Radical Acts of Embodiment:
A 30 Hour Teacher Training Intensive
November 17-20, 2022
Hosted by YogaShakti
Stockholm, Sweden
KATONAH YOGA® accredited education
No matter who you are, you fit yourself well. Your knees can fit your armpits, your feet behind your head, your heels into your palms. Using these fits functionally, you can train your practice to be framed and well adjusted. Yoga practice gives you an opportunity to measure up, re-organize your forms, and find the awe that you were designed to fit into yourself and the world with effortless effort. Reorienting from within your practice, you can find points of contact and communication.
This training is offered to teachers and dedicated practitioners, and offers an embodied approach to getting deeper into an existing asana practice. Yoga articulates a philosophy of the body that is both formal and informative. Alignment focused, theory forward, this training will give students new insights from the esoteric ideas of subtle body anatomies to the pragmatic use of geometry to sustain form. We will cover all aspects of Katonah Yoga’s unique practices, including adjustments, restorative, teaching privates, home practice, body reading, magic square, breath work and more.
Learn techniques to adjust yourself and your students in order to maximize revelation and minimize common mistakes. This workshop is focused on training students to work with straps, blocks, hands, feet, poles, chairs and more for personal care, and eventually supporting others. You will gain competence through hands-on experience, and confidence through applied knowledge. Every day will begin with three hours of Katonah Yoga practice: asana, pranayama, meditation. Afternoon sessions will dive into the depths of applied theory.
We will cover:
Maps and Materials: Katonah Yoga’s charts and glyphs, including the Magic Square and Wraps for Rapture
Principles and Geometry of alignment in yoga poses, archetypes of numbers
Hands-on Adjustments, modifications for injuries, elders / sensitive students
Working with newbies, injuries, older students and those with limited mobility
Body readings/diagnostics for informing personal practice
Breakdown of frequently used poses and techniques along with their adjustments/modifications
Working with props: straps, blocks, chairs, poles, sandbags and their substitutes
KATONAH YOGA® was founded by Nevine Michaan, and is a Hatha yoga practice refined over forty years, blended with Taoist theory, sacred geometries, pranayama, and meditation. For more information, please visit www.katonahyoga.com.
Credentialing:
This program include 30 hours bankable towards *KATONAH YOGA® certification and a brand new training manual.
*To become a certified KATONAH YOGA® teacher, one must complete 200 hours of Katonah Yoga education with certified Katonah Yoga instructors, after completing a prerequisite 200 hour RYT (Yoga Alliance) training. All intensives, workshops and classes with us count toward the 200 Hour Katonah Yoga education requirement. For more information on this and to begin the process of becoming certified visit Katonah Yoga
Training Investment:
Price references: 800 Euro/8250 SEK (early bird 700 Euro/7250 SEK by September 15)
This training will be small and personal, enabling each participant to get the information that will best support them in empowering others. Specific questions can be emailed to Dages in advance, or feel to bring in your real life examples for mentoring.
Dates: November 17-20, 2022
Time: kl.11.00-18.00
About Dages:
Dages grew up in Jackson, Wyoming. and is now based in Stockholm, Sweden. Dages teaches all over the world at international conferences and teacher trainings. A senior teacher of the Katonah lineage, she is known for having a unique empowering feminist perspective. As a teacher, Dages prizes clarity, compassion and depth of practice. She emphasizes open transmission of knowledge and draws from a wide and various background in yoga, dance, herbalism, language arts, and academic theory.
Her syncretic teaching style has been profoundly impacted by a decade-long immersion in studies with her mentor Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah Yoga. Dages began teaching in 2002. Her Yoga Alliance accreditations span studies from the Bihar School, 3HO, Anusara and Katonah Yoga. She holds a Post-Masters Artistic Research (Sint Lucas Antwerpen 2022), MA Interdisciplinary Studies (New York University, 2014) and BA Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography (Bard College, 2002).
Testimonials from Past Participants:
“Dages is a master of both Katonah material and teaching in general. I felt like I received 15 hours of personal therapeutic attention from both Dages and my fellow students - all so eager learn the material and practice on each other. What a truly magical and enlightening weekend. More, please!”
“Dages is the best!! This course really helped me gain the confidence I was looking for to read and adjust my students one in one.”
“Whether your goal is to improve the experience for your existing clients or take on your very first one, you will absolutely walk away from this program with tools and confidence to do so! Having the opportunity to tap into Dages' extensive experience and her passion for sharing all she knows is invaluable. The set-up of the program was both professional and extremely productive; from the high quality materials to the vast amount of hands on practice each student was able to experience.”
"This training exceeded my expectations on so many levels. The wealth of knowledge and passion that Dages has for this practice is undeniable. This training will expand not only your teaching, but the lens in which you see the World."
“I highly recommend this training module with Dages. I left feeling empowered and filled with practical knowledge on how to give a therapeutic private. I was thoroughly impressed with the structure of the weekend and well Dages time-managed each day. Dages expanded my imagination of what a "yoga practice" looks like and how every body and every mind can benefit from these therapeutic poses and breath work.”
“The Teaching the Therapeutic Private training with Dages was an incredible experience. We learned practical, applicable tools for working with students one-on-one, and were immersed into the magic of Katonah yoga theory. The work was profoundly deep and yet playful. Especially as a vinyasa teacher who primarily teaches group classes, I learned so much and feel so much better equipped to teach privates. I can't recommend this training enough.”