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Together we'll explore practices to nourish and coax you home to your inner knowing and core self. 

The Returning

A 5 week exploration of the teachings of yoga, mythology and folktales, exploring themes of elderhood, crone medicine, facing our shadow, and more. Nourishing yoga classes, writing prompts, and inner explorations.

 

The Returning 

 

5 modules of deep study to coax you back to your soul, to your inner knowing, to the bone memory that holds us. 

In this course we'll explore how the crone is the one that sees with clarity, how as we learn to see and embrace life in its fullness we expand our generosity of seeing. 

The course will take you through twice weekly 90 minute yoga classes weaving folklore and yoga teachings into embodied practice. You'll also enjoy a weekly pranayama (breath) practice, and a weekly audio teaching accompanied by writing prompts to take you further. 

Beloved you must live for you. You must connect with your inner gifts and core self and offer that medicine back outward. 

This course is a sweet exploration of the teachings of the crone, of touching our elderhood, and willingly exploring our shadows and our gifts. 

You are invited. 

Many of us have gone through seasons of destruction. This is the nature of things. Of Great Nature. We cycle. From birth to creation to destruction and back again. This is how it is. And yet often in the seasons of destruction and massive shift we can find ourselves with the rug pulled out from under our feet, we can feel like there's nowhere to turn. Beloved we sustain through these seasons, we emerge from them, we return by creating personal refuge.

The beauty is our refuge is within. We can be our own sanctuary.

Let's fortify our center, find our moving middle. Learn how to get off center and how to find our way back in.

The program includes lifetime access so you may return to the classes and teachings.

You will receive immediate access to the course platform and all modules though they should be completed in order. Each module has a downloadable guide, an audio recording, two yoga classes, and a pranayama class. 

There are additionally bonus asana classes woven into the program. 

All levels of practitioners are invited and welcome to savor these movement practices. 

The development of our inner landscape is a great act of altruism.

You are invited to take the long road through time, to explore stories that hold us, and  teach us to live.  

MYTH AND STORY

 

Myth teaches us how to live, we map ourselves in these ancient stories. They are the "bone memory" (Martin Shaw) that holds us.

Good stories break the spell of the cultural mother and all of the "you ought to be's." 

You will cozy up and listen to a tale or two, and in time as you listen again and again the stories will keep revealing themselves to you if you're keen to listen to their whispers. 

YOGA ASANA

 

Artfully sequenced yoga classes anchored in Katonah Yoga™, Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda. 

Savor asana classes created with intention to nourish you, to inspire you, and to shift your chemistry and your state. 

Practitioners of all levels are welcome here. This is an invitation to a deep home practice that grows you. 

Breath & Mind

 

In your weekly sessions you will practice nourishing breathwork, somatic movement explorations, and meditation.

Additionally you will receive a weekly audio teaching and writing prompts to serve your private work and to uncover your inner wisdom and knowing. 

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Comparative Mythologist | Storyteller | Movement Maestra | Writer | Integrative Hypnotist

 

Selena is a comparative mythologist with advanced degrees in sociocultural anthropology.  She is a renowned Teacher of Yoga and Meditation, dedicated to delivering transformative wellness experiences that inspire personal growth, creativity, and inner harmony. With extensive experience leading global retreats, she masterfully blends cultural exploration with yoga, breathwork, and meditation practices, guiding individuals toward clarity, balance, and renewed purpose.

 

As a Leadership Coach and Mentor, Selena empowers others to unlock their potential. Her academic foundation is complemented by years of experience guiding individuals towards personal growth. With extensive training in psychology, holistic therapies, and personal development methodologies, she has earned certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) coaching which she applies to her clients. Her work fosters deep self-discovery, empowering participants to reconnect with their authentic selves and embrace a life of intention and well-being. 

Selena’s thoughtfully curated retreats seamlessly blend cultural exploration with self-discovery, fostering spaces for joyful, intentional living and conscious travel.

 

Since 2015, Selena’s syncretic teaching has been profoundly impacted by immersion in studies with her mentor, Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah Yoga®. The techniques underpinning the Katonah practices come from classical Hatha yoga, geometry, Five Element Theory, and various lineages of western esoteric philosophy. Learn more at KatonahYoga.com

Selena is the host and creator of the Bone & Bloom podcast a show dedicated to conversations on self-mastery, self-exploration, and our simplest altruism.

She believes that practice is service and that there MUST be a direct line between our personal spirituality and civil engagement. That our individual wellbeing cannot be separated from the collective wellbeing.

She offers a practice and teachings that are pragmatic, practical, and magical to help you author your life, live from your heart, and to operate from a place of grace.


Selena holds an MPH from Boston University in International Public Health, a MA in Sociocultural Anthropology, and was a PhD Candidate. She is a Fulbright scholar and two time Cornell University Fellow. Her undergraduate work was a dual degree in sociocultural anthropology and archaeology with a dual minor in women and gender studies and philosphy. 

She is a two-time Cornell Fellow, Fulbright Awardee, and scholar of myth and folklore.

Her movement and wellness training includes certifications in Katonah Yoga™, thousands of hours in yoga training with modern luminaries, FRC Kinstretch™, FRC Mobility Specialist, Balanced Body Pilates, Personal Development Coach, Precision Nutrition™, Ayurveda, Movement Flow™, dance, Non-Linear Movement Method™, and more. 

“May you wear the crown of clear seeing" 

 

The Returning

What's Included

 

-5 Weeks of Teaching 

-Lifetime Access

-Twice weekly 90 minute classes

-Weekly audio teaching

-Weekly guide

Ready for more? Bundle The Returning + Cultivating Wisdom. The Returning is a 5 module exploration of  what it is to honor our core self, to own our stories, and shake off our "shoulds"

 

Join The Returning $50 + Gift a Friend Free
Bundle The Returning + Cultivating Wisdom $100

Praise from The Returning Participants

 

In The Returning, Selena offers more than just yoga and pranayama. Each 90 minute class is themed around self connection and includes an expressive movement practice which is different each time. The 30 minute pranayama sessions are highly engaging and challenging in the best way. Her teachings throughout this month have truly helped me to form a deeper relationship between my mind, body, and spirit. The course has helped me to find the insight and courage to step out into the world as my best, most authentic self. Selena's teachings are truly inclusive and potent, I cannot recommend this course enough. Thank you Selena!

Praise from Alumni

 

Selena's workshop will inspire, educate, and empower you to pursue and uncover your authentic self. She is not your teacher if you wish to be coddled or spoon fed. She will provoke fundamental questioning that invites you to strip away the self limiting stories, practices, and habits that hold you back from your greatest potential. Go to her class, shake the dust, and breathe life into your dry bones.

Praise from Returning Participants

 

"If you aren't ready to have your life changed, don't study with Selena. She has a rare gift of glimpsing her students' highest potential and constructing an environment to slowly draw it out. You will learn Anatomy and philosophy from someone who is deeply passionated about them and it shows. You WILL be inspired. You WILL leave equipped with the tools and insight to transform your life. You will also learn, inside and out and in every direction, an intricate, many-faceted and carefully considered perspective of the yoga tradition from an insanely experienced student herself. The whole idea of Selena's trainings are to integrate and assimilate the method because when one embodies yoga from the inside out, the teaching takes care of itself. Selena doesn't just teach yoga, she lives yoga, and at the end of your training with her, you can too."

Praise from The Returning Participants

 

I have nothing but deep gratitude for Selena and her incredible offerings as a teacher. This course was abundant with rich and varied styles of pranayama, asana and movement practices that she framed beautifully using teachings from the many lineages that she has studied. She is a teacher who truly offers so many facets of herself to her students and doesn't shy away talking about the gritty side of life & the reality of deep practice. This course was profound, thought-provoking and at times really took me into some places that I needed to access within myself. 

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