Props, Pivotal, and Philosophy: Backbends + Inversions with Chris Briney
This immersive weekend will help you understand the philosophy behind these two pivotal pose genres, learn new ways to use props to explore variations and progressions, and develop alignment-based sequences to help students access a number of backbends and inversions. This workshop is ideal for yoga students looking to access backbends + inversions wherever they currently are in their yoga journey, and for yoga teachers seeking ways to help students find their own entry point to start exploring these pivotal poses.
Day 1: Backbends (Sat, June 22, 12:30-5:30pm)
Day 2: Inversions (Sun, June 23, 12:30-5:30pm)
Price: $175 for the weekend or $99 per day. In-studio only, online participation is not available.
Location: This workshop will be held at Chris Briney's studio, the Center for Iyengar Yoga, located at 1204 E Eleven Mile Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48067.
Founders discounts available. 300HR participants, please email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to enroll at your hourly rate.
This workshop counts as up to 10 hours towards Citizen Yoga’s 300HR Teacher Training. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
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Chris Briney is the Director of The Center For Iyengar Yoga. He is one of only a small handful of teachers in Metro Detroit to attain Certification as an Iyengar Yoga Teacher by the Iyengar National Association of the United States. He is also one of only seven yoga teachers in the state of Michigan to attain an Intermediate, Level III certification.
Chris always states that teaching is a by-product of his commitment to the practice of yoga as a way of life. As a result, his teaching contains an authenticity and integrity that can only come from the experience gained through devoted practice. In his classes, you’ll find this authenticity and integrity blended with playfulness and humor to yield an experience both enjoyable and deeply transformative.
Anatomy for the Movement Educator with Hannah Andersen
Join Hannah Andersen for an immersive weekend of breaking down the vast world of anatomy into practical and digestible pieces, specific to the needs of those who teach movement in group or individual settings. This module is offered as part of Citizen Yoga’s 300Hr Teacher Training.
Sound Healing Training with Natalie Brown
Immerse yourself in sound and learn foundational and practical techniques to incorporate the healing properties of sound into your practice and teaching.
Day 1: Introduction to Sound Healing
Sat, Aug 24, 12:30 - 5:30pm
What is sound healing? What are the benefits and applications of this modality?
Learn to balance the science and art of sound healing and explore the use of sound with yoga in history and practice.
Learn techniques and gain hands-on practice with Tibetan bowls, crystal singing bowls, and gongs.
Day 2: Foundations
Sun, Aug 25, 12:30 - 5:30pm
Learn techniques and gain hands-on practice with additional easy-to-use instruments including chimes and percussion, and begin to explore using the voice through mantra.
Experience a full sound bath meditation led by Natalie.
This workshop counts as 10 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Location: Citizen Yoga Bloomfield (In-studio only. Online participation not available.)
Tuition: $250 ($225 for 300HR students)
This special guest workshop is non-refundable, please book with confidence.
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Composer, educator, sound healing practitioner and multi-instrumentalist, Natalie Brown, has traveled the world performing, recording and teaching music. She was trained classically, starting violin at age 4 and has taught high school orchestra for 14 years. She completed Nada Yoga (Yoga of Sound) teacher training in Rishikesh, India. She also has training and certifications in Reiki, craniosacral therapy, Qigong, acupressure and is an Advanced Level Certified Bio-Well Practitioner. Her podcast, Sounds Heal Podcast, explores using sound for health and wellness with interviews of top innovators & practitioners in the field. It has been recognized as the #1 music therapy/sound therapy podcast on the web.
Natalie’s goal is to share the benefits of sound healing and help others use sound for self-care, personal growth and to heal. Natalie is the founder and operator of Sounds Heal Studio, providing one-on-one and group sound healing sessions and workshops as well as practitioner training through the International Sound Healing Academy.
Katonah Yoga® Immersion Weekend with Abbie Galvin
Abbie Galvin is returning for another incredible weekend this fall. You’ll have 5 opportunities to learn and practice in community with a NYC-based Katonah Yoga expert. Two of these sessions, the 5-Hour Intensives count towards program hours.
Please contact Elyse to register at your hourly rate.
NOTE: Please book confidently, we do not honor refunds for any of these specialty modules.
SESSION ONE: Props + Hands On Adjustments
Date: Saturday, Nov 2, 2024
Time: 11am-4pm
Price: $175
This intensive will serve as an experience of how to use information magically; touching someone in a real way, moving someone so they can get out of their own way, affecting someone so they have an insight.
Developing your own vision is the key to learning how to teach and adjust well. The goal is to change someone’s frame of reference, offering them a re-orientation in order to open a portal of experience impossible on one’s own. We will work pragmatically as well as theoretically, moving through asanas in order to discover how best to approach an adjustment, move a body and affect someone’s practice. Come fine tune your capacity as an adjuster, develop your relationship to touch and enhance your ability to see more dimensionally in order to enrich another person’s vision.
SESSION TWO: Restorative + Home Practice
Date: Sunday, Nov 3, 2024
Time: 11am-4pm
Price: $175
The technique of restorative yoga is to embody formal forms (asanas) whose geometry over time allows for a therapeutic experience. Restoring anything implies that one is rehabilitating back to an original state of being or function. Our approach to restorative yoga is meant to reshape a stressed out, uninformed or broken body, which helps to set up the conditions to redirect a life.
Home practice is a progressive technique for self-knowledge and personal change. Purposefully different than public class, home practice opens up new emotional and physical vistas in order to deepen our resiliency, ground our nervous system and clarify our perceptual reality.
Over the course of five hours, we will explore restorative + home practice prop set ups, move through various restorative + home practices, address injuries, and experience techniques to traverse our internal landscape while deep inside the poses.
ABBIE GALVIN is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie's instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.
KATONAH YOGA® is a syncretic Hatha yoga practice developed by Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga Center over 40 years. She and her teachers incorporate classical Hatha yoga with Taoist theory, geometry, magic, mythology, metaphor, and imagination — in a practical framework designed to potentiate personal and communal well-being. Framing the practice, maps of time and personal space are defined and refined. Themes using asana as origami, manipulating form for function, and developing a sense of personal measure are incorporated in Katonah Yoga practices. Katonah Yoga is organized around three principles of esoteric dialogue: all polarities are mediated by trinity; the universe has pattern, pattern belies intelligence; by virtue of repetition there is potential for insight. Disciplined techniques are organized for revelation through revolutions.
Perinatal Yoga Training
This Perinatal Yoga Training with Dayle Extrell will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the unique needs of pregnant, birthing and postpartum practitioners, and will instill confidence in how to support those needs through yoga.
Exploring the Chakras Series - Third Eye + Crown Chakras with Ann Fancy
Join us for a transformative journey as we delve deep into the ancient wisdom of the Chakras with Ann Fancy. This workshop series will guide you through the energy centers within your body, demystifying this system from a more global vantage point, and help you unlock a new level of self-awareness, balance, and vitality. Each session will contain a lecture, discussion, meditation, and physical asana practice.
Third Eye + Crown Chakras
Our final workshop explores the realms of intuition, higher consciousness, and spiritual connection. Open your Third Eye to enhance your intuition and unlock insights, while the Crown Chakra invites you to transcend the ego and experience oneness with the universe. We will close this session with a guided
What You’ll Experience:
Guided meditations to align and balance your Chakras.
Practical exercises and techniques to heal and activate each Chakra.
Insights into how Chakra imbalances affect your physical and emotional health.
Tools to integrate Chakra wisdom into your daily life for lasting transformation.
Community support and opportunities for sharing experiences.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop series is suitable for beginners and those with prior knowledge of Chakras. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, emotional healing, or a deeper connection to your spiritual self, this series will provide valuable insights and practices to help you along your journey.
This workshop series counts as 12 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Location: Citizen Royal Oak or Online
Time: 12:30-3:30pm
Dates: Sunday, May 5
Cost: $55
Email us to inquire about Founders discount.
Exploring the Chakras Series - Heart + Throat Chakras with Ann Fancy
Join us for a transformative journey as we delve deep into the ancient wisdom of the Chakras with Ann Fancy. This workshop series will guide you through the energy centers within your body, demystifying this system from a more global vantage point, and help you unlock a new level of self-awareness, balance, and vitality. Each session will contain a lecture, discussion, meditation, and physical asana practice.
Heart + Throat Chakras
In this heart-opening session, we journey into the realms of love, compassion, and communication. Uncover the healing power of the Heart Chakra and discover how to express your truth with clarity and authenticity through the Throat Chakra.
What You’ll Experience:
Guided meditations to align and balance your Chakras.
Practical exercises and techniques to heal and activate each Chakra.
Insights into how Chakra imbalances affect your physical and emotional health.
Tools to integrate Chakra wisdom into your daily life for lasting transformation.
Community support and opportunities for sharing experiences.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop series is suitable for beginners and those with prior knowledge of Chakras. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, emotional healing, or a deeper connection to your spiritual self, this series will provide valuable insights and practices to help you along your journey.
This workshop series counts as 12 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Location: Citizen Royal Oak or Online
Time: 12:30-3:30pm
Dates: Sunday, April 7
Cost: $55
Email us to inquire about Founders discount.
Incorporating Pranayama into Practice + Teaching with Todd Tesen
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Todd Tesen for a deep dive into techniques of classical pranayama. Each day, we will map out the structure and effects of various pranayama techniques, explore how to integrate a daily kriya, and engage in extended asana and pranayama practice.
This workshop counts as 10 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Option to enroll in the whole weekend, or day one only.
Price: Full Weekend: $185, One Day Only: $100 per day
Location: Citizen Yoga Bloomfield + Online
Dates: Sat, Mar 9, 12:30-5:30pm and Sun, Mar 10, 12:30-5:30pm
300HR students, please email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to register.
Exploring the Chakras Series - Sacral + Solar Plexus Chakras with Ann Fancy
Join us for a transformative journey as we delve deep into the ancient wisdom of the Chakras with Ann Fancy. This workshop series will guide you through the energy centers within your body, demystifying this system from a more global vantage point, and help you unlock a new level of self-awareness, balance, and vitality. Each session will contain a lecture, discussion, meditation, and physical asana practice.
Sacral + Solar Plexus Chakras
Explore the creative and transformative energies of the Sacral Chakra and the empowering, action-oriented vibe of the Solar Plexus Chakra. Learn to harness your inner fire and embrace your authentic self as we balance these two dynamic energy centers.
What You’ll Experience:
Guided meditations to align and balance your Chakras.
Practical exercises and techniques to heal and activate each Chakra.
Insights into how Chakra imbalances affect your physical and emotional health.
Tools to integrate Chakra wisdom into your daily life for lasting transformation.
Community support and opportunities for sharing experiences.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop series is suitable for beginners and those with prior knowledge of Chakras. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, emotional healing, or a deeper connection to your spiritual self, this series will provide valuable insights and practices to help you along your journey.
This workshop series counts as 12 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Location: Citizen Royal Oak or Online
Time: 12:30-3:30pm
Dates: Sunday, March 3
Cost: $55
Email us to inquire about Founders discount.
Katonah Yoga®️ Practicing with Props + Adjustments with Abbie Galvin
GUEST TEACHER
Join special guest Abbie Galvin for a 5 hour intensive training. This intensive will serve as an experience of how to use information magically; touching someone in a real way, moving someone so they can get out of their own way, affecting someone so they have an insight.
Developing your own vision is the key to learning how to teach and adjust well. The goal is to change someone’s frame of reference, offering them a re-orientation in order to open a portal of experience impossible on one’s own. We will work pragmatically as well as theoretically, moving through asanas in order to discover how best to approach an adjustment, move a body and affect someone’s practice. Come fine tune your capacity as an adjuster, develop your relationship to touch and enhance your ability to see more dimensionally in order to enrich another person’s vision.
Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie’s instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.
(Book confidently, no refunds after 1/1/24)
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Cost: $175
300Hr students, please email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to be enrolled at your hourly rate.
Katonah Yoga®️ Magic Square + Body Reading with Abbie Galvin
GUEST TEACHER
In this intensive we will introduce the magic square, the Katonah map to navigating personal potential. We will then move on to body reading, using this map to inform and guide our readings, learning how to unearth chronic and acute physical issues and explore what to do with the information we discover.
Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie’s instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.
(Book confidently, no refunds after 1/1/24)
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Cost: $175
300Hr students, please email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to be enrolled at your hourly rate.
Exploring the Chakras Series with Ann Fancy
IN-STUDIO OR ONLINE
Join us for a transformative journey as we delve deep into the ancient wisdom of the Chakras with Ann Fancy. This four-part workshop series will guide you through the energy centers within your body, demystifying this system from a more global vantage point, and help you unlock a new level of self-awareness, balance, and vitality. Each session will contain a lecture, discussion, meditation, and physical asana practice.
Introduction to the Chakras + The Root Chakra
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
In our first session, you’ll receive a comprehensive introduction to the Chakras, their history, and the echoes of this ancient wisdom found on every continent. You will learn of their significance, and their role in your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. We will also dig into the foundation of the Chakra system as we explore the Root Chakra, grounding you in the Earth’s energy and fostering stability in your life.
Sacral + Solar Plexus Chakras
MARCH 3, 2024
Explore the creative and transformative energies of the Sacral Chakra and the empowering, action-oriented vibe of the Solar Plexus Chakra. Learn to harness your inner fire and embrace your authentic self as we balance these two dynamic energy centers.
Heart + Throat Chakras
APRIL 7, 2024
In this heart-opening session, we journey into the realms of love, compassion, and communication. Uncover the healing power of the Heart Chakra and discover how to express your truth with clarity and authenticity through the Throat Chakra.
Third Eye + Crown Chakras
MAY 5, 2024
Our final workshop explores the realms of intuition, higher consciousness, and spiritual connection. Open your Third Eye to enhance your intuition and unlock insights, while the Crown Chakra invites you to transcend the ego and experience oneness with the universe. We will close this session with a guided
What You’ll Experience:
Guided meditations to align and balance your Chakras.
Practical exercises and techniques to heal and activate each Chakra.
Insights into how Chakra imbalances affect your physical and emotional health.
Tools to integrate Chakra wisdom into your daily life for lasting transformation.
Community support and opportunities for sharing experiences.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop series is suitable for beginners and those with prior knowledge of Chakras. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, emotional healing, or a deeper connection to your spiritual self, this series will provide valuable insights and practices to help you along your journey.
This workshop series counts as 12 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Location: Citizen Royal Oak or Online
Time: 12:30-3:30pm
Dates: Sundays, Feb 4, Mar 3, April 7, May 5
Cost: $55/session or $200 for all 4 sessions
Email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to inquire about Founders discount or to register as a 300HR student.
Restorative Yoga with Najee Robbins
Each session will include a blend of lecture, journaling, demonstration of prop variations, and most importantly plenty of space to experience your own restorative yoga practice. Together we will focus on what it means to create the conditions for relaxation, how props can facilitate comfort in the body, and the fundamentals of teaching restorative yoga.
Teaching Methodology: Teaching a Private Session
Join CY teacher Amber Green for an afternoon deep-dive into the theory, methods, and practice of teaching private sessions! In this workshop, we will explore the teaching skills necessary to provide individualized sessions for private clients to address injury, improve alignment + body awareness, or build towards a specific asana.
Teaching Methodology: Developing Teachers
Join CY teacher Amber Green for an afternoon deep-dive into the theory, method, and practice of teaching yoga teachers! In this workshop, we will explore various aspects of becoming a teacher of teachers, including leading yoga teacher training, becoming a mentor, and delivering quality feedback.