The first day of spring is March 19th In great nature and in you. Spring is the birthing season, the time for development and creation. It is the opportunity to reevaluate, begin again and launch yourself new. Time to clean out, let go. lighten up and make way for what’s to come. Spring is the wood element, which governs all living growing trees, plants and the human being. It is the final strengthing of the roots, the trunk, the limbs, the joints. It is correlated with the Idea and your capacity for mental clarity, discernment, decision making. This fortuitous birthing and growing season is until June 21st, the first day of summer. Let’s take best advantage of this time, in space and ourselves.
In the Chinese System, the primary organ for Spring is the Liver. The liver has more than a hundred known functions. A Peek: The liver is your endurance in life. The liver is the master laboratory of the body, it is in charge of dispersion and dredging: it is largely responsible for the regulation of emotion, it is related to anger and suppressed/over expressed anger impairs its function, 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 capacities.
Join us for a rigorous (as Spring calls for nothing less) buoyant, interactive, informative, alchemizing practice: heating, spinning, twisting, bending, strengthening our roots, all woven with pranayama to clean you out and keep it light, springs magic to support and inspire, while threading in visionary possibilities of insight, outsight, peripheral, hind, fore, reflective, revelatory, fluid, static, honed, vast, multi, UNI vision ahhh there's no end !!!
We will circle it all up in a guided meditation to reorient/organize; recalibrate, be fed by Springs Medicine and Power and InVision your new self in the making.
IVY RAY is a is a Mother, native New Yorker, singer, formerly signed recording artist, voice-over talent, published songwriter and business and life consultant. She has been with Nevine Michaan practicing, teaching and living the Katonah Yoga Material for 21 years. Her forte has primarily been private instruction and intimate systematic groups. Her work has spanned from therapeutics, educators, physicians, elites in business, sports, literature, music, film and the arts, to top women’s organizations, mothers, young adults and all the wild and lovely in between. Ivy has re-emerged over the last few years as a unique/potent voice in Katonah Yoga Teacher Trainings, Intensives and World Culture. Ivy’s life and teaching is continually informed by the natural world, the magic and wisdom of what has been, the privilege and great joy of her son, relationship and the daily grace, grit and beauty of All Things Life. Ivy resides in New York City and Beacon, New York. To learn more pls visit: IvyRay.One
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