Abbie Galvin is returning for another incredible weekend this fall. You’ll have 5 opportunities to learn and practice in community with a NYC-based Katonah Yoga expert.
Interested in attending the entire weekend? Save $50 when you purchase all 5 sessions.
NOTE: Please book confidently, we do not honor refunds for any of these specialty modules.
300HR Students: 5HR Intensives count towards program hours. Please contact Elyse to register at your hourly rate.
FRIDAY SESSION
Extended Practice: Katonah Yoga® Asana + Pranayama
Date: Friday, Nov 1, 2024
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Price: $50
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.
SATURDAY SESSIONS
Extended Practice: Katonah Yoga® Asana + Pranayama
Date: Saturday, Nov 2, 2024
Time: 8-10am
Price: $50
Katonah Yoga® 5-hour Intensive: Props + Hands On Adjustments
Date: Saturday, Nov 2, 2024
Time: 11am-4pm
Price: $175
This intensive will serve as an experience of how to use information magically; touching someone in a real way, moving someone so they can get out of their own way, affecting someone so they have an insight.
Developing your own vision is the key to learning how to teach and adjust well. The goal is to change someone’s frame of reference, offering them a re-orientation in order to open a portal of experience impossible on one’s own. We will work pragmatically as well as theoretically, moving through asanas in order to discover how best to approach an adjustment, move a body and affect someone’s practice. Come fine tune your capacity as an adjuster, develop your relationship to touch and enhance your ability to see more dimensionally in order to enrich another person’s vision.
SUNDAY SESSIONS
Extended Practice: Katonah Yoga® Asana + Pranayama
Date: Sunday, Nov 3, 2024
Time: 8-10am
Price: $50
Katonah Yoga® 5-hour Intensive: Restorative + Home Practice
Date: Sunday, Nov 3, 2024
Time: 11am-4pm
Price: $175
The technique of restorative yoga is to embody formal forms (asanas) whose geometry over time allows for a therapeutic experience. Restoring anything implies that one is rehabilitating back to an original state of being or function. Our 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.
Home practice is a progressive technique for self-knowledge and personal change. Purposefully different than public class, home practice opens up new emotional and physical vistas in order to deepen our resiliency, ground our nervous system and clarify our perceptual reality.
Over the course of five hours, we will explore restorative + home practice prop set ups, move through various restorative + home practices, address injuries, and experience techniques to traverse our internal landscape while deep inside the poses.
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.
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.