THE OBJECT OF LIVING (Thursday September 10th)
with Abbie Galvin

Oscar Wilde said: “To become a work of art is the object of living." Other philosophers have also weighed in on what fosters happiness, fulfillment, a life worth living; and all agree in their differing ideas and offerings of techniques, that to live a creative life happens on the daily, with the conscious intention to find and create meaning. We will initiate our immersive journey into creativity with an exploration of how living a creative life is the secret sauce to a recipe for fulfilment, happiness, and the capacity to love. 

CREATIVE ORIENTATION (Thursday September 17th)
with Ty Watson

Creativity isn’t simply a talent that some people have, but our uniquely human way of organizing meaning and metabolizing our experience. If we think of it as part of our constitution instead of a luxury, then our practice stops being a retreat from our lives and becomes a way to participate more fully. In this session we will explore the idea that creativity isn’t an output but an orientation that we can use to meet and shape our experience.

CREATIVE EMBODIMENT (Thursday September 24th)
with Evan McClain

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THE CREATIVITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Thursday October 1st)
with Chase Connolly

Becoming aware of an object within our perception, experiencing it, and its subsequent departure from our awareness is described as Spanda; the dynamic pulsation of consciousness. This pulsation is described as a constant act of creation. We will discuss the foundational concepts of this exquisite understanding of consciousness and how at every moment we are experiencing the dynamic creation of our own awareness. Through the use of contemplative and meditation techniques we will learn the basics of stilling the mind to allow our innate creativity to move us through inspired action. 

CREATIVE ALCHEMY (Thursday October 8th)
with Kyle Henry

Throughout history and across cultures, alchemy is a process of transforming, purifying, and transmuting matter and spirit. Ideas, raw materials, life experiences, relationships, and emotions are some of the very substances from which alchemical and creative expression are forged. Drawing on alchemical traditions from both Daoist and Western canons, we’ll explore how to tap into our creative essence, how we hold the capacity to transform ourselves and our circumstances, and how that transformation connects us more deeply to the world around us.

THE CREATIVE UNCONSCIOUS (Thursday October 15th)
with Jason Bacasa

Great Nature is generous with her patterns, but unmovable — never more clear than in the 24 hours she allots each of us, no more, no less. But what if there's a loophole, a way to dilate time itself? Every night in sleep we drop into a place where we "lose" time, and where our instinctual, vital, and creative self lives — arriving as image. In this immersion, we'll explore dreams, patterning, and sovereign images to widen that loophole, bringing its depth, and its creativity, back into waking life.

THE CREATIVE HEART MIND (Thursday October 22nd)
with Elena Brower

Steady asana practice woven with contemplative pauses and prompts opens something true and embodied in our creative self. We'll take time to dowse in practice for what's shifting in heart-mind, and write to unearth what's emerging, prepare for a project you've been putting off, or deepen what you're already working on.

IMAGINATION IN FORM (Thursday October 29th)
with Abbie Galvin

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THE ASTROLOGY OF CREATIVITY (Thursday November 5th)
with Sophia Campana

As the age of Aquarius dawns we are entering a fundamentally creative time that demands innovation, forward thinking and collective collaboration. The axis of Leo and Aquarius can be considered the creativity axis, as it governs the cross reference between our primal creative life force and our visionary divine inspiration. Regardless of whether or not we have planets or aspects in these signs, these energies exist within each of us and we can look to these areas of our chart to determine how these forces emanate within us and how we can best apply them for both individual creative empowerment and collective creative awakening.

CREATIVE LIFE FORCE (Thursday November 12th)
with Sara Gallagher

Prana is the vitality, the spark, the twinkle in the eye. It comes through the breath but it is not just the breath. It animates every single thing in life. In this session we unlock the pranic currents through various Kundalini breathwork and meditation techniques to consciously work with this pranic reservoir for energy, vitality and resilience, building balance within the mind body vessel.

LIVING THE QUESTIONS (Thursday November 19th)
with Ally Bogard

Creativity is a way of meeting a moment with fresh eyes and participating with life in a way that feels more true to your essence. This session uses contemplative, somatic, and inquiry-based practices to help you live into compelling questions, not to find answers, but to see how dynamic being in the I help shift perspective, see yourself differently, and ask questions that move past habitual thinking into genuinely new territory. 

xxx (Thursday December 3rd)
with Dages Juvelier Keates

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CREATIVE INSPIRATION (Thursday December 10th)
with Ty Watson

There is a myth that creativity lives in total freedom - a blank page, a lone genius, a metaphorical lightning strike. As practitioners, we suspect that there may be more to it than meets the eye. This session takes some of the most galvanising pieces of the Katonah Yoga theory - the ideas and forms that shape how we think about things - and traces them backwards together. Where did this come from? What is being referenced? What is this drawing from, and what is different about how we use it? We’ll see that information which gets inherited, remixed and reshaped stays alive, and that creativity doesn’t ask us to be geniuses, but to know how to continue the conversation with what came before.

CREATIVE LIFE CYCLES (Thursday December 17th)
with Abbie Galvin

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