Katonah 30hr schedule
Thursday Masterclass
KATONAH FOUNDATIONS: Measure, Fit and Function
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 iself.
9:30am -12pm
Thursday 5hr Intensive
ADJUSTMENTS + HOW TO DEAL WITH INJURIES
Developing your own vision is the key to learning how to adjust well. The goal of an adjustment is to change someone’s frame of reference. For the most part, since personal style summons one’s unconscious habits, adjusting another practitioner's pose offers a different angle, a new direction, or a re-orientation in order to open a portal of experience impossible on one's own.
12pm - 5pm
Friday Masterclass
HOME PRACTICE: Ground of Being
A home practice addresses the vision and virtue of personal health, wellbeing and long life. Engaging in a home practice is a way of addressing the manner in which one personally organizes one’s self. The integration of a home practice is a continuous act of self cultivation, a process that is never over. It is recreated and redirected with every experience one encounters through their life, making the Home Practice the ultimate refuge and space for insight.
930am-12pm
Friday 5hr Intensive
PRANAYAMA + BODY AS A HOUSE
The magic square is an ancient grid of numbers whose coherence forms a measured pattern of integration and dexterity. When the magic square is presented flat, it resembles a tic tac toe board, but when regarded with dimension it is a cube, becoming synonymous with the body, whose possession of legs, arms, torso and head provides the idea of being personally embodied; the idea of being contained. Moving through the route of the magic square organizes us in time and space.
Pranayama allows us to enter the interior of our physical body by way of active and conscious participation with the lungs, the gateway to the interior. We place our mind within the body to navigate the interior, developing new pathways for consciousness to run through the bodily form, whilst developing a more facile imaginative experience.
12pm-5pm
Saturday Masterclass
KATONAH ASANA: Making the Linear Spherical
The goal of the practice is to become spherical, a sphere of influence on and off the mat. Once we set up the linear aspects of the practice, once we establish measure, the goal then becomes to become round. In this masterclass we will explore the myriad backbend postures that make up the Katonah practice. A backbend is an arch and an arch is a bridge between the past and the future. A backbend is a glimpse of the future, a glimpse of our potential and every pose should have a backbend in it because this practice is a practice of potential.
11am-1:30pm
Saturday 5hr Intensive
BODY READING
Reading a body, assessing a pose, interpreting where one is heading, is the art of seeing. Poses show propensities of behavior and how personal habits are articulated in the practice. When we look at a yoga pose, we reference the ideal form of it so that we have a template, a map, a criteria to look for. Form that is not functional, that is dysfunctional, is not sustainable. Our work is to transform the personal to a formal form that functions formidably.
2pm-7pm
Sunday Masterclass
KATONAH ORIGAMI: Folding and Unfolding
Yoga is origami for the body. Similar to paper folding in origami, the more we fold in our joint spaces, like a paper crease, the more energy flows through these joint spaces. In this masterclass we will move through warrior sequences and the classic Katonah sun and moon salutations to fold and unfold ourselves for optimal function.
11-1:30pm
Sunday 5hr Intensive
RESTORATIVE
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. 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.
2pm-7pm