From the East Coast to Los Angeles in 1988, Nanci’s interest in Ayurveda set her on the path into the Healing Arts. While on a Transcendental Meditation retreat in 1990, she discovered yoga. Yoga and TM have been foundational elements in her life ever since. In 1995 she certified as a massage therapist, and achieved a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido in 1996, while working in the music industry as a legal assistant and moonlighting as a lead singer in a rock band!

Moving to San Jose in 1998, Nanci became Reiki certified. While pregnant in 2001, she became a Whole Birth Yoga teacher, followed by her 200-hour yoga training and became certified with Yoga Alliance. She certified as a Restorative teacher in 2009. In 2015 she completed a 300-hour advanced, alignment based training focusing on therapeutic applications of yoga and achieved her E-RYT 500. She has more than 20,000 hours of teaching experience.

Nanci travelled extensively to India, Nepal, Tibet, Morocco, Israel, Bali, and Turkey, to immerse in the spiritual richness of these cultures while working as a marma therapist. She would love to travel the world.

Nanci has been a Certified Labor Doula (CLD) with CAPPA since 2017. Since 2021, she became a certified TRE™ Provider (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises).

Having been with Almaden Yoga since 2010, Nanci is our longest-running instructor. She finds joy in a healthy lifestyle centered on movement, meditation, and clean living. Music and nature are essential in her life. Nanci is also a home organizer. All of these talents and passions ground and inspire her. She brings a nurturing sense of calm to everything she does rooted in love.

What Almaden Yogis are saying about Nanci –
“Nanci teaching meditation or restorative is always a great class. I don’t get up early enough for the Nanci AM class. Nanci relates very well to the students. She reminds us to use the props because we are better yogis for it. The restorative class in particular is relaxing, and wonderful.”