Katonah Yoga Immersion
30h Adjustment Training
with Steffi Grube & Lisa Fraipont
Oct 8-11
daily 9.30am - 6pm
30h Katonah Yoga Immersion
Cologne, This is Holy
THE ART OF ADJUSTMENT
Katonah Yoga Adjustment Immersion
How do we inform the body rather than simply correct it?
Explore the art of adjustment through the lens of Katonah Yoga. An intensive immersion into structure, geometry and the intelligence of the body. Through hands-on work, props, walls, verbal cues, maps and imagination, we explore different ways of creating orientation, refining alignment and opening up new possibilities within familiar forms.
Because an adjustment is not simply about changing a pose. It's about offering new information.
Katonah Yoga
Katonah Yoga is a modern approach to Hatha Yoga that gives you tools to understand your body, rather than simply asking it to perform.
The practice combines longer-held postures, precise alignment and hands-on work with a rich world of metaphors, maps and imagery. Drawing from Chinese Medicine, Daoist philosophy and geometric principles, Katonah Yoga looks at the body as something we can learn to read: How do you organize yourself? Where do you have strong patterns and habits? Which parts of your body do you know well – and which ones are still unfamiliar territory?
Rather than asking the body, mind and breath to perform, we inform them. We use structure, geometry and maps to create more awareness, better orientation and, ultimately, more options.
Because the goal is not to create a perfect pose. It is to become more skillful at inhabiting your own body.
Thursday Focus:
TeAchers AdjustmenT
On Thursday, we’ll dive deep into Katonah Yoga Adjustment — a powerful tool for learning to read the body like a map, seeing patterns, structure, and story.
Expect hands-on partner work to understand how alignment shapes not just posture, but imagination and energy.
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In Katonah Yoga, the body is a house - 3 floors & 9 rooms. Adjustment is how we learn to read that house: where a floor or a room is doing too much work, where a window needs more air, where foundation has lost touch with the attic. Working in pairs, you’ll practice this reading with your hands and eyes, feeling for the lines that run through someone else’s structure, and discovering that alignment is never just physical. It’s an act of imagination as much as geometry: seeing the shape a body wants to become, and helping it find the way there.
Friday & Saturday Focus:
Katonah Yoga Self -Adjustment with Props
On Friday and Saturday, we’ll explore how props - blocks, chairs, walls - provide frameworks for navigating our bodies with greater clarity.
Expect hands-on exploration and partner work, with plenty of practical ways to bring props into your own practice and teaching.
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Props in Katonah Yoga aren’t a workaround - they’re part of the map. Blocks, chairs, walls: each one holds a line, a boundary, an edge the body can lean into and learn from. Across these two days, we build the Magic Square with props as scaffolding, using their straight edges to find the round, buoyant shape we’re actually after - the Sphere. You’ll practice both as a student, feeling how a well-placed prop changes what’s possible, (and if you are a teacher, gathering concrete, repeatable ways to bring this into your own classes).
Saturday Evening/ night
Community Snacks & Drinks
Let’s hang out together!!
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After a day of hands-on work, we gather without agenda - snacks, drinks, and the kind of conversation that only happens once everyone’s already let their guard down on the mat. No structure here, just the circle widening to include everyone in the room.
Sunday Focus:
Katonah Yoga Restoratives – Creating Time, Holding Space & Self-Adjustment
Sunday is dedicated to slowing down. Through Katonah Yoga restoratives, we’ll explore breath, supported postures, and Katonah’s approach to structure and imagination — building inner architecture that offers refuge, regulation, and resilience.
We’ll also dive into the nervous system, gaining practical tools for restoring balance and leaving the week grounded, held, and resourced.
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Restoratives close the loop the rest of the weekend opens. Supported by props, the body is held rather than worked - and in that stillness, the same architecture we’ve been building all weekend becomes something you can rest inside of. We’ll spend time with the nervous system directly: what regulation actually feels like, how breath moves it, and how to carry that sense of being held back into a week that rarely offers it.
About Steffi & Lisa
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Steffi Grube
Steffi has been practicing Katonah Yoga since 2016, when she first met Abbie Galvin in New York. At the time, she had already been teaching yoga for several years and was continuously seeking ways to guide her students out of performance-driven thinking and into a more integrated, embodied experience.
Since then, Steffi has immersed herself deeply in the Katonah Yoga practice—participating in numerous workshops and mentorships both in New York and online. She became a certified Katonah Yoga teacher in 2020 and is now a well-connected member of the vibrant global Katonah Yoga community.
Based in Germany, Steffi is considered one of the leading voices for Katonah Yoga in the country. With clarity, warmth, and a deep understanding of the material, she creates spaces that are both transformative and highly practical.
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Lisa Fraipont
Lisa is a Katonah Yoga teacher from Brussels, Belgium.
She’s been teaching hatha yoga for 7 years and found real joy when she discovered Katonah Yoga through Dages Juvelier Keates in Paris in 2018.
She then immersed herself in the practice and the theory and learned with a lot of different teachers.
When she’s not teaching she loves to swim or to knit all kinds of hats, playing with technique, pattern & repetition ;)
SAVE YOUr SPOT
This immersion is limited to 11 participants, making it a very personal experience.
Feel free to bring your questions.
You can count the 30 hours towards your Katonah Yoga certification.
It’s also possible to book individual days upon request.
If you’d prefer to pay in installments, just send us a message: hello@thisisholy.de
Your Investment
799 €
You can also book single days, 199 Euro/ Day
