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We’ll explore measured alignment, patterned movement, and poetic theory to organize your body, open your imagination, and expand your capacity. Expect clear cues, creative sequencing, and the signature Katonah blend of effort and insight that leaves you feeling grounded, spacious, and inspired. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/1753976764903-L9PYGK01OJU48CJHDB9Q/Screenshot+2025-04-26+at+8.37.18%E2%80%AFAM.png Class Descriptions - Hips A slow, low, Katonah Yoga™–style practice dedicated to undoing all the sitting we do all day, focusing on the body’s “first floor”—your pelvis, legs, and feet. Through supported, deliberate poses and intelligent geometry, we’ll explore stability, mobility, and alignment all around the hips and lower body. Expect deep opening, grounded strength, and a clearer connection to the foundation that carries you through every pose—and every step—of life. All levels welcome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/36e8de02-93f9-4ced-ad9c-6397e7843f84/Kari+18.jpg Class Descriptions - Restore A deeply rejuvenating Katonah Yoga™ restorative practice designed to unwind the body and settle the mind. Using blankets, bolsters, and other props, each posture is fully supported so your body can release tension, your breath can deepen, and your nervous system can recalibrate. Expect poetic metaphor, gentle guidance, and time to linger in stillness—leaving you rested, grounded, and renewed. Suitable for all levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/ff8c884c-eed2-416c-8d40-8f557da49910/YogaGB130.jpg Class Descriptions - Flow A dynamic breath-led practice that cultivates fluidity, focus, and presence. Poses are linked in rhythmic movement and/or held briefly to maintain motion and clarity. May include pranayama, chanting, or meditation. A classic old school vinyasa class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/d672a856-2bca-403e-83ff-b6b74aaa93f2/56_Kari_Tricia_McCormack_Photography.JPEG Class Descriptions - Move A dynamic, strength-based class designed to enhance joint mobility, build muscular control, and take your body through its full range of motion. Using intentional movement, strength drills, and mindful coordination, you’ll develop the stability and freedom that up-level your yoga practice—making poses more accessible, fluid, and sustainable. Expect to move with purpose, challenge your edges, and leave feeling strong, supple, and empowered. An advanced class suitable for anyone ready to deepen their practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/1755031369304-W11WBQGYHS6HFFXLFNC1/unsplash-image-893qZckG6I4.jpg Class Descriptions - Yin A healing, meditative practice designed to release deep layers of tension in the body and mind. In Yin Yoga, postures are held for several minutes to gently stretch and hydrate the connective tissues, improve joint mobility, and cultivate stillness. With the support of props and mindful breathing, you’ll settle into a space of deep rest and quiet awareness—balancing the busyness of life with calm, grounded presence. Suitable for all levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/1755031298638-1MQIWFVSZ28GQVBXT5IH/unsplash-image-pMqKbAucI6E.jpg Class Descriptions - Mat Pilates A full-body, low-impact mat workout based on the classical Pilates method. Emphasizes core strength, breath control, and precise movement to improve alignment, tone, and flexibility. Accessible to all levels, with or without yoga experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/36e8de02-93f9-4ced-ad9c-6397e7843f84/Kari+18.jpg Class Descriptions - Props A creative, ever-changing class that explores the power of yoga props to transform your practice. Each week, we’ll vary use of blocks, straps, blankets, chairs, bolsters—and sometimes unexpected household items—to make poses more accessible, reveal their true archetypal form, and build greater strength, stability, and awareness. Props don’t just support you—they empower you, guiding the body toward precision, depth, and new possibilities. All levels welcome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/1753976760391-Y423B9ZZ24ISRZUG7KHU/Kari%2B159.jpg Class Descriptions - begin Whether you’re stepping onto the mat for the first time or returning with fresh eyes, BEGIN is your gateway to a smart, sustainable yoga practice. This class focuses on functional movement, body awareness, and the vital role of breath—helping you build a strong foundation for both practice and daily life. With clear instruction, mindful pacing, and a supportive environment, you’ll learn how to move with intelligence, align with ease, and breathe with purpose. Perfect for beginners or anyone ready to begin again. All levels welcome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/94c38c43-9d9d-4c9a-b8db-cfbda44cc3fe/Kari+151.jpg Class Descriptions - Breathe Your breath is the bridge between body and mind—the quiet power that can calm your nervous system, sharpen your focus, and restore your energy. Yet most of us go through life barely aware of it. This free 30-minute community class is an invitation to reconnect with the most essential rhythm you have. Through guided techniques and mindful practice, you’ll discover how your breath can bring harmony between body, mind, and spirit. 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As the yoga sutra 2:16 says, “Future pain can be avoided.” After two decades of seeing clients who sustained injuries in daily life, sports, and, unfortunately, on their yoga mat, Kari wanted to teach people how to use yoga to prevent injuries as well as heal themselves after they got injured. In every case, yoga can help you feel better in your body and, thus, in your mind, whether you are dealing with low-back pain, tech-neck, shoulder impingement, chronic or acute inflammation, stress management, or autoimmune diseases. 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A teacher of teachers with over 25 years of experience, Kari was on faculty for 200-hour and 850-hour teacher trainings at the Kripalu Schools of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Yoga Therapy. She spent over a decade as faculty in Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee’s 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Shanti Teacher Training Programs. She was also a Master Trainer of Urban Zen’s Integrative Therapy Program, founded by Donna Karan. As an anatomy trainer for yoga teachers, Kari is renowned for her commitment to helping students and teachers achieve precise alignment, mitigate injuries, and end chronic pain cycles. Her focus on injury prevention ensures the safety of her students and instills confidence in her teaching. A hallmark of her teaching is helping people awaken to the body’s innate intelligence. Kari is the co-founder of Better Yoga, an online streaming platform where she teaches weekly two-way livestream classes to people around the world. Additionally, Kari founded New York City’s East Yoga Center studio and was the former star of Animal Planet’s K9 Karma, where she famously merged her passion for yoga and dogs with a weekly “Doga” class. She has been featured in publications such as Yoga Journal, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, and on television shows including The Martha Stewart Show, ABC News, and many more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/caaf39ff-6e6e-438d-8ea9-fd0e238cfb09/GG-Yoga-2025-410.jpeg Teachers - gail grossman At her core, Gail Grossman is a guide—someone who helps others remember who they are through the lens of yoga, Taoist philosophy, and deep embodied presence. She doesn’t just teach yoga; she lives it and reflects it back with care, honesty, and soul. Rooted in tradition but open to evolution, Gail integrates Restorative, Yin, Hatha, ISHTA, Katonah®, Chair, Vinyasa, Ropes and Children’s Yoga into practices that meet each student where they are. Her teaching blends the mystical and the practical, the poetic and the grounded. She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Life, a beloved resource that’s helped thousands find relief and renewal. With over two decades of experience, Gail supports beginners, kids, and teachers alike with presence, wisdom, and a deep love for the path. She doesn’t promise ease. She offers presence. And from there, everything unfolds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/e9fb6bdb-ce82-4899-89a4-fb8ab67d1f3b/IMG_4232.jpeg Teachers - Caroline Kinsolving Caroline has taught yoga in Los Angeles, New York, Connecticut, the Berkshires, China, Tanzania, India, and Mexico, in studios, prep schools, Michelin spas, and colleges, and has been a guest teacher at Kripalu. As a graduate of Vassar College and a plethora of dance and drama schools with a focus on performance and movement, Caroline is an actor as well as a multi-certified yoga, meditation, yoga-dance, and pilates teacher. Her classes are dynamic in their variety and acceptable for all levels. Flows vary from high energy to gentle strengthening and lengthening, depending on students’ requests: each practice is based on being truly present with the body. With precise alignment cues for improved form, deep poses, breathing cues to encourage calming the nervous system, and a friendly and warm environment with a killer playlist, the goal of the practice is to feel present, strong, centered, and peaceful. Voted Connecticut Magazine’s Best of CT, Litchfield Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Best Kept Secret, and Best Teacher for the last six years, Natural Nutmeg’s 10BEST Award, and Rural Intelligence’s Best Yoga and Best Personal Trainer in the region. Ms. Kinsolving started Yoga for Good and Theatre for Good, and her classes and performances have raised over $163,000 for various charities. Caroline coaches, teaches, and trains clients daily, working with teens, seniors, and adults at all levels. Caroline is also a professional actor. She loves practicing karma yoga and adopting rescue dogs. www.CarolineKinsolving.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/85d5cc6f-8a4a-42bb-a5c2-a2a50f61de46/LiseGottwaldheadshot.jpeg Teachers - LisE Gottwald Rooted in her early life in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and in her relationship with First Nations people, Lise walks a path shaped by oneness, reflection, and reverence. She has embodied decades of yoga study, practice, and teaching. Her studies in shamanism, metaphysics, and quantum physics inform a practice that honors quantum science, ancient wisdom, and inner inquiry. As a professional interior designer, Lise regards all space as sacred. Her practice and work, both on and off the mat, invite a return inward where the sacred journey to Self begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688b8fa9443bb8193ac79132/4fa452b1-5333-4082-87f7-11aa20d6a9d1/LeaAnnheadshot.PNG Teachers - Lea-Ann Durcan Lea-Ann's yoga journey has been one of her favorite things in life. It has given her confidence, purpose, and helped her settle when she needed to be still. Her purpose as a yoga teacher is to share what she has learned and what has meant so much to her. She loves the community yoga creates. Lea-Ann teaches yin, restorative, gentle, yoga therapeutics, beginner, and chair yoga. In her classes, she helps students find their special way to pose through alignment and listening to their bodies.. Her goal is to help each student find their own unique practice in a calm, safe, happily imperfect, and nurturing environment. Lea-Ann is a 500RYT and is a mentored Yoga Therapist. 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