Yoga Instruction with Nicoline Valkenberg

"When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to those around you and health and harmony to the world--not by withdrawing from the world but by being a healthy living organ of the body of humanity."- B.K.S Iyengar from "The Tree of Yoga"

Biography

Primarily a Vinyasa Yoga teacher, Nicoline approaches Vinyasa Yoga as connecting to a state of flow. Our inner world is in constant flux, where our own desires, needs and impulses are a moving river. Vinyasa is the practice of jumping into the river and moving with its currents. We don’t know where the next bend in the river will lead us, but through the practice of Asana (posture) we can learn to be more fluid in our bodies and our lives.

As a teacher Nicoline believes in cultivating a supportive space in which students feel safe enough to shed layers of inhibition and move to the beat of their own breath rhythm! Influenced by bothVinyasaYoga and alignment-based approaches, her classes utilize dynamic movement to find freedom and fluidity in the body, as well as more in-depth methodical work of asana to focus awareness more deeply in the body.

Nicoline first became certified to teach through the 200hr Kripalu teacher training led by Yoganand Michael Carroll.  She has since drawn from studies with various inspirational teachers, the most influential being Shiva Rea, and Barbara Benagh.