Hi! My name is Nicole.

I’m a certified meditation and yoga teacher living in NYC.

I’ve been really blessed with amazing teachers in my life. Their kindness has immensely enhanced the way I experience the world. All I want to do now is share with others the same kindness they have shown me, and spend the rest of my days helping people.

I was born in beautiful and expansive Minnesota. I grew up in a land of 10,000 lakes, with pristine summer days spent swimming in crystal clear waters, running barefoot through the grass, feeding and making homes for tiny caterpillars to turn into butterflies, looking up at the vast starry night sky, and learning from the cycles of nature. Mother earth has been one of my great teachers, and I believe to be connected to earth is to be deeply connected to oneself. What is true and visible outside of us is also true deep within us.

Somewhere between my youth and young adulthood this glow about life was crowded out. I was unhappy and I didn’t know how to fix it, but I thought there had to be another way.

In 2013, with a little courage, I set out on a trip to sail around the world. It was here I received my first formal instruction in meditation from my teacher who was living on the ship with me. I was blessed with teachings in pristinely quiet zazen halls in Japan, remote monestaries in southeast asia, and with wild yogis in India. On a silent retreat in Myanmar with my teacher, my mind and world was radically opened. The crystal clear beauty and bliss all around and within was made visible to me again. Without realizing it, that awe and wonder I had known deeply as a child had slipped away in a slow building cloud of suffering. This meditation experience pierced through that. My mind had never been so clear, and my body had never felt so light. Meditation became a deeply important part of my life after this.

I now teach meditation, yoga, philosophy, and retreats to students around the world. I teach in-depth yoga philosophy, meditation programs, and yoga teacher trainings online with The Yoga Studies Institute, as well as in-person and virtually for Three Jewels.

I also teach private clients 1 on 1, corporate mediations, events, workshops, and monthly retreats in New York City!

Instagram: @nicole_autumn_

I hope we will have a chance to gather together. I would love to meet You.