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Nikki Costello in Ladakh, India 2024 -photo credit Kelly Fogel Photography
Nikki Costello is an educator with 30+ years of teaching and training experience in Yoga and Meditation. She works at the intersection of social justice and Yoga with a focus on facilitating new models of embodied leadership. Nikki is a Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher (Level 3-CIYT) and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT). In 2013-2014, she was a contributing editor at Yoga Journal, writing the magazine’s “Basics Column,” and in 2016, Nikki was named one of the 100 Most Influential Teachers in America. She is the featured Iyengar Yoga teacher on GLO. Nikki holds an MA in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS, University of London and is currently a PhD student in Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Since 2020, Nikki has taught weekly online Yoga and Meditation classes at Nikki Costello | The Practice. Nikki is recognized as a thought leader in the global Yoga community and shares her wisdom and expertise in Yoga and meditation retreats around the world.
Building bridges through pedagogy and possibility
Like all true teachers, Nikki is at home in process and paradox. She asks the deeper question, never settling, always curious. She is a keen listener of self and others, building bridges in thought, pedagogy, and possibility. She connects past and future. Her work is boundless, brave, and easeful. She is wildly knowledgeable which makes her able to read any room and honor each student’s (person’s) capacity. Nikki leads by example, empowering others and creating a vast community of kindness. After teaching alongside Nikki for thirty years, she never ceases to astonish and inspire.
KATE WILSON | Drama Department at Julliard, Head of Voice
Credentials
The cornerstone of Nikki’s work rests on 30 years of study, practice and research:
Certified Level 3 Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT)
Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT)
Master of Arts with Distinction in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation, SOAS University of London
Trains annually in India with the Iyengar family since 2010
Studies with and assists her mentor Gulnaaz Dashti
Studies philosophical and scriptural texts and maintains a daily practice of meditation.
Nikki was a contributing editor at Yoga Journal, writing the magazine’s “Basics Column”
Nikki was named one of the 100 Most Influential Yoga Teachers in America
Nikki is recognized as a thought leader in the global yoga community
Nikki shares her wisdom and expertise in yoga and meditation retreats around the world.
Informed and thoughtful understanding
Nikki’s interest in yoga pedagogy finds expression in two major and effective ways. One is that she draws on her attentive study of foundational texts from the history of yoga as she brings to her teaching an informed and thoughtful understanding of the philosophies that support the practices of yoga and meditation today. And, in a deeply helpful and encouraging manner, she guides and supports her students toward their own increasingly sophisticated understanding and, importantly, of ways to apply that understanding effectively to their own practices.
WILLIAM K. MAHONEY, PhD | Professor of Religious Studies at Davidson College
An interwoven body of consciousness
We each have our own story, a reason, that led us toward an exploration of Yoga. However we began, cultivating a Yoga practice of one’s own, inspires self-knowledge, which is why I developed The Practice. The Practice is an ever-evolving curriculum for anyone who wishes to be empowered in the body, to relax into one’s natural state and to develop clarity toward one’s purpose.