Hi! I’m Nicole,
Please, call me Nicci, as my friends do!
I have a simple philosophy and approach to life. It encompasses three values that I practice every day:
Every moment is an opportunity to realize the nature of your True Self.
Practice kindness towards yourself and all other sentient beings.
Live lightly on the Earth and in harmony with Nature.
A lifelong seeker of eternal truths and wisdom, you’ll find me reading, writing, meditating, practicing Yoga, or walking amongst the tall white pines that surround my home. When not traveling, I experiment with new recipes and my love of cooking. And in the spring and summer, I am deep in the garden, a true idyll immersed in the sights and sounds of nature.
I am a Transpersonal Coach, author, and lifelong student of the inner life and human experience.
From an early age, I began to ask the questions: “Who am I?”, “Where am I?”, and “Why am I here?” These are not questions that resolve quickly. In time, the questions expanded, deepening an almost unquenchable thirst to know more. These questions have shaped the arc of my life and you might possibly be asking your own version of these questions too.
My JourneyYou could say that I didn’t follow a straightforward or so-called “traditional” path.
When my young teenage aspiration and dream of becoming an architect was dashed, I really didn’t know who I was, what I wanted “to be” professionally, or what a life centered around a career would look like. So, after high school, I didn’t have a clear roadmap for what came next.
The end of my university years marked an important shift in my life. While the existential question “who am I” was still unsatisfied, there were two defining moments that shifted the shape of the unfolding of my life: a serious car accident and the decision to emigrate from my country of birth.
Throughout the exploration, uncertainty, and learning through experience, there was always something steady underneath guiding me. It was an inner knowing and trust in the next steps I needed to take, following something that was beyond my ego’s fears or doubts. Eventually, I came to understand this as the voice and guidance of my Soul, or Higher Self. Through a new language and cosmic orientation, I was able to make sense of the unfolding of my life in a way that put the pieces together of a puzzle.
The puzzle pieces came together over time, and that inner knowing became clearer as I found teachers and practices that supported me in understanding it more deeply. My life began to reorganize around inner wholeness rather than external expectation. Most importantly, I learned to trust the guidance and wisdom of not only my Soul but also of a higher power and energy moving through the Universe in and around me.
That process — of listening inwardly, refining perception, and learning to trust a deeper intelligence within experience — is at the heart of my work today.
I am the author of Yoga and the Five Elements, Spiritual Wisdom for Everyday Living. As an invited lecturer for the Theosophical Society in America, I have presented on compassionate approaches to personal and spiritual growth, grounded in secular ethics that are in service of the greater good of all. I have passionately taught yoga, meditation, and a spiritual practice of self-discovery in group classes, workshops, and retreats for more than fifteen years.
I support people in rediscovering their own inner wisdom, guidance, and truth.
My approach is compassionate and inquiry-based. Together, we explore beliefs, patterns, emotions, and lived experience through conversation, reflection, and embodied awareness practices such as breathwork, meditation, and somatic exploration.
The aim is not to impose a framework, but to support greater clarity, wholeness, ease, and alignment in how a person lives — in relationship to themselves, others, and life itself.
Over time, stuckness gives way to flow and joy. Insight becomes lived. And a more honest, grounded sense of direction emerges.
My work is grounded, integrative, and experiential.
It draws on the psychology of Yoga and Buddhism, somatic and embodied practices such as yoga and craniosacral-informed awareness, and broader traditions that support presence, balance, and inner clarity. My background in Business Economics and Industrial Psychology also informs a practical understanding of human behavior, systems, and change.
I am less interested in abstract ideas about transformation and more interested in how insight becomes lived experience.