance of sweetness and the call to find depth within yourself. With over a decade of teaching experience, Nichole holds teaching certifications in vinyasa and perinatal styles and is a credentialed meditation teacher. She is also a certified birth doula and Reiki practitioner. With a presence that is both graceful and commanding, Nichole believes that transformation occurs with integrated movement alongside self-reflection. Her mission as a yoga and meditation teacher is to awaken the world to the goodness inside everyone. Along her teaching journey, she has become a passionate advocate, supporting mental health awareness and the needs of women through yoga and meditation philosophy. When practicing alongside Nichole, expect invitations to listen to your heart’s intentions while focusing on the breath, physical alignment, and gratitude. Nichole loves exploring all of the magic that nature offers with her daughter and husband near their Colorado home. Discover more about Nichole: http://www.nicholegolden.com/

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Yoga Every Day
The principle of non-harming (ahimsa) explands to the Earth and all her flora and fauna. Experience a gentle practice seasoned with poses that have Earth or animal names, such as tree pose and cow-face pose to help connect to the essence of the other-than-human world.
Yoga Every Day
Ahimsa, defined as non-violence, is a principle from The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali. Enjoy a simple practice to open your hips and knees while you focus on compassion in action, which is an aspect of ahimsa.
Yoga Every Day
Speaking non-harmfully (ahimsa) is so important and so needed in our world today. We must rise to the challenge of communicating honestly but always thoughtfully. Explore using speech as a way to spread love as we focus on the throat chakra, the energetic home of communication in the body and backbends such as camel pose (ustrasana).
Yoga Every Day
Long holds in poses that are a bit challenging give you the chance to reflect on and choose your thoughts. Choosing kind thoughts is part of ahimsa (non-violence) from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
Yoga Every Day
The way we treat the external world is a true reflection of the way we treat our own self. Non-harming (ahimsa) is first and foremost to be applied to self and it clear in this practice that encourages us to be kind to our bodies.
Yoga Every Day
Embody the fruits of eternal commitment to constant renewal. This practice allows us to explore our personal edge and attempt a challenging arm balance while staying curious about where we have come from and where we have yet to go.
Yoga Every Day
Create space and ease within the body with chest- and shoulder-openers. Allow spaciousness through your heart beginning on your back, moving to a short standing series, and then to several belly-down chest openers.
Yoga Every Day
Unlock blocks and create space in areas of the body that hold a lot of tension such as the shoulders and hips. Find physical and mental comfort in poses that ask for softness.
Yoga Every Day
Explore broadening the boundaries of your body and mind so that you can physically feel your ability to stretch into your limitations. Practice a series of poses focusing on opening the hamstrings and working towards hanumanasana (full splits).
Yoga Every Day
Focus on poses that physically churn the body to wring out stuck energy and clear out old, un-useful tendencies that tie us down emotionally and clog our inner pathways.
Yoga Every Day
Apply your integrated inner awareness into the outer world. This whole body sequence encourages us to expand out while keeping our internal connection.
Yoga Every Day
Practice balance, build strength, and open your heart with poses like half moon (ardha chandrasana) and half frog (ardha bhekasana). This practice will help to digest and assimilate newfound insights that have been accumulated through the study of self-inquiry into the body and the mind.
Yoga Every Day
Practice some challenging balancing poses as you reflect on your inner experience.
Yoga Every Day
Work on taking the seat of the witness by using hamstring stretches, such as wide-leg forward fold (prasarita) and twists. Allow observation of “what is” without judgment or attachment to a theory or a story.
Yoga Every Day
Create a container of concentration (dharana). Through a series of lunges, forward bends, backbends, and breath work, allow the practice to become a moving meditation, training our often scattered minds to be held steadfast and improving our ability to focus.
Yoga Every Day
Explore freedom from one of the root causes of suffering through this practice: abhinivesha (the fear of death/ending). This klesha (root cause of suffering) can be interpreted as mistaking the impermanent for the permanent. Move through backbends, strengthening posttures, and breath work before a restful close in savasana.