Saturday, November 16 12:00PM-2:00PM | Katonah Yoga Masterclass
Join Dages Juvelier Keates for a joyful Katonah Yoga Master Class that will incorporate rigorous practice, hands-on adjustments, breath work, metaphor, and imagination! Asana is origami for the body: as we fold and unfold joint space, we find form, function and lots of fun! Learn techniques to spice up your practice, feel great, and enjoyably embody complex forms in a practical framework of communal well-being. You will leave feeling strong, structured, stable, and full of new approaches to familiar shapes.
Saturday, November 16 2:00PM-4:00PM | Catch Your Breath
The body will breathe itself with no conscious attention for the entirety of a life. With a bit of awareness and curiosity, its magnificent rhythm can be tuned, trained, and turned to for comfort in times of constriction. Even if the mind races, the breath is there: reliable, trustworthy, present. A rhythm you can count on. An anchor.
We will cover four categories of breath practices, ranging from the ecstatic to the invisible.
Audible and visible
Inaudible and visible
Audible and invisible
Inaudible and invisible
It’s no one’s business you have technique
With the average human taking 20-30,000 breaths per day, there are plenty of opportunities to practice.
Sunday, November 17 12:00PM-2:00PM | Magic Square and Body Reading
The body is a visible, ephemeral ingathering of tissues and organs that resonate in relationship to the invisible. We are the shape that holds a history, a kind of sonic organ of connection, with ourselves and our surroundings. The invisible is imprinted on and within us. Therapeutic somatic practices move us, touch us, open us and affect us, to the level of neurology, fascial organization, even epigenetics.
Your neural net reflects your fascia. Use Katonah Yoga maps to read and refine how to travel inner space and organize outer form. Energetics are the unseen, implicit aspects of an esoteric practice. This workshop takes you deeper into the theory of the subtle body energies, using Katonah Yoga’s theory of the Magic Square, or Lo Shu. Learn how this imaginative cartography interfaces with other systems: the chakras, tree of life, and others.
Price: $50 per session, or $140 for the full weekend
About Dages
Dages Juvelier Keates (she/they) is an artist working with and through the materiality of their body as a somatic space for holding paradox. Their works explore performative and poetic methodologies in researching internal cartographies of somatic, psychoanalytic, and nonhuman knowledges.
Dages’s pedagogy and praxis center a queer, intersectional, feminist study of the subjective body as an accumulation of unanswered questions; a carnal, poetic, ephemeral archive entangled within and between “others.” Their transdisciplinary work spans performance, dramaturgy, writing and pedagogy.
Beginning in 2002, Dages's studies have earned accreditations in various lineages. Since 2011, their syncretic teaching style has been profoundly impacted by immersion in studies with their mentor Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah Yoga.® Dages has taught retreats and trainings globally. In 2018, she released her first book, “Radical Acts of Embodiment: Teaching and Practices of Katonah Yoga.”
Dages lives and works between New York City and Stockholm, Sweden.