Impact Qualified Learning
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.
Core & More: Yoga at the Wall w/ Nancy McCaochan
Step into Spring with a wall class that begins with core awareness and stability. This work will provide optimal support for the standing and balance postures that follow and—most importantly—for your daily life. No prior experience with wall work necessary.
Nancy’s classes are both informative and fun. You’ll come away with insight and a greater appreciation for your body.
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.
Exploration of Simplicity
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.
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.
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.
Katonah Yoga® Asana + Pranayama Extended Practice w/ Abbie Galvin
The Katonah practice is designed to awaken pieces of ourselves from the slumber of unconscious habits in order to access our sentient self. The use of technique rather than our personal impulses affords better function. Thus, it is technique that propositions us to change. We use measure rather than feelings to create a stable structure and as we do, we discover that our body was designed to to fit itself. In this masterclass we will move through the fundamentals of the Katonah Yoga asana practice and experience the power of pranayama to open up territory in our bodies for our spirit to move through it.
Location: Bloomfield Rooftop
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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.
Katonah Yoga® Mapping the Mat w/ Abbie Galvin
3 HOUR INTENSIVE
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
Location: Bloomfield Studio
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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.
Katonah Yoga® Restorative Extended Practice w/ Abbie Galvin
Restoration is the work of returning something to its former state and relaxation is the state of freedom from tension or anxiety, our goal is reformation: the act of improving or making changes for the better. The technique of restorative yoga is to embody formal forms (asanas) whose geometry over time allows for a therapeutic experience. The Katonah 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. This masterclass is for both teachers looking to assimilate restorative theory into their teaching, as well as students interested in immersing themselves in a restorative experience to more deeply profit from it.
Location: Bloomfield Studio
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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.
Katonah® Yoga Extended Practice w/ Kacee Must
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Kacee Must for an extended practice incorporating elements of Katonah Yoga®, simplicity, and Kacee's unique approach to all of it. An exceptional way to find more depth and insight on the mat through integration of theory and connection with other deeply invested students.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Incorporating Ayurveda into Practice + Teaching w/ 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.
Coffee + Philosophy + Yoga
IN-STUDIO + ONLINE
Join Kacee Must for an early morning philosophy talk and yoga class with complimentary coffee and tea!
This workshop features one hour of discussion rooted in Vedanta Philosophy, followed by one hour of Yinyasa-style yoga.
Your workshop ticket also comes with a complimentary Citizen Yoga Spring Wellness Journal!
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $45 in-studio (includes journal)
Price $30 online (no journal)
Katonah Yoga® + Acupuncture for the Spring Season w/ Elyse Brogdon & Dr. Alex Herman
Spring is a time of vision, growth, and sprouting the seeds we planted in winter. Join Alex and Elyse for an exploration of the spring season and the wood element through discussion and yoga. This workshop is comprised of a Katonah Yoga practice focused on twists, backbends and moving stagnation, and an extra long savasana with individual acupuncture treatments for all students.
ONLINE: Exploration of Simplicity w/ 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.
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.
Katonah Yoga® 2 Hour Workshop: Body Reading + Teaching a Private w/ Dages Juvelier Keates
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.
Katonah Yoga® Extended Practice: Unfolding and Flying! w/ Dages Juvelier Keates
A spring practice has the characteristic of rising yang, of unfurling, sprouting, and backbending. Like a sprout rising towards the sunbeams, we can look around at personal and great nature to see that, following the winter's silence, greening expansion is happening everywhere. That sprout moves through the center of our body as the beginning of a smile, the beginning of a backbend. Cultivate formality and measurement to safely amplify that smile, the arc line of potential, the secret whisperer of spring, and open it up. By opening planes of potentiality, we can start coming out of our shells and seeing what’s out there for us.
Katonah Yoga® 2 Hour Workshop: Theory + Breathwork w/ Dages Juvelier Keates
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 Katonah Yoga’s potent embodied maps for reorganizing oneself in time and space through the vehicle of the breath.
Katonah Yoga® 5 Hour Immersion: Props + Hands-On Adjustments Lab w/ Dages Juvelier Keates
Learn techniques to adjust your students in order to maximize revelation and minimize common mistakes. This workshop is focused on training teachers to work with straps, blocks, hands, feet, poles, chairs and more to make lasting impact on your students in both class and private settings. Learn Katonah techniques to precisely read and adjust your students in standing, moving, seated and restorative asana work. You will gain competence through hands-on experience, and confidence through applied knowledge.
Katonah Yoga® Extended Practice: Becoming Spherical: Wraps, Twists, and Spins w/ Dages Juvelier Keates
No matter who you are, you fit yourself well. Your knees can fit your armpits, your feet behind your head, and your heels into your palms. Using these functional fits, you can train your practice to be radical and revelatory! Katonah Yoga articulates a philosophy of the body that is both formal and informative.
Asana engages our ability to make contact with ourselves, find how we fit, and flourish in our functioning. The formality of asana is like learning how to write: first, you print block letters, and then, through repetition, you become so fluent you can write very quickly with cursive. This practice will get into the nuts and bolts and train the geometry of a formal practice. Since the lower body grounds, we want to know that we can hang onto this security as we start to look out. Backbends always start at the bottom, and from the roots, they rise to help us glimpse our potential.
Katonah Yoga® Extended Practice: Folding, Fits and Forms w/ Dages Juvelier Keates
No matter who you are, you fit yourself well. Your knees can fit your armpits, your feet behind your head, and your heels into your palms. Using these functional fits, you can train your practice to be radical and revelatory! Katonah Yoga articulates a philosophy of the body that is both formal and informative.
Asana engages our ability to make contact with ourselves, find how we fit, and flourish in our functioning. The formality of asana is like learning how to write: first, you print block letters, and then, through repetition, you become so fluent you can write very quickly with cursive. This practice will get into the nuts and bolts and train the geometry of a formal practice. Since the lower body grounds, we want to know that we can hang onto this security as we start to look out. Backbends always start at the bottom, and from the roots, they rise to help us glimpse our potential.
Holy Hips! w/ Sitara Bird & Elyse Brogdon
Contemplate, navigate, and celebrate your hips in this two hour workshop with Sitara and Elyse! You'll journey through a practice infused with techniques from yoga, barre, strength training, and more to help you find the sweet spot of strength and stability in one of the most crucial joint systems. All levels are welcome. Bring your complaints, questions, and qualms and be ready to love your hips from every angle.
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.