Yoga Workshops & Series

As part of the Empowered: 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Leah Cullis, Castle Hill Fitness is honored to host a series of in-person Immersion Workshops that are open to the public. Deep dive into a variety of topics in these special Immersions, culminating with a hands-on assist workshop - Leah's first in Texas in 4 years! 

Interested in furthering your practice in Leah's 200-hour teacher training program? Click here to learn more and to enroll. 

Two-Hour Sessions $25 Member $35 Non-member VIP Discount %10

6-Hour Session with Leah $99 Member $108 Non-member VIP Discount %10

Advanced Asana: Binds, Balance, & Backbends with Shelby Autrey 9:30am - 11:30am

Discover the power of yoga binds, balancing poses, and backbends. In this advanced practice and workshop, you will experience the full range of motion in your shoulders, hips, and spine through precise alignment, progressive sequences, and personal guidance, and learn how to keep your practice pain-free and ever-evolving. Binds work to detoxify joints, balancing poses add confidence and stability, and backbends create vitality and uplifted energy.

Your Vibrant Life with Leah Cullis 1:30pm - 3:30pm

It’s what you do daily that makes a difference. Learn simple, daily energy (prana) building practices to open and release blocked energy, feel more centered, and build a foundation for your vibrant health and happiness. Discover lifestyle choices born from Yogic wisdom that support you to make gradual, lifelong and life-affirming changes, and learn how to apply time-tested rituals to your life today. Through discussion, meditation and reflection, you will explore how all areas of your life are connected, and develop personal practices to uplift and elevate your energy, and fuel vibrant life. This workshop will include meditation, discussion, and journaling.

Heart Work: Exploring the Four Immeasurables with Fonzy 9:30am - 11:30am

The Four Immeasurables are aspects of true love within ourselves, and within everyone and everything. By cultivating a relationship with these Four qualities, Loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity; we are able to see ourselves and others as we truly are - indivisible. In this workshop, you will learn the history of the Four Immeasurables, how to utilize each quality in seated meditation, and how to integrate each quality into your physical practice. We will explore different dimensions of meditation that also engage our imagination. The Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh mentions, to awaken these Four qualities within your heart is to transform the sorrows of life into love. 

Vision and Goals with Leah Cullis 1:30pm - 3:30pm You can choose, design, and create a future and life that you love - today.

In this workshop with life + leadership coach, Leah Cullis, you will learn self-development tools to empower you to take control of your life’s trajectory, gain confidence in your decisions and direction, and infuse purpose and peace into your journey. Envision the future you’ve always wanted, learn strategies to keep you on track, and the future is yours. This workshop will include meditation, discussion, and journaling.

Artful Assisting: A Yoga Teacher’s Immersion with Leah Cullis  9am - 4pm (open to public) includes 1-hour break for lunch. 4-5pm (for Empowered Yoga Teacher Training students)

Hands-on assisting is a practice of communication, compassion and connection that can elevate a yoga experience.

In this immersion designed for yoga teachers, you will deepen your own yoga practice, deconstruct foundational poses, and explore assisting as a practice that goes beyond the physical poses.

Through discussion, intention setting, detailed demonstration, giving and receiving feedback, and hands-on skill work, you’ll learn the actions and energetics of assisting any yoga pose, how to masterfully incorporate assists into your classes, and an approach assisting that begins with your own energy and integrity in both your own body and being.

This experiential program will change your practice and your teaching, and give you the skill, confidence and clarity to amplify your impact as a yoga teacher.

Prerequisites: 200-hr Yoga Alliance certification or in process, or minimum 2-year committed yoga practice and teacher recommendation.

The Body Resilient programs help reframe the way you encounter challenge. This embodied practice will help you connect more intelligently and consistently to your body and breath. As you do, you are better able to bring wisdom and presence into your relationships and daily interactions.

This four-week series gives you valuable tools to use anywhere and anytime to calm your nervous system. Each session includes somatic movement with a focus on mobility, breathing practices, and a variety of practices that you can integrate throughout your week. Rather than giving you a new way of doing, you’ll leave grounded with an authentic way of being.

Series includes an easy-to-reference PDF so you can take what you learn with you for life.

April 6 - 27 Thursdays 6pm - 7:15pm Chakras

Pricing: $99 members $108 nonmembers VIP Members save 10%

Meet Gioconda Gioconda has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 years. She was the lead teacher in the first teacher training program in a prominent Austin yoga studio, and has continued to lead and develop more training programs and international retreats. Gioconda has a Master's Degree in Spiritual Psychology, and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner since 2016.

It’s best to try to relax the body and open your mind. Let the magic unfold as the sounds and vibrations flow through your soul.

Dates: March 19 April 9 May 21 June 18 July 16 August 20

Sundays from 2-3:30pm 

We recommend bringing extra blankets and cushions/pillows to maximize your coziness! 

Pricing: $25 Members $35 Non-members 10% VIP discount

About Audra Audra is a sound healer and has been teaching yoga and meditation in Austin since 2007. She uses sound, meditation, and yoga techniques to help you clear your mind, relax, and bring you into a mindful state. She helps to promote a sense of well-being, relieve stress, and shed old patterns and beliefs that we accumulate throughout our lives.

This program invites you to delve deep into your yoga practice while paying respect to your busy modern life with alternate pricing packages. Watch as your practice grows in a safe, supported small group.