February 28 - March 2 2025
Calibrate: A Weekend Immersion with Adam Whiting
Join us for a weekend of welcoming Adam Whiting back home. His weekend immersion, Calibrate, brings the perfect balance of movement, restoration and release. See below for our weekend itinerary.
Weekend Immersion Schedule
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Friday
REVITALISE: Vinyasa Masterclass
February 28th 6-8pm
This masterclass will weave itself around the foundational pillars of vinyasa yoga, flowing you through seamless creative sequencing, focused breath and powerful poses that will challenge, inspire and uplift. The movement is paired with a custom-tailored playlist to keep your ears occupied while your body flows through the poses being led with anatomical precision and choreographic grace. Adam integrates his 20 years of teaching yoga with his past career as a musician and performer to create an experience that can pull you out of your mind and into a focused and free state of play.
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Saturday
RESTORE: Movement & Myofascial Release
March 1 1-4pm
In this workshop, we will explore yoga and myofascial release techniques to directly communicate with these fascial networks, ensuring they remain well-hydrated, adaptive, and healthy as we age and evolve. You'll experience how myofascial release can increase mobility, ease tension, stimulate healing, and has the potential to ease chronic pain. Through a fusion of guided myofascial release coupled with yoga asanas, you'll learn how to maintain supple fascia and optimise fascial reorganisation. Revive tissues, enhance nervous system communication, and rediscover your body's innate ease of movement.
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Sunday
REST: A Yoga Nidra Retreat
March 2 1-3pm
We have a tendency to pin our exhaustion onto our chests like a badge of honour, hovering just above complete burnout as our nervous systems spin out of control, begging for a reset. Yoga Nidra is the pathway home - a practice of returning and allowing ourselves to fall back into the open arms of deep rest. We will spend time discussing the history, tradition, and techniques, and then gently transition through Slow Flow and Yin postures until we land softly into our Nidra nest. You will emerge feeling rested, rejuvenated, and more deeply connected to that clear inner voice that calls for you to slow down, be quiet, and listen.
40 Hour Yoga Teacher Mentorship
with Ben Kalra
March 27th - May 15th
This 8-week small-group mentorship is designed for certified Yoga teachers seeking to refine their teaching skills and accelerate their growth. This program is limited to 6 participants, ensuring personalized feedback and a curriculum tailored to each mentee. Teachers registered with Yoga Alliance will receive 40 continuing education units (CEUs).
Curriculum:
Sequencing Group Classes
Teaching Private Lessons
Yoga Philosophy & Theming
Cultivating a Home Practice
Cueing & Adjustments
Business & Social Media
Pranayama: Methods & Sequencing
Leading Workshops, Trainings and Retreats
Practicum / Final Project
Weekly in-person meetings:
Sundays 12-3:30pm from March 30 - May 11 at The Coterie Wellness Studio (2135 Thrift Rd)
Weekly zoom meetings:
Thursdays 6-7pm from March 27 - May 15
Mentor: Ben Kalra (E-RYT 500, YACEP)
Ben is an experienced Yoga teacher with over 3,000 hours of teaching experience across group classes, private lessons, workshops, teacher trainings, and international retreats. His studies include Katonah Yoga®, Adaptive Yoga, Awakening Yoga, and Classical Hatha & Raja Yoga. Ben views Yoga as a set of embodied practices that integrate theory, still the mind, and allow the spirit to rise. He remains dedicated to his personal practice and ongoing studies of the Yoga tradition.
Ashtanga Intersections:
Emergent Healing Spaces
with Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen
Ashtanga Yoga is often called the ‘hard’ yoga practice. While it can suit many of us and we feel drawn to its dynamic form, others can be turned off by the structure of its rigorous physical hierarchy. Advancing in asana often becomes more unattainable to maintain, especially as we enter the busy years of work/family life, or advance in age.
Others still feel their competitive side getting fed when they come to yoga to find inner peace and release a sense of competition with themselves and others. Still others might place their sense of value or worth based on how many physical postures they can do.
What would it look like to practice within the structure of Ashtanga Yoga but with a soft, gentle, non-hierarchical and compassionate approach?
How would it feel to move through the practice with agency and choice, in an environment that welcomes all of who you are?
How would your life feel if your yoga practice was a true source of nourishment and inspiration, and added to, rather than depleted, your life force?
Join Wambui for a 5 day immersion of trauma-informed care, rooted in the wisdom tradition of Ashtanga Yoga. In addition to guided physical classes, we will practice the other limbs of Ashtanga yoga, namely accessible pranayama, meditation and afternoon lectures and discussions on how we can bridge a lineage-based wisdom tradition into the demands and emergent concerns of modern living.
Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen, MA TESOL, ERYT-500, is a Kenyan-American based in rural Portugal, passionate about slow healing through trauma-informed yoga. She has been an Ashtanga yoga practitioner since 2008 and teacher since 2011 and is the co-founder of Yoga Roots Odeceixe, est 2023. Wambui is certified in both The Trauma. Conscious Yoga Method and Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga.
In 2022, Wambui moved to the countryside to learn how to grow her own food, make her own medicine and reclaim both her self- sovereignty and deep symbiosis with the Land and her ancestors, both human and more than human. Wambui is deeply inspired by spiritual teachers and communities that seek ways to apply the insights from our various practices and teachings to situations of social, racial, political, environmental and economic suffering and injustice.
She would like to see wellness spaces engage more in collective liberation and activist spaces learn to breathe deeply and practice sustainable self-care in the midst of dismantling systemic oppression. This is her definition of community care. Click here to receive your FREE morning meditation track and stay up to date with Wambui’s events and offers. Stay close as well on Instagram @wambuinjugunaofficial.
5-Day Immersion: Wednesday, August 13th - Sunday, August 17th
Morning: 6-7:30am (Th) & 7:15am-8:45am (W/F/S/Su)
Expected a guided 90-minute guided practice beginning at 6am on Thursday and 7:15am on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Afternoon: 12-1pm Wed through Fri
One hour of guided meditation and accessible pranayama (breathwork) from 12-1pm
Weekend: guided practice 7:15-8:45am, immersive time 12-5:30pm
Immersive practices, both physical and non-physical, involving therapeutic exercises, mobility, lecture and journaling.
200-hr Yoga Teacher Training
Coming September 2025
If there is even a whisper of interest, email us. This is a big commitment, and we want to make sure you have all the details. Send a message to hello@thecoterie.studio. We can’t wait to hear from you.
Ask us.
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Any training is a big commitment, and we expect you to ask questions. Email us directly to ask whatever crosses your mind. We have payment plans available, and we will never let finances get in the way. No question is a silly question.