Workshops, Events + Experiences
Sweat, Sculpt, Slay with Sitara & Soojin
This is not your typical sculpt-yoga class! Join Sitara Bird and Soojin Kim for a class combining dynamic vinyasa flow with resistance training, bursts of cardio, sculpt and Pilates elements with live DJ set that will fuel your fire. Come ready to drop, define and dominate with us!
Refuel with Matcha afterwards and hang.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $35 public, $30 members
Parking: 3-hrs validated parking in Z Lot
Rooftop Sunrise Yinyasa + Pranayama with Elyse + Claire
Join Elyse and Claire on the rooftop at sunrise for an invigorating yinyasa style practice and extended breathwork.
Stay after to connect with fellow practitioners over a warm cup of coffee as the world comes alive beneath you.
The perfect way to start a summer Sunday.
Price: $40 public, $35 members
Know Your Nature: An Introduction to Ayurveda w/ Julie
Ayurveda is the world's oldest living health system, and one of the most practical. Built on the foundation of five elements, it offers a clear, embodied framework for understanding who you are and why you feel the way you feel.
In this workshop, Julie will guide you through an exploration of the elements and gunas, you’ll discover your dosha, taste the six flavors of Ayurvedic food medicine, and learn how Ayurvedic daily rhythms can help you move through life with more ease, energy, and alignment.
All levels welcome!
Price: $35 public, $30 members
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!
Price: $50 public, $45 members
Fields of Calm: A Lavender Yoga Experience w/ Soojin
Join us for a peaceful yoga practice surrounded by the beauty and fragrance of blooming lavender. Set against a backdrop of rolling purple fields and open skies, this all-levels class invites you to slow down, connect with nature, and immerse yourself in the present moment.
Through mindful movement, breathwork, and moments of stillness, you'll cultivate a sense of calm, grounding, and renewal while taking in the soothing sights and scents of the lavender farm. Whether you're a seasoned yogi or brand new to the practice, this unique outdoor experience offers the perfect opportunity to unwind and reconnect.
Bring your yoga mat, water bottle, and a sense of curiosity as we gather among the blooms for an unforgettable practice.
Price: $40 public, $35 members
Location: Indigo Farms 631 N Van Dyke Rd, Imlay City, MI 48444
The Pulse of the Body: Rooftop Breath, Heart & Vital Energy Flow with Samantha
In this workshop, we’ll use somatic movement, gentle yoga postures, breathwork, and guided meditation to awaken breath, open the chest and heart space, and support energy to move more freely through the body so you feel more present, expansive, and alive.
This workshop is for you if you’ve been feeling flat, disconnected, or like your energy is stuck or scattered. If you’re craving a way back into aliveness without forcing yourself into burnout, join us! You'll leave feeling more open in your body, more connected to your emotions, and able to move energy instead of holding it in.
If you find yourself overthinking, holding your breath without realizing it, or feeling like your heart is “closed off” or guarded, this space helps you gently reawaken circulation... physically, emotionally, and energetically.
All levels and bodies welcome.
Price: $35 public, $30 members
Teaching Yoga for Kids with Dayle
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
TUITION: $315
PRE-REQUISITES: Must have a 200HR YTT certification or a well-established yoga practice (familiarity with pose names, basic alignment, and general sequencing of postures). This training is not a yoga-training, but instead will train participants to adapt the yoga practice for young people in a way that is engaging, age-appropriate, and fun!
Reboot: Pilates, Yoga, + Journaling with Kacee & Hannah
IN-PERSON + LIVESTREAM
Kacee and Hannah guide you through a practice of Pilates to build strength, stability, and body awareness, followed by a yoga practice that invites you to slow down and integrate. Journaling is woven throughout as a tool for reflection not as homework, but as a way to meet yourself in the stillness between movement.
Together, these three practices create a full-body reset: the Pilates builds the foundation, the yoga opens and restores, and the journaling anchors you to what matters most right now.
What to expect:
1 hour of Pilates, focused on strength and stability
Yoga practice to complement and integrate the body's work
Guided journaling prompts woven throughout space to slow down, reflect, and find presence in the middle of a full season
Bring a journal and pen. All props provided.
All levels welcome! Price: $48
Sunset Movement and Mandalas with Cindy
As the light softens and the day exhales, we invite you to do the same.
Join us for an evening of grounding movement and meditative art making, one hour of yoga to settle into your body, followed by a guided mandala painting experience with teacher Cindy Levine.
The mandala is an ancient symbol of wholeness, a circle that holds everything. In painting your own, you're not making art so much as remembering something. Your breath. Your center. The rhythm that was always there.
Mandala will be provided.
Price: $45 public, $40 members
Coffee + Philosophy at the Corner Shop with Kacee Must
Start your morning with Kacee Must for in-person Philosophy and a coffee at the Corner Shop in Ferndale.
In this discussion-format session, conversation ranges from anxiety and depression to self-realization. The purpose of philosophy class is not just about contemplating transcendental theory, but understanding personal struggle through a practical approach.
All levels and bodies welcome. No experience or prior training is necessary. This is a discussion-style session, there is no physical movement involved.
Price: $37 ($32 members)
Location: Corner Shop in Ferndale 23337 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI 48220
Reboot: Backline Burn with Hannah + Sitara
Reboot: Backline Burn is a pilates based and yoga informed workshop dedicated to awakening and strengthening the entire posterior chain: glutes, hamstrings, and the deep muscles of the back that support everything you do.
Through intentional sequencing, targeted holds, and breath-driven effort, Hannah and Sitara will guide you through postures designed to build real strength and resilience along the backline the often overlooked counterpart to all the forward-facing demands of daily life. This is active, purposeful work that leaves you feeling both wrung out and restored.
You'll leave with:
Stronger, more activated glutes, hamstrings, and back body
A greater understanding of posterior chain function within a yoga and pilates framework
Tools to bring backline awareness into your everyday practice
All levels welcome. Expect to work.
Price: $45 public, $40 members
Ecstatic Breathwork Journey with Ann
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 public, $30 members
Breathe + Brunch at Coriander Kitchen + Farm with Aymey
We're taking it to the neighborhood. Aymey Kinney will lead you through a feel-good practice that shakes off the week, warms up the body, and reminds you why you actually love this city. Afterwards, we’ll be served a strolling brunch at Coriander Kitchen + Farm, a Detroit gem that knows how to do a table right, and let the morning stretch out as long as it wants to.
This one is for showing up, slowing down, and soaking in what makes Detroit so worth living in.
Bring a friend, bring yourself, bring your appetite. Please bring your own mat and props to the event.
Location: 14601 Riverside Blvd, Detroit, MI 48215
Price: $65 public, $60 members
Unlocking Movement: Neck and Shoulder Mobility with Hannah
The neck and shoulders are among the most overworked, under loved structures in the body and often the first place tension takes hold. In this workshop, Hannah Andersen takes a targeted, anatomically informed approach to restoring mobility and function in these complex regions.
We'll work through the cervical spine, shoulder girdle, and surrounding soft tissue. Exploring the role of the thoracic spine, ribcage, and scapular stability in creating true, lasting freedom of movement. Expect deliberate, intelligent sequencing that builds body literacy alongside physical relief.
You'll leave with:
Greater range of motion in the neck, shoulders, and upper back
An understanding of the structures involved and how to work with them
A personal practice you can return to again and again
Appropriate for all levels, including those managing chronic tension or hypermobility.
Price: $45 public, $40 members
The Art of Unwinding: Fascia, Tension & Somatic Release on the Roof with Samantha
In this workshop, we’ll use somatic movement, gentle yoga postures, breathwork, and guided meditation to gently unravel patterns of tension in the fascia, soften areas of holding in the body, and support a deeper sense of ease.
This workshop is for you if you feel tight, stiff, or like there is something held in your body that you can’t quite stretch, breathe, or “think” your way out of. It’s for those who notice patterns of physical tension, emotional holding, or a sense of being constricted even when you’re trying to relax.
If you’ve done yoga before but still feel like certain areas of your body never fully let go, or like stress and emotion linger in your system longer than you want them to, this space offers a different way of working with the body... one that is slow, intuitive, and focused on unwinding rather than forcing release.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $35 public, $30 members
The Clearing of the Body: Digestion, Lymph & Release on the Roof with Samantha
In this workshop, we’ll use gentle yoga postures, breathwork, and guided meditation to support digestion, stimulate lymphatic flow, and help the body soften into its natural ability to process, clear, and integrate so you leave feeling lighter, more spacious, and reset from the inside out.
This workshop is for you if you often feel heavy, bloated, stagnant, or like your body has a hard time fully letting go—physically or emotionally. It’s for those who feel like they “hold onto things,” whether that’s stress, emotion, fatigue, or a general sense of feeling weighed down and unable to reset.
If you’ve been trying to eat better, move more, or rest more but still feel like your system isn’t fully clearing or processing, this space offers a different entry point... working with the body’s natural pathways of release rather than forcing change.
All levels and bodies welcome.
Price: $35 public, $30 members
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
Full Weekend Immersion
All sessions included
Price: $400 (save $50 off individual sessions below)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Private Sessions
Limited number of private sessions available Friday 11/13
Price: $200/hour session
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Extended Practice: Fits + Folds
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
Price: $50
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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! 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.
Join Dages Juvelier Keates for a joyful extended practice incorporating asana, hands-on adjustments, breath work, metaphor, and imagination! Learn techniques to spice up your practice, feel great, and enjoyably embody complex forms in a practical framework of communal well-being. You will leave feeling strong, structured, stable, and full of new approaches to familiar shapes.
This class is offered to any student or teacher of yoga. Yoga is invisible, there are no levels, and you are most welcome exactly as you are.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Extended Practice to Integrate the Three Floors of the Body
Time: 10-11:30am
Price: $50
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Our bodies are a house, made up of three floors and nine rooms. When each of our floors stack and communicate with intelligence, the body becomes a coherent, integrated whole. This practice will focus on integrating the three floors of the body for an experience where our stability, capacity, and vision function as an organized and cohesive system. We will explore how breath, form, and intention unlock greater ease, power, and presence in our practice.
Join Dages Juvelier Keates for a joyful extended practice incorporating asana, hands-on adjustments, breath work, metaphor, and imagination! Learn techniques to spice up your practice, feel great, and enjoyably embody complex forms in a practical framework of communal well-being. You will leave feeling strong, structured, stable, and full of new approaches to familiar shapes.
This class is offered to any student or teacher of yoga. Yoga is invisible, there are no levels, and you are most welcome exactly as you are.
5 Hour Immersion:
Interplay of the Macro + Microcosm
Time: 12:30-5:30pm
Price: $175 public / $150 members
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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
Price: $75 public / $65 members
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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 Katonah Yoga’s potent embodied maps for reorganizing oneself in time and space through the vehicle of the breath.
Extended Practice for Effortlessness
Time: 12:30-2pm
Price: $50
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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 as a means of finding the lightness and ease of effortlessness.
Join Dages Juvelier Keates for a joyful extended practice incorporating asana, hands-on adjustments, breath work, metaphor, and imagination! Learn techniques to spice up your practice, feel great, and enjoyably embody complex forms in a practical framework of communal well-being. You will leave feeling strong, structured, stable, and full of new approaches to familiar shapes.
This class is offered to any student or teacher of yoga. Yoga is invisible, there are no levels, and you are most welcome exactly as you are.
2 Hour Workshop:
Making Body Reading Your Own
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Price: $75 public / $65 members
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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.
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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
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
Deep Reset: Asana, Pranayama + Sound Bath with Claire Sophia & Linda Hawkins
Join CY teacher, Claire Sophia, and guest instructor, Linda Hawkins, for an evening designed to calm the nervous system, release tension, and reconnect you with your inner stillness!
We’ll begin with a gentle movement practice to awaken the body, shift stagnant energy, and prepare the mind for rest. You’ll then be guided through a pranayama practice to support the parasympathetic nervous system, encouraging relaxation and emotional balance.
From there, you’ll be invited to settle into stillness and receive the soothing effects of a sound bath led by Linda. Using a variety of instruments, she will create a layered soundscape of calming tones and vibrations that help quiet the mind and support deep rest.
As the body softens, these vibrations can encourage a sense of ease, improve circulation, and leave you feeling grounded, restored, and renewed. All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $30 public, $25 members
Community Acupuncture: An Introduction + Mini Session with Dr. Alex Herman
Curious about acupuncture but not sure where to start? This is your invitation.
Join us for an accessible, grounded introduction to the ancient practice of acupuncture led by Dr. Alex Herman, licensed acupuncturist and resident Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Citizen Yoga.
In this special workshop, Dr. Herman will walk you through the foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine, demystify what acupuncture actually does in the body, and offer a brief, hands-on mini session so you can experience it for yourself.
This is community acupuncture in the truest sense with a low-barrier, welcoming space for newcomers, skeptics, and the simply curious. This session is for NEW CLIENTS ONLY.
What to expect: A short educational introduction to TCM and acupuncture theory, followed by a gentle mini session of 1-2 points. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of how this medicine works, and how it might work for you.
Price: $25, no member discount
Extended Practice: Yin + Reiki for the Summer Solstice with Rooney
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with an extended Yin yoga practice infused with Reiki. This deeply restorative offering supports balance, energetic clearing, and gentle renewal as we transition into Summer. Expect long-held postures, intentional stillness, and space to receive.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $35 public, $30 members
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.
Price: $48 ($42 members)
Summer Solstice Celebration: Yoga, Ritual + Reflection with Samantha
Celebrate the height of summer with a practice designed to awaken your energy, expand your breath, and reconnect you to your inner fire!
This practice is an invitation to cultivate your inner light; not by forcing or overdoing, but by building the capacity to hold it. Through grounded yet invigorating movement, we’ll gently awaken the body and open the heart. Breathwork will stoke the inner fire, followed by meditation and journaling to deepen awareness and intention. We’ll close with tea and a sharing circle as space to soften, integrate, and simply be.
This is your invitation to move, feel, and gently step into your radiance. All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $30 public, $25 members
Free Community Yin at Dessert Oasis with Rooney
Join Rooney Roark for a relaxing and deeply healing Yin yoga experience at Dessert Oasis Coffee Roasters in Ferndale! This class is free and will be an all-levels class, perfect for beginners and frequent practitioners alike. Bring a yoga mat and any yoga props you like to use.
Price: Free
Pre-registration is not required but appreciated.
Coffee + Philosophy at the Corner Shop with Kacee Must
Start your morning with Kacee Must for in-person Philosophy and a coffee at the Corner Shop in Ferndale.
In this discussion-format session, conversation ranges from anxiety and depression to self-realization. The purpose of philosophy class is not just about contemplating transcendental theory, but understanding personal struggle through a practical approach.
All levels and bodies welcome. No experience or prior training is necessary. This is a discussion-style session, there is no physical movement involved.
Price: $37 ($32 members)
Location: Corner Shop in Ferndale 23337 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI 48220
Root to Rise: Alignment + Inversions with Ann
Join Ann Fancy for an intentional and empowering exploration of inversions! In this workshop, we’ll break down the foundational principles that create stability, strength, and ease in your poses, especially when things turn upside down.
Whether you’re new to inversions or looking to refine your technique, this space is designed to help you feel safe, supported, and curious in your practice. Expect a balance of education, play, and challenge as we learn how proper alignment can create both freedom and sustainability in the body.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $35 public, $30 members
Awaken the Senses: Yoga, Cheese, + Chocolate w/ Carly Cenit
Join CY teacher, Carly Cenit, and Zach Berg, owner of Monger's Provisions, for an indulgent two-hour experience designed to nourish both body and senses!
We’ll begin with a 60-minute all-levels yoga practice focused on presence within your senses.
After class, shift from mindful movement into mindful tasting as Zach, a cheese and chocolate expert, guides you through a curated sampling experience. You’ll learn about flavor profiles, pairings, and the art of savoring while enjoying a thoughtfully selected variety of cheeses and artisan chocolates in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $50 public, $45 members
Location: Monger's Provisions, 3127 12 Mile Rd, Berkley, MI 48072
Bloom & Breathe: Yoga + Bouquet-Making w/ Julie Brazen
Celebrate Mother’s Day with a morning of movement, creativity, and connection! We’ll begin with a grounding, all-levels yoga flow led by Julie Brazen and designed to open your heart and invite ease. After yoga, we’ll gather for a bouquet-making workshop, guided by Nica Sabella from Petals & Possibilities. You’ll create your own fresh floral arrangement to take home or give to someone special. A perfect way to celebrate yourself, your mother, or someone who feels like home! All levels and bodies welcome.
Price: $45 ($40 members)
Restorative Yoga w/Najee Robbins
Join Najee for a nourishing evening of Restorative Yoga, a style of practice meant to facilitate deep relaxation in the body through the support of props.
Expect fewer postures and plenty of time to settle into the comfort of each shape. The nature of this practice does not build heat, so we encourage you to dress cozy and bring something soft to cover your eyes.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $25
The Body Remembers: A Yoga & Ecstatic Dance Experience w/ Samantha Mee
Step out of your head and back into your body!
This ecstatic dance experience led by Samantha Mee begins with an opening circle to introduce the practice and create a safe, supportive container, followed by gentle movement and stretches to awaken the body. You’ll be guided with a few simple prompts to inspire your dance, then invited into a self-led, intuitive journey where your body becomes the guide.
This is for anyone craving release, expression, and deeper connection. Whether you’re new to ecstatic dance or returning to it, you will leave feeling lighter, more grounded, and more connected to yourself.
Wear something comfortable you can move freely in! All levels and bodies welcome.
Price: $25
Yoga + Acupuncture w/ Kacee Must & Dr. Alex Herman
Join Citizen Yoga founder, Kacee Must, and Dr. Alex Herman for an exploration of the Spring season and the wood element, through discussion, an extended yoga practice, and an extra long savasana with individual acupuncture treatment.
Space is limited to only 25 participants.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $48 general, $42 members
The Art of Authenticity + Personal Style w/ Kacee Must & Angela Wisniewski-Cobbina
Join Citizen Yoga founder, Kacee Must, and Coup D’état owner, Angela Wisniewski-Cobbina, for a unique, two-part experience designed to help you reconnect with your most authentic self on and off the mat.
We’ll begin with one hour of yoga centered on authenticity, self-trust, and embodied presence. Through mindful movement and breath, you’ll be invited to soften external expectations and return to how you feel in your body.
After practice, we’ll transition into a personal style talk, exploring how authenticity shows up in what we wear. This conversation will focus on using personal style as a tool for self-expression, not trends or rules, so your outer presentation reflects your inner truth.
This workshop is for anyone curious about living and dressing with more intention, confidence, and alignment.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $45
Location: Coup D’état- 9301 Kercheval Ave Suite #6, Detroit, MI 48214
Thawing the Earth: Understanding Spring through the Body and Mind w/ Julie Brazen
Join Julie Brazen, 500-hr Certified Yoga Teacher and Ayurvedic Health Counselor (AHC), for an Ayurvedic Workshop to release winter heaviness and wake spring energy!
Early spring can feel heavy, not because something’s wrong, but because winter hasn’t fully let go yet. We’ll explore kapha dosha and why sluggish energy, foggy thinking, and low motivation are so common this time of year. Through teaching, movement, and guided reflection, you’ll learn how to lighten energy and create momentum without forcing change.
Come as you are. Leave a little lighter. All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $35 General, $30 Members
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: $135
Non-refundable, please book with confidence. Recordings will be 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.
Spring Renewal: Yoga, Somatics + Reiki for Rebirth w/ Adina Marie Rose
Join Adina as we celebrate Spring and the rebirth of both the Earth and ourselves. Spring is a potent time for new energy and new visions. This workshop will support you in shaking off any winter heaviness and working with the growing light to create what you desire.
Class includes yoga + somatics to clear winter stagnancy, Reiki to soften any lingering tension and open you to your potential, community to amplify our joy, and ritual to reflect and clarify our vision. Please bring a yoga mat, journal, and pen.
Optional: blanket/pillow and a grounding tool such as a crystal or essential oil. All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $40
Planting Intentions: Yoga + Terrarium Building w/ Alyssa Riddle & Monica Sabella
Celebrate the energy of Spring with a nourishing yoga practice and a creative, earth-connected activity!
Planting Intentions begins with a mindful, alignment-focused yoga flow designed to ground the body and open space for new beginnings. After class, you’ll build your own terrarium, with guidance from Monica Sabella at Petals & Possibilities, learning the basics of care while creating something meaningful and alive.
Come move, create, and connect with community as we step into spring together!
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $55
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Petals and Possibilities brings nature to you in a hands-on floristry class for all levels.
With over a decade of experience, Monica has learned the green industry from the inside out. From greenhouse production to landscape design to floral arranging, she has loved every minute of her work.
She has taught classes at the Ford House in Grosse Pointe, Garden Clubs, private groups and house parties. She has trained all ages and enjoyed the opportunity of guiding special needs teens in gardening practices.
Extended Practice: Yin + Reiki for the Spring Equinox w/ Rooney Roark
Celebrate the Spring Equinox with an extended yin yoga practice infused with Reiki. This deeply restorative offering supports balance, energetic clearing, and gentle renewal as we transition into spring. Expect long-held postures, intentional stillness, and space to receive.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $25
Step Into Spring: Journaling, Pranayama & Yinyasa w/ Kayla Spray
As we welcome the Spring Equinox, we step out of the season of reflection and move into the season of renewal. We will begin with a short journal exercise focusing on what we are working to clear and release as well as what intentions we intend to plant and nourish throughout this season.
This extended Yinyasa practice will incorporate twists, heart openers, salutations and pranayama to support the transition into spring. All levels and bodies welcome!
All attendees will receive a Citizen Yoga Spring Wellness Journal as part of their workshop registration.
Price: $35
A Practice for the Senses: Yoga + Cheese + Chocolate w/ Kacee Must
Join Kacee Must and Zach Berg, owner of Monger's Provisions, for an indulgent two-hour experience designed to nourish both body and senses!
We’ll begin with a 60-minute all-levels yoga practice focused on presence within your senses.
After class, shift from mindful movement into mindful tasting as Zach, a cheese and chocolate expert, guides you through a curated sampling experience. You’ll learn about flavor profiles, pairings, and the art of savoring while enjoying a thoughtfully selected variety of cheeses and artisan chocolates in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $49
Location: Monger's Provisions, 3127 12 Mile Rd, Berkley, MI 48072
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
Hours are eligible for the 300hr program. Please contact Elyse to register at your discounted price.
Yin + Yang: Binding + Unbinding w/ Soojin Kim & Melissa Wagasy
Join Soojin and Melissa to balance the energetics of Yin & Yang in an asana practice specializing in binding in poses (contraction) and un-binding (expansion). This exploration between the yin and yang invites us to harmonize the interconnectedness between these dualistic and paradoxical energies and how we can embody them in an integrated way.
We will end with a dreamy, nourishing sound bath to ease your nervous system and heart.
All bodies and levels welcome!
Price: $40
Breathe + Barre w/ Melissa Wagasy & Sitara Bird
Join Melissa and Sitara for a mindful movement experience that blends the grounding elements of yoga with the strength and precision of barre. This class is designed to help you cultivate your inner resilience through the connection breath. Expect to build strength through smaller, isometric movements while stabilizing through grounding postures.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $40
Ecstatic Breath: Sacral + Root Chakra Meditation 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
Yin Yoga + Sound Healing Extended Practice w/ Samantha Mee
Slow down. Soften. Receive.
Join Samantha for an evening of deep rest and energetic renewal through the gentle practice of Yin yoga and the soothing vibrations of sound healing.
This experience is designed to support the nervous system, release physical and emotional tension, and bring harmony to the mind, body, and spirit. Yin yoga invites the body to open slowly and safely, while sound frequency works on a cellular level to balance the subtle energy field, leaving you feeling lighter, grounded, and deeply restored.
You’ll leave feeling calm yet energized; clear yet dreamy, with a renewed sense of inner peace and a softness that carries into the days ahead.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $30
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.
Price: $25
**This session is FREE for Citizen Yoga Founder's Members.
Somatics for Anger + Other Emotions w/ Adina Marie Rose
Join Adina as we explore how we carry, move and release emotions. We'll consider the wisdom and medicine of each emotion, explore where and how it manifests in the body, and use different techniques to support fluid emotional/energetic movement. Together we'll discover the relationship between our emotions and our nervous system with the intention of supporting our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well being. This workshop is intended as a guide for students to begin or grow their own self care practices, especially as they relate to emotion.
All levels + bodies welcome.
Please bring a yoga mat, journal, and pen. Optional: blanket/pillow and a grounding tool such as a crystal or essential oil.
Price: $40
Partner Thai Yoga Massage Workshop w/ Kayla Spray + Dayle Extrell
Join Kayla and Dayle for an afternoon of exchanging metta and becoming familiar with the healing properties of touch.
Thai yoga massage incorporates a variety of assisted stretching techniques in order to aid our partner in balancing their body's subtle energy and support healing.
This is a great opportunity for current or aspiring yoga teachers to learn body work techniques that can be utilized as therapeutic adjustments in class, as well.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $60 per pair
Moon Cycle Introspection: Tarot + Restore w/ Steph Bunno-Faultersack + Emily James
Join Steph Bunno-Faultersack and Tarot Reader Emily James for a soulful evening beneath the New Moon, a time traditionally associated with introspection, clearing space, and beginning again. This immersive gathering weaves lunar wisdom, intuitive tarot, journaling, breathwork, and deeply restorative yoga to support emotional clarity, self-expression, and heart-centered release.
Guided by the radiant and visionary energy of the Aquarius New Moon, we’ll begin with an opening circle and new-moon reflection, exploring what is ready to be seen, expressed, and manifested. From there, we’ll settle into a nourishing restorative yoga practice designed to calm the nervous system and invite warmth, softness, and self-compassion during the quiet of winter.
Each participant will receive a personal tarot experience, using the cards as mirrors for insight, affirmation, and embodied truth, with the option to book a full virtual reading following the event.
Held in a softly curated space with candlelight, crystals, lunar elements, and warming mocktails, this evening offers a pause to honor your inner fire, rest deeply, and reconnect with what truly lights you up.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Price: $40
Space is limited: 15 people