Ask yourself-do I listen to respond or do I listen to really hear and feel the other.
Most times we are so up in our own s**t that we are planning our responses, thinking about ourselves, shutting down, glazing over-what else?
When we are stable, grounded and open we can really create a beautiful space together which only gifts us with creativity, inspiration and meaning.
This is my work this week, to notice where and when I close up and work to be open to seeing the other in their fullness.
This happens every time us women sit in circle!
It’s magical. It’s powerful and so filling.
Will you have a seat in this years cohort?
We have 14 precious spots. Registration is in the link in BIO or comment CIRCLE and I’ll send you details soon!
Come and learn and just be.
Rocky Mountain Soul Collective
Helping Women 35+ reconnect to themselves after burnout, motherhood completion & self-abandonment. Ayurvedic Wisdom•
Embodiment•Radical Self Leadership
Being a mother has made me think a lot about being a daughter.
About what we needed from our own mothers.
What they were able to give us, what they simply didn’t know how to give, and the things we may still quietly wish had been different.
I think there is a time in a woman’s life when she has to stop waiting for someone else to go back and give her what she needed then.
Not because it didn’t matter. It mattered enormously.
But because we are women now, and there is something incredibly powerful about learning to offer ourselves the tenderness, protection, attention and love we once hoped would come from somewhere else.
And I also don’t believe we are meant to do all of that alone.
This is one of the reasons women gathering together matters so deeply to me.
There is something that happens when you sit in a room with women who are willing to be real.
When you don’t have to perform, fix anything, explain yourself away or make your life sound prettier than it is.
You get to speak. You get to listen. You get to be witnessed without someone immediately trying to tell you what to do.
You get to experience what it feels like to be seen and heard with love and compassion.
My Women’s Circles have become a place for exactly this.
We don’t come together because our lives are broken. We come together because women need places where we can tell the truth about our lives, remember ourselves outside of all the roles we carry, and be in the company of other women doing the same.
Maybe we cannot change what we received.
But we can become very intentional about what we give ourselves now.
And sometimes, part of that is choosing better rooms to sit in.
If you’ve been wanting a room like this, my Women’s Circle Registration for this year is open.
Send me CIRCLE and I’ll send you the details.
Women-do you plan things with ideas of joy, moments, memories?
Everyone does to some degree.
But there needs to be surrender involved too.
We cannot make people join us, or make the sun shine.
We have to be able to place things on the table and then feed ourselves too.
Ain’t nothing perfect about this trip.
Maybe it was all here to remind myself to put on my own oxygen mask first.
08/13/2026
Take a peek inside Sisters.
There is so much wisdom being shared within this sweet Summer Offering by Energy Den with Allison Taylor
Let's be honest about free giveaways for a second.
You register. You download something with a stock photo of a woman meditating on a cliff. You never open it again. There's a folder on your hard drive full of good intentions you haven't touched since 2023.
I have that folder too.
So here's why this one's different. 10+ practitioners, healers and coaches each put in something they charge for. Not a sample. Not a teaser chapter. A full hour with a real practitioner. A thirty minute meditation built around your state that day. A whole book.
Over $1000 worth. No upsell, no locked tier, no unlock the rest for $497.
Open through August 31.
Link in bio.
Do you take time in the morning to YOURSELF?
It’s crucial to do it! So that your mind and body are tended to before the urgency of the world.
I’ve created a mini guide to some simple Ayurvedic morning rituals for you to read and gather ideas for yourself.
Try do something different in the morning. It will only help you.
Here is the link to download your copy.
https://pages.energy-den.com/sensual-summer?utm_source=Nicole
Oh the woman I once was.
Sometimes we hear or see something that slams us in the face and reminds us of the old days-good or bad.
Today was one of those moments and the tears streamed down my face.
If I could just turn back time-knowing everything I know now-how different I would be.
I would have sat still longer, played more, not worried about the “things”.
I would have known I was loved and cherished. I would have known how to be alone and felt safe in my skin.
Would. Would. Would. Bha!
That is no place to live in-regret. Suffering. Shame. Blame.
Everything that I went though, that caused me pain, that drove me and spread me thin, built me into the Woman I am today.
I am fiercely committed to helping other women catch themselves before they experience the feeling of “too late” that she can hold herself up and grow in whatever stage of life she is.
Not to fall prey to some obscure narrative but to follow their own heart and truth.
Click the link in the Bio to hear more about the 8 week intensive coming this fall.
It’s for you. Now. In this time of life to return to yourself. Join me.
08/08/2026
Look here my dear Women!
Take a read, click the 🔗 link and you will grab a Little Life Guide (written by me).
In this sweet offering you will find 25 odd pages on simple morning practices to slow down, give love and honour your body, soul & mind.
I am honoured to be held in Energy Den with Allison Taylor with many other brilliant women-so jump over and look to see what resonates with you!
Ayurveda has a reputation for being complicated. Sanskrit terms, dosha charts, a routine you'd need a different life to keep.
Nicki Starkman's book isn't that.
A Women's Practical Guide to Ayurveda is a set of small rituals that fit into the life you already have. Not another list of things to get right. Practices women have used for thousands of years to bring some intention to a morning and some care to a body that's been running on empty.
Nicki is an Ayurvedic Wellness Counsellor and circle facilitator who works with women in transition — the ones underneath the roles and the responsibilities, who haven't been asked what they need in a while.
Her book is inside the Sensual Summer Giveaway. Free until August 31.
If your self-care has become one more thing you're behind on, start here. Link in bio.
STOP the pattern!
Ack it’s happened again… I’ve given my energy away to the damn phone.
Paralyzed by what others are doing, am I doing it right? Who am I?
What a load of 💩 crap!
Most of us do this in one way or another-no body is perfect.
The gift is not to stay trapped.
To get back to centre and own our words, stories & inner knowing.
In Ayurveda-Vata energy can do this. Scatter our thoughts across the miles.
The wisdom shows us ways to calm the different energies and ways to restore some resemblance of balance.
This is what I teach and live.
Learn. Notice. Shift. Return.
I’ll be launching an intensive 8 week Alchemy Of You soon so stay tuned for more information or click the links in the BIO to read a little bit more and jump on the info list.
It’s gonna be epic.
It’s time to reclaim all of yourself.
Big things happening around here!
Oof 😥 so excited for me and for all of us Women Folk who are doing the work, getting sh*t done, finding clarity, power, returning to themselves!
Pop over to Allison Taylor to see what is in store for all of US-and it’s all magically, intentionally free.
BTW I have a special mini book tucked in there too.
Everyone keeps telling women to slow down, take a break, take time to yourself.
But slowing down won’t change the pattern that has you putting yourself last.
You’ve spent years taking care of everyone else. Being needed. Being reliable. Being the one who holds it all together.
Now your body is asking a different question:
When are you going to choose yourself?
My 8-Week Ayurvedic Feminine Form Intensive isn’t about escaping your life or adding another self-care ritual.
It’s about returning to yourself.
Through Ayurveda, embodied practices, and honest self-leadership, you’ll stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with clarity, energy, and presence.
Because the second half of your life isn’t meant to be about surviving your roles.
It’s about reclaiming the woman underneath them.
✨ If something in you knows it’s time, I’d love to walk beside you.
DM me GLOW for the details.
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