Nikyta Palmisani
Nikyta has been teaching yoga since 2000, and was first trained in Indra Devi Hatha and first taught at Camelrock Yoga Center. She then did a year long apprenticeship with Chris Allen in Ashtanga Yoga at Ashtanga Yoga East Studio. She still had a feeling that there was more to learn about sadhana and karma yoga, so she went to live at the Mount Madonna Center and studied with Baba Hari Das in their Yoga Service and Community Program in 2001. After returning, she began teaching all levels of yoga at the Golden Door where she continues to teach today. Although Astanga was her first love, Nikyta has been deeply influenced by Iyengar yoga with Roger Cole, and did a teacher training with him in Restorative Yoga. She currently studies with Geri Portnoy in Anusara Yoga at Yoga Del Mar where she also teaches. Nikyta is also an Expressive Arts Therapist and Coordinator at San Diego Youth and Community Services where she works with at risk youth. Her love of the arts infuses her yoga teaching with poetry, and she often teaches with live music. Nikyta’s one prayer is to be a channel for the divine in all that she does, combining humility with wisdom and creativity to hold a space for students to come to their own highest selves.
