Mapping the Self®

A 30 Hour Katonah Yoga® Retreat

5th Annual Retreat
to Amorgos

October 4th-11th 2025

Open to Practitioners & Teachers

Bankable Towards 30 Hours of your Katonah Yoga® Certification

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Welcome to Mapping the Self®

a 30 Hour Katonah Yoga® Retreat

We are gathering in Amorgos Greece for a week ofexploring the themes, theory, and practices of Katonah Yoga®.

You are invited into sacred relationship with your body, this vibrant tool through which you experience, sense, and navigate the world.

Together we are going on a journey to map your personal terrain. To build a yoga practice that is imaginative, pragmatic, functional, and supports the narrative of your life.

Asana is origami for the body. A stellar asana practice is to up level your organ function, to make your chemistry sing, and to support the big vision for your life.

-You are meant to fit yourself.

-Where you make good contact currency moves.

-When you fit yourself you BELONG to YOU.

Katonah Yoga® offers us a way of practicing that owns the whole of us and teaches personal responsibility while fullly embracing "part of" and the reality that we are not spheres unto ourselves.

YOU WILL LEARN

The Magic Square and its application
Adjustments for vision
The Solar, Stellar, and the Lunar
Fits and Folds
The 3 Fires
The Body as a House
Intelligent use of touch
Metaphor and storytelling in yoga asana
Katonah Yoga® pranayama practice

Yoga is always to empower you. It is to uplift you. Never to diminish you.

Props are for propping you up. For putting you on a throne to support your big vision and your big imagination. To hold you so you don’t have to hold it together.

A practice that is mind, body, and breath teaches you to fit your folds so you can fill up with breath and be dimensional. So you’re freed up to put your imagination in it.

To be full.

If you’re ready for a practice that ups your organ function, allows your chemistry to sing, and leans into Great Nature join

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KATONAH YOGA® was founded by Nevine Michaan, and is a Hatha yoga practice refined over forty years, blended with Taoist theory, sacred geometries, pranayama, and meditation. For more information, please visit www.katonahyoga.com.

Mapping the Self® is a full sensory, slow travel experience. An immersive journey and training. You are invited to explore your personal terra incognita while adventuring outward in this arid aqua stunning landscape. You'll commune with the communal while tending to your inner wisdom. Every element is curated to bring you along this journey of self. Beyond embodiment we are exploring emplacement. Your body in these times, in this place, in these sacred relationships.

The Emergence retreat is more than a yoga retreat. It is a curated experience designed to lead you into self inquiry with curiosity and joy. Together we’ll explore yoga, movement, meditation, and more to deeply connect with our inner compass.

Rekindle your connection with nature, with rest, with play, and with your inner desires. This is an intentional and lyrical pause bend your ear to the earth, to the beating of your own heart, to the rhythm of your breath.

We're moving from habituation to potentialities. During your stay you'll be guided through practices and teachings to support you in owning and authoring your dreams and visions for your life.

Rekindle your connection with nature, with rest, with play, and with your heart. Savor the hammam spa, take a stroll into the village, hike the hills surrounding our retreat center, relax on your private balcony and take in the sea air.

Retreat offers us an intentional withdrawal from the every day to reconnect with our interior and with the things that matter so we can re-emerge and reconnect in new heartfelt ways.

It’s an opportunity to remember and reaffirm the sacredness of life in this ongoing ceremony we call living.

I want you to leave with your heart, your mind, your body feeling like a joyous personal sanctuary. Now and forever.

Retreat offers us an intentional withdrawal from the every day to reconnect with our interior and with the things that matter so we can re-emerge and reconnect in new heartfelt ways. It’s an opportunity to remember and reaffirm the sacredness of life in this ongoing ceremony we call living.

Our Retreat Center in Amorgos

Amorgos is a spectacular islands in the Cyclade known as the "blue island"

Selena has hosted retreats on Amorgos island for 5 years. The island is quiet and in October it is perfection the sea is warm from the months of summer sun, it is late summer with cooler evenings.

Amorgos boasts majestic beaches, picturesque white washed houses and beachfront tavernas. The hotel has a salt water pool, luxury spa with hammam, jacuzzi, sauna, gym, and more.

The staff at Aegialis are incredibly kind and their above and beyond service makes for a truly lux experience.

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What To Expect...

Nourishment

Savor twice times daily meals meals lovingly prepared by our wonderful chefs. Your mid day is free for your exploration of beach taverns and local fare which is worth exploring.

Exploration

Twice-daily intentional 2.5 hour practice and teaching sessions fully immersed in Katonah Yoga® theory and practice as well as its application to personal development. You will of course play in the realms of story with Selena

Play

Swim, relax, hike, tour the island with optional add on excursions. Closer to our retreat date you will have the opportunity to add on journeys like a private yacht day, cooking classes, and other delights.

I was legitimately scared to go to Selena’s retreat. I’m not a yogi. I had never traveled outside the US before. I needed to do something for myself. I needed something grounding but outside of my comfort zone. That’s exactly what I found with this retreat. Selena and everyone on this retreat made me feel welcomed and supported. Not having a yoga practice wasn’t an issue. The classes were a challenge but I didn’t feel left behind. The teachings about the goddess hit me in tender spots that I didn’t want to admit were there. I would recommend going to her next retreat to anyone that will listen to me.

Peach Montana

While on retreat with Selena there were tender moments, challenging moments, peaceful moments and massive growth.

I was constantly challenged to grow and held at the same time. The daily meditations were filled with wisdom. The asana practice was exquisite. The company was amazing — so much laughter and support all around.

Thank you for the knowledge you shared. Your years of study and mastery shine through in all you do. It was an expansive experience. I’m eager to do it all again.

Megan

I was legitimately scared to go to Selena’s Goddess in Greece retreat. I’m not a yogi. I had never traveled outside the US before. I needed to do something for myself. I needed something grounding but outside of my comfort zone. That’s exactly what I found with this retreat. Selena and everyone on this retreat made me feel welcomed and supported. Not having a yoga practice wasn’t an issue. The classes were a challenge but I didn’t feel left behind. The teachings about the goddess hit me in tender spots that I didn’t want to admit were there. I would recommend going to her next retreat to anyone that will listen to me.

Peach Montana

While on retreat with Selena there were tender moments, challenging moments, peaceful moments and massive growth.

Thank you for the knowledge you shared. Your years of study and mastery shine through in all you do. It was an expansive experience. I’m eager to do it all again.

Megan

Private Room

A private room with ensuite bath for your own personal sanctuary.

Pay in full and receive a 300 euro early bird bonus discount with the code PAYINFULL

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Shared Room

Book with a friend or request a roommate. A shared room for communal sanctuary.

Pay in full and receive a 300 euro early bird bonus discount with the code PAYINFULL

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About Selena

Selena is a curator of bespoke, slow travel experiences. She is a somatic dance teacher, spiritual teacher, mind-body coach, somatic experiencing practitioner, life coach, oral storyteller, and sociocultural anthropologist.

She has practiced yoga for 30 years and taught globally for almost 15 years.

She integrates her decades of movement study, yoga philosophy, myth and folklore studies, coaching, and somatic practices into an experience that is very unique.

She believes in embracing life as a gift to be celebrated, in not turning away from life's pains and difficulties but fully accepting and dancing with EVERYTHING life has to offer. All the while staying in the business of JOY.

She utilizes oral storytelling, contemplative work, embodiment practices, and yoga to address the complexities of a human life in a way that is joyful, playful, and anchored in the right here and now.

As a coach Selena uses a combination of hypnosis, NLP, Somatic Experiencing, and Handel Methods to guide you to your Highest.

She believes that life is already a great mystery and there's no need to manufacture the mystical. But a lot of opportunities to stoke your awe and imagination.

Welcoming everything. Abandoning nothing.

On Retreat

You are a grand and noble idea with profound potential waiting to be unveiled. You are the keeper of medicine that is needed. You are designed to thrive.

Emergence is your opportunity to be in community with like-minded humans, to explore your inner landscape, to play, rest, and reconnect with the ceremony of life.

Together we’ll explore rituals, practice, and play to inspire and elevate our living.

You will enjoy twice-daily yoga practices to support your body and breath. Asana, meditation, pranayama, journaling work, and other practices to support your well-being, heal your nervous system, and lead you to your highest.

Post-retreat support. All participants will receive a 6-month online subscription to Selena’s live-stream and on-demand classes as well as an optional zoom integration meeting to reconnect with one another and practice together a month after the retreat completes.

Retreat With Me

BOOK YOUR ROOM

Mapping the Self®

Private Room
€3300

• 30 minute relaxing massage
• 2 beautiful curated Greek meals per day
• Stunning pool
• Transportation from the port
• 30 Hour Katonah Yoga Training
• Optional Add-On Excursions *additional costs apply

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Shared Rooms
€2600

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Sarah

Let me begin by saying, if I could give Selena and this trip fifty stars, I would in a heartbeat. I understand how cliche it is to say, “This trip changed my life!” But it truly did. Selena provided a safe space to reconnect with my body, mind, and spirit as emotions I couldn’t fully understand at the time bubbled to the surface. She left us with a simple statement, “Love your life,” that had profound impacts I haven’t fully grasped. While Greece was outstanding, the people incredible, the food fantastic, and the resort impeccable, the internal movement this created within me is something I will be forever indebted to. I will be returning in the future. Selena changed my life. If you’re considering going, even a tiny bit, hold tight to it and don’t let go. It’ll make you love your life again. I promise.

Amy

This was my first yoga retreat and Selena really set the bar high! This wasn’t just about doing yoga classes and laying by the pool.. (although we did that too!) our classes were intimate and called us to explore ourselves on the deepest level. We had journal prompts and movement classes that brought our true selves out! Selena shared her whole heart, her wisdom and facilitated our own personal transformation and connection with others! I have made friends for life :) !

Keeley

Selena curated and held such an amazing experience for our group. She held a safe and fun space to do a deep dive into the intricacies of the human condition, what it means to have a body, and Yogic philosophy. The experience and what I’ve taken with me are priceless. I recommend her to every-body out there. No yoga experience required, just being a human qualifies you:) I will try to go on every retreat she offers! Ten stars!