A Weekend with Dages Juvelier Keates
A Weekend with Dages Juvelier Keates
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.
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.
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.