BIOGRAPHY
Dages Juvelier Keates is a teacher, writer, and artist whose work explores the materiality of the body as a somatic space for holding paradox. Her transdisciplinary practice moves between breathwork, movement pedagogy, dramaturgy, and writing, shaped by psychoanalysis, Kabbalistic mysticism, somatics, and esoteric mapping systems drawn from Five Element Theory and Western herbalism.
Dages began her spiritual and somatic studies in 2002, training in Bihar, Kundalini, and Katonah Yoga lineages. Her work is grounded in a lifetime of dancing, academic research, and immersive Kabbalistic study in Jerusalem and New York City. Since 2012, her syncretic teaching has been deeply influenced by her mentor Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah Yoga.
For more than twenty years, Dages has taught throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, offering classes, workshops, and trainings across studios, festivals, universities, conferences, and curatorial and cultural spaces.
She is the author of Breath Magic: Portals to Presence and Radical Acts of Embodiment: Teaching and Practices of Katonah Yoga (2018), which has been sold internationally. Radical Acts has quietly become foundational reading in Katonah Yoga communities worldwide, known for its conversational voice, technical precision, and refusal to gatekeep embodied knowledge. Her approach to breathwork centers on “stealth self-care”—portable, adaptable techniques designed for the attention economy that can be practiced anywhere: in meetings, on subways, in the midst of real life.
Her methodology is rooted in lived experience. Dages came to breathwork and embodiment practices through her own encounters with anxiety, dissociation, and trauma, developing practices that make ancient techniques accessible, contemporary, and politically awake. As an artist, she has worked professionally since 1998, collaborating with Faye Driscoll, David Gordon, Noémie Lafrance, and others, including dramaturgy for Driscoll’s Calving, Weathering, and Oceanic Feeling.
She holds a BA in Dance from Bard College, a transdisciplinary MA from NYU, and an Advanced Master’s from Sint Lucas Antwerpen. She is currently a candidate at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics. Dages lives and works in New York City.