Meet Nicole

I’m endlessly curious about what wakes us up to our own lives.

I want to understand what creates those rare experiences that actually reach us. Awe. Deep rest. Adventure. The moment something opens and we can suddenly see more possibility than we could before. I’ve spent much of my life seeking those experiences for myself, and much of my career learning how to create the conditions for other people to have them.

Sometimes that means lying completely still in a Restorative Yoga pose. Sometimes it means sleeping under the stars in the Sahara.

I love both.

That combination of stillness and exploration has shaped much of my life. I’m happiest when I’m outside, somewhere beautiful, with enough time to actually notice where I am. I read constantly, I’m usually planning my next trip, and I’ve built my life around having the time and space to pay attention to the beauty most of us walk past every day.

Travel has shaped me as much as anything I’ve formally studied. I’ve lived in Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, and Lebanon and traveled extensively, often solo, throughout the Middle East and North Africa. I’m fascinated by culture, by the forces that shape us without our realizing it, and by what happens to our minds, hearts, and assumptions when we leave what we know.

All of this finds its way into my work.

I’m a Behavioral Health Coach and Somatic Practitioner, yoga teacher, writer, and retreat leader. My coaching explores the gap between understanding ourselves and actually living differently. My teaching explores what becomes possible when we slow down enough to feel and notice. My retreats use travel, nature, practice, and awe to interrupt the automatic ways we move through our lives. And in The Drop, I write about the questions underneath all of it.

I teach regular Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra classes at Green Yogi in Berkeley and lead retreats in California and Morocco.

The settings change, but I’m always interested in the same thing: what helps us become more present, more awake, and more available to the lives we’re already living.

You can learn more about my training and professional background here.

The Fun Stuff

• Astrology: Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Rising, Virgo Moon
• Myers Briggs: INFJ-A
• Human Design: 1/3 Mental Projector
• Enneagram: 8 wing 9
• How to Fascinate: Secret Weapon
• VIA Strengths Finder: Love of Learning, Curiosity, Honesty, Creativity, Fairness