Backbends + Breathwork with Kacee
The spine is a map of possibility. Backbends invite us to utilize the practice as emotional medicine, physical longevity, and intellectual reframing. When paired with intentional breathwork, that opening becomes a conversation between structure and breath, effort and surrender.
In this two-hour workshop, Kacee guides you through a progressive arcing sequence, from foundational spinal warm-up to deeper peak postures, with pranayama woven throughout as an intelligent companion to every shape.
What to expect: 90 min yoga practice, more in training or retreat style where there is built in time for learning and exploring 30 min of pranayama to energize, stabilize and invigorate.
Whether you're deepening an existing backbend practice or just beginning to explore, this workshop offers the hands-on experience and teaching to support you at every level.
All levels welcome!
Email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to sign up at your hourly program rate.
Teaching Yoga for Kids with Dayle Extrell
A fun filled training on how to teach yoga for children aged 2-10. The training itself is immersive + will be hands on, so be prepared to unleash your inner child!
Dayle has taught yoga in schools and studios around the country + is certified by Rainbow Kids Yoga International + Karma Kids Yoga NYC. Her approach to teaching children integrates imaginative play, music, drama + art with the 8 limbs of yoga, resulting in a playful, creative + collaborative experience.
This training will cover:
Poses
Breathing techniques
Philosophy
Mindfulness techniques
Music + games
Storytelling + imagination
Class sequences + planning
How to get + keep attention
Practice teaching
PLAY + FUN!
Counts as 15 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300hr teacher training certificate.
SCHEDULE
Sat, July 25 + Sun, July 26, 2026 | 9am-5:30pm
PRICING
$315 public
300HR students, please email Elyse to register at your discounted tuition.
Integrating Eastern Philosophy + Western Anatomy
Ancient wisdom and modern science converge in this 21-hour deep dive into the body's interconnected systems. Rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, students will explore Five Element Theory, the dynamic interplay of Yin and Yang, and channel theory to illuminate the energetic pathways that inform asana sequencing and practice.
From the Western lens, students will investigate connective tissue as the body's unifying architecture, and build detailed knowledge of the musculoskeletal system with a focused study of the spine and major joint systems including hips, shoulders, knees, and ankles.
Rather than treating these frameworks as separate disciplines, this module draws meaningful parallels, where meridians meet fascial lines, and elemental patterns illuminate postural tendencies.
This weekend immersion counts as 21 hours towards Citizen Yoga's 300-hour teacher training program, and is also open to any interested student or teacher.
SCHEDULE:
Friday 12:30-5:30pm, Bloomfield Studio
Saturday + Sunday 8:30-11:30am online, 12:30-5:30pm Bloomfield Studio
Fully online available for students living more than 50 miles outside of Metro Detroit
Price: $400 members, $420 public
300HR students, please email Elyse to register at your discounted tuition.
Rituals of Purpose with Tracee Stanley
ONLINE ONLY
Join author and yoga teacher Tracee Stanley for a an experiential workshop on the power of purpose and dharma. This workshop will be a weaving of yogic philosophy, self inquiry, yoga nidra and sankalpa as foundational practices to support, nourish and sustain you in living into your true self.
We will explore vritti-samskara- chakra and the spiritual antidotes that assist us in going against the grain of what is habitual, mindless and life depleting. Anchored in the wisdom of the Himalayan Masters you will leave with a sadhana to anchor you power and truth.
Please bring a journal, rest nest props and your curiosity.
Price: $99 public, $89 members
A Zoom link will be sent an hour before the start of the online session.
About Tracee
Tracee Stanley is the author of the upcoming book Living Ritual: Infuse Each Day with Purpose and Spirit (St. Martin’s Essentials August 2026) and the bestselling books Radiant Rest and The Luminous Self. Tracee is the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Tantric teachings inspired by more than 30 years of studentship in Sri Vidya Tantra and the teachings of the Himalayan Masters.
Tracee is devoted to sharing the wisdom of yoga nidra, rest, meditation, self-inquiry, nature as a teacher, and ancestor reverence. Tracee holds certificates from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Advanced Eco-Therapy, New Thinking, Best Practices, and Emerging Modalities, and a certificate in Advanced Ecopsychology. Tracee is devoted to illuminating the magic and power found in liminal space and weaving devotion and practice into daily life.
Find out more about Tracee - traceestanley.com
KATONAH YOGA® Immersion Weekend with Dages Juvelier Keates
Dages Juvelier Keates
NYC-based Katonah Yoga Guest Teacher
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
5 Hour Immersion: Interplay of the Macro + Microcosm
Time: 12:30-5:30PM
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The universe is made up of patterns, and patterns imply intelligence. In this 5-hour immersion, explore the magic square as a map for understanding the interplay between the personal and universal. We'll begin by learning the route of the magic square. From there, we'll bring that intelligence into the body through body reading, props, and hands-on adjustments, learning to recognize the same universal patterns at work in our own form. Whether you're deepening your personal practice or refining your teaching, this immersion offers a philosophical shift in how you see the body, the practice, and the world around you.
This workshop counts as 5 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Teacher Training program. Contact teacher@citizenyogastudio.com to enroll at your hourly rate.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
2 Hour Workshop: The Magic of Breathwork
Time: 10am-12pm
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In the most exhilarating moments of life, your breath is there. In the deepest grief, there too you will find the omnipresent melody of materiality, your precious breath. Vacillating between practices that stimulate and soothe, pranayama allows you to come home, to be alone with yourself. Katonah pranayama techniques are gateways to the dual tasks of learning to both soothe and stimulate oneself. Deepen your understanding of how to reorganize oneself in time and space through the vehicle of the breath.
2 Hour Workshop: Making Body Reading Your Own
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
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What does the body have to say? Learn maps, metaphors, and methods to develop your eyes and hands for attuned readings and adjustments. A reading happens in a relationship. The experience becomes its own relational material, bringing out aspects of the student and of the teacher simultaneously. How do we deal with that? Learn Katonah techniques to precisely read and adjust your private students without pathologizing them. We will cover basic structures for organizing a reading best to serve the needs of different types of students. You will gain hands-on experience to gain confidence through applied knowledge.
300HR students can register at their discounted rate, please email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com.
To see all November sessions with Dages, please visit the Workshops page.
To learn more about a Mentorship with Dages and Kacee, visit Mentorship.
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Dages Juvelier Keates is a senior Katonah Yoga teacher based in New York City who teaches globally. She has been developing her practice and pedagogy for 22 years and has accreditations from the Bihar School, 3HO, Anusara, and Katonah Yoga. Since 2012, her syncretic teaching style has been profoundly impacted by an immersion in studies with her mentor, Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah Yoga. Dages draws on her background as a dancer, writer, and artist working with and through the materiality of the body as a somatic space for holding paradox. Her work explores performative and poetic methodologies in cartographies of somatic, psychoanalytic, and nonhuman knowledges. Her research is interwoven with critical theory, Lurianic Kabbala, and western Herbalism. Dages holds a BA in dance from Bard College, a transdisciplinary MA from NYU, and an Advanced Masters from Sint Lucas Antwerpen. In 2018, she released “Radical Acts of Embodiment: Teaching and Practices of Katonah Yoga®”
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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.
Learn more at https://www.katonahyoga.com
The Four Yogas
What does it mean to live yoga?
This 21-hour module invites students into a transformative exploration of the four classical paths of yoga: Jnana, the yoga of knowledge and self-inquiry; Bhakti, the yoga of devotion; Karma, the yoga of service and action; and Hatha, the path of discipline.
Drawing from foundational texts and philosophical tradition, we will examine how each path offers a distinct entry point into spiritual development. This module makes traditional teachings alive and applicable, asking students to identify their own dominant path and recognize its expression in how they move, teach, and relate.
Students will leave with a broadened philosophical foundation, a more authentic teaching voice, and a personal practice that extends far beyond the mat.
This weekend immersion counts as 21 hours towards Citizen Yoga's 300-hour teacher training program, and is also open to any interested student or teacher.
SCHEDULE:
Friday 12:30-5:30pm, Bloomfield Studio
Saturday + Sunday 8:30-11am online, 12:30-5pm Bloomfield Studio
Fully online available for students living more than 50 miles outside of Metro Detroit
Price: $400 members, $420 public
300HR students, please email Elyse to register at your discounted tuition.
Advanced Practice: Lungs, the Source of Prana with Tias Little
The lungs are made of super pliable, elastic tissue. However because they are so pliable, they are vulnerable to strain, blockage and congestion. In this class, we use somatic techniques to increase motility of the lungs. We slide, glide and pump the lung tissue to keep them elastic and responsive. Then we practice yoga postures to stretch and expand the lungs before pranayama.
Price: $65
Location: Citizen Yoga Royal Oak, 500 S Washington, Royal Oak MI
Note: This session is NOT included in the weekend immersion. Please register separately if you would like to attend.
This session counts as 2 hours toward 300HR program hours. Register using links below.
Book with confidence, no refunds or discounts on guest teacher sessions.
Yoga, Somatics and Delight: A Weekend Immersion with Tias Little
We're thrilled to welcome Tias Little back for a full weekend immersion.
Tap into your essential vitality through somatic movement and yoga posture. Tias teaches from the essential ingredients of yoga—balancing the body, cultivating a feeling of delight, and opening to mystery.
Join for individual sessions or all five.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: All Sessions below: $370, payment plans are available.
- Individual Sessions: $65-95. Scroll down for individual registration options.
Note: Weekend immersion does NOT include the Friday 12:30pm Advanced Practice in Royal Oak. You must register separately if you want to attend.
All sessions are qualified for 300hr program. Sign up using links below.
Please book with confidence, no discounts or refunds are available for any of these guest teacher sessions.
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Tias Little began studying the work of B.K.S Iyengar in 1984 and lived in Mysore, India in 1989 studying Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Pattabhi Jois. His teaching includes precision of alignment, anatomical detail and meditative awareness.
Tias is a long time student of the meditative arts and Buddhist studies beginning with Vipassana and continuing in Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Tias earned a Master’s degree in Eastern Philosophy from St. John’s College Santa Fe in 1998. He taught for the Yoga Journal conferences for over 10 years and has taught at Esalen, Omega, Kripalu and for Glo on line.
He is author of Yoga of the Subtle Body, The Practice is the Path and Yoga of the Fluid Body due out June 2027. He is the founder of SATYA, Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga, a somatic practice that complements yoga.
Friday, April 23 | 5:30-7:30pm
Extended Practice: OM and the Great Mystery
In this class we explore the rich and powerful teachings from one of the oldest of yoga texts, the Mandukya Upanishad. This short text provides insight into the nature of OM, waking, dreaming and cultivating peace. We will see how consciousness is inseparable from OM and discover how to heal the divided self. Through meditation, movement practice and discussion, this class embodies themes central to the heart of yoga.
Price: $65
Saturday, April 24 | 10am-12pm
Extended Practice: Stretching and Strengthening Inside Leg
Stretching the inner leg is essential to sustaining the deep life force in the body. Due to excess fatigue and stress, the inner leg is typically tight, weak or collapsed. In this class we stretch and strengthen the inside leg that is home to the deepest reserves in the body—in Chinese Medicine it is the location for the kidney, liver, and spleen meridians. Through both dynamic and restorative movements this class helps reduce fatigue, increase circulation and rejuvenate the entire body.
Price: $65
Saturday, April 24 | 1-4pm
3-hr Training: Finding the Sweet Spot
Inside every pose there a point of tension and balance that opens all the connective tissues of the body. Thus any given movement requires finding the place where the bones, joints and fascia harmonize so the nervous system can let go and the breath move freely. In this class we practice finding the “sweet spot” in each pose in order to optimize the flow of prana inside.
Price: $95
Sunday, April 25 | 10am-12pm
Extended Practice: Fluid Hips, Sacral Waters
In the chakra system, the sacrum and hips are equated with watery flow. But over a lifetime the hip joints can become impacted and dehydrated. Today one in four people suffer from hip osteoarthritis. In this class we do movements to replenish the tissues around the hip through pumping, rocking, stretching and sliding. This class will bring a feeling of lightness, freedom and ease to your sacrum and hips.
Price: $65
Sunday, April 25 | 1-4pm
3-hr Training: The Body of Delight
One of the goals of yoga is to embody the feeling of delight. Unfortunately, in our world today, many people more readily identify with feelings of discontent. Distinctly different than pleasure, delight in yoga is the basic nature of prana and awareness. In this class, we touch into the body of delight through movement, sound, meditation and by connecting to your deepest calling.
Price: $95
Play in Practice with Kacee & Sitara
Play in Practice is a collaborative workshop led by Kacee Must and Sitara Bird, designed to explore the dynamic relationship between form and freedom in your personal practice. Together, we’ll examine how clear alignment, intentional sequencing, and foundational structure can become the very tools that invite creativity, exploration, and joy.
Through guided movement, partner work, and open exploration, you’ll be encouraged to step outside of habit and into possibility, finding new pathways in familiar shapes and reconnecting with the sense of play that first brought you to your mat.
This workshop is an invitation to soften perfectionism, trust your instincts, and discover how structure can support, not limit, your expression.
All levels and bodies are welcome! Come ready to move, explore, and play.
Email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to sign up at your hourly program rate.
Elevate: Designing a Class (50 hrs)
May 16 - Jun 20 | In-Person + Online
Elevate is a 50-hour practical bridge from a 200HR teacher training to wherever you plan to go next in your teaching. For anyone who completed a 200HR certification and is actively teaching or actively seeking opportunities to teach, Elevate will help you:
Reabsorb + apply what you learned in 200HR
Fill in gaps of what was missing from 200HR (alignment, instruction, props, hands-on, room management, pranayama, etc)
Learn what it takes to become a teacher at CY
The Spring 2026 session of Elevate is focused on Designing a Class, and will offer in-depth teaching and practice in:
Pacing and Citizen Yoga class timelines
The energetic arc of a class
Creating a personal class template
Designing a class for beginners, seasoned practitioners, and other specialty focuses
Pose breakdown of foundational poses for any class type
Hands-on adjustments
The art of giving and receiving
Includes:
40 contact hours with lead trainers
5 observations and/or hands on adjustments in trainers class
1 formal peer feedback session
Reading, writing, and sequencing practice
Counts as 50 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300hr program.
Schedule:
Meet every Tuesday online from 5:30-7:30pm and Saturday at the Bloomfield studio from 12:30-5:30pm.*
Price:
$895
$650 CY 200HR Grads
$750 Enrolled 300HR participants (hourly rate) Email Elyse to enroll
Location: Hybrid Online + Citizen Yoga Bloomfield
*Sat, May 23 will move to Thur, May 21 to accommodate for Memorial Day weekend. No session on 5/23.
Bandhas: Gateways to the Yoga Body w/ Tias Little
We’re thrilled to present a new offering from Tias Little: a 4-week online exploration of the bandhas.
Bandhas are internal seals that direct the flow of vital energy through the body. Engaging the bandhas is an essential part of yoga, for the bandhas impact the master glands of the body while sparking open the nerve bundles along the front of the spine. However, due to stress, trauma and the pressures of modern day living, strain lodges in the body, making bandha work precarious and potentially irritating. This course undertakes an in-depth study of the anatomy of the pelvic, abdominal and cervical “locks”. We look at the bandhas not as contractions, but as internal seals used to channel prana, activate the chakras and balance the autonomic nervous system. We aim to demystify the bandhas, identifying them neither as mechanical locks nor esoteric techniques. Rather we will see how the bandhas flow as a natural extension of breathing and spinal motion. We will have time to explore a bandha each week using yoga, somatic work, meditations, journaling and pranayama. In this course we compare descriptions of the bandhas from the esoteric yoga tradition with contemporary research in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, somatics, and contemplative science.
SCHEDULE
DAY 1 April 1 | 11:30am-1:30pm
Tapping the Root-- Mula Bandha In this practice we energize the innermost structures of the pelvis without clenching or gripping. We explore how mula bandha supports the reproductive organs while providing stability and fluidity in the first two chakras.DAY 2 April 8 | 11:30am-1:30pm
The Flying Bandha--Uddiyana Bandha Uddiyana bandha is critical for lengthening and stabilizing the lower back while activating the third chakra in the solar plexus. Discover how this bandha supports the internal organs and regulates the adrenal glands. We explore how this region is related to the energy of power and fear.DAY 3 April 22 | 11:30am-1:30pm
The Throat Bandha-- This day is devoted to the throat and technique of the “water bandha”. This seal impacts the fluids in the neck-- blood, lymph and the secretion of thyroxine from the thyroid gland. In this class, we engage the delicate structures of the throat without causing excessive constriction. We study how the throat relates to sound resonance, vocal power and repressed emotion.DAY 4 April 29 | 11:30am-1:30pm
The Tongue Seal– In hatha yoga it is of utmost importance to expand the region of the tongue, soft palate and upper throat. Yogis emphasize curling their tongue backward in order to open the pathway into the cranial chakras. Constriction of the palate and upper throat can result in diminished oxygen to the brain, fatigue, poor concentration, and dementia. In this class we open the roof of the mouth and work with the vital energy centers in the brain.
PRICE:
$125 Early Bird (register before Jan 1, 2026)
$135 (After Jan 1, 2026)
Non-refundable, please book with confidence. Recordings will be available.
This training counts as 8 hours towards 300HR contact hours. Discounts not available.
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Tias Little began studying the work of B.K.S Iyengar in 1984 and lived in Mysore, India in 1989 studying Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Pattabhi Jois. His teaching includes precision of alignment, anatomical detail and meditative awareness.
Tias is a long time student of the meditative arts and Buddhist studies beginning with Vipassana and continuing in Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Tias earned a Master’s degree in Eastern Philosophy from St. John’s College Santa Fe in 1998. He taught for the Yoga Journal conferences for over 10 years and has taught at Esalen, Omega, Kripalu and for Glo on line.
Tias is the author of four books, The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop, Yoga of the Subtle Body, Practice is the Path (Shambhala Publications), and his newest release In the Space Between: The Poetry of Embodiment. He is the founder of SATYA, Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga, a somatic practice that complements yoga.
Exploration of Simplicity w/ Kacee Must
Join Kacee for a five-part series exploring the magic of simplicity as a way to create new clarity in your practice. Improving your technique in any pose happens over time, with clear technique and meaningful repetition. Without all three of these elements, the clarity required for growth cannot occur.
This course is a combination of exploring technique, prop usage, and sequencing while in practice. We will open with 45 minutes of practicing a sequence designed to prepare the body and see how elements of any pose show up in other poses. The last 15 minutes will be used to ask questions and discuss other ways to apply props, techniques, and how to teach the pose.
Tuesday, March 10: Knee in floor, foot in wall series
Thursday, March 12: Supta Virasana
Tuesday, March 17: Natarajasana
Thursday, March 19: Kapinjalasna
Tuesday, March 24: Salamba Sarvangasana
In all of our sessions, we will be focusing on a few words to help bring forward clarity in the technique of each pose:
Measuring
Framing
Center and Circumference
Posterior
Anterior
Linear
Sphere
The techniques we will cover are not based in one particular school of yoga, but a combination of many schools and approaches to alignment.
During this series, please come with questions, comments, and one prepared sequence for each pose so that you have your own thoughts and ideas to reference while practicing. For each session, you will need 4 blocks, 2 blankets, 1 chair, and 2 straps.
Sessions meet online from 7am-8am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This series counts as 5 contact hours towards the 300 hour program, and is also open to the public. Teachers and students of all levels are welcome. This will be a uniquely different offering than the previous rounds of Exploration of Simplicity, covering all new poses and techniques.
Price: $99
Please contact Elyse to register at your discounted price.
The Five Layers of Class
The five layers of class are a diagnostic tool to help teachers manage the energy of a room and course correct anytime class feels “off.” These layers always exist, but how they exist changes throughout different moments in class. By managing the five layers of class, teachers support a student’s ability to reorient the mind inwards.
Over the course of the weekend, we will study pose breakdown, pranayama techniques, the hero’s journey, demonstration techniques, body placement and key hands-on adjustments, use of music, and pacing. The weekend will culminate with an experience of practice teaching for all participants.
This course is one of the 6 core curriculum immersions for the Citizen Yoga 300HR teacher training program and counts as 32 contact hours. Any yoga teacher not currently enrolled in the CY 300HR program are welcome and encouraged to enroll. Students must enroll in the entire weekend to participate. All sessions are hybrid and recordings are available.
Schedule:
Thursday, February 26 - 8am-5pm at Citizen Yoga Bloomfield
Friday, February 27 - 8am- 5pm at Citizen Yoga Bloomfield
Saturday, February 28 - 8am-12pm ONLINE for all, 1pm-5pm at Citizen Yoga Bloomfield
Sunday, March 1- 8am-12pm ONLINE for all, 1pm-5pm at Citizen Yoga Bloomfield
(Lunch break daily 12-1pm)
Instructors:
Kacee Must and 300HR Teaching Team
Price: $675
300hr participants at hourly rate, email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to enroll.
The How and Why of Katonah Yoga w/ Abbie Galvin
*All sessions with guest teachers are non-refundable. Please book with confidence.
**In the event of a Lions Superbowl, all sessions will be moved to Citizen Yoga Bloomfield.
5 HOUR INTENSIVE
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 intensive we will move through the mechanics and theory 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.
Price: $175
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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.
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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.
5 Element Theory in Practice + Life w/ Abbie Galvin
*All sessions with guest teachers are non-refundable. Please book with confidence.
**In the event of a Lions Superbowl, all sessions will be moved to Citizen Yoga Bloomfield.
5 HOUR INTENSIVE
The five elements; wood, fire, earth, metal and water; can be understood as five phases of energy with corresponding seasons, organs, colors, tastes, sounds, etc; each giving rise to the next as a never ending cycle of life. The five elements are the bedrock of Taoist theory which the Katonah practice is based upon. In this intensive we will move through the theory and practice that underpins the Katonah material, exploring the nature of cycles that can be seen in our bodies, our practices and our lives. We will move through physical practices with the organs in mind and demonstrate body reading, observing how each pose can be an exploration of the rich interior landscape that exists within each one of us.
Price: $175
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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.
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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.
Unlocking Movement Potential: Anatomy of the Core w/ Hannah Andersen
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Hannah Andersen for a deep dive into the anatomy of the core. This is the newest session in the Unlocking Movement Potential series exploring movement availability through structure and function. This session will support developing an applied understanding of the relationships between skeletal, muscular, nervous, and fascial systems in “the core.” Through breaking down anatomical concepts into practical and digestible pieces, this workshop specifically caters to those who teach movement in group and individual settings. The afternoon will include anatomy, theories related to structure, function, and injury, somatic exploration, and facilitated discussion.
This workshop counts as 3 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program and Impact 50 hour yoga training. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Recommended materials:
Yoga Anatomy (Third Edition) Leslie Kaminkoff and Amy Matthews 2021
Price: $75
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Hannah Andersen (MFA, BFA, NCPT) is Assistant Professor of Teaching, Dance, Wayne State University teaching theory and practice courses in BS/BFA Dance and MA Teaching Artistry Programs, and directing the Pilates Mentorship Program supporting students obtaining Pilates certifications. Andersen received the 2022 ‘Sue Nine Award for Faculty Excellence’ at WSU and 2018 ‘Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers’ from the Journal of Dance Education for her work intersecting dance science, somatics, and pedagogy. Her research has been published in Research in Dance Education, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, and Journal of Dance Education. She has spent 17 years in the Pilates industry within and outside of higher education and held appointments at Whatcom Community College, University of Oregon, and Western Washington University, and is currently a Balanced Body Educator. A lifelong student of yoga, Hannah is currently on the teaching faculty of Citizen Yoga’s 200HR and 300HR Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program, teaching all anatomy coursework.
Cultivating Restoration in Winter with Najee Robbins
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Najee for a session focused on developing your relationship with restful practices as we head towards winter. This session will include a blend of group discussion, journaling, and exploration of supportive styles of practice for this time of year including Restorative, Yin, and Yoga Nidra. Together we'll dive into what rest can look like in practice and how to support ourselves this season. Please bring something soft to cover your eyes along with a notebook or journal. Props such as bolsters, blankets, blocks and straps will be provided. If you have any props of your own you prefer to bring you are welcome to do so!
Students participating online will need: 3 blankets, 1 bolster, 1 strap, 2 blocks.
This workshop counts as 3 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program and Impact 50 hour yoga training. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Price: $75
From the Inside Out: A Weekend Immersion with Tias Little
Citizen Yoga is thrilled to be bringing Tias Little to Detroit! You won’t want to miss this opportunity to train and learn.
A gifted orator, Tias brings metaphor and imagination to his classes. His aim is to help students transform not only on physical levels but also in the realms of the psyche and the heart. Tias synthesizes years of study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist studies, somatic practices, anatomy, massage and trauma healing.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $65-90 per session. Scroll down for individual registration options.
Please book with confidence, no discounts or refunds are available for any of these guest teacher sessions.
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Tias Little began studying the work of B.K.S Iyengar in 1984 and lived in Mysore, India in 1989 studying Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Pattabhi Jois. His teaching includes precision of alignment, anatomical detail and meditative awareness.
Tias is a long time student of the meditative arts and Buddhist studies beginning with Vipassana and continuing in Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Tias earned a Master’s degree in Eastern Philosophy from St. John’s College Santa Fe in 1998. He taught for the Yoga Journal conferences for over 10 years and has taught at Esalen, Omega, Kripalu and for Glo on line.
Tias is the author of four books, The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop, Yoga of the Subtle Body, Practice is the Path (Shambhala Publications), and his newest release In the Space Between: The Poetry of Embodiment. He is the founder of SATYA, Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga, a somatic practice that complements yoga.
Friday, Nov 14 | 5:30-7:30pm | SOLD OUT
Extended Practice: Somatic Yoga for the Subtle Body
Release holding patterns in the physical body through somatic movement. We'll use slow movements done in isolation and without force to build elasticity in the connective tissues. Done mostly on the floor, SATYA (Somatic Training for Yoga) involves sliding, gliding, stretching and unwinding movements. This class serves to open the prana, reduce fatigue, and bring vitality to every cell of the body.
Price: $65
Saturday, Nov 15 | 9:45-11:45am | SOLD OUT
Extended Practice: Standing in the Bones - Yoga for the Skeletal System
In yoga and qigong, the bones hold the vital essence of the body. In this class we build strength and vitality in the soft tissues in and around the bones. By load bearing in the bones we reduce the effects of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, increase stamina and find support for the spine. We'll do postures that release the hip joints, knees and ankles and practice standing poses to build resiliency in the bones.
Price: $65
Saturday, Nov 15 | 1-4pm | SOLD OUT
3-hr Training: Nadis, Circulation and the Joints
In yoga, the nadis are described as rivers of energy that flow through the body. They are circulatory pathways of blood, lymph and nerve that flow through all the connective tissues. There are thousands of small tributaries throughout the body that move via arcs, curves, spirals and elliptical patterns. In this immersion, we do SATYA movements (Somatic Awareness Training) and yoga postures to increase circulation through all the tissues of the body. We use rocking, circular and spiral movements to release the fascia and joints of the body. When there is uninhibited flow through the currents of the nadis there is radiant health and longevity in the body.
Price: $90
Sunday, Nov 16 | 9:45-11:45am | SOLD OUT
Extended Practice: From Inside-Out - Practice for the Core
The aim of yoga practice is to build a strong yet pliable interior core. The challenge in yoga is to bring lightness and lift to the core without tightening or causing unnecessary constriction. One of the primary aims of this class is to mindfully build core stability. We do this through balancing poses for the arms and legs. This immersion helps cultivate the deepest vitality in the body while cultivating a feeling of levity and grace.
Price: $65
Sunday, Nov 16 | 1-4pm
3-hr Training: The Crown Chakra and the Cranial Sacral Pulse
The cranial sacral rhythm passes from skull to spine to sacrum and informs the subtle movements of prana inside. In this class we bring awareness to the cranial bones, the connective tissues within the skull, and the subtle motion of the brain in order to support feather fine states of awareness. Tias begins by showing slides that capture both Eastern and Western perspectives on the cranial fluid and the crown chakra.
Price: $90
Advanced Practice: Healing the Organic Body with Tias Little
While most yoga classes aim to simply stretch the muscles and connective tissue, this course focuses on specific techniques to help optimize the flow of prana (blood and lymph) through the internal organs. When the organs perform optimally, there is radiant vitality in the body. Many people suffer from stagnation in the viscera due to excess sitting, dietary imbalances and emotional holding. This can lead to sluggishness, stagnation and the unwanted growth of tumors and cysts. In this unique course, we practice to promote health and vital function within the internal organs. We review the anatomical position and function of each organ (kidney, liver and lung) and utilize SATYA and yoga postures to squeeze, wring, drain, and cleanse fluids through each organ.
Price: $65
Location: Citizen Yoga Royal Oak, 500 S Washington, Royal Oak MI 48067
Book with confidence, no refunds or discounts on guest teacher sessions.
Exploration of Simplicity w/ Kacee Must
ONLINE FORMAT | OCT 7-21
Join Kacee for a five-part series exploring the magic of simplicity as a way to create new clarity in your practice. Improving your technique in any pose happens over time, with clear technique and repetition. Without all three of these elements, the clarity required for growth cannot occur.
The class will meet online for 5 sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from October 7 - 21, 2025.
This course is a combination of exploring technique, prop usage, and sequencing while in practice. We will open with 45 minutes of practicing a sequence designed to prepare the body and see how elements of any pose show up in other poses. The last 15 minutes will be used to ask questions and discuss other ways to apply props, techniques, and how to teach the pose. This course will cover: tadasana, dhanurasana, gomukasana, sun salutation B, and incorporating a chair.
In all of our sessions, we will be focusing on a few words to help bring forward clarity in the technique of each pose:
Measuring
Framing
Center and Circumference
Posterior
Anterior
Linear
Sphere
The techniques we will cover are not based in one particular school of yoga, but a combination of many schools and approaches to alignment.
During this series, please come with questions, comments, and one prepared sequence for each pose so that you have your own thoughts and ideas to reference while practicing. For each session, you will need 4 blocks, 2 blankets, 1 chair, and 2 straps.
Sessions meet online from 7am-8am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This series counts as 5 contact hours towards the 300 hour program, and is also open to the public. Teachers and students of all levels are welcome.
This will be a uniquely different offering than the first 2 rounds of Exploration of Simplicity, covering all new poses and techniques.
300HR students, email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to register at your hourly pricing.
Open Practice w/ Kacee Must
Join Citizen Yoga Owner and Founder, Kacee Must, for open practice! This new extended class format is a space to spend more time in the practice and deepening your experience in each asana.
It is not required to be able to “do” any certain poses, but is required that you can hold your own space in practice as this will be facilitated by Kacee, but led as a group.
We recommend this offering for yoga teachers and curious students who are interested in experiencing an open forum practice where we move towards more complex asanas, use props in different and inspiring ways, and connect as a community of yoga teachers and students.
**This session is FREE for Citizen Yoga Founder's Members
Email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to sign up at your 300hr rate.
Restoration for the Autumn Equinox w/ Najee
Join Najee on the eve of the autumn equinox for a practice designed to support our transition into a new season. Together you will explore pranayama, grounded movement, and yin postures with the support of hands on assists throughout practice.
Email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to register at your hourly price.
The Heart of Teaching with Amber Cook-Green
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Authentic, meaningful, clear, simple with a strong sense of who you are as a teacher of yoga. Does this sound like what you are trying to align yourself with as a yoga teacher?
In this training, we will use yoga philosophy to create authentic theming that honors the history of yoga. You will specifically be exposed to classical and contemporary history of postural yoga. We will explore the Purusharthas or four fundamental aims or goals of human life as a tool to bring you back to the heart of yourself and your teaching. I will direct you through many writing and movement exercises to transform technique into teaching classes that are cohesive and meaningful. This training is meant to clarify and weave your connection to the heart of what you/we are doing as yoga teachers standing in front of a group of people guiding them through asana, pranayama, meditation, and philosophy. You will leave this training with a better sense of how to transform the technique of asana sequencing into teaching that is rooted in a deep connection to philosophy. You will leave with a greater understanding of how to simplify your teaching of technique to hold philosophical theming with integrity so that your students leave your classes empowered with mental clarity.
Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30 - 5:30pm
Sunday, Sept 21 | 12:30 - 5:30pm
This workshop counts as 10 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Teacher Training and Impact programs. All modules are open to members of the public, including yoga teachers interested in continued education and students interested in deepening their practice.
Price: $215
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With 16 years of teaching yoga classes, trainings, and workshops, Amber Cook-Green is widely regarded as a teacher of teachers. She has over 2,000 hours of yoga training in many different styles. She is heavily influenced by Krishnamacharya lineage having completed many trainings at Moksha Yoga Center in Chicago. She is influenced by the Iyengar tradition, Smart Yoga (Annie Carpenter), Jason Crandell’s postural yoga, and Para Yoga which is in the Himalayan tradition. In her classes and trainings she incorporates functional movements, mobility exercises, props, breathwork, poetry, philosophy and meditation. Amber is also a board certified physical therapy assistant and holds a B.A. in Poetry from Columbia College.
The Art of Connecting: Hands-On Adjustments + Assists w/Elyse Brogdon
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Offering safe and impactful hands-on adjustments in public classes of any pace is an essential skill for yoga teachers to transform their teaching from purely instructive to an informative and connective experience. Over the course of the weekend, you will:
Develop your relationship to touch. Understand the ethics and responsibility of offering physical adjustments. Build confidence in your capacity to move a body as a means of positively affecting someone’s practice. Gain comfortability using your own body as a vehicle for change.
Learn to observe students through the lens of connection instead of correction. Find ways to assimilate alignment-based knowledge into adjustments that are empowering instead of “fixing.”
Fill your toolbox of adjusting techniques. No complex set ups, no multi-person-multi-prop arrangements here. Learn very practical ways to incorporate hands-on techniques in every public class style, no matter the pace.
Saturday, Aug 9 | 12:30-5:30pm
Sunday, Aug 10 | 12:30-5:30pm
This workshop counts as 10 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Teacher Training and Impact programs. All modules are open to members of the public and other yoga teachers interested in continued education.
Price: $215
Katonah Yoga: Mapping the Mat w/ Abbie Galvin
The biggest metaphor of the Katonah practice is the body as a house. Each floor of the house expresses different parts of the whole, while housing unique information, functions and efficiencies. In this workshop we will explore the magic square, the Katonah map to navigating personal potential. We will follow its route like a treasure map through the body and use it to unearth and reconcile foibles in our practice and our life
Price: $99
Katonah Yoga Mentorship Residency with Abbie Galvin
The art of offering a private is rooted in a teacher’s skills of observation. By assisting Abbie in her Katonah Yoga® private sessions during the weekend, you’ll have the opportunity to learn techniques for observation and gain real time experience in body reading and hands-on adjustments. This opportunity is designed for teachers, especially those pursuing Katonah Yoga® certification or those interested in learning a relational and therapeutic approach to teaching private sessions.
Availability:
Friday 7/18 11am-5pm
Saturday 7/19 9am-12pm
Sunday 7/20 9am-12pm
Cost: $50 per session
Email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com to enroll. Option to assist up to 3 privates.
Unlocking Movement Potential: Anatomy from Feet to Pelvis w/ Hannah Andersen
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Hannah Andersen for a deep dive into the anatomy of lower extremities including the feet, ankles, knees, and hips. This is the third and final session of the Unlocking Movement Potential series exploring movement availability through structure and function. Each session will support developing an applied understanding of the relationships between skeletal, muscular, nervous, and fascial systems in a specific region of the body. Through breaking down anatomical concepts into practical and digestible pieces, this workshop specifically caters to those who teach movement in group and individual settings.
The afternoon will include anatomy, theories related to structure, function, and injury, somatic exploration, facilitated discussion, and a full Citizen Sculpt practice to experience real time application of principles to teaching.
This workshop counts as 5 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program and Impact 50 hour yoga training. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Price: $108
Recommended materials:
Yoga Anatomy (Third Edition) Leslie Kaminkoff and Amy Matthews 2021
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Hannah Andersen (MFA, BFA, NCPT) is Associate Professor of Teaching, Dance, Wayne State University teaching theory and practice courses in BS/BFA Dance and MA Teaching Artistry Programs, and directing the Pilates Mentorship Program supporting students obtaining Pilates certifications. Andersen received the 2022 ‘Sue Nine Award for Faculty Excellence’ at WSU and 2018 ‘Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers’ from the Journal of Dance Education for her work intersecting dance science, somatics, and pedagogy. Her research has been published in Research in Dance Education, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, and Journal of Dance Education. She has spent 17 years in the Pilates industry within and outside of higher education and held appointments at Whatcom Community College, University of Oregon, and Western Washington University. She spent three seasons performing and choreographing with Bellingham Repertory Dance (WA, USA), has been spotted performing on stages and in fields in NYC, NC, WA, OR, AK, and more. A lifelong student of yoga, Hannah is currently on the teaching faculty of a 200 and 300 Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program teaching all anatomy coursework.
Summer Mentorship with Hannah Andersen
Teaching with Purpose
Summer Mentorship with Hannah Andersen
Over the course of 4 weeks, participants will study and learn with other students and teachers at Citizen Yoga. The intimate experience of this program will allow for greater insight about teaching abilities, compassionately help discover blindspots, and allow better comprehension towards stepping more authentically into the studio space.
Capacity is 10 students.
JUL 8 - AUG 5
Hybrid (in-person + online)
Tuesday 7/8/25, 6-8pm at Fourth Tri Sanctuary (in-person)
Thursdays 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31, 12-1:30 (Zoom)
Tuesday 8/5/25, 6-8pm at Fourth Tri Sanctuary (in-person)
Tuition: $500
Visit the Mentorship page to learn more about schedule, curriculum, and inclusion.
Unlocking Movement Potential: Anatomy from Hands to Shoulders w/ Hannah Andersen
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Hannah Andersen for a deep dive into the anatomy of upper extremities including the hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders. This is the second session of the Unlocking Movement Potential series exploring movement availability through structure and function. Each session will support developing an applied understanding of the relationships between skeletal, muscular, nervous, and fascial systems in a specific region of the body. Through breaking down anatomical concepts into practical and digestible pieces, this workshop specifically caters to those who teach movement in group and individual settings.
The afternoon will include anatomy, theories related to structure, function, and injury, somatic exploration, facilitated discussion, and a full Citizen Sculpt practice to experience real time application of principles to teaching.
This workshop counts as 5 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program and Impact 50 hour yoga training. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Price: $108
Recommended materials:
Yoga Anatomy (Third Edition) Leslie Kaminkoff and Amy Matthews 2021
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Hannah Andersen (MFA, BFA, NCPT) is Associate Professor of Teaching, Dance, Wayne State University teaching theory and practice courses in BS/BFA Dance and MA Teaching Artistry Programs, and directing the Pilates Mentorship Program supporting students obtaining Pilates certifications. Andersen received the 2022 ‘Sue Nine Award for Faculty Excellence’ at WSU and 2018 ‘Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers’ from the Journal of Dance Education for her work intersecting dance science, somatics, and pedagogy. Her research has been published in Research in Dance Education, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, and Journal of Dance Education. She has spent 17 years in the Pilates industry within and outside of higher education and held appointments at Whatcom Community College, University of Oregon, and Western Washington University. She spent three seasons performing and choreographing with Bellingham Repertory Dance (WA, USA), has been spotted performing on stages and in fields in NYC, NC, WA, OR, AK, and more. A lifelong student of yoga, Hannah is currently on the teaching faculty of a 200 and 300 Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program teaching all anatomy coursework.
Exploration of Simplicity w/Kacee Must
ONLINE FORMAT
Join Kacee for a five-part series exploring the magic of simplicity as a way to create new clarity in your practice. Improving your technique in any pose happens over time, with clear technique and repetition. Without all three of these elements, the clarity required for growth cannot occur.
This course is a combination of exploring technique, prop usage, and sequencing while in practice. We will open with 45 minutes of practicing a sequence designed to prepare the body and see how elements of any pose show up in other poses. The last 15 minutes will be used to ask questions and discuss other ways to apply props, techniques, and how to teach the pose.
Tuesday, June 3: Fold
Thursday, June 5: Bridge
Tuesday, June 10: Pigeon
Thursday, June 12: Headstand
Tuesday, June 17: Putting it all together
In all of our sessions, we will be focusing on a few words to help bring forward clarity in the technique of each pose:
Measuring
Framing
Center and Circumference
Posterior
Anterior
Linear
Sphere
The techniques we will cover are not based in one particular school of yoga, but a combination of many schools and approaches to alignment.
During this series, please come with questions, comments, and one prepared sequence for each pose so that you have your own thoughts and ideas to reference while practicing. For each session, you will need 4 blocks, 2 blankets, 1 chair, and 2 straps.
Sessions meet online from 7am-8am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This series counts as 5 contact hours towards the 300 hour program, and is also open to the public. Teachers and students of all levels are welcome.
This will be a uniquely different offering than the first round of Exploration of Simplicity, covering all new poses and techniques.
Price: $99
300hr students, please email Elyse to register at your hourly rate: elyse@citizenyogastudio.com
Unlocking Movement Potential: Anatomy from Head to Tail w/ Hannah Andersen
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Hannah Andersen for a deep dive into the anatomy of the core and spinal column. This is the first session of the Unlocking Movement Potential series exploring movement availability through structure and function. Each session will support developing an applied understanding of the relationships between skeletal, muscular, nervous, and fascial systems in a specific region of the body. Through breaking down anatomical concepts into practical and digestible pieces, this workshop specifically caters to those who teach movement in group and individual settings.
The afternoon will include anatomy, theories related to structure, function, and injury, somatic exploration, facilitated discussion, and a full Citizen Sculpt practice to experience real time application of principles to teaching.
This workshop counts as 5 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program and Impact 50 hour yoga training. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Price: $108
Recommended materials:
Yoga Anatomy (Third Edition) Leslie Kaminkoff and Amy Matthews 2021
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Hannah Andersen (MFA, BFA, NCPT) is Assistant Professor of Teaching, Dance, Wayne State University teaching theory and practice courses in BS/BFA Dance and MA Teaching Artistry Programs, and directing the Pilates Mentorship Program supporting students obtaining Pilates certifications. Andersen received the 2022 ‘Sue Nine Award for Faculty Excellence’ at WSU and 2018 ‘Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers’ from the Journal of Dance Education for her work intersecting dance science, somatics, and pedagogy. Her research has been published in Research in Dance Education, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, and Journal of Dance Education. She has spent 17 years in the Pilates industry within and outside of higher education and held appointments at Whatcom Community College, University of Oregon, and Western Washington University. She spent three seasons performing and choreographing with Bellingham Repertory Dance (WA, USA), has been spotted performing on stages and in fields in NYC, NC, WA, OR, AK, and more. A lifelong student of yoga, Hannah is currently on the teaching faculty of a 200 and 300 Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program teaching all anatomy coursework.
Teaching + Practicing for Common Ailments w/ Chris Briney
ONLINE + IN-STUDIO
Fill your toolbox as a teacher and practitioner with techniques to support some of life’s most common ailments. Embracing the therapeutic tools and philosophy of Iyengar yoga, we’ll practice asana and pranayama techniques for frequent concerns such as headaches, insomnia, digestive issues, joint pains, and emotional dysregulations. On day two, students will have the opportunity to bring some of their own concerns and leave with practical tools for self improvement. Learn what it means to know and practice therapeutic techniques without expecting a transactional “fix” from your yoga practice.
This workshop counts as 10 hours towards Citizen Yoga’s 300HR Teacher Training and Impact 50 hour yoga training. You do not have to be enrolled in a Citizen training program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Saturday, May 3 | 11am - 5pm
Sunday, May 4 | 2 - 6pm
Price: $175
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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.
Incorporating Ayurveda into Practice + Teaching with Soojin Kim + Dr. Rachel Redmond
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Soojin Kim and Rachel Redmond for a deep dive into Ayurveda! Over the course of the weekend, you will explore the foundations of the science of Ayurveda, including an introduction to the 3 doshas and circadian rhythms, daily lifestyle and ritual practices for balancing our personal constitution, and techniques for incorporating ayurvedic theory into teaching.
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.
Rachel Redmond is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, and Functional Medicine Practitioner who specializes in Women’s hormone + digestive health, longevity, and the prevention of disease.
Price: $175
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Rachel Redmond is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, and Functional Medicine Practitioner who specializes in Women’s hormone + digestive health, longevity, and the prevention of disease.
Exploration of Simplicity with Kacee Must
Online | Tues + Thurs, April 1-15 | 7am-8am
Join Kacee for a five-part series exploring the magic of simplicity as a way to create new clarity in your practice. Improving your technique in any pose happens over time, with clear technique and repetition. Without all three of these elements, the clarity required for growth cannot occur.
This course is a combination of exploring technique, prop usage, and sequencing while in practice. We will open with 45 minutes of practicing a sequence designed to prepare the body and see how elements of any pose show up in other poses. The last 15 minutes will be used to ask questions and discuss other ways to apply props, techniques, and how to teach the pose.
Tuesday, April 1: Downward Facing Dog
Thursday, April 3: Upward Facing Dog
Tuesday, April 8: Chaturanga
Thursday, April 10: Warrior Poses
Tuesday, April 15: Putting it all together
In all of our sessions, we will be focusing on a few words to help bring forward clarity in the technique of each pose:
Measuring
Framing
Center and Circumference
Posterior
Anterior
Linear
Sphere
The techniques we will cover are not based in one particular school of yoga, but a combination of many schools and approaches to alignment.
During this series, please come with questions, comments, and one prepared sequence for each pose so that you have your own thoughts and ideas to reference while practicing. For each session, you will need 4 blocks, 2 blankets, 1 chair, and 2 straps.
This series counts as 5 contact hours towards the 300 hour program, and is also open to the public. Teachers and students of all levels are welcome.
Price: $99
Katonah® Yoga Extended Practice: Measuring Up w/ Kacee Must
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
In Katonah® Yoga, "measuring up" is a practice that involves using the geometry of your body to refine your poses and improve your alignment and function.
Join Kacee Must for a 90 minute extended practice on Katonah® Yoga asana and pranayama! We will be exploring ways to bring subtle nuances to into technique.
This is an all levels practice as well as an entry series into world of Katonah Yoga®, perfect for longer term practitioners as well as beginners.
Price: $30
Count towards 1.5 hours of 300 hour programming.
KATONAH YOGA® Immersion Weekend with Dages Juvelier Keates
Dages Juvelier Keates
NYC-based Katonah Yoga Guest Teacher
SATURDAY, MARCH 15
5 Hour Immersion:
Props + Hands On Adjustments Lab
Time: 12:30-5:30PM
Price: $175
SUNDAY, MARCH 16
2 Hour Workshop:
Katonah Yoga Theory + Breathwork
Time: 10am-12pm
Cost: $75
2 Hour Workshop:
Body Reading + Teaching a Private
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Price: $75
For all sessions listed above, discounts are available for 300HR students, email elyse@citizenyogastudio.com
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Dages Juvelier Keates is a senior Katonah Yoga teacher based in New York City who teaches globally. She has been developing her practice and pedagogy for 22 years and has accreditations from the Bihar School, 3HO, Anusara, and Katonah Yoga. Since 2012, her syncretic teaching style has been profoundly impacted by an immersion in studies with her mentor, Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah Yoga. Dages draws on her background as a dancer, writer, and artist working with and through the materiality of the body as a somatic space for holding paradox. Her work explores performative and poetic methodologies in cartographies of somatic, psychoanalytic, and nonhuman knowledges. Her research is interwoven with critical theory, Lurianic Kabbala, and western Herbalism. Dages holds a BA in dance from Bard College, a transdisciplinary MA from NYU, and an Advanced Masters from Sint Lucas Antwerpen. In 2018, she released “Radical Acts of Embodiment: Teaching and Practices of Katonah Yoga®”
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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.
Learn more at https://www.katonahyoga.com
Ecstatic Breathwork Journey w/ Ann Fancy
Ecstatic breath work works by changing the rhythm and depth of which we breathe. As opposed to shallow breathing, which keeps our bodies in a state of fight or flight, ecstatic breath work helps you move past that, and into the parasympathetic nervous system for deep relaxation.
This workshop will pair the practice of ecstatic breath and guided meditation to cultivate awareness and peace.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $35
Counts towards 1.5 hours of 300 hour programming.
Incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine into Practice + Teaching
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Kacee Must and Alex Herman for a deep dive into Traditional Chinese Medicine and its application to the practice of yoga! In an introduction to Chinese Medicine with Alex, you’ll learn the concepts of yin and yang, vital substances, 5 Element Theory, and chi. Kacee will then lead you through techniques for theming and sequencing yoga classes that allow you to incorporate this material in a meaningful way.
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.
Price: $175
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Alex Herman earned a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition at Michigan State University and a Doctorate Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the prestigious Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Licensed in the state of Michigan (LAc), Alex is board certified by NCCAOM in acupuncture as well as Chinese herbology (Dipl. OM).