About Your Facilitator: Nicole Hayman-Sherman

Nicole is a Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT500) and a Grand Master of Yoga through the World Yoga Federation. She has been teaching in CNY for 13 years, having over 8000+ hours of teaching experience.  Nicole has 1300+ hours of training, including 300 hours of yoga therapy-based training. Additionally, Nicole is a registered children’s yoga teacher (RCYT), a registered prenatal yoga teacher (RPYT), a certified meditation teacher (CMT), and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP). Nicole is also a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and holds the designation of Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist. She is also the facilitator of JBYS’s yoga teacher training programs. Nicole has mentored yoga instructors across the US & Canada, and the UK. Nicole previously spent over 30 years in marketing, sales & public relations in the Mohawk Valley, owning her own marketing consulting business, working as a regional manager for the local cable company, and holding sales management positions. After practicing yoga for almost her entire life, Nicole made a life-changing decision to pursue becoming a certified yoga teacher, completing her initial 300-hour certification in 2012. In January 2013, she became the Owner and President of Just Breath Yoga Studio, where she had been teaching since completing her certification. Nicole received her Children's Yoga Certification in May 2013, her Meditation Teacher Certification in April 2014, completing her 500 training and receiving her designation in February 2015, and her Prenatal Yoga Certification in August 2015. She reached the E-RYT 500 level, which recognizes 2,500 hours of yoga teaching in 2017. In 2022, she completed 300 hours of yoga therapy training as well as her Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist training.  In addition to teaching classes, Nicole has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Mohawk Valley Community College, served as an instructor for Madison-Oneida BOCES, and regularly taught a Senior Stretch Yoga class at Ava Dorfman Senior Center. She has also been involved in various other local programs, such as teaching yoga for the Rome Art & Community Center’s Teen Summer camp, and a facility introduced a special instructor for Annsville Residential Center for Girls and several others. Having memories of doing yoga with her mother at the age of 3, and with over 50 years of yogic practice, has allowed Nicole to experience various styles of yoga, including Hatha, Iyengar, Power, White Lotus, Bikram, ISHTA, Kripalu, Vinyasa, Restorative, and Yin. It is this experience that she brings to her yoga teaching.