YOGA. POWER, VINYASA, YIN, PRENATAL, UNIVERSAL, ASHTANGA. Transform your life one breath at a time Hi :)
I am Irina Novikova.
After 12 years in the software industry, I decided to trade in my corporate position to practice and teach yoga. The philosophies, pranayama, yamas, niyamas and meditation became tools to restructure my life, behavior, and way of thinking for the better. I bring my life experiences, authenticity and experience of living and power of practicing yoga in 4 countries around the globe along with the tools that have guided me in leading a healthier and happier life to my classes. I aim to serve others and inspire them to make every day healthy choices and live happier lifestyle with my passion of yoga. RYT-200 Yoga Alliance Certified yoga instructor for yin, power and vinyasa yoga.
03/13/2026
🌙 YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING MAY 2026
with Dikla Kafka & Pamela Chang
Something very special is coming to SolarYou.
A 50-hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training designed for practitioners who want to slow down, listen deeply, and understand the true intelligence of Yin practice.
✨ Functional anatomy
✨ Meridian theory
✨ Nervous system regulation
✨ Intelligent Yin sequencing
✨ Foundations of Taoist philosophy
During this training Dikla Kafka will introduce the philosophical foundations of Dao, helping students understand the deeper roots of Yin Yoga.
What makes this training unique is the SolarYou community.
Many trainees come from our own practitioners — creating a learning environment that is supportive, curious and deeply connected.
This is not just a training.
It’s an invitation to slow down and go deeper.
📍 SolarYou Yoga
📅 May 1–17
🎓 50-hour certification (can be applied towards 500 hours)
Spots are limited.
🔗 solaryouyoga.com/yinytt
03/05/2026
03/04/2026
Long awaited SOUND BATH with CAMERON NAGASHIMA this Saturday at 6pm (75 min)!
Give yourself a gift of feeling recharged and relaxed.
Just be... power down the phone... get quiet... just listen.
Only 6 spots are left! Get yours now: https://solaryouyoga.com/soundbath or call the studio (209) 676-5278 for group reservations.
All first timers to the studio receive 2 free yoga classes of their choice as a welcome gift from SolarYou Yoga.
03/04/2026
We’re celebrating our Solar You community with a fun little raffle! 🎉
If you love the studio, our teachers, or the way you feel after class — leave a Google review within the next two weeks and you’ll be entered to win prizes. Your words truly help others discover us (and they make our day, too). Let’s share the love! 💛
🟧 STEP 1: Share your voice on Google
Share a few words about the studio, our teachers, and what you personally gained or discovered practicing with us. Something that might inspire others to join our community. https://g.page/r/CV73jyB-1jN3EBM/review
🟧 STEP 2: Follow us on Instagram
Make sure you’re following our page so you don’t miss the announcement
🟧 STEP 3: Join us on March 5
We’ll go live and randomly draw the winners and their prizes during a special community livestream. Follow us on IG!
02/12/2026
✨ Yin Yoga with Live Classical Music ✨
An Elevated Afternoon Experience with and
📍 SolarYou Yoga
🗓 February 21
🕜 1:30 PM
Step into an afternoon of refinement, depth, and quiet beauty.
We invite you to a rare offering: Yin Yoga accompanied by live chamber music, where slow, intelligent practice meets the intimacy of classical performance.
The practice will be led by Pamela Chang who is one of the Eastside’s most respected teachers, known for her refined guidance, anatomical precision, and deeply restorative presence.
Live music will be performed by Trio Clara, with Dikla Kafka leading on violin creating a rich, resonant soundscape that gently unfolds as you soften into long-held postures.
Expect:
• intelligent sequencing
• spacious stillness
• live strings vibrating through the room
• a carefully curated, intimate setting
This is not a drop-in class.
It is a curated experience.
Allow yourself an afternoon of depth, elegance, and restoration.
02/05/2026
✨ Gong Bath & Meditation ✨ This Saturday Evening ✨6:30pm
Join us this Saturday for a deeply immersive 105 min Gong Bath & Meditation with WAYNE MARTO. Slow down, reset your nervous system, and sink into profound stillness.
Our space is known for having one of the best acoustics Wayne’s feedback. The sound doesn’t just surround you, it moves through you. Each vibration, each wave of sound supports deep release, clarity, and rest.
✔️ Peaceful, spacious environment
✔️ Exceptional acoustics for sound healing
✔️ Easy and convenient parking
✔️ A perfect way to close your week and enter the next one grounded and clear
🕕 Saturday | 6:30 PM
Come as you are. Lie down. Breathe. Let the sound do the work.
✨ Spots are limited — reserve yours and give yourself this evening of deep care.
Celebrate Lunar New Year in Mandarin at SolarYou Yoga 🧧✨
Even when you’re far from home, your traditions can live on. This Lunar New Year, we invite you to celebrate in your mother tongue, through movement, breath, and shared joy ✨ right here in Kirkland.
Join our Mandarin-speaking community for a special 90-minute Lunar New Year practice led by Jialing Wu and Ruian Yang. This festive class is designed to welcome the New Year with intention, vitality, and renewal blending mindful flow, grounding moments, and an uplifting, celebratory atmosphere.
🗓 February 6
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 SolarYou Yoga, Kirkland
Come move, breathe, smile, and celebrate together.
Welcome the New Year with openness, warmth, and the feeling of home wherever you are. Spots are limited so hurry up: solaryouyoga.com/chnlunar
01/20/2026
Backbend Alchemy is the unique event where you learn everything about basics of backbends, drills that prepare you body to safe heart opening practices and how to deepen safely your current backbends Unique event taught by a master of backbends Olivia Fleming!
Sign up here: solarouyoga.com/backbend
12/29/2025
108 Sun Salutations to welcome 2026: Spiritual completion and wholeness
We invite you to open the new year with us through the powerful ritual of 108 Sun Salutations, followed by grounding seated asanas and a peaceful mindfulness meditation practice.
This tradition is a beautiful way to reset, reconnect, and set the tone for a year filled with intentional movement, vibrant community, a clear mindset, and joy.
The practice will be co-led by Lara Ederer and Dikla Kafka, lead teachers of Solar You Yoga Studio and Viveka Yoga School, offering guidance, support, and encouragement for practitioners of all levels.
Bring a mat, small towel and a bottle filled with water.
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Irina Novikova is a former Microsoft Program Manager with 12 years of experience in the tech industry. During her time working in the corporate world Irina discovered and embraced the transformative benefits of a committed yoga practice. Irina spent countless hours working at a desk and during that time found that yoga helped bring the benefits of movement and health into her life. Because of this she knows what it means not to be able to reach your toes or come up to into wheel pose; She understands what it is like to suffer from low back pain and tight hamstrings. Posture, alignment, and joint safety, along with healing breath are her primary focus.
Irina grew up overseas and lived in 4 countries. She always loved dancing but had to follow a different path to help provide for her family. Her passion for movement never diminished, however, and over time she noticed that she was silently repeating yoga teachers’ instructions to herself in class and picturing herself being a teacher. At the age of 33 she left the software industry to become a yoga teacher.
Irina loves seeing her students grow! She offers different levels of poses in her classes so everyone has something to work on. She challenges her students to look inward to discover the best parts of their personality and shine them out to the world.
Irina has trained extensively with numerous teachers in countless styles of yoga in order to bring the very best quality yoga to her students. She is a Yoga Alliance certified 200E-RYT, 500-RYT, RPYT Instructor with additional Yin, Restorative and Prenatal Teacher certifications taught by leading yoga teachers in the west coast like Ali Valdez, Lisa Black, Jodi Boone, and Colette Crawford. Irina is also a 300hr Certified Baptiste Lead Instructor and she brings additional depth to her classes from Ana Forrest Advanced Teacher Certification.
In 2018 Irina completed teacher training with the world-renowned yoga master Andrey Lappa and dedicated her heart to his system of Universal Yoga. At this moment Irina became inspired to offer this practice to the Eastside community. In 2019 just two months prior to giving birth to her son, Irina rented a wonderful space that was built into a yoga studio called SolarYou Yoga.
Irina’s yoga practice, both personally and when teaching her classes, is inspired by the Universal Yoga system, which utilizes balance on all levels to help the practitioner to become conscious of and liberated from the constant patterning of the mind.
Irina believes that personal evolution is not only about changes within yourself but also necessary to help build and grow our surrounding environment.
Now Irina is aiming to share the art of yoga and healthy lifestyle with the Seattle and Eastside communities!
