Questions and Answers
with Nevine Michaan

Choose from a collection of ten different Q&A sessions below

By selecting the ‘+’ symbol you will see the included questions within each session.

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+ Questions

  1. In what ways might we adapt practices for students who report having "tight" or "inflexible" hips in fire log, lotus and pigeon poses?
  2. What does elemental theory reveal to us about the process of grieving?
  3. When working with the archetypes of symmetry, are we making an effort to simply find symmetry in the moment or are we always striving towards symmetry?
  4. Is there a specific time during our practice where it is best to sequence King of the Mountain?
  5. Can you tell us about the right and the left eye? What does it mean when the eyes cross-reference? And what insight may we deduce when a person has one eye bigger than the other?
  6. What is the connection between the size of your eyes and the lungs?
  7. Do you have any suggestions for those who need to regain their home practice when everything changes in life?
  8. If you are newer to Katonah practice, how does one measure up correctly?
  9. Are there any techniques to shift circadian rhythm from being a night owl to an early riser?

+ Questions

  1. How can the Magic Square be used in many different ways?
  2. Speak about the idea that joy is technical.
  3. Talk to us about meditation and breathwork. How do you engage your imagination?
  4. Do we access the higher DO when the instrument is tuned well enough and strong enough or are there techniques to pop through? Can you pop through too soon?
  5. What are some books you recommend, and other practices you do?
  6. What would be a good pranayama for making the head "lighter" when it is too busy?
  7. What is the best book on Taoism?
  8. How do you reorient yourself when you lose direction?

+ Questions

  1. Can you recommend good mythology books?
  2. Is the ‘Breath of the Seasons’ the only breath you use to play with the four points of the breath?
  3. Can you discuss body reading?
  4. How often do you recommend practicing the Magic Square?
  5. Can you speak more about the narrative and the golden thread?
  6. When practicing cat and cow pranayama, do the inhales and exhales have an order?
  7. Why is the right hand the ‘hand of the world’?

+ Questions

  1. How do you read a body? Can eyes be read, also?
  2. How do you plan a yoga class? How do you choose your asanas for the seasons?
  3. As a yoga teacher, is it better to teach in metaphors or in any way that’s comfortable?
  4. How do we design time based on the calendars?
  5. Can you explain the glands?

+ Questions

  1. Is it necessary to end nadi shodhana with the exhale on the left?
  2. Is there a reason we do not practice savasana in Katonah Yoga?
  3. How does one create unique metaphors?
  4. Can you explain how to find your audience and how to speak to the audience?
  5. What can we teach when certified in Katonah Yoga?
  6. How did you start developing Katonah Yoga material like the maps, charts and magic square? What were the major sources from which you derived your information?
  7. How do we use the calendar?
  8. How do you spend your day?

+ Questions

  1. Could you elaborate on what “paradise is a walled-in garden” means?
  2. What is the difference between the wraps of 3 - 7 (dusk and dawn) and 4 - 6 (day and night)?
  3. How does one travel with the breath in the King of the Mountain?
  4. Can you walk us through all the numbers in the Magic Square and discuss the metaphor of the body as a home?
  5. What is your favorite book?

+ Questions

  1. Tell us what it means to say that ‘yoga is technical’.
  2. Can you elaborate on the wraps?
  3. Tell us about the drishti of joy.
  4. What does ‘the liver is reflective’ mean?
  5. Can you talk more about the superorganism under Esteban’s right foot?
  6. Can you provide more examples of the codes in the Magic Square?
  7. Please discuss the glands again.
  8. How to use these practices to our advantage?
  9. How do we use the calendar?

+ Questions

  1. Tell us about organs and glands in the pranayama practice.
  2. How did you create this material? What is the origin of this practice?
  3. Where does the word Katonah come from?
  4. What is your yoga history? What lineages shaped you?
  5. Can you elaborate on the difference between day and night, and dawn and dusk, in these meditations?
  6. Where do we start if we want to start practicing Katonah?
  7. What is the ratio you practice daily between movement, breath and meditation?

+ Questions

  1. How can we use the map in practice and get better at it?
  2. Can you recommend more ways of integrating theory into my daily practice?
  3. Can you explain how to map the Magic Square on the foot?

+ Questions

  1. What makes a good metaphor or analogy? How do we create a “new” metaphor?
  2. Can you review the organs and glands and how they relate to other areas and senses of the body?
  3. How does the Taoist theory fit into the Katonah practice?
  4. Can you walk us through the musical scale?
  5. What are some things that have influenced you?
  6. Which postures can we practice for certain goals?