MAY 3-4, 2025 SATURDAY & SUNDAY
SUKHA YOGA (E. MLK STUDIO)
LIMITED Number of Spaces - Register & Pay to Reserve your Place.
SATURDAY - May 3rd 2025
9:00am-11:30am MASTERCLASS - Katonah Foundations: Asana + Pranayama
The Katonah practice is designed to awaken pieces of ourselves from the slumber of unconscious habits in order to access our sentient self. The use of technique rather than our personal impulses affords better function. Thus, it is technique that propositions us to change. We use measure rather than feelings to create a stable structure and as we do, we discover that our body was designed to to fit itself. In this masterclass we will move through the fundamentals of the Katonah Yoga asana practice and experience the power of pranayama to open up territory in our bodies for our spirit to move through it.
12pm-5pm 5 HOUR INTENSIVE - Katonah Body Reading
Reading a body, assessing a pose, interpreting where one is heading, is the art of seeing. Poses show propensities of behavior and how personal habits are articulated in the practice. When we look at a yoga pose, we reference the ideal form of it so that we have a template, a map, a criteria to look for. In this intensive we will set up the body on a grid to be deciphered as a map, read the feet as a fractal of the whole narrative, learn how to unearth chronic and acute physical issues and explore what to do with the information we discover in our body readings.
SUNDAY - May 4th 2025
9:00am-11:30am MASTERCLASS - Katonah Home Practice
A home practice addresses the vision and virtue of personal health, wellbeing and long life. A home practice is a commitment to self-care, a ritualized modus operandi for one’s participation in a technical integration of mind, body and breath. Engaging in a home practice is a way of addressing the manner in which one personally organizes one’s self; developing a determined life, setting goals and following through. In this masterclass, we will explore how to develop, maintain and integrate a home practice.
12pm-5pm 5 HOUR INTENSIVE - Katonah Restorative & Adjustments
The Katonah approach to restorative yoga is meant to reshape a stressed out, uninformed or injured body, which helps to set up the conditions to redirect a life. Most injuries are the result of having set up unconscious patterns, both physically and emotionally, that are maladaptive. Injuries are opportunities in a wider exploration of restoration, homeostasis and longevity, to unearth that piece in each of us that is out of tune, disconnected, overworked or misaligned. Real and lasting change demands a new set of conditions, using formal techniques. In this intensive we will explore how to address injuries and use props and adjustments to set ourselves up for better function. Re-informing the body is never random, it is always technical! This intensive is for both teachers looking to assimilate restorative theory into their teaching, as well as students interested in immersing themselves in a restorative experience to more deeply profit from it.