Katherine Russ teaches asana, pranayama, Kundalini Reiki and esoteric study, as a practice rather than a belief. Online from anywhere, and in person in New York.
Private sessions, classes and gatherings, online and in person in New York.
The typical version of “awakening” is often sold as a single flash of insight: a retreat, a substance, a teacher’s glance, after which a person is simply different. That is not what happened to me. What happened was slower and stranger: a gradual apprenticeship to knowledge that conventional education never offered me.
Through pranayama and subtle energy work, we learn to cross the bridge between the visible world and the one that moves through you with every breath. This work is personal, deep, and its path is ultimately yours.
Read Katherine’s letterThe unseen is not far away. It moves through the body with every breath. These practices work directly with that current, for individuals and for couples who want to deepen their connection and discover the pleasure of healing together.
Online, private or small group
Classical hatha woven with dynamic reps: held postures for steadiness, repeated movement to build heat and wake the body’s energy. It gets the body ready for breath and subtle work, and builds strength you can feel.
Book an asana sessionPrivate, partner or small group
Classical yogic breath practice, taught with precision. Pranayama steadies the nervous system, clears stagnant energy, and refines perception until the subtle currents beneath ordinary awareness become something you can feel and direct.
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Individuals and couples
Energy work for individuals and for couples. Awakened life force is guided through the body to release what is held and restore flow. Shared between partners, it becomes a practice of deepening connection, to yourself and to each other, through the quiet pleasure of healing.
Book a Reiki sessionLevels I to III
Attunements and training in three levels, for those who want to carry the work themselves.
Ask about trainingSingles and couples · new primer
The esoteric alchemy of sexual energy: pleasure endurance, full-body sensual pleasure, and freedom from being controlled by desire.
Ongoing and one-off
Yoga philosophy and classical esoteric study, taught as rigorous practice rather than aesthetic. Ongoing courses and one-off intensives.
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One-on-one work for people ready to go further than a class allows: structured, dialectical, and unsentimental about what actually changes a life.
In person, New York
In-person gatherings held in New York, built around ritual, embodied practice, and direct transmission rather than lecture alone.
New primer · coming soon to Kindle
For singles and couples
Sexual energy is the most potent current the body carries. Sexual yoga teaches you to hold it, circulate it and let it refine you.
Distance is no object when it comes to subtle energy and breath work.
Private, group, or both. Wherever you are, by video.
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Adeptship moves through four integrated bodies of practice. All spokes are required for integral function: ritual without skill is theatrics, skill without art is mechanical, art without investigation never leaves the notebook.
The technology of repetition.
The practices that structure time and attention deliberately: ceremony, seasonal observance, the rites that mark a threshold. Ritual is how a body learns something a mind alone cannot be argued into. Done consistently enough, it stops being performance and becomes a nervous-system habit.
I am Katherine Russ, and this is a working record of the refinement and powerful skills gained by gazing through the esoteric lens. There is a world beyond the visible one. It moves through you with every breath, hums in the spaces between thoughts, and shapes your life long before anything takes form. Breath is the oldest bridge between these worlds. With each inhalation, the material body draws in the subtle; with each exhalation, spirit returns to matter. Through pranayama and subtle energy work, we learn to cross that bridge consciously.
I came to esoteric study as an investigator, not a convert.
I wanted to know what these systems were actually claiming, what they got right about the nervous system and attention long before neuroscience had the language for it, and where the line sat between symbol and superstition. That inquiry became a discipline. The discipline became a practice. And the practice, slowly, became adeptship. Not mastery in the sense of arrival, but fluency: the capacity to work skillfully inside a tradition rather than merely admire it.
This is the world of mind-body union and consciousness technology, known to the ancient rishi saints and holy masters as Yoga and Tantra.
The typical version of “awakening” is often sold as a single flash of insight: a retreat, a substance, a teacher’s glance, after which a person is simply different. That is not what happened to me, and my BS alarm goes off when people tell it that way. What happened was slower and stranger: a gradual apprenticeship to knowledge that conventional education never offered me.
Through a lifetime of meeting and working with people who had transcendental power, the ability to overcome all kinds of sufferings, I was encouraged to find humility, embracing correction, and learning to shamelessly move through the humiliation of admitting errors, fault, or failure. When I gained the courage to let go of a stubborn, self-grasping pride. When I learned to stop telling myself that I am better, that I know better, and just let go of my way. To realize that my own way was stubbornness.
I came to become just strong enough to explore what I was told was a higher level of goodness, right way, and integrity. The concept of “let go and let God” became accessible, practical, and no longer an abuse of power. It became something I could trust.
Eventually you begin to see how everything is connected, and this level of clarity actually kicks you out of your eagle’s nest of comfortable excuses for not being powerful. You let go in divine timing as you must let go, and suddenly you are flying.
This is an invitation into the surprisingly practical mystery of true power. This is not a novel escape from reality, the material plane, or the body itself, but a deeper homecoming. This work dares to explore the middle path, to dwell at the crossroads between the gross-material and the subtle-energetic. This work is not for everybody. This work is for you. It is personal, deep, and its path is ultimately yours. It starts from wherever you are, and moves to dead center. Middle path. Neutrality. To understand this work is to understand the difference between an electrical contact and no contact. Light vs. total blackness.
We delight in being a bridge between the subtle and the earthly realm. Find a waking dream where the symbolic language comes to life. Join me, where healing becomes a pleasure rather than a task. Now is the time for you to realize the reality hidden beneath the constructs that an unsound civilization has bound us to. Remember the power that has been silently waiting within you, and grow.
Katherine Russ
Teacher of yoga and esoteric practice, New York
Five notes from the margins of the practice.
A ritual performed without attention is just a habit wearing a costume.
Ritual
Aparigraha is not renunciation. It is refusing to let even a good insight calcify into an identity.
Aparigraha
The serpent in the garden was never evil. It was the first teacher of discernment.
The serpent
Every tradition worth keeping was, at some point, someone’s disciplined act of noticing.
Tradition
Adeptship is not knowing more. It is found in the integral flow state. The adept exists comfortably in the realm of integrity, where activities are no longer performative, but a mark of true self mastery.
Adeptship
The next gathering
Scorpio Season.
Friday, November 6, 4:30 to 10 PM.
Goddess Realm, New York.
An intimate conscious gathering with playful, supportive, and lighthearted shadow work and meditation rituals with sound bath circle.
Suggested dress: black, red, silver, purple or violet. Masks and costumes welcome.
Book a time, ask about training or register for study. Sessions and classes are held online from anywhere and in person in New York.
