KATONAH YOGA® – WORKSHOP #1
One’s body is not a project or a problem, it is the place each of us is always and already living from. Embodied practice can turn us toward that reality and away from tendencies to dissociate. To live in each of our changing, growing, yearning, dying, aging bodies is to be in touch with what is profoundly human. Practice is not to degrade oneself or aggrandize oneself, but to find the complexity of life as it is on a human scale.
This intensive will deepen your understanding of Katonah Yoga®’s central metaphors and practices. Your body is your house, your personal abode; you want to know how to have a party and clean it up! We will explore Katonah Yoga® theory applied through:
– Asana
– Adjustments
– Pranayama
– Restoratives
– Body Mapping
– Inner Cartographies including the Magic Square and the Body As A House
1) Asana is origami for bodies
Through vigorous practice, we will break down the angles and measures of Katonah® classics: dogs, hangs, squares, lunges, squats and pigeons. Learn how to use archetypes, the magic square, and formulas for cross referencing to amplify the currency of your asana practice.
2) Pranayama techniques are recipes for joy
Learn Katonah® tools that enable one to be alone with oneself, plumb one’s depths, get whipped up, embody ecstasy, re-orient, and find joy. Sessions will include lecture, demonstration, and plenty of hands-on, attuned adjustments.
Katonah Yoga® is replete with therapeutic techniques, and will focus on individual questions and concerns. We will take time to set up conditions for body reading, adjustments, and attunements of each individual. A private yoga session is different from a group practice. In a private, you tune your instrument, in a class, you play for the symphony! If you have had a taste of Katonah’s singular material and want a broader understanding of theory and practice, this experience is for you.
Price
– If taken individually : 850€ / early bird 750€ (sign up by December 1st, 2019)
– For those attending at least 2 weekends : 600€ per weekend
Dates
January Thursday 23rd – Sunday 26th, 2020 – From 10am to 6.30pm approximately
Information and registration
academie@tigre-yoga.com
KATONAH YOGA® – 200 hrs TEACHER TRAINING
Katonah Yoga® was founded by Nevine Michaan, and is a Hatha yoga practice refined over forty years, blended with Taoist theory, geometry, pranayama and meditation. For more information, please visit www.katonahyoga.com. This training is open to absolutely everyone. Yet, to become a certified Katonah teacher, one must have already completed a 200 hour RYT training. For more information about this process, please visit www.katonahyoga.com
This deep dive into Katonah Yoga® is the first of its kind in Europe. Over the course of 6 months, participants will have the opportunity to hear Katonah® theory from 6 different teachers, including Nevine Michaan. Designed to integrate with layered complexity, the training will consist of several different modules. All modules can be taken individually. If taken collectively, they will then count as the required 200 hours of the Katonah Yoga® Teacher Program.
3 weekends in Paris – 30 hours/each
1) January 23rd – 26th, 2020 – with DAGES JUVELIER KEATES – for more details, please click here.
2) February 27th – March 1st, 2020 – with ELISA KUUTTILA – for more details, please click here.
3) March 19th – 22nd, 2020 – with ANDREA SAUTER – for more details, please click here.
Location: La Maison du Tigre, 78ter rue Laugier, 75017 Paris
2 months of online mentorship – 20 hours
“Weave It In” – March & April, 2020 – with AYLIN KARADAVI & RENI BICKEL
This program is designed for all participants of the Katonah practice and trainings who are eager to explore the material in their every day lives. For more details, please click here.
1 week-long immersive retreat 120km South of Paris – 70 hours
May 15th – 22nd, 2020 – with DAGES JUVELIER KEATES
Location: La Ferme de Solterre, 2 Rue du Bourg, 45700 Solterre
This week-long course will focus on case studies from your applied practices as students and teachers. You will gain confidence, refine your practice, amplify your techniques. For more details, please click here.
1 weekend in Paris with Nevine Michaan – 20 hours
June 19th – 21st, 2020 – with NEVINE MICHAAN & assisting guest teachers. For more details, please click here.
Location: La Maison du Tigre, 78ter rue Laugier, 75017 Paris
Price for the whole training
4425€ – This price includes the 3 x 30hrs weekends, the mentorship, the retreat (full board / shared room occupancy), the weekend with Nevine and Dages’ book ‘Radical Acts of Embodiment’. If you wish to have a single room during the retreat, the price is 4705€.
Those signing up before Dec. 1st, 2019 will benefit from a special discount on the 10 classes card at Le Tigre studios :
200€ instead of 280€
Information & registration
If you wish to know the individual price of each module, please refer to their individual descriptions on our website
For registration, please contact Fanny at academie@tigre-yoga.com
©Katonah Yoga Center. By Nevine Michaan.
Illustrated by Susan Fierro @susanfierroart
KATONAH YOGA® – WORKSHOP #2
Katonah Yoga® theory gives us unique ways to align the body in asanas, using the body’s own measurements and geometry. Learning how to lead one another into the asana, through adjustments and assisting, gives us greater knowledge about the pose itself. For both the teacher and the student, adjustments open up new paths to understanding. It’s like navigating someone into a place where they’ve never been before.
A key element of this 30 hrs intensive training will be learning how to carefully align the asana to make your own practice more stable. We will focus on the adjustments, as well as using different props in the practice. Blocks, quick release-belts, blankets, chairs, bolsters and tennis balls will all be used in new ways, combining what you already know with the new material to make the practice your own. Aligning and adjusting, as well as the use of props, will all build up to a foundation on which you can create your own sequence and home practice. Working on the mat will become more than doing poses, it becomes a place for us to address the patterns in our lives through the patterns in our bodies. Only by becoming conscious of these patterns is it possible to change them. The insight can only come through conscious repetitions. The goal of the teacher training is to build a new habit, to repeat a pose in yoga refining it each time, so it installs new and improved patterns in our physical and psychological lives. Learning how to teach home practices will enable sharing these insights to new students going forward.
Price
– If taken individually : 850€ / early bird 750€ (sign up by December 1st, 2019)
– For those attending at least 2 weekends : 600€ per weekend
Dates
February Thursday 27th – March Sunday 1st, 2020 – From 10am to 6.30pm approximately
Information and registration
KATONAH YOGA® – ONLINE MENTORSHIP
2 months of online mentorship in March & April – 20 hours
Dates
Beginning of March until the end of April
Information and registration
academie@tigre-yoga.com
Instagram @renibickel @aylinkaradayi
KATONAH YOGA® – WORKSHOP #3
– the Katonah Yoga® Material with Elements of Functional Movement
– the translation of the Katonah Yoga® Theory into your mother tongue
We will take our modern-day bodies through a targeted and intense movement experience that will systematically override our patterns of compensation and poor habits; emphasizing sustainable, freeing, and efficient movement. We will cross-reference Katonah Yoga® Theory with different yoga and movement teachings and practices, seeing Katonah Yoga® in everything. There are so many types of movement, yet Nevine teaches that they are all the same. The purpose is to unify the traditional teachings of yoga with a more modern understanding of the human body by emphasising re-educating compensatory movement strategies that place unnecessary strain on the body.
We will work on:
– Breakdown of frequently used poses and techniques along with their adjustments/modifications
– Working with props: straps, blocks, chairs, poles, sandbags … and when you don’t have any of them
– Gain a deep understanding of the purpose behind every movement so you can teach with confidence
– Refine the process through repetition
– A short glimpse into body readings
2) The Katonah Yoga® Weave – “How to translate the Katonah Yoga® Theory into your mother tongue”
(How to find your own language / voice if English is not your 1st language)
Making the transition from being Katonah Yoga® certified to teaching “The Material” is a big step. Weaving it into your classes in your mother tongue and feeling authentic to yourself and your students seems to be impossible at first. But there is a way. Embody your understanding of the theory and use your imagination to create recipes that work for you and your students both on and off the mat.
Price
– If taken individually : 850€ / early bird 750€ (sign up by December 1st, 2019)
– For those attending at least 2 weekends : 600€ per weekend
Dates
March, Thursday 19th – Sunday 22nd, 2020 – From 10am to 6.30pm approximately
Information and registration
academie@tigre-yoga.com
https://yogamand.de/
Instagram @yogamand
picture credit @Allessandro Sigismondi Photography
KATONAH YOGA® – IMMERSIVE RETREAT
“Becoming Well Adjusted: Building Your Own Practice as a Teacher and Student”
1 week-long immersive retreat (70 hours) with DAGES JUVELIER KEATES
This week-long course will focus on case studies from our applied practices as students and teachers. We will explore:
– Specific Applications of restoratives/therapeutics
– Working with the elderly and with injuries
– Applied breathwork
– Subtle anatomy
– Asana lab with props
Yoga can be radical and revelatory !
Saturate yourself in the development of a versatile practice that can be translated and augmented through whatever yoga you already know. Learn how to use props and language to evolve your practice and teaching. Confidence is based on competency, which is rooted in experience and repetition. Gain confidence, refine your practice, amplify your techniques.
The retreat will take place at the Ferme de Solterre, an amazing retreat center located 120 km south of Paris, near Montargis. Situated on 2 hectares of land, the domain consists of a small castle, an old farm building, a swimming pool, an orchard and a vegetable garden.
The center has 13 high standard ensuite rooms, among which 10 are located in the old farm building looking onto the park and 3 in a 19th century house looking onto the castle and orchard. Each room can either offer 2 single beds or one queen-size bed. Depending on the weather, the residents will either eat their delicious vegetarian meals outside under the shade of the garden trees, or in the main house by the fireplace on a large wooden farm table. Located in the farm building, the practice space is vast, full of natural light, with high ceilings and huge windows looking out onto the gardens and the woods. It is fully equipped with yoga material, which will allow you to experiment the wonders of the Katonah® method.
Dates
2020, From Friday May 15th (afternoon) to Friday 22nd (afternoon)
Prices
The price includes the teachings, the accommodation, 3 meals/day and daily snacks. It does not include the transportation.
1895€ for a shared double room
2175€ for a single room
Location
La Ferme de Solterre, 2, Rue du Bourg, 45700 Solterre
http://fermedesolterre.fr/
Info & registration
academie@tigre-yoga.com
https://www.dagesjuvelierkeates.com/
@dagesjuvelierkeates
KATONAH YOGA® – 20hrs WITH NEVINE MICHAAN
We are extremely lucky, proud and happy to welcome Nevine Michaan, creator of the Katonah method.
She has become renowned not only for her poetic metaphors and mastering of yoga, but also for her keen ability to read people’s bodies almost instantaneously upon meeting them. During this workshop, she will take your mind on a journey while tuning up your physical space. You will leave feeling well integrated, exhilarated and radiant.
This module is open to everyone. It will count as the final 20hrs of our 200hrs Katonah Yoga® certification program. If you wish to participate in the training, please refer to this page. Nevine will be teaching this 20hrs workshop assisted by guest teachers.
ONLY 10 SPOTS LEFT – RESERVED FOR THOSE TAKING ONE OR MORE OF THE OTHER MODULES
Price
– For those also attending one 30hrs module : 600€
– For those attending at least 2 weekends of 30hrs or the retreat: 400€
Dates
June, Friday 19th – Sunday 21rst, 2020
Friday 19th & Saturday 20th: from 10am to 6.30pm
Sunday 21rst: from 10.30am to 4.30pm
Information and registration
academie@tigre-yoga.com
