DETROIT WORKSHOP
Nervous System Reset
Fri, Sept 29, 7-8:30pm
Join Sam Kalvelage and Elyse Brogdon to restore your body, mind, and breath.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $30
ROYAL OAK EXPERIENCE
Extended Practice
+ Sound Healing
Tue, Oct 3, 5-6:45pm
Location: Citizen Yoga Royal Oak
Price: $35
OUTDOOR YOGA
Yoga + Apple Picking
Sat, Oct 14, 10-11:15am
Your ticket includes class, 1/4 bushel of u-pick apples, a donut, and a glass of cider. Class will be in the fields, so dress warm and wear your favorite Fall flannel.
Yoga Class: 10am-11am
Apple Picking + more: 11:15am and after
Location: Stony Creek Orchard & Cider Mill, 2961 32 Mile Rd, Bruce Township, MI 48065
Price: $35
ROYAL OAK EXPERIENCE
Solar Eclipse
Yin + Live Cello
Sun, Oct 15, 7-8:30pm
Students will connect to their breath, feel the music, and experience their Yin yoga practice with new energy in this perfectly paced class with a magical and relaxing vibe.
We will also be honoring the October new moon and solar eclipse.
All levels and bodies welcome!
Location: Citizen Yoga Royal Oak
Price: $40
DETROIT WORKSHOP
Sound Healing, Reiki + Somatic Movement
Sun, Oct 22, 5-7pm
Adina and Prabudh welcome you to a dreamy + restorative evening using the practices of sound healing with crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, Reiki, somatic movement, and meditation.
These practices support students to enter a deeply relaxed state in which we can release stagnant energy (stress!) and let go of energetic blocks. This journey inward connects us to our inspiration, our intuition, and the creative forces that can feel harder to access when we’re stressed. Through movement, visualizations, and surrender, we’ll connect more deeply to our most vibrant and at ease selves.
Wear comfortable clothing and be prepared to take a journey that explores the beauty of your inner landscape.Please bring a yoga mat, journal + pen and anything you need to create a cozy set up (blanket, bolster, pillow, eye pillow, grounding tool such as a crystal or essential oil, etc.).
All levels and bodies welcome!
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $40
Bio:
Prabudh Noel is a psychotherapist (LMSW), Reiki Teacher, and sound healer who specializes in the integration of peace and centeredness through mindfulness training, sound healing, and therapy. He employs a blend of evidence based modalities and concepts/tools from eastern spirituality to provide services to the Metro Detroit area. His specialties are in treating anxiety and depression with additional experience serving the LGBTQIA+ community. When not working, Prabudh enjoys creating clay sculptures inspired by nature and abstract paintings guided by intuition.
BLOOMFIELD EXPERIENCE
Halloween Extended Practice:
Twist or Treat
Mon, Oct 30, 6:30-8pm
Learn how to safely move through deep twisting postures and leave with open hips and some Halloween treats!
All levels and bodies welcome!
Location: Citizen Yoga Bloomfield
Price: $25
ROYAL OAK EXPERIENCE
Grateful Table:
Yoga + Cooking Class
Sun, Nov 5, 11am-1pm
Join Citizen Yoga teacher, Elyse Brogdon, and longtime student + local chef, Lynne Savino, for an afternoon of yoga, food, and community.
We will start with a yoga practice + gratitude connection activity, then participate in a cooking class + family style brunch! All students will leave with recipes and the know-how to prepare multiple vegetarian + gluten free holiday side dishes.
This workshop will be held at Lynne’s amazing event space, “The Bank,” at 3401 Michigan Avenue in Detroit. Street parking is available on 23rd and Michigan Avenue.
All levels and bodies are welcome!
Location: The Bank, 3401 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, MI
Price: $50
ONLINE
Sadhana + Self Study
Tue + Fri, Nov 28- Dec 15
6-7:45am
Join Kacee for a three week course on cultivating a personal asana practice + contemplative study at home.
Before each session, you will be provided a philosophical focus for study and a pranayama and asana sequence that you can keep for your personal home practice library. The online session will begin with participants studying individually, but together for 25 min. After that period of time, Kacee will lead a philosophy discussion addressing questions and reflections on the provided material. After 45 min, Kacee will then guide you through that day’s physical practice. The sessions are to help students build confidence to embark on more personal contemplation and home asana practice with the support of satsang.
Sessions will meet online on Tuesdays and Fridays, with philosophy study from 6-6:45am and asana practice 6:45-7:45am.
This workshop counts as 12 hours towards the Citizen Yoga 300HR Training program. You do not have to be enrolled in the 300 HR program to participate. Modules are open to all experience levels and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the practice.
Location: Online
Price: $210
GUEST TEACHER
Katonah Yoga® Immersion Weekend
with Abbie Galvin
Fri-Sun, Feb 9-11
3 Extended Practices + (2) 5hr Intensives
Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world.
To register for the full weekend (5 sessions, 17 hours) at the discounted rate of $450, use the link below. Students may join for individual sessions as well. Scroll down for individual session registration.
Abbie’s instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.
KATONAH YOGA® is a syncretic Hatha yoga practice developed by Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga Center 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. Framing the practice, maps of time and personal space are defined and refined. Themes using asana as origami, manipulating form for function, and developing a sense of personal measure are incorporated in Katonah Yoga practices. Katonah Yoga is organized around three principles of esoteric dialogue: all polarities are mediated by trinity; the universe has pattern, pattern belies intelligence; by virtue of repetition there is potential for insight. Disciplined techniques are organized for revelation through revolutions.
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Private Session
with Abbie
Friday, Feb 9, 10am-5pm
SOLD OUT
A private lesson is an opportunity to refine and reform your personal technique. It’s also a way to integrate your explicit physical practice with your implicit internal life.
From body reading, to therapeutic adjustments private training affords the opportunity to address foibles, injuries, challenges and other issues that may require more personal attention than available in a class setting.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: 1 hour private session $200
EXTENDED PRACTICE
Katonah Yoga:
Restorative
Friday, Feb 9
5:30-7:30pm
Restoration is the work of returning something to its former state and relaxation is the state of freedom from tension or anxiety, our goal is reformation: the act of improving or making changes for the better.
The technique of restorative yoga is to embody formal forms (asanas) whose geometry over time allows for a therapeutic experience. The Katonah approach to restorative yoga is meant to reshape a stressed out, uninformed or broken body, which helps to set up the conditions to redirect a life. This masterclass is for both teachers looking to assimilate restorative theory into their teaching, as well as students interested in immersing themselves in a restorative experience to more deeply profit from it.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $50
EXTENDED PRACTICE
Katonah Yoga:
Asana + Pranayama
Saturday, Feb 10
9:45am-12:15pm
The Katonah practice is designed to awaken pieces of ourselves from the slumber of unconscious habits in order to access our sentient self.
The use of technique rather than our personal impulses affords better function. Thus, it is technique that propositions us to change. We use measure rather than feelings to create a stable structure and as we do, we discover that our body was designed to to fit itself. In this masterclass we will move through the fundamentals of the Katonah Yoga asana practice and experience the power of pranayama to open up territory in our bodies for our spirit to move through it.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $50
5 HOUR INTENSIVE
Magic Square + Body Reading
Saturday, Feb 10
12:30-5:30pm
The biggest metaphor of the Katonah practice is the body as a house. Each floor of the house expresses different parts of the whole, while housing unique information, functions and efficiencies. In this intensive we will introduce the magic square, the Katonah map to navigating personal potential.
We will then move on to body reading, using this map to inform and guide our readings, learning how to unearth chronic and acute physical issues and explore what to do with the information we discover.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $175
EXTENDED PRACTICE
Katonah Yoga:
Asana + Pranayama
Sunday, Feb 11
9:45am-12:15pm
The Katonah practice is designed to awaken pieces of ourselves from the slumber of unconscious habits in order to access our sentient self.
The use of technique rather than our personal impulses affords better function. Thus, it is technique that propositions us to change. We use measure rather than feelings to create a stable structure and as we do, we discover that our body was designed to to fit itself. In this masterclass we will move through the fundamentals of the Katonah Yoga asana practice and experience the power of pranayama to open up territory in our bodies for our spirit to move through it.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $50
5 HOUR INTENSIVE
Practicing with Props + Adjustments
Sunday, Feb 11
12:30-5:30pm
This intensive will serve as an experience of how to use information magically; touching someone in a real way, moving someone so they can get out of their own way, affecting someone so they have an insight.
Developing your own vision is the key to learning how to teach and adjust well. The goal is to change someone’s frame of reference, offering them a re-orientation in order to open a portal of experience impossible on one’s own. We will work pragmatically as well as theoretically, moving through asanas in order to discover how best to approach an adjustment, move a body and affect someone’s practice. Come fine tune your capacity as an adjuster, develop your relationship to touch and enhance your ability to see more dimensionally in order to enrich another person’s vision.
Location: Citizen Yoga Detroit
Price: $175
