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