"Compare the serene and simple splendor of a rose in bloom with the tensions and restlessness of your life.

The rose has a gift you lack; it is perfectly content to be itself. It has not been programmed from birth as you have been, to be dissatisfied with itself, so it has not the slightest urge to be anything other than it is.
That is why it possesses the artless grace and absence of inner conflict that among humans is only found in little children and mystics."
- Anthony Demello, The Way To Love

Nikki Estrada discovered yoga in 1993 while in college at UC Santa Barbara. Her passion for yoga led her to India shortly thereafter where she practiced ashtanga yoga under Pattabhi Jois for three months. She studied and teacher trained with Erich Schiffmann and Sarah Powers. Since that time she has trained with teachers from many disciplines including Vini Yoga, Iyengar Yoga and Anusara Yoga. Her current work is in Tantra. Nikki’s Vinyasa based classes are a synthesis of her years of dedicated yogic study and personal experience with an emphasis on intelligent alignment, meditation and living life more joyfully!

She continues to teach classes and advanced workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area and has recently joined forces with reputable YogaWorks to lead their 200 hour Teacher Training Programs in Marin and San Francisco.

Her real passion for the yoga practice comes from a synthesis of all of these disciplines not just one form of the practice.

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