Mostly wife and mother, sometimes lawyer, sort of environmentalist and a constant student. Nikki started practicing yoga for physical reasons, to get back into shape after giving birth to her 2nd daughter. Nikki believes that each person, from birth to death, is continuously evolving, influenced by family, friends and experience. Her yoga practice has evolved from being a physical exercise to mental liberation from the stress of everyday work life.

A trip to India, a few intense yoga workshops and a desire to learn more prompted her to take a yoga teacher training course in Kerala, India. At the ashram, she saw that her fellow students were drawn to yoga for different reasons, from curiosity to those with deliberate intentions; when each one left, they were still different people with different reasons for being, but more aware of themselves and of others. The beauty of awareness and the fearlessness of embracing change are the lessons she wants to share.

Nikki attributes the positive evolution in her yoga practice to her teachers, PioBaquiran, who introduced and still guides her through the benefits of yoga practice; Nicole Serrano and Monique Borja, who are constantly encouraging her to learn; Cat Alip-Douglas, Desiree Rumbaugh and Bryan Kest, who has kept her yearning for more; and of course the teachers at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram, who taught her the foundations to teach yoga.