Join Selena in her ancestral homeland of Sicily to chase the sun and savor the sensual just a little bit longer as we transition into fall. Daily Katonah Yoga® explorations, somatic dance, breath, contemplative work, and oral storytelling. October is the PERFECT time to visit Sicily. The sea is still warm enough to swim, the tourists are mostly gone providing a more authentic experience. It's olive and grape season from mid October onward. 

Our home for the week is a 19th century farmhouse, La Masseria, in the heart of Sicily's rugged, ancient and arid southern landscape. Savor the sun, the seasonal olives and grape harvest, and indulge in a very special practice experience twice a day including somatic dance, storytelling, and Katonah Yoga® in Selena's very unique blend of embodied storytelling and contemplative work that embraces the fullness of your humanity. 

Outside of our practices together we'll visit neighboring beaches and historical villages to deepen our sensory explorations. 

In the first part of the day, we will practice vigorous Katonah Yoga® and somatic dance to find your fits and folds and explore your sensations and personal terrain both formally and informally. Embodied moving myth will add complexity and nourishment to your practices. We'll practice in a gorgeous pitch-roofed barn, fully outfitted with props and enjoy swimming in the quintessential fresh water pool all week. 

After practice we will enjoy the bliss of being in Italy. We'll enjoy fruit and coffee, a big brunch after practice and a delicious dinner every evening highlighting the best of seasonal and local cuisine. 

In your evening sessions we'll gather for breath, storytelling and personal contemplations. 

Guests should fly to Catania Sicily. There are buses and taxis to our retreat center. We will also be encouraging and helping guests to share rental cars! So we can explore all the beautiful spaces in our free time. Rental cars this time of year are very affordable and will gather drivers from those that wish to explore the island and share! We also have the option of hiring car hires. We will see what excursions our group wants to explore but Sicily is best done with a car. My teacher trainees have volunteered as drivers and we'll get you taken care of. 

This program include 20 hours bankable towards *KATONAH YOGA® certification and a digital manual. 

*To become a certified KATONAH YOGA® teacher, one must complete 200 hours of Katonah Yoga education with certified Katonah Yoga instructors, after completing a prerequisite 200 hour RYT (Yoga Alliance) training. All intensives, workshops and classes with us count toward the 200 Hour Katonah Yoga education requirement. For more information on this and to begin the process of becoming certified visit Katonah Yoga 

Selena has studied yoga for 30 years as both a practitioner and a scholar. She is a somatic dance teacher, spiritual teacher, mind-body coach, somatic experiencing coach, oral storyteller, and sociocultural anthropologist. 

She integrates her decades of movement study, yoga philosophy, myth and folklore studies, and somatic practices into an experience that is very unique. 

She believes in embracing life as a gift to be celebrated, in not turning away from life's pains and difficulties but fully accepting and dancing with EVERYTHING life has to offer. She utilizes oral storytelling, contemplative work, embodiment practices, and yoga to address the complexities of a human life in a way that is joyful, playful, and anchored in the right here and now. Welcoming everything. Abandoning nothing. 

KATONAH YOGA® was founded by Nevine Michaan, and is a Hatha yoga practice refined over forty years, blended with Taoist theory, sacred geometries, pranayama, and meditation. For more information, please visit www.katonahyoga.com.