Nola Bloom

Nola Bloom is a Canadian teacher of yoga, meditation and Yoga Nidra, and a bodyworker, who has lived on the Thai island of Koh Phangan for close to twenty years. She came to this work through touch: after training in esthetics at the Aveda Institute in 2002, she went on to study Ayurvedic head massage, Chi Nei Tsang and a flowing massage style of her own. Her first yoga teacher training followed in Thailand in 2009, then study in India and several years of Ashtanga practice, which gradually softened into Yin, gentle Vinyasa, breathwork and Yoga Nidra.

On the island she teaches public Yin and gentle flow classes, among them a candlelit Yin session with live piano, and holds Full Moon and New Moon circles for women as well as ceremonial cacao gatherings. She also works one to one, in person or online, through private yoga, meditation and cacao sessions. Yoga philosophy runs through everything she shares: her Insight Timer courses walk through Patanjali's eight limbs and the yogic view of rest, and she has designed The Wisdom of Yoga Oracle, a set of 52 cards with a guidebook on the core ideas of yoga. She also hosts The Blooming Spirit Podcast of meditations and dharma talks.