My Story

“I didn’t always feel like I belonged in yoga spaces, now I create them.”

Hi! I’m Nisha.

My relationship with yoga began unexpectedly. I was a dancer required to take Yin yoga, an “exercise” I'd never heard of. Unlike today's classes, there were no props or music; just an instructor with a heavy accent cueing positions in a language I didn't recognize, a gong marking transitions between positions, and the uncomfortable silence that forced me to sit with my own thoughts.

When I stopped dancing, I stopped practicing yoga, or so I thought. Over a span of 30 years, I explored many forms from Ashtanga and Vinyasa to Bikram, Power, Yin, and Aerial. Each style taught me something new about movement and breath, but at the time I didn’t fully understand yoga, nor did I ever feel like I belonged. I wandered away many times, but yoga kept calling me back.

Why I Teach

Yoga transformed my relationship with my body and taught me how to move and be still in ways I never thought was possible. That personal transformation became a calling to help others discover their own freedom.

I teach because I believe in people's capacity to transform, just as I did. I understand what it feels like to be drawn to something that challenges everything you thought you knew about yourself, and to discover that true healing begins the moment you show up for yourself regardless of the narrative playing in your head.

What I Hold Sacred

“If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all. See God in all." - Yogi Bhajan

I believe everything is connected. The same breath that fills our lungs sustains every living creature. The elements that create fire and air in nature exist within our bodies. The quantum forces that govern the stars also guide the rhythm of our hearts. We are part of something magnificent and vast, and yoga helps us with this reality.