Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist 

Nichole is a highly qualified clinical yoga therapist holding a 900-hour certification accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and an Ayurvedic Health Counselor. She employs evidence-based therapeutic approaches to facilitate healing processes. Her methodology involves cognitive and somatic techniques aimed at facilitating transformative personal growth, akin to the phenomenon of neural plasticity. Nichole emphasizes the innate potential for emotional equilibrium and psychological well-being within individuals, grounded in scientific principles.

In addition to her extensive qualifications, she holds multiple certifications that complement her method, and she is a lead trainer and author of both 200hr and 300hr YTT programs. Nichole is also the co-founder of House of Yoga, a non-profit organization focused on meditation, Ahara.life, an online school, and she is the owner of Mineral City, a yoga studio opening in Spruce Pine, NC.

Nichole is proud to be a student of Dr. Vasant Lad and is deeply rooted in the Himalayan Institute lineage. Through her studies with these esteemed mentors, she has gained valuable insights and knowledge that enrich her holistic approach to yoga therapy.

Through her yoga therapy practice, Nichole incorporates principles from the traditional Ayurvedic system to determine an individual's unique constitution and offers guidance on dietary and lifestyle adjustments to promote physical well-being.

Nichole serves as a mentor and teacher in the exploration of individualized empowerment, employing her proprietary method of personal empowerment: a holistic approach to health and self-esteem, underpinned by research and clinical expertise, and served with a joyful spirit.

Professor of the Vedic Sciences

Joe Rocco Falco is an entrepreneur and experienced professor of the Vedic arts and sciences specializing in Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurveda with over 7000 hours of teaching experience. Together his wife Nichole Falco, they offer transformative personal programs, master classes, yoga teacher trainings, and Yoga Business Development courses to a rapidly growing online community. Joe’s studies extend to the realms of music, recovery, artwork, Freemasonry, tantra, jiujitsu and philosophy.

Joy recently completed her 200 RYT yoga teacher training at the Asheville Yoga Center. Her personal yoga practice began 14 years ago when she was experiencing back pain. She realized that she hadn’t been taking care of her body through overworking and not listening to the deep inner knowing of what her body needed. Throughout these years of deep immersion into her personal yoga practice she has become more aware and in tune with her body, mind and spirit.  Joy is also an artist and has made pottery for the past 23 years, living in Bakersville, NC with her husband and two children. Her pottery is a creative expression of her inner nature which can now also be shared through teaching yoga. 

Joy’s classes incorporate a strong vinyasa flow with a focus on strength, alignment and stability while also bringing in mindfulness, pranayama (breathwork) and meditation. She invites students to tune into their own bodies and make the experience their own as they move throughout the experience.  Joy’s sweet and welcoming nature creates an experience that will energize, strengthen and revive as well as nourish and relax her students.  She teaches from the heart with themes that inspire and empower in order to cultivate an awareness that can be found on the yoga mat and taken out into everyday life.