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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.