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Nicole Blackwood Yoga

Group and private yoga classes including Hatha, Flow, Gentle, Chair, Restorative, Prenatal, Postnata Registered Holistic Nutritionist.

Yoga Teacher - Aligned Hatha, Prenatal, and Baby & Me (Postnatal) at Embody Yoga & Wellness.

09/22/2025

Starting in two weeks! Join us or online. Recordings available for a week after the live class to practice at home.

Nourish, soothe, and honour the beautiful vessel that is doing the most amazing work of growing your baby.

A typical class includes seated, kneeling, and standing postures all designed to support your body during pregnancy and prepare your body for bringing baby into the world.

We also practice Supreme Release Yoga to release spinal and pelvic tension and restorative postures to rejuvenate.

Pranayama utilizing the breath and guided awareness practices help integrate your experience for holistic nourishment of your body, mind, and heart.

Classes also include pregnancy and birth education to help foster the connection to your innate wisdom for pregnancy, birth, and parenthood.

No previous yoga experience required. Suitable for moms 12 weeks through delivery.

Learn more and sign up at NicoleBlackwood.com/prenatalyoga (link in bio)

09/17/2025

A few spaces remaining in this 6-week series starting tomorrow Thursday, September 18, 1:15 PM .

Ease back into movement and reconnect with your body in a class focuses on mom’s postpartum wellness, incorporating babies into some poses to keep them engaged. We sing songs and include movements with the babies, creating a supportive environment alongside other new moms navigating the ups and downs of having a new baby.

No prior yoga experience is required. The class is designed for mothers who are at least six weeks postpartum and have received clearance for activity from their healthcare provider. If your baby is mobile, you’re still welcome to join; we trust moms to use their best judgment, as they may spend time attending to their little ones during the classes.

Learn more and sign up at NicoleBlackwood.com/postnatalyoga (link in bio)

09/16/2025

Soften the natural internal gripping that’s trying to keep you safe. Remind yourself that it is ok to release the hold and create more space to breathe.

Gather with us for Supreme Release Yoga starting tomorrow Tuesday, September 16, 7:15pm.

In person or via Zoom.

Link in profile.
NicoleBlackwood.com/supreme-release-yoga

09/04/2025

My experience informs how I teach. Instead of striving for an extreme outer shape, I direct students towards their inner experience, aligning themselves in a way that cultivates spaciousness and stability.

In Align & Release Yoga starting this Monday, we explore and play in standing and floor based postures along with gentle and restorative postures for spinal decompression. We often use yoga props to explore and deepen our experience.

We also devote time to soothing the nervous system through pranayama utilizing the breath and guided awareness.

You can try class as part of a 3 Class Discovery Pass .

Learn about all of our registration options at NicoleBlackwood.com/rates-and-register (Link in bio).

08/19/2025

The nourishing practice of Supreme Release Yoga (SRY) offers deep rejuvenation through an internal undoing of accumulated physical, mental, and emotional tension. By doing less, we turn our awareness inward, allowing ourselves to let go, surrender, and soften the habitual gripping that comes with the body’s natural stress response.

This gentle but very deep practice is especially beneficial for people with joint hypermobility/laxity, back and/or hip pain, full and busy lives, or an overall sense of depletion.

SRY incorporates supported yoga asana (postures) using yoga props and sometimes your hands and arms designed to position the body in specific angles that encourage inner alignment and deep muscular release—especially in the pelvis and spine. Creating spaciousness in these regions fosters a greater sense of stability, helping you feel more anchored within.

While this series is also offered online via Zoom, students joining from home will need to have the necessary props available. In-studio students will receive hands-on support from Nicole, and she may step away from the camera at times to provide this assistance. For those new to the practice, Nicole recommends attending in person. All classes are recorded and available for one week after the live session.

Learn more and sign up at NicoleBlackwood.com/supreme-release-yoga (link in bio)

08/05/2025

Ease back into movement and reconnect with your body through our 6-week Mom & Baby Postnatal Yoga series Embody Yoga & Wellness starting Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 1:15 PM.

This class focuses on mom's postpartum wellness, incorporating babies into some poses to keep them engaged. We sing songs and include movements with the babies, creating a supportive environment alongside other new moms navigating the ups and downs of having a new baby.

No prior yoga experience is required. The class is designed for mothers who are at least six weeks postpartum and have received clearance for activity from their healthcare provider. If your baby is mobile, you're still welcome to join; we trust moms to use their best judgment, as they may spend time attending to their little ones during the classes.

Learn more and sign up at NicoleBlackwood.com/postnatalyoga

07/29/2025

While yoga has been a meaningful part of my work in supporting others over the past decade, another practice has been unfolding behind the scenes — one that I am now in a place to share more fully.

My personal journey through digestive struggles was given the blanket “IBS” diagnosis in my 20’s which was a critical juncture in starting to make shifts to better care for myself. While I managed my attacks with medication throughout university, I knew my symptoms were messages from my body that something was off.

Over the years I learned that it was not only my diet that was leading to these symptoms but the impact of stress through a life of pushing, pleasing, and striving in a direction that was out of alignment with my nature and values.

Yoga became an integral part of caring for myself and tending to my nervous system. In finding a deeper connection with myself, I redirected my life down the path of living more “on purpose” and in alignment with my heart instead of what was socially expected.

I steeped myself in the yoga tradition and became certified as a yoga teacher, teaching one class a week while I kept my regular job. I deepened my knowledge of holistic nutrition and officially became a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN) with the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition.

During this time another challenge was unfolding. We could not get pregnant. I had done “all the things” to prepare and it had become all consuming. I wasn’t in a good place in life or in my corporate job and I decided to leave this career of eight years.

About 2.5 very trying years later our daughter was born, who we conceive through IVF. During this time I also “birthed” Embody Yoga & Wellness and have spent the past several years growing our supportive community while raising a tiny human.

Now I am feeling the pull to expand how I support others from a place that is rooted in personal experience and deepened through formal training. While I’ve been certified for more than three years, I’m now excited to devote more time to offering Nourish 1:1 Holistic Nutrition services to support others in living a vibrant and harmonious life — inside and out.

Learn more at NicoleBlackwood.com/nourish-one-to-one

07/24/2025

The nourishing practice of Supreme Release Yoga (SRY) offers deep rejuvenation through an internal undoing of accumulated physical, mental, and emotional tension. By doing less, we turn our awareness inward, allowing ourselves to let go, surrender, and soften the habitual gripping that comes with the body’s natural stress response.

This gentle but very deep practice is especially beneficial for people with joint hypermobility/laxity, back and/or hip pain, full and busy lives, or an overall sense of depletion.

SRY incorporates supported yoga asana (postures) using yoga props and sometimes your hands and arms designed to position the body in specific angles that encourage inner alignment and deep muscular release—especially in the pelvis and spine. Creating spaciousness in these regions fosters a greater sense of stability, helping you feel more anchored within.

While these pop-up classes are also offered online via Zoom, students joining from home will need to have the necessary props available. In-studio students will receive hands-on support from Nicole, and she may step away from the camera at times to provide this assistance. For those new to the practice, Nicole recommends attending in person. All classes are recorded and available for one week after the live session.

***There is a separate registration for each of the pop-up classes, allowing you to register for one pop-up class or both.***

Learn more and sign up at NicoleBlackwood.com/supreme-release-yoga

07/20/2025

I couldn’t work my way out of this one.

Part of my fertility struggles was unraveling beliefs that hard work = reward = worth.

It forced me to slow down (with much resistance).

It was catalyst for change in my life that was in deeper alignment with my heart instead of what was seen as outwardly successful.

It is why I’m so passionate about the work I do. To serve others who are in place where they are ready to reframe how they move through life in order to care for themselves deeply.

To honour their internal values instead of external validation.

This is why tending to your nervous system is woven into my holistic 1:1 nutrition and lifestyle Nourishment sessions. Embracing inner stability in order to care for and honour yourself deeply.

See link in profile for more.

NicoleBlackwood.com/nourish-one-to-one

02/20/2025

We spend much of our waking hours efforting, striving, achieving, and staying productive. While these fiery qualities are essential at times, living in this state for too long—or with too much intensity—can lead to depletion and burnout. For harmonious living, we must also allow ourselves to release effort, surrender, and receive deep nurturance.

In this SRY series, we will decompress the spine and nourish the pelvis, cultivating an inner landscape more receptive to letting go and rejuvenation. We will emphasize SRY postures that allow the body to be fully held, with minimal or no muscular effort. Through intentional angles and complete support, you’ll be guided into profound softening, deep release, and the freedom of effortless being.

While this series is also offered online via Zoom, students will need the necessary propping available at home. Additionally, Nicole will be providing hands-on support to the in studio students and will be leaving the camera view at times to do so. Nicole recommends new students to the practice to join in person. Classes are recorded and available for a week after the live class.

Learn more at sign up at nicoleblackwood.com/supreme-release-yoga (link in profile).

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10 Forbes Street
St. John's, NL
A1E3L5

Telephone

+17096995202

Website

http://www.nicoleblackwood.com/

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