Join Nikki for a weekend of specialized workshops + a master class designed to deepen your practice and understanding of healthy alignment and form in backbends, inversions and hip opening postures. Following the philosophy of Hatha Yoga, using the body as a tool for the spiritual practice, we will work on the pursuit of alignment and precision to quiet the mind and look for the self. All workshops are open to all levels and all bodies. Sign up for each workshop individually, or take this as a mini weekend training and sign up for all four

SATURDAY 12:30 - 2:30 PM - MASTER CLASS: 120 min JM Vinyasa inspired Master Class. JM Vinyasa is Nikki’s teacher, Jared Mccan’s style of vinyasa. It uses classical haha yoga postures, pranayama and meditation to create balance, strength and flexibility in the body and mind.

SATURDAY 3:30 - 5:30 PM - BACKBENDS: Expanding on Nikki’s Spinal Awakening workshop series, this workshop will use the same principles and techniques to explore deeper and healthy backbending postures and variations.

SUNDAY 12:30 - 2:30 PM - INVERSIONS: Understanding the vertical line as the premise for balancing upside down, this workshop will focus on finding the line first right side up in tadasana (mountain pose) and working to find it upside down in headstand and forearm stand. Those with a comfortable inversion practice can work on the handstand line as well. Beginners are welcome, no inversion experience is required.

SUNDAY 3:30 - 5:30 PM - HIPS: This last workshop will wind the body down with hip openers and forward bending postures, both active and passive. Expect a grounding practice with an extended savasana. 

About Nikki: Nikki believes yoga is a powerful tool for human evolution. A vinyasa certified teacher with 12 years of teaching experience and one of the lead teachers in Baby Cobra’s teacher training programs, Nikki’s teaching integrates elements from various yoga traditions and is focussed on alignment, precision and form. She studied under the mentorship of Jared McCann and under his guidance and coaching became the 2015 USA National Yoga Asana champion. Nikki's teaching often emphasizes backbending and flexibility training, helping students use proper technique to access their body's natural range of motion while developing a healthy approach towards flexibility. In addition to teaching, Nikki is a designer and circus artist regularly performing contortion and hair suspension.