About
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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Nico Luce
Practice Head-On
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.
Nico Luce
Soften Into Sleep
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.
Embodying Dharma
Flowing Through the Earth
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.
Embodying Dharma
Yield to Overcome: A Taoist Approach to Yin Yoga
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.
Embodying Dharma
Turning the Wheel of Samsara
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.
Skill in Action
Expression to Share
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.
Skill in Action
Integration to Embrace
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.
Skill in Action
Foundations to Connect
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.
Nico Luce
Light Me Up: Saucha and Purification
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.
Nico Luce
An Awakening Through Aparigraha
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.
Nico Luce
Give and Take: A Yoga Exploration of Asteya
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.
Nico Luce
Follow Your Bliss
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.
The Power of Choice
Walk Away
This practice is a moving dharma talk about letting go, infused with a core focused vinyasa sequence. Nico’s creative flow, deep wisdom, and soothing voice serve as a calm reminder that we have the power to choose our reality.
The Power of Choice
Change
Nico Luce takes us on a journey with the aim to change the things in our lives that we cannot, and do not want to, accept. A deep, strong, and stable backbending practice, part-two of our Power of Choice series ties vinyasa yoga and the hindu god Vishnu, to our personal power to make optimal choices.
The Power of Choice
Accept
Apply ancient yogic wisdom around the concept of acceptance in a new way as you rhythmically flow through expansive and strengthening sequences. We cannot always control life's circumstances, but we can choose how to respond to them.
Nico Luce
Man on the Moon
Yin Yoga is all about moving into stillness and finding peace within ourselves, right at the center of our being. Begin with a guided meditation, then move into a series of yin poses where each pose is held 3-5 minutes. Get ready to take it down and chill. Delve into the deep teachings of the Tao Te Ching and explore concepts such as "acting without doing and working without effort."
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