Dear Expand Yoga Community,

 I am thrilled to return for yet another season perhaps the Most fortuitous of all, Spring! I Look forward to seeing you and hopeful for some new faces! Love and Cheers Ivy

Ivy will be in house for Private Instruction April 2nd and 3rd Sign Sheet up at the studio.

This Wholistic all-inclusive System is for EveryOne and is to be worn, used, lived in your current lives/traditions. 

This go-round, we will work on ourselves and one another.  We will deconstruct and reassemble you and some of fundamental positionings and theories of the Katonah Yoga Material in am aim of discovering, no matter what tradition you follow, where you might have left your self out of the equation and where you can redefine and therefore up your overall functionality, taking best advantage of yourselves into your lives. We will do all of this through the template of Spring

JOIN US as we orient and organize, via Nevine Michaan’s Territorial Wisdom; work with number, geometry, measure, form, fit, function, metaphor and magic distilling this and more into pragmatic tools and techniques which bring it all into You, where it is designed to be Worn, Used, Lived, and in time Embodied. All in an aim of becoming more Evenly Developed/Freely Functional, Effective, Virtuous women, men, teachers, leaders, partners, parents, friends.

YOU CAN EXPECT an informative, interactive, at times rigorous communal practice, as Spring calls for nothing less, threaded with the purpose, medicine and intelligence of Spring including techniques to clean house and tend to associated organs. We will Rise, as this is the season of ascension and regulate our heat, refine and strengthen our roots, bend, swirl and twist and do a full pranayama practice to clean, invigorate and renew. 

We will then shift in, to tend to our chemistry and soothe our souls. Lastly, we’ll circle it all up in a well earned still guided meditation to reorient/organize; recalibrate, be fed by Springs Magic and InVision your new self in the making.

I’ll make time for your questions. 

AN OVERVIEW OF SPRING THROUGH THE LENS OF THE CHINESE SYSTEM: Spring is the birthing season, the beginning of the new seasonal arc and entry into the Yang cycle.  It is the time for development and creation. Time to clean out, lighten up, and make way for the new. Spring is the wood element, which governs all living growing trees, plants and the human being. It is the strengthening of the roots, the trunk, the limbs, the joints. A Spring done well heightens your capacity for mental clarity, decision making, discernment and liberation.

The primary organ for Spring is the Liver. The liver is your endurance in life, the master laboratory of the body. It is in charge of dispersion and dredging: It is largely responsible for the regulation of emotion, the liver’s associated emotion is anger. Unchecked/ over expressed effects its functionality.  It governs digestion and absorption, the circulation of qi and blood, as well as our reproductive function. 

The liver houses the hun (our spiritual consciousness) the hun is essential to our spiritual and psychological dynamic. Lastly, the liver is connected to our eyes, their physiological function as well as our capacity for Vision in all its forms.

Katonah Yoga® is a syncretic Hatha yoga practice developed by Nevine Michaan 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. Katonah Yoga is organized around three principles of esoteric dialogue: all polarities are mediated by Trinity; the universe has pattern, pattern implies intelligence; by repetition of virtuous technique there is insight and understanding. To learn More please visit: KatonahYoga.com