FIVE ELEMENT IMMERSION

Wednesdays in July and August (2-4pm EST)
Price: $250 full program ($30 per session)

All hours bankable toward your Katonah Yoga® Certification.

In ancient times Chinese scientists studied patterns in nature. They watched the movement of sunlight and shadows across the hills as the day progressed, and the characteristics from each season as it emerged and then evolved into the next phase of the year. They observed the life cycles of plants: tiny sprouts that grew upward toward the sun, blossoming, bearing fruit with seeds to start the next generation, then declining, dying and returning to the soil. They also observed the stages of life in humans and animals. What they came to see is that all of life moves in a circle, from birth, through life, to death, then birth again. Within this circle, they noticed patterns in how this passage of time plays out: a cycle of five different stages where the energy has distinct qualities. They called these phases the five elements and gave each a name to describe the type of energy represented: wood, fire, earth, metal, water.

Join us to explore the five elements as the building blocks of the five phases of energy, that guide and direct the theoretical principles of our practice, our understanding of nature and through it our understanding of ourselves.

THE FIVE ELEMENTS (Wednesday July 6th)
with Kyle Henry

In this session we will introduce and review the five elements as they relate to our five major organs and the five major seasons, demonstrating the relationship between great nature and personal nature.

THE CYCLES OF THE FIVE ELEMENTS (Wednesday July 13th)
with Abbie Galvin

In this session we will explore how the elements relate to one another: feeding each other through the generative cycle and balancing each other out through the control cycle.

FIVE ELEMENT BREATHWORK (Wednesday July 20th)
with Kyle Freeman

In this session we will explore breathwork practices for each element and season.

EMOTIONAL ALCHEMY OF THE FIVE ELEMENTS (Wednesday July 27th)
with Chris Chen

In this session we will explore the emotional tonality of each element so that rather than identify with our emotions we can recognize ourselves as beings having an emotional experience, in order to use them to our advantage.

THE FIVE ELEMENTS + THE MAGIC SQUARE (Wednesday August 3rd)
with Kyle Henry

In this session we will explore how the five elements correspond to each of the the nine squares of the traditional magic square in their cyclical relationship to each other.

THE FIVE ELEMENTS + THE ICHING (Wednesday August 10th)
with Kyle Henry

In this session we will explore the history and construction of the iChing, a philosophical approach to decoding and understanding the universe, which can help bring insight to the cycles or changes we all go through in our lives.

FIVE ELEMENT ACTIVATION QIGONG (Wednesday August 17th)
with Chris Chen

In this session we will practice qigong to activate the meridians in order to experience the emotional tonality of each element more completely, using the practice to embody our emotional experience.

THE FIVE SPIRITS (Wednesday August 24th)
with Jessica Willis

In this session we will explore the Five Spirits: Shen, Hun, Yi, Po and Zhi, whom lend poetic rapture to the roles and archetypes of the organ networks, helping us navigate our paths with ever more precision.

FIVE ELEMENT FACE READING (Wednesday August 31st)
with Abbie Galvin

In this session we will explore face reading as it is informed by the five elements. Following universal laws of nature, one's face is a blueprint of their narrative, another map of a self, a life and its potentials.

Join us LIVE ON ZOOM for a series of 9 sessions. Sign up for the whole program or drop in session by session. Attendees will receive a zoom link via email one hour before the start of each session. Recordings available upon request. Email info@thestudio.yoga after the session to request.

Please book confidently, no refunds granted.