Our yoga event calendar offers one-day workshops, multi-week series, special events, and trainings designed to take your practice to a new level. Browse the upcoming events below to begin studying in-depth with your favorite teachers. You do not need to be a member of Castle Hill Fitness in order to attend. Advance registration is always recommended to secure your spot in an upcoming program.

Winter Solstice Free Class: Shine Your Light Power Vinyasa

Winter Solstice Free Class: Shine Your Light Power Vinyasa

with Collette Ouseley-Moynan
Friday at 5:30pm
Dec 15, 2023
A FREE winter solstice class to honor your inner fire and light

It’s not uncommon to feel sluggish and over-taxed during the winter. Join Collette to bust through those winter blues with a fiery power vinyasa practice: reconnect with your inner fire and light, and burn through what’s keeping you feeling stuck.

This will be a challenging practice to build endurance, try new techniques/poses, and leave feeling revived and “lit up”. This is an intermediate-level class - some Vinyasa experience recommended.

Afterward, stay and cool down during our refreshing Solstice Social, with complimentary beverages! 

Friday, December 15 5:30 - 6:45pm Class: 5:30 - 6:30pm Social Solstice: 6:30-6:45pm

Max 25 FREE to all! 

 

Meet Collette Collette is a 500hr E-RYT yoga teacher and mindfulness guide who has been teaching in Austin for over 10 years. She strives to practice with an open mind, a happy heart, and compassion for herself and others. Through teaching, she hopes to inspire a sense of community and encourage her students to push past self-imposed physical and mental limits. In Collette's class, you'll experience a light-hearted, dynamic, mindful and fun flow-based practice. Bring your sense of adventure and a smile!

Sacred Sound Sundays

Sacred Sound Sundays

with Audra Shimek
Sundays at 3pm
Dec 17, Jan 21, Feb 18, Mar 24, Apr 21, 2023
Nurture your mind and body in this immersive full-body listening experience.
We begin the session with connecting as a group. Next, Audra will guide you through some breath work and gentle movement in preparation for deep rest. Then relax and allow the vibrations from the Quartz crystal bowls, chimes, and gong to activate your body’s natural healing systems.

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: December 17 January 21 February 18 March 24 April 21

Sundays from 3-4:30pm 

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.

Deep Rest and Pranic Healing: An Aromatherapy Event

Deep Rest and Pranic Healing: An Aromatherapy Event

with Vanush Von Love
Wednesday at 7:30pm
Dec 20, 2023
A NOURISHING SELF-CARE EVENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Gift yourself a moment of calm amid one of the busiest seasons. Join Vanush and guest instructor Navaji to spend a cozy evening with restorative yoga, pranic healing, and aromatherapy. You'll focus on grounding your body, soothing your nervous system, and calming the mind. 

In this special event, Vanush will guide you through a restorative yoga practice, offering mindful and loving hands-on assists for those open to receiving it. Navaji will provide Pranic Healing (a no-touch energy treatment) and aromatherapy to further deepen your relaxing experience. 

Come enjoy the restorative benefits of taking intentional time to nurture yourself.

Please wear comfortable clothing. No prior experience necessary - all are welcome!

Wednesday, December 20 7:30-9pm

Pricing: $40 for Members $50 for Non-members  VIP 10% discount Min 10 About Vanush It was a knee injury that resulted in Vanush finding yoga and bodywork and opening the door to a personal and professional path of self-discovery, growth, and healing. By combining his dance background and extensive training in various bodywork modalities and human anatomy, Vanush offers a style of yoga that helps students to find their breath, balance, and the profound wisdom that 'movement is medicine'. www.Vanush.com

Meet Navaji Navaji is a multidisciplinary artist and a Pranic Healer, with over a decade of experience. He uses high-grade essential oils and guides etheric body cleansing protocols, according to his training in the lineage of Master Choa Kok Sui. Visit www.Navaji.com for more info!

New Year Celebration Yoga and Live Music

New Year Celebration Yoga and Live Music

with Collette Ouseley-Moynan
Monday at 12pm
Jan 1, 2024
FLOW WITH FOCUS INTO THE NEW YEAR

Celebrate the start of 2024 with Collette in a special musical yoga class. This 60-minute vinyasa practice will take you through meditation and intention setting, a mindful flow, and a cozy, long savasana to integrate the intention-setting experience. 

Accompanying instrumentals from acoustic guitarist Cory Brim will round out the mindful vibes, and leave you feeling ready to take on the new year! 

This class is a part of our specially-priced Community Class program. 

MONDAY, JANUARY 1  12-1pm Community Class Pricing - $15 non-members, or included with membership

Registration now open - sign up online to secure your spot in this special musical event! 

 

Meet Collette Collette is a 500hr E-RYT yoga teacher and mindfulness guide who has been teaching in Austin for over 10 years. She strives to practice with an open mind, a happy heart, and compassion for herself and others. Through teaching, she hopes to inspire a sense of community and encourage her students to push past self-imposed physical and mental limits. In Collette's class, you'll experience a light-hearted, dynamic, mindful and fun flow-based practice. Bring your sense of adventure and a smile!

The Body Resilient

The Body Resilient

with Gioconda Parker
Thursdays at 7pm
Jan 11 - Jan 25, 2024
CONNECT MORE INTELLIGENTLY AND CONSISTENTLY TO BODY AND BREATH 

Bring wisdom and presence into your relationships and daily interactions. Experience more peace and vitality in your inner world and your outer life. This 3-week series is packed with valuable tools to use anywhere and anytime to bring your best self forward. 

Sessions include functional movement, circular movements of the joints, breath work, and practical tools you can start using right away. Note: This is not a yoga practice; movement is accessible for all bodies, including those recovering from injury. No prior yoga experience is needed. Each week comes with an easy-to-reference PDF so you can take what you learn with you into your week. 

January 11-25 3-week series Thursdays 6-7:30pm Chakras Room

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.

Craft Your Vision: Vision Board Workshop

Craft Your Vision: Vision Board Workshop

with Leah Cullis
Saturday at 1pm
Jan 13, 2024
Rejuvenate your vision for the upcoming year and craft a powerful Vision Board for 2024

In this transformative workshop, Leah Cullis, a Holistic Life Coach and Yoga Teacher, will lead you through a series of immersive exercises and engaging discussions designed to help you gain crystal-clear clarity on your deepest desires for the year ahead.

This workshop is a journey of self-discovery and renewed purpose. Using magazines, clip art, or inspiring images, you will construct a personalized Vision Board. Your Vision Board will become a potent and ever-present reminder of your aspirations and goals. Are you ready to tap into the extraordinary power of visualization and breathe fresh life into your dreams and aspirations? Don't wait—secure your spot in "Craft Your Vision for 2024" today!

All Levels welcome, no previous experience needed. Supplies provided. 

January 13 Saturday 1pm-3pm in the Lotus Room Min 5 / Max 20

PRICING $35 Member $45 Non-member 10% VIP discount

Meet Leah  Leah Cullis is a celebrated yoga teacher, holistic health coach, founder of the Empowered Yoga School, and author of Power Yoga: Strength, Sweat, and Spirit. She synthesizes ancient practices and principles of yoga and wellness, and makes them accessible and relevant for life today. Her programs encourage you to move and live with intention, alignment, joy, and ease. 

Katonah Yoga Weekend Immersion

Katonah Yoga Weekend Immersion

with Abbie Galvin
Saturday and Sunday at 9am & 12pm
Mar 2, Mar 3, 2024
EXPERIENCE THE WISDOM OF KATONAH YOGA

Don't miss visiting instructor Abbie Galvin, of NYC's The Studio, for a special 15-hour Katonah Yoga Weekend Immersion! You'll have the opportunity to dive deep into a variety of topics exploring the foundations of Katonah Yoga - attend individual sessions, or the full weekend at a discount. 

Students and teachers of all Yoga traditions are welcome. This is an All Levels Immersion, for all abilities!

KATONAH YOGA ® is a syncretic Hatha yoga practice developed by Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga Center over 40 years ago. The practice incorporates classical Hatha yoga with Taoist theory, geometry, magic, mythology, metaphor, and imagination — in a practical framework designed to improve personal and communal well-being. 

SATURDAY, MARCH 2

9:00am-11:30am MASTERCLASS - Katonah Foundations: Asana + Pranayama The Katonah practice is designed to awaken pieces of ourselves from the slumber of unconscious habits in order to access our sentient self. The use of technique rather than our personal impulses affords better function. Thus, it is technique that propositions us to change. We use measure rather than feelings to create a stable structure and as we do, we discover that our body was designed to fit itself. In this masterclass, we will move through the fundamentals of the Katonah Yoga asana practice and experience the power of pranayama to open up territory in our bodies for our spirit to move through it.

12pm-5pm 5 HOUR INTENSIVE - Katonah Body Reading Reading a body, assessing a pose, interpreting where one is heading, is the art of seeing. Poses show propensities of behavior and how personal habits are articulated in the practice. When we look at a yoga pose, we reference the ideal form of it so that we have a template, a map, a criteria to look for. In this intensive, we will set up the body on a grid to be deciphered as a map, read the feet as a fractal of the whole narrative, learn how to unearth chronic and acute physical issues, and explore what to do with the information we discover in our body readings.

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

9:00am-11:30am MASTERCLASS - Katonah Home Practice A home practice addresses the vision and virtue of personal health, well-being and long life. A home practice is a commitment to self-care, a ritualized modus operandi for one’s participation in a technical integration of mind, body and breath. Engaging in a home practice is a way of addressing the manner in which one personally organizes one’s self; developing a determined life, setting goals and following through. In this masterclass, we will explore how to develop, maintain and integrate a home practice.

12pm-5pm 5 HOUR INTENSIVE - Katonah Therapeutics: Injuries, Adjustments and Props The Katonah practice is deeply therapeutic and can be used to reshape a stressed out, uninformed or injured body, which helps to set up the conditions to redirect a life, using props and adjustments as tools in service of accessing optimal function. Most injuries are the result of having set up unconscious patterns, both physically and emotionally, that are maladaptive. Injuries are opportunities in a wider exploration of restoration, homeostasis and longevity, to unearth that piece in each of us that is out of tune, disconnected, overworked or misaligned. Real and lasting change demands a new set of conditions, using formal techniques. In this intensive we will explore how to address injuries and use props and adjustments to set set ourselves up for better function. Re-informing the body is never random, it is always technical!

PRICING

Member Pricing 15 HOUR (full program) - $400 5 HOUR (per session) - $175 MASTERCLASS (per session) - $50 VIP Discount 10%

Non-Member Pricing 15 HOUR (full program) - $450 5 HOUR (per session) - $190 MASTERCLASS (per session) - $60

Min 20 /Max 35

MEET ABBIE GALVIN Abbie is the owner of The Studio, a NYC-based Katonah Yoga Studio. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student base from all around the world. Abbie's instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological, or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, to grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.

Ashtanga Mysore Program

Ashtanga Mysore Program

with Juan Anguiano
Mondays-Fridays at 6:30am
A TRADITIONAL PRACTICE IN A MODERN AGE

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. 

Mysore style engages students in a self-paced, individualized practice in a group setting. This class format allows for each student to move at their own pace and to receive adjustments from the teacher. Beginners will be systematically taught the Ashtanga Yoga method according to the level of comfort and safety of each student. 
No prior yoga experience necessary - all levels are welcome! 
Mysore Program
Mondays - Fridays 6-7:45am
in the Chakras room 
 New students must arrive at 6am.
Ashtanga Mysore is not practiced on new or full moons. Practice will not be held on the following dates in 2023: May 19, August 1, August 16, August 30, September 14, September 29, December 12, December 26 
Capacity: 10
Ashtanga Mysore is a separate program pass - regular class cards and VIP membership do not apply. Juan also teaches a Sunday Ashtanga Led class on our weekly schedule, from 8:30-10am.
PRICING
We recommend that beginners commit to practicing with consistency, about 3 classes a week, so that the teacher can monitor progress and continue to refine and add poses. The key to enjoying the practice is to learn gradually and steadily so that we can learn to quiet the mind by connecting with the breath. 
Member Non-Member Single Drop-In Good for one class $35 $35 Introductory 3 Class Pass Good for 7 days $59 $79 Unlimited Week Pass $99 $119 Unlimited Month Pass $179 $199
MEET JUAN
Juan holds a degree in Athletic Training from UT Austin, is certified by the Board of Certification, and licensed to practice in the state of Texas since 2016. He has been teaching yoga for 20+ years, completed massage training at the Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage, is an ACE certified personal trainer, and is certified in the Barbell Rehab Method.
Juan provides eastern and western perspectives on yoga, health, wellness, athletic performance, therapeutics, and rehabilitation.