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About Yoga Teacher Nick Wilson
“Nick Wilson studied several important Vinyasakrama sequences with me. He has a very genuine interest in Yoga and approaches yoga with great commitment. I wish him well in his efforts to help others with his experience as a sincere Yogi.” Srivatsa Ramaswami Author of Yoga for the Three Stages Of Life, The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga and Yoga Beneath the Surface.
Nick has worked extensively in a wide variety of situations. Community Education programs as a certified teacher as well as teaching students in secondary schools, including working at Mangere College with “at risk” students at the Achievement Centre, Programs for the elderly and infirm have also been carried out. Nick has taught a yoga program at the University Of Auckland School Of Medicine, corporate lunchtime yoga at TVNZ and worked extensively in gym situations including running the yoga program at Body-Tech for two years as well as independent yoga studios. Nick has also worked extensively in private situations as a yoga therapist and running in house private yoga groups. He has international teaching certificates in yoga therapy from both the Krishnamarcharya Yoga Mandiram and Svastha Yoga both in India as well as Heart of Yoga International Certification.
“Nick has unearthed the essence of yoga practice. In his commitment to teaching an authentic yoga he has explored and investigated various avenues including the sincere students of the great Krishnamacharya; TKV Desikachar, AG Mohan and Srivatsa Ramaswami. His work in developing The Heart of Yoga Teaching Manual provided the basis for the technical section in my book. He really cares about people and understands how to apply yoga practice to each individual. He can help you, no matter your situation, practice an authentic, pleasurable yoga.” Mark Whitwell / Director of Heart of Yoga Association International & author of Yoga of Heart
Nick has practiced yoga since the mid-seventies. Having read a small book by T.K.V. Desikachar about the yoga life of his father, Professor T. Krishnamacharya he managed to find a teacher familiar with this approach, Bernadette Rae who was linked into the Krisnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, a yoga institute founded by Desikachar and A.G.Mohan to present the work of Krishnamacharya to a wider audience in the later part of his life. Through Burnadette he also worked with Anne Brice and was part of the yoga group that worked with the approach of Desikarchar in New Zealand at that time. Attending yoga sessions at the Heart of Yoga studio with Mark Whitwell Nick delved in a more open and expansive attitude to the practice of yoga and he began teaching with Marks guidance. Mark left for America, various projects were developed under the banner of Heart of Yoga, and I Nick embarked into a comprehensive investigation into yoga which would lead him to studying under Desikachar, albeit very briefly, and studying yoga therapy at the Krisnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. In this period he worked with D.V. Sridhar who was then part of the faculty at the K.Y.M. This was, for him, a more significant interchange than the association with Desikachar. The next facet of the journey was meeting and working with Srivatsa Ramaswami the longest term student of Krisnamacharya whom Ramaswami had met as a youth. Nick studied privately, daily for about a month or so. Strong emphasis was given to vinyasa krama. Studies and practice were carried out in the room which Krishnamacharya had taught Ramaswami’s whole family. A connection with A.G.Mohan was also made and this would prove to be the long term guidance that would help define his future yoga journey. Various studies over the past 16 years have been undertaken with the Mohan’s a lot of it with Ganesh Mohan. Nick remains fully committed to daily yoga practice and encouraging others to take advantage of the tools of yoga to help them on life’s journey.