Nicole Jones started practicing yoga 15 years ago to bring peace and balance into her life. The physical practice gave her not only a welcoming and safe feeling, but it provided her with a sense of belonging. Over the years she has learned to love, appreciate, and value herself in ways she never thought were possible. Throughout her healing journey she found the strength to battle an eating disorder and create a healthy relationship with food, her body, mind, and heart. Over the last few years her practice has evolved and deepened tremendously by integrating meditation, breathwork, healing ceremonies and by incorporating sacred Cacao into her rituals. Including soulful modalities into her life, has allowed her to move way beyond the physical aspects of the practice. Nicole has developed a richer relationship with her soul, spirit & Mother Nature.
Nicole truly lives her passion. She uses her personal journey to inspire others to discover their own truth. She loves to hold space for others to drop IN - to shift - to dive deeper - to expand - to wake up their true self and discover their innate essence. She loves to inspire others to “Honour Your Goldprint.”
Nicole feels that as humans we tend to live our lives in accordance with what others expect of us. We are all continuously inundated by societies ideals, expectations, and visions of success. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to live a life aligned with our own heart. She feels that choosing the path of surrender is truly about deciding to unravel all that we are not and align ourselves fully with all that we truly are.
Honouring your Goldprint signifies standing fully in your true essence. Nicole believes we all have a unique tapestry, a beautiful Goldprint, that we are all meant to discover. No two humans are created the same. Our uniqueness is our gift to this world. She believes that the more time that we spend connecting to our own heart, the more we can get to know our unique truth.
Nicole’s teaching style can be described as:
Creative - Inspiring - Motivating - Challenging - Heart Opening - Expanding
Nicole weaves all the modalities that have assisted her along her own path into her offerings. She’s passionate about helping other humans discover parts of themselves they may have left behind. One of Nicole’s favourite sayings is “We Are All The Answers”. She feels that once we build unwavering trust with ourselves, we discover that we do have all the answers within.
Whether Nicole is teaching a one-on-one session, a small group, or a large class, she carries the consistent intention of leaning IN. She believes that yoga, breathwork, meditation and intentionally used Cacao are all gateways to self-discovery. Her offerings are always grounding, inspiring, motivating, challenging and often push you to discover your own personal limits in a safe and structured manner. Nicole carefully and intuitively plans her sessions to open you up in different ways. Whether you are an advanced practitioner or a beginner, you’ll feel safe, supported, and challenged.
Nicole taught Modo, Modo flow, yang yin and power classes at the MYWI studio for a decade. She helped pilot a core fit class which was designed to strengthen all aspects of the core, giving students the opportunity to build the necessary foundation to grow their practice. She currently offers private classes, healing Cacao ceremonies, yoga retreats and a 1:1 mentorship program.
Nicole is also a full-time Mother at the moment, taking a sacred pause from her position as a Physical Education teacher at Dawson College. Nicole has helped to create two yoga courses at the College: Yoga Retreat and Yoga Lifestyle. Her experience and success with these courses motivated her to create Yoga Retreats that are accessible to the entire community. Her dream was always to give others the chance to love themselves more deeply. She feels that when our relationship to ourselves improves there is an automatic ripple effect that happens in all other areas of our lives. She is thrilled that she can now offer these rich healing opportunities to others.
Nicole believes that the more time we take to drop in, the more we can shorten the gap between our heart and our mind. Eventually we can learn how to harmonize the energy within and move more fluidly to our own unique rhythm.
Read more about Nicole’s Journey here
Experience &
Qualifications
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
14 years daily yoga practice
5 years daily devotional practice
15+ years of teaching experience (physical education teacher at the high school and college level, trained athletes, indoor cycling teacher, yoga teacher, guide and sacred space holder)
March 2024 Founded MAMAN CACAO ~ Selling Sacred Ceremonial Cacao from Indonesia and Guatemala
March 2024 Guest Ceremonialist at RESET retreat in Jaibalito, Guatemala
February 2024 Launched Honour Your Goldprint ~ 3 month healing Journey
September 2023 Guest on School of ritual podcast. Check out the episode here
March 31st 2023 Became a Mother - A sacred initiation
September 2021- Dec 2023 Co-Founded AKASA CACAO
March 2021 Guest speaker at Blawesome Life Equinox Summit.
April 2021 Guest on (Whole)listically you podcast. Check out the episode here.
May 2020- Present Grove Campus instructor
November 2019 Lululemon luminaries, Montreal
April 2019 Speaker at Les Lilas, Montreal, QC
April 2019 Speaker at Born to Rise, Montreal, QC
June 2019 Hosted Lean Into Your Edges International Yoga Retreat, Vis Island, Croatia
June 2019 Personal story featured at Lululemon for international yoga day & here to be
2017-Present Teaches special events at Modo yoga NDG & Moksha yoga Griffintown
2016-2017 Mindfulness Yoga teacher, Connecte psychology, Westmount
2016-Present Hosted private “design your own” yoga retreats
2016 Presented at Wanderlust yoga festival, Mont Tremblant
2016-Present Legacy ambassador
2015-Present Hosted retreats in Sutton, QC
2014-2016 Lululemon ambassador, Fairview Pointe-Claire
2012-2020 Modo Yoga West Island
2012-Present, Dawson College, Montreal
2009- 2011 Lakeside Academy , High school, Lester B Pearson School board, Lachine
2009-2015 Mansfield Athletic Club, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
2008-2009 Beaconsfield High school, Lester B Pearson School Board, Beaconsfield
2008-2009 GoodLife Fitness Club, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
Certified RPM indoor Cycling instructor
Certified Freestyle indoor Cycling instructor
Certified Spin Power
2008-2011 Hudson St Lazare Hawks Soccer Team
Fitness specialist for the AAA U-17 girls soccer
team -designed a running, core conditioning, yoga and spinning program to meet the athletes needs
CERTIFICATIONS
Hampiq Ñust'a Path of the Modern Medicine Woman, 12 month apprenticeship with Maestro Puma & Anchoring the light October 2023- present
Sacred Chocolate Shamanic Cacao Ceremonialist Training,
3-month apprenticeship with Anchoring the light, 2021
Physical Education & Health Degree from McGill University, 2007
Yoga Fit level 1 training in Montreal, 2011
Moksha Training in Victoria, British Columbia, 2012
Moksha Flow Training in Kelowna, 2013.
Power yoga level 1 with Baron Baptiste; New York, 2015.
Ashtanga 100 hours in Rishikesh, India, 2017.
Completed two Vipassana meditation courses, Montebello, Quebec, 2016 & 2017
ATTENDED RETREATS/WORKSHOPS
Self love & cacao retreat with Lola Malaika, Bali Indonesia, June 2022
Reset retreat with anchoring the light, Bali Indonesia, May 2022
Online Weekend Retreat with Moojibaba, April 2020
Return to Bliss- Shamanic Immersion with Anchoring the Light, Bali, March 2020
Faith Hunter “Live an abundant life" New Year's Eve women’s retreat at
Kripalu Center for yoga & health, Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
December 2019
Chelsey Korus “Now it’s like this” workshop & special “Pipe Dream” class, September 2019
Summer Lovin’ retreat with Nina Vukas, Brac island Croatia, June 2019
Women’s immersion retreat, Ubud, Bali with Devi Ma, January 2019
Retreat with Meghan CURRIE, Bali, Indonesia, December 2018
Retreat with Meghan Currie, Italy, 2018
Svivananda Retreat, Bahamas, 2016
Lululemon Ambassador Summit, Whistler, BC, 2015
Lululemon Quebec Ambassador Summit, Eastern Townships, 2015
Bram levinson, Yoga Nidra & examined life retreat, 2014
