Nicolette Gavino (née Holmes) is a yoga teacher from Southern California and Portuguese transplant of nearly 8 years. As a Yoga Gives Back Global Ambassador and founder of Gecko Yoga, a cork yoga mat & sustainable yoga accessories brand, Nicky believes that the practice doesn’t end when we step off the mat. 

Nicolette completed her first 200-hour Power Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2013 with CorePower Yoga in Huntington Beach, California. 

She continued her study of yoga with an additional 50-hour program in Boulder, Colorado, while simultaneously completing her B.A. in Psychology with Double-Minors in Business and Religious Studies at the University of Colorado. 

In 2023, she completed another 200-hour Teacher Training Program with Manu School of Yoga in Sintra, Portugal, this time exploring the vinyasa method from a Tantric approach.

Her personal practice includes explorations in various lineages of yoga, including both classical traditions and non-dual perspectives, and her teaching is inspired by the play between structure and intuition. 

While she takes her yoga practice and studies seriously, she rarely takes herself seriously, and believes that laughter is medicine and yoga should be joyful. 

Nicolette currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal, where she shares the power of yoga through Gecko: www.geckoyogamats.com