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Carina Chikyo Nickerson

My meditation practice started 12 years ago as part of my search to find inner ease. Since then I have been working closely with Dr. Andrew Shugyo Bonnici in Applied Meditation Therapy and have recently received certification as an Applied Meditation Teacher. I am also a certified yoga teacher through Cloud Nine Yoga School and have been engaging in psychospiritual work with Sasha Papovich for the last 3 years. I have loved leading meditation groups in the Long Beach area for patients of Dr. Aleksandra Wirga, and look forward to expanding my schedule to include more groups and yoga classes.

I am currently available for private and group work in Applied Meditation Therapy and yoga. Please contact me via email for more information.

I've loved making things for as long as I can remember. When I was little I loved knitting with my Nana and making holiday trees with old Reader's Digest magazines.

When I was pregnant with my son I decided to take an online art and writing class. Through it I uncovered a way of painting that aligned my inner world with a richly layered painting process. I fell in love with color and bought a sewing machine so I could work with beautiful fabrics I couldn't find in stores. I began painting with magenta and turquoise. I took to making my own bread. And I found a refuge in making art; what I like to call domestic bliss; after I put my kids to bed.

My practice and my art are linked profoundly, delicately, and sincerely. I owe my meditation practice for opening my heart to the richness and depth of my own life and the longing to express it.

May you find real soul nourishment on these pages. Love to you all....Carina

Monday, August 5, 2013

Coyotes Brushed her Eyelashes...A Poem to the Wild Woman Within






Coyotes brushed her eyelashes

Coyotes brushed her eyelashes
And she never looked back

She never said never
Ever again

She dove into
The desert sky
And strung all the stars
On her soul necklace

She caught fire
Beneath the moon
And the sun never had a chance
You see
Moon fire
Called her from the start
And now she only listens
To its love song

Coyotes brushed her eyelashes
Deep in the night
And she never forgot
Her wild longing burned in her
Eternal memory

She will never
Ask again
What she should do

From now on
She abides only by
The divine calling
Of the animal touch
She remembers from long ago
Before anyone tried to cage

Her one true heart

 xoxo
Chikyo

 -a poem inspired by the wild and true woman in my family.  


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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Let in Longing




Longing bleeds
there’s  no answer to it
it just grabs your heartstrings

and if your lucky

it never lets go

it never lets go

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