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🧘🏻 Online Live Yoga Classes
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🤸🏼‍♂️ Teacher Trainings With a background as both a lawyer and an academic, Nicki’s discovery of yoga was epiphanic.

She moved from South Africa where she was born and raised, to Antwerp, Belgium at a moment where the local practice of yoga was in its infancy. Her life’s path shifted profoundly as Nicki began to explore yoga through intense practice and theoretical study. Nicki was fortunate to learn and practice under various teachers and masters over the course of 2 decades. She is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) of the Yoga Alliance, certified in diverse yogic lineages including Ashtanga Vinyasa, Vinyasa Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and is a certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Teacher through Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) as well as a prenatal yoga teacher trained in the Khalsa Way and other prenatal practices. Her areas of training include teaching yoga to children and yoga for emotional release. Nicki Forman is the founder of Aruna Yoga, a syncretic yoga practice drawing on multiple yogic lineages with a focus on releasing stress, tension, and emotional blocks and bringing the practitioner to a state of optimal well-being. She offers weekly classes, trainings, retreats and workshops and hosting of guest teachers in Israel and internationally for the last 20 years. She is also the creator of the Aruna Yoga Teacher Training, an international training registered according to the Yoga Alliance 200 hour standards. Nicki is also a certified Trauma Release Provider as developed by Dr David Berceli as well as a certified Journey Practitioner of The Journey Method, as developed by Brandon Bays. She now lives in Israel where she teaches both locally and internationally.

27/10/2026

מגה מגע | MEGA MAGA
The Art of Touch

A hands-on adjustment workshop for yoga teachers and teachers in training with Nicki Forman.

Touch can offer support, deepen awareness, and help us discover new possibilities within a pose.

In this two-and-a-half-hour workshop, we’ll explore the art of touch—how to use physical support and hands-on adjustments to guide students into poses, support alignment, and bring greater clarity to their practice.

We’ll practise approaching each person with sensitivity, listening through our hands, asking for consent, and offering adjustments that respect each student’s body and boundaries.

🗓 Friday, 13 November 2026
🕤 09:30–12:00

📍 Beit Aruna
Hanasi Yitzchak Ben-Zvi 47, Herzliya

Free for participants in the Aruna teacher training
₪240 for teachers joining from outside the training

An invitation to deepen the quality of your touch and the presence you bring to your teaching.

14/10/2026

I’m so excited to share the launch and debut of the Aruna Kabbalah game—a hand-painted, heartfelt, artistic expression of Kabbalah and yoga, of Hodu (הודו) and Yehudi (יהודי).

Based on Hodaya (הודיה), gratitude, on recognizing the divine present in all things, and the frequency of the sacred 22 Hebrew letters.

Paying homage to and honoring the yogic lineages under which I have been grateful to learn, study and teach, and the essence of the Kabbalah that I received living in this holy land called Yisrael (ישראל)—Yashar El (ישר אל), straight to God.

I call it a game, but it is not a game. It is an invitation to rest in the Self, to release all illusion, to recognize the impermanence of all things, to understand the power of our sensations and our breath, to regulate, heal and liberate. Everyone wins, because the goal is self realisation.

And ultimately, it is not a game, but a way of being, a way of living.

May it bring you closer to the self.

If you want to come and play with me, join me on one of my retreats, or come and hang out with me at Beit Aruna.

הודיה

13/10/2026

ARUNA ESSENTIALS · FOUR-DAY RETREAT
24–27 November 2026
Beit Aruna, Herzliya, Israel

I’m inviting you to join me for four days of Aruna practice—a space to pause, breathe, listen to your body and deepen your connection with yourself.

Through yoga, breath, meditation, self-enquiry and spiritual teachings, we’ll explore the foundations of Aruna Yoga and practical tools to bring into everyday life.

Open to all levels, whether you’re beginning your journey or deepening an existing practice. You can join as a personal retreat or as the first step towards the Aruna Yoga Teacher Training.

I look forward to sharing these days with you.

Information and registration:
https://arunayogalife.com/aruna-essentials/

18/09/2026

May you be inspired to open into a reality that is free from judgment, to see through the lens of divine perspective, that recognizes the true nature of reality, which is love and unconditional acceptance.

Shabbat shalom and Gmar hatima Tova 🤍

Awakening ArunaYoga TruthLoveService

10/09/2026

Step into Your True Self with The Aruna Essentials Training.

Join us for a transformative 4 day program designed to introduce you to the foundational principles of Aruna Yoga. This training goes beyond physical postures, offering powerful tools for deep healing, embodiment, and inner alignment. It is a unique opportunity to clear emotional blocks and connect to the infinite Self.

The experience include:
🪷 Yoga practice
🪷 Self-enquiry
🪷 Emotional release
🪷 Trauma-sensitive tools
🪷 Spiritual teachings

Our October session is officially fully booked, but some spaces are still open for our upcoming dates👇🏼

✨Tuesday 24th to Friday 27th November 2026✨

Are you ready to begin your journey of healing and self-realization?
Drop a "YES" in the comments below, and I will send you all the details to register!
See you there🧘🏻‍♀️

19/07/2026

I’m so excited to share these creations with you, designed by me and made by Sid Forman Jewellery

These are more than jewellery—they are true amulets, powerful Kabbalistic pieces designed to be worn on the body as a living reminder of the Divine. They are created to support a felt sense of presence, connection, and embodiment, allowing you to experience your connection to the Divine through your own body.

I absolutely love wearing them and can feel their frequency and presence so palpably.

I’d love to hear what you think!!

19/06/2026

And the most exciting news…

The Aruna book has now been published in Hebrew.

This book has been in a long process to come into being, and to see it finally being born into fruition is a great joy.

To have these teachings translated and made accessible to a wider community feels deeply moving. My prayer is that this book may serve as a source of light, healing, support, and resilience for those who encounter it. May it contribute, in its own way, to a collective healing, to awakening and a return to wholeness.

I am deeply grateful to Sapir 🔸 Healing & Empowerment through the Body Sapir Tsabari for her dedication and commitment to bringing this translation to life, and to Jenny Abrahams Jenny Abrahams for helping to carry this project along to the finishing line.

With immense gratitude to everyone who helped bring this vision into being, may it inspire you along your path.

19/06/2026

What an extraordinary opening to the Aruna Yoga Teacher Training 2026.

This weekend, a beautiful and eclectic group from Belgium, Holland, Portugal, and Israel came together in a hybrid format with a shared intention: to deepen their capacity for presence, resilience, self-regulation, and to bring that understanding forward as teachers in the world.

It feels profoundly inspiring to gather in the spirit of learning, connection, and healing.

May we continue to cultivate the tools that help us meet life with greater awareness, compassion, love, and truth—and in doing so, bring a little more light into the world.

With gratitude and excitement for all that is still to come.

EmbodiedWisdom

08/06/2026

True love is surrender, a willingness to allow the essence of love, its fullest expression, to die into the arms of love, that the act of living becomes the art of loving, and this is the practice of becoming.

שיהיה.

Becoming is the fragrance of creativity in action.

Nicki Forman

Photo credit .everts

24/05/2026

אהבה

I spent Shavuot and Shabbat exploring the essence of love, אהבה (Ahava), and this is the result of that meeting with what love is.

Its essence comes in the following lines for me:

Devotion to beauty is to see through the eyes of love, with the recognition of the divine hand of the Creator in all that is seen and all that is consumed.

Love itself cannot be consumed. It is infinite and boundless, yet it may consume you.

True courage is to allow it to consume you completely.

This is surrender: a willingness to allow the essence of love its fullest expression; to die in the arms of love so that the act of living becomes the art of loving.

And this is the practice of becoming.

Shavua Tov,

Nicki

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