Selena Garefino

10/04/2024

June 2025 we'll be waiting for you. For the 3rd Luna Retreats experience at this magnificent villa in Sicily. Every detail is meticulously curated to offer you elegant and nourishing experience. Wellness means something different for us. It is full sensory awakening, it is delightful indulgence, it is attunement to pleasure and joy. Wellness is also savoring gorgeous meals in community, it is also languishing in the sensual, it is also staying up too late dancing in the kitchen, it is also a giant bowl of pasta.

You can expect the weaving of story and movement practices, yoga, lovingly prepared meals, luxurious accommodations, and tender practices for personal growth and and transformation that feels good. The kind that denies nothing and welcomes to whole you.

Early bird pricing goes live tomorrow and space is limited as our retreats are intimate groups of 8-12 women.

Our guests haven't even arrived yet and today was GLORIOUS.

09/29/2024

May 5th-13th we’re gathering in Morocco for an intergenerational women’s retreat. I’ve named this retreat Tapestry.

We’re weaving the ancient and the everyday.
Ritual in the ongoing ceremony we call living.
We’re weaving breath and body and play.
Sensory explorations and slow travel.

I’ve curated a sensory retreat week spread in different landscapes of Morocco for a full spectrum experience.

Your week includes rare opportunities to explore textiles and artisans in women’s collectives that have been vetted. Unfortunately many of the “women’s collectives” are not. We also have the rare privilege of meeting a group of traditional musicians that are all women at a gorgeous farm.

During your week we’ll explore on non-excursion days Katonah Yoga practices, oral storytelling, breathwork, and somatic movement practices.

Ultimately this is a week of colors and sounds, of satiating with gorgeous food, of being in community with women of all ages, of exploring ancient stories on Crone wisdom.

Included:

-Private guides
-Private transport to all excursions and between locations
-Private tours of women’s collectives and private concert with local musicians
-All museum entries
-Some meals (breakfasts and cooking classes, dinners you’ll be free to choose what you want to eat and how much you spend)
-Cooking class at a gorgeous farm
-Curated programming
-A luxury welcome gift curated for you in Florence Italy and in Morocco
-Travel services if you wish to stay in Morocco and explore other areas
-All accommodations
-Professional images of your experience and a self love photo shoot *if you wish!

https://www.selenagarefino.com/morocco

09/02/2024

Hi loves,

It seems someone is regularly reporting my account. Which whoever keeps doing that it's really unkind and has real world consequences for my business and work. As a result my page keeps being shut down. It was restored again as the report was found to be unfounded.

But who knows for how long since this has been happening a lot.

If you enjoy my writing and work please do join my mailing list in case I lose my account permanently. Unsubscribe anytime.

08/30/2024

Doors to Mapping the Breath® close in THREE HOURS! And January will see a price increase. I have 2 spaces left to the course.

Your breath is your most potent resources. It requires no special set up and no paraphernalia. Mastering breath techniques gives you pragmatic tools for shifting your chemistry, changing your state in under a minute, and direct contact with the you that is under all your surface confusions.

There are so many breath techniques and we have decades of research demonstrating the potency of breath practice.

There is nothing that is not being helped or hindered by your breath. Breath is the ally of transformation. It’s direct contact with presence because it is always present.

You Will Learn:

-15 hours of anatomy of the breath, pain science, pragmatic breath practices with Dr. Paula Sauer
-The esoteric dialogue of breath from the yogis to the Taoists
-Conscious Connection breath practices (this has many fancy names nowadays but it’s older than all of the brands)
-Katonah Yoga® Pranayama 15 hours bankable towards your certification
-Teaching breathwork safely
-Art of containment

and so much more

5, 10 hour weekend modules. Year long recording access. Office hours. Bonus breath practices and a heap of bonus content in your course platform.

We begin Saturday.

https://www.selenagarefino.com/breathwork

08/28/2024

Doors to Mapping the Breath® close on Friday. I made the decision to just leave the discounted pricing up as the January session will have a price increase. So if you have been on the fence now is your moment.

Breath is the sacred ally of transformation. Breath is THE support in moments of transition and change or if you want to change.

Breath is the ONLY thing that you can give your full attention to that will this quickly and obviously shift your state.

There is NOTHING that isn't helped or hindered on how you breathe. It is connected to literally every piece of you.

You will learn

-15 hours of anatomy of the breath with Dr. Sauer
-Pain science and pelvic floor health among other topics
-Katonah Yoga® pranayama practice
-Conscious Connection breath practices *SAFELY
-Breath techniques for just about everything
-Teaching the breath
-Art of containment
-Using breath in coaching practices, therapy, personal training etc.
-Teaching group and private breath classes
-Esoteric dialogue of the breath: Yoga, Taoism, and beyond
-The Science of Breath

And so much more

Course platform, bonus breath sessions, bonus video content, office hours and 12 month access to recordings, private facebook group.

This is going to be so special. Come hang.

https://www.selenagarefino.com/breathwork

08/26/2024

I just finished my daily breath practice.

And I was sitting in that clarity and steadiness that always follows that pause in my day and I decided to send out one last invitation to join Mapping the Breath® my 50 hour breathwork and pranayama training.

The course is still being offered until after my morning coffee tomorrow at $300 off.

The last few weeks you've heard me relentlessly preaching the gospel of the breath. And it is because after 30 years of personal practices and decades of study under various lineages and modern practitioners I am ready to deliver all of this how it lives in me.

Breath is alchemical.

It is magical.

It is practical.

It is pragmagical as we joke in Katonah Yoga circles.

You can manage pain, get creative, inspire, relax, attune, connect with consciousness, transform yourself all with this one simple tool that already belongs to you.

You just might be presently stuck in less than helpful habituations or simply not have the right techniques. But once you do? They're yours forever.

I will never stop telling you that there is NOTHING that isn't helped or hindered by how you are breathing.

It is far more powerful than you can imagine.

So what is included?

🌒 15 Hours of applied anatomy of the breath with Dr. Paula Sauer. Pain science, pelvic floor health, and so much more.

🌒 15 hours of Katonah Yoga® pranayama. You'll learn the maps and theory of Katonah Yoga and how to practice and if you wish guide our glands practice and more. This is a practice for mapping yourself and tending to your chemistry

🌒Conscious Connection breath. This is a powerful and transformative technique that gets called a LOT of fancy names these days. You'll learn to practice and guide it safely and efficiently.

🌒A library of breathwork techniques for sports performance, emotional wellbeing, creativity, relaxation, and so so much more.

🌒A course platform with heaps of BONUS videos to support your learning

🌒Breath sessions outside of our weekends together + office hours for asking questions

🌒12 months of recording access for reviewing your materials *I upped it from 6!

🌒Bonus self Hypnosis practice from Selena for personal transformation

🌒Private facebook group for connecting.

And so much more...

Sound good? No code is needed but the discount is going away tomorrow.

There are 6 month payment plans to make it super accessible.

Ready to befriend your breath and watch things shift on every level? Ready to expand your offerings as a coach, teacher, practitioner?

This is for you.

See you inside.

https://www.selenagarefino.com/breathwork

07/15/2024

I have a last minute retreat offering August 17th-24th in stunning Le Marche Italy at a LUX venue. We'll spend a week savoring our private chef, a gorgeous pool, luxury spa, sea views, spectacular wines, optional add on excursions, and lucious practices weaving yoga, breath, and dance.

You will also receive a $1200 coaching package as a gift. Use the code LASTCALL for 700 euro off the normal booking rate.

We require a minimum of 6 women

I've hosted retreats for over a decade and I can promise you a spectacular and nourishing week in an untouched region of Italy that will make you swoon.

https://www.selenagarefino.com/revelmarcheitaly

07/04/2024

I am hosting my last 200 hour in person teacher training in Crete Greece June 10th-July 1st 2025. Errin Briscoe and Cameron James are coming to play the last week and teach advanced movement practices to those that wish, McKenzie Shoults is assisting me and it will be glorious.

Our home for the 21 day training is newly renovated beach front hotel so on your rest time you can swim in the sea and enjoy the nearby villages.

Each week you'll have a free day for play and rest.

Anchored in Katonah Yoga®, personal development, classical yoga studies, and recipes for joy.

You will learn:

-History and philosophy
-Foundational Katonah theory and maps
-Sequencing intelligently
-Applied anatomy
-Pranayama and the science of breath
-Teaching methodology

and so much more.

Your course includes a coaching session with me post training, lifetime access to my 21 day virtual training for ongoing support, 1/2 board meals, and full accommodations.

If you've wanted to complete in person yoga education with me this is your moment.

Join Selena Garefino in Crete Greece for your Yoga Alliance accredited 21 day yoga teacher training immersion. Learn to teach hatha and vinyasa yoga anchored in classical yoga studies, Katonah Yoga®, and personal development coaching.

06/28/2024

Hi loves,

Katonah Yoga® trainings are here again. And we're starting with an in-person gorgeous retreat experience in Sicily bankable towards 20 hours of KY training. Then an online 50 hour breathwork and conscious connection breath training. And then 30 hour Greece retreat + training!

There will be more online offerings in the fall. Hop on my mailing list to stay in the know and Katonah offerings now have their own home. And as always there are class drops on YouTube regularly.

https://www.selenagarefino.com/katonahyogatraining