Nicole Sciacca

In episode 11 of the Downward Facing Spiritual Spiral, I am excited to welcome Nicole Sciacca to the podcast. After speaking with Nicole for close to two hours, I felt energized and inspired by her contagious and positive energy. Nicole is a yoga teacher in Los Angeles and while she teaches regularly at Playlist and Equinox, she is the first to admit she is not only a teacher, but always a student constantly asking questions and seeking more knowledge. She is always on the lookout for new sources of wisdom to add to her life. 

 

In this week's New York Times, writer Gillian Flynn said, "There are those of us who want to look under the rock and there are those who always avoid looking underneath the rock." From a young age, Nicole was never afraid to "look underneath the rock" examining life head-on so she and I will have a candid conversation about her childhood, growing up in Alabama and her passion for dance. We'll talk about the current state of yoga and the issues with Instagram and specifically Alo Yoga and the negative impact these platforms are having on the yoga culture. She'll talk about how she first found yoga while living in Los Angeles as a professional dancer and how an injury took her out of the dancing world towards the path of yoga.

 

Nicole's classes emphasize the spiritual and the physical and she does it in a way that is intelligent, sensitive and precise. She spent years studying the practice of yoga and has recently included an emphasis on mobility and functional movements of the body. This shift can be attributed to meeting Hunter Cook, a mobility specialist based in Long Beach, CA. Hunter is a true expert in mobility, FRC and Kinesiology so she'll talk about how Hunter became her mentor and a huge influence on the way she now looks at the body and approaches yoga.  

 

Nicole will share her insight on Instagram and marketing and how to stand out from the crowd in a real and authentic way. She will also share her experience as a mom raising a 5 year old son in this Instagram crazed world. Nicole's warmth, commitment and compassion is truly a gift to not only the yoga community, but the people she comes in contact with every single day. After speaking with her, I felt energized and inspired to try and live a deeper and fuller life. She should be a role model for so many of us. Enjoy this week's show.