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Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 38 of Yoga Land. Today I talked to yoga teacher Nicki Estrada.

Nicki has more than 20 years of teaching experience under her belt

and she was the director of trainer development for yoga works

for more than seven years. So she's

supported and mentored a lot of teacher trainers. In full disclosure,

Niki is honestly, I think my first real yoga teacher. Many years ago

Nicki was teaching at the Yoga Shala in Noe Valley in San Francisco

and I went to her class regularly. I can't believe it now but I

think it was a class that started at 7.30 p.m. So I would go to work all day and

then I would grab a snack and then I would go to work all day and then I would grab a snack and then I would go to her class and I would get home at 9 o'clock and I would feel amazing.

And I would eat my dinner and it was Monday night and it started off my week really well.

Her class was the first class where I ever did Forearm Balance and I was just completely

mind-blown by that experience and it was a funny little studio where there was kind of a

platform that she stood up on and it was a pretty big space so there were at least

30 to 40 of us in that room and I just remember watching her on the platform and she just has this wonderful way about her where she has a commanding presence and you know that she knows her stuff and she is confident but she's also

incredibly relatable and down to earth. So a lot of you have written in about wanting advice on how to live your

yoga from the philosophical standpoint. I've gotten that question a lot. So I thought

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