Nicole Mikula, B.Com.: Founder and owner of Alchymia Centre Inc.,
Meditation and Yoga teacher
Member of Kripalu Yoga teacher's association (KYTA) since 2009
Professional Liability Insurance provided with Lacker McLennan Insurance

I am a yoga and meditation teacher. I completed my medicine wheel training with the Four Winds Society and studied directly with international Shaman Alberto Villoldo from 2007 to 2008. In 2008, I founded Alchymia Centre Inc. as a vehicle to promote a holistic path to health and wellness. In the summer of 2009, I became certififed as a Kripalu Yoga Teacher to combine postures and breath work with energy work.
 
I am passionate about teaching people about energy and how energy moves within and around the body. I teach Kripalu yoga to adults, I teach yoga to children through my children's program called "yoga fun" that incorporates yoga and games .I host a radio show on blogtalkradio and write a weekly blog for Female Fundamentals; the blog for women who love to live as well as for my blog site Stepping into consciousness; all about tapping into joy and inspiration.

I am currently working on a book entitled "Stepping into Consciousness: a guide to living a life of joy, meaning & abundance".  My interests include yoga, skiing, riding, hiking, snowshoeing, meditating, gardening, reading and enjoying time with my husband and three beautiful daughters. I am preparing to begin my 500 hour yoga teacher training certification at kripalu in 2011.

Prior to teaching yoga and meditation. I attended Villa Ste Marcelline, College Jean de Brebeuf  and then Concordia University, where I completed a bachelor of Commerce. I worked in human resources for an engineering firm for several years before my children were born. 

From 1992 to 2000, when my children were young, I was involved in a number of community and charitable organisations, including founding a playgroup for mothers and children in the Church of St. Andrew's and St. Paul's in Montreal, organizing art and pilates workshops in the town where we lived in England and sitting on various ball committess for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the McCord Museum back in Montreal.

From 2006 to 2008, I sat on the board of the Batshaw Foundation and later became its president from  2007 to 2008. I hosted a tribute for Manny Batshaw with the Batshaw Foundation in 2007. 

Please see below the list of classes and training I have taken as well as the classes, workshops and talks I have given. 
 
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training: 200 hours certification completed July 2009

Additional Training:
2011
PranaVayu yoga  with Kevan Gale, Inspired Yoga, Vermont - September 2011 - 9 continuing education credits
Breath, bandhas and beyond with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman, Kripalu Center, Massachussets - March 2011

Scheduled:
Burlington Yoga Conference, Burlington - April 2011
500 hr yoga teacher certification - module 2: August 2011


2010
Primordial Sound meditation workshop with Isabelle Moreau, Chopra center - April 2010
Hay House "I can do it " conference: Toronto - May 2010 
Hay House "Movers and Shakers" conference: Toronto - September 2010
Earthkeepers gathering: New York - October 2010

2009
MerKabah meditation and the Flower of Life workshop with Reinea Winter: Montreal - February 2009
Advanced awareness skills with Brian Osborne: Connecticut, USA -March 2009
Earth, Sky, Heart workshop with Drunvalo Melchizedek: Jouvence, Quebec - April 2009

2008
Healing the light body sessions 3 &4: Omega Center, New York - March 2008 & September 2008
2 week trip to Peru: June 2008
Working with the Sacred master class: Omega Centre, New York - October 2008
Shaktipat meditation 12 week course with Stephen Sadleir through the Self Awareness Institute: Fall 2008

2007
Energetic Boundaries with Julia Cohen: Kripalu, Massachussets - January 2007
Healing the Light body sessions 1 & 2:  Kripalu, Massachussets - April 2007 & September 2007
Munay-Ki master class: Kripalu, Massachussets - June 2007
Sacred feminine with A. Villoldo and M. Lobos: Kripalu, Massachussets - August 2007

Classes and workshops, I have given:

2011: winter - spring  session
Yoga fun for children ages 8 to 12yrs, on Thursdays from 4.15 to 4.45 at westmount recreation:
January to March-10 weeks in winter and April to June - 10 weeks in spring
Kripalu yoga Tuesday and thursday 12 to 1pm for employees of the city of Westmount
Meditation makeover program, thursdays from 9 to 10 am for 8 weeks- january to march 2011

2010:
children: Yoga fun on Thursdays from September to december 2010weekly yoga classes fro Westmount Recreation: 10 weeks
Adults: Tuesday lunch from September  to December 2010weekly yoga classes fro Westmount Recreation: 10 weeks
2 hour conference: "From Success to Serenity" with Dr. Catherine Cloutier, P.h.D: May 18, at the MAA, 2070 Peel in Montreal

2009:
2 Evening healing ceremonies: "Munay-ki, candlelight and beautiful music": November 16, 30, 2009 - at Equilibrium yoga
10 weekly meditation classes: Wednesday from 10 to 11am - January to April 2009
8 week Children's yoga fun for ages 8 to 12yrs : "Living in the heart- a child's birthright": From January to April 2009

2008:
4 week "I can do it" workshops for children 8 to 12 yrs: November 2008 at the MAA, 2070 peel in Montreal

2007:
2 Spring workshops: "healing and sandpaintings": May 2007 



"I TRUST IN THE LOVING HEART OF THE UNIVERSE" unknown

 " WHAT HAPPENS TO A MAN IS LESS SIGNIFICANT THAN WHAT HAPPENS WITHIN HIM" Louis L. Mann

"SOME MEN SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE AND SAY 'WHY? 'I DREAM THINGS THAT NEVER WERE AND SAY, 'WHY NOT?'"
 1968 - Edward Kennedy