Denver Yoga Summit

Step off the grid and onto your mat in one of Colorado’s most breathtaking settings. Join creative sequencing expert and founder of the Steal My Flow movement, Juliana LaRochelle, at the stunning Open Air Chapel in the botanic gardens. Surrounded by wildflowers and native plants, this dynamic, 60-minute all-levels Vinyasa masterclass uses the Rocky Mountain foothills as your natural altar.

Grounded in inclusivity, Juliana’s intuitive teaching style allows every practitioner to customize their journey in real time. The first 50 minutes of class are dedicated to a creatively woven, continuous flow that builds internal heat while melting away stored tension. The session culminates in 10 minutes of intentional community-building, bridging the connection from the mat to the collective space around you. Walk away feeling centered, inspired, and deeply connected to your fellow attendees. Every body is welcome.

Unplug, unwind, and transition from doing to being. Tucked away in serene Creek Garden, this intimate Yin Yoga session uses the gentle sounds of the nearby creek and the shade of towering trees to soothe your senses. Enjoy a restorative, slow-paced sequence of long-held floor shapes designed to release deep physical tension and calm the nervous system. Spaces in this quiet garden oasis are limited—join us to slow down, breathe deeply, and restore your inner peace. All levels welcome!

Discover the profound intersection of physical alignment and energetic vitality. Led by Lauren Walker—one of the country’s leading yoga visionaries and the creator of Energy Medicine Yoga (EMYoga)—and EMYoga Master Teacher Blaine Wilkes, this 60-minute masterclass is designed to radically amplify your practice.

Together, we will blend a deeply restorative, gentle Vinyasa flow with ancient energy medicine principles to support profound balance, vitality, and nervous system regulation. Through intuitive movement, specialized breathwork, and focused somatic awareness, you will explore exactly how subtle energy and physical practice work together to clear chronic stress. Step off your mat feeling completely realigned, deeply resilient, and buzzing with vibrant energy. All levels are warmly welcomed!

In every moment there are possibilities to enhance work, life and human interaction. I will share an inspiring personal story on how I have discovered the possible in the least likely circumstances. The treasure that revealed itself to me was the power of calm. On many levels the original reveal of CALM. The many times over I harnessed calm which lead me to see the full potential in that moment. I was able to discover the possibilities over the limitations. Furthermore, calm has assisted myself and my clients and/or students eliminate stress, trauma or mental fall out associated with climactic and daily events.

During this session, I will share and demonstrate how to find and anchor calm in all situations. I will be illustrating the scientific relationship between all humans, nature and their electromagnetic field. Then, I will share the power and potential that arrives from a calm state of being. I will share personal and professional stories that will inspire the audience to find their ever present CALM.

Learning Objectives

1. The relevance and importance of retaining a balanced electromagnetic field in the human body.

2. The role the electromagnetic system places in supporting the entire physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.

3. Learn how nutrition and sound assists in balancing the electromagnetic field.

4. How to balance the electromagnetic field as a remedy to support the mental healing, transformation and well being.

5. How the electromagnetic field when balanced returns the human to their natural state CALM. All is possible in the state of CALM.

Outcome:

A. Understand clearly what is possible from a calm state

B. Understand how to access the full human potential

C. Discover the potential to transform and heal your relationships with self and others

D. Learn Practical tools to practice on a daily basis

Resonance & Radiance: Mantra, Mudra, and Meditation Track: Mantra and Mudra, Meditation Level: All levels Duration: 60 minutes

Sound has always been one of yoga's most direct pathways inward. This session uses it intentionally.

Resonance & Radiance is a meditative experience built around harmonium, mantra, mudra, and breath. Jackie DeConti guides participants through a practice designed to quiet the nervous system, align the body's energetic centers, and create the conditions for genuine stillness — the kind that is hard to find in ordinary life.

The session opens with a grounding breath and body scan, giving everyone time to arrive fully before anything else begins. From there, participants are introduced to mudras paired with breathwork for relaxation and energetic balance. The heart of the practice moves into call-and-response chanting with live harmonium — no prior experience required, no wrong way to participate. Humming is welcome. Silence is welcome. Whatever arises is welcome.

A guided meditation follows, drawing the resonance of the chanting deeper into the body and mind. The session closes with a final tone and a moment of shared quiet.

Participants leave with practical tools they can take home — specific mudras, breath practices, and simple mantras they can use to regulate their nervous system and reconnect to themselves in daily life. No yoga experience is needed. Just a willingness to listen.

Exploring the Divine Mirror in Every Connection

Join symbolic mythologist and teacher Manoj Chalam for a transformative talk on the Yoga of Relationships—a journey into how our human connections serve as sacred mirrors for awakening and growth.

Manoj will bring in statues of Hindu and Buddhist deities to illustrate the ancient wisdom for modern times. Drawing from Vedantic philosophy, Hindu mythology, and practical wisdom, Manoj weaves humor, storytelling, and insight to reveal how every relationship—whether romantic, familial, or communal—is an opportunity to deepen our self-awareness and align with higher consciousness.

In this engaging and accessible session, participants will explore:

• How relationships reflect the unresolved or enlightened aspects of the self
• Archetypes of divine love and union through the lens of deities and symbolism
• Tools for turning friction into fuel for evolution
• The path of devotion (bhakti) in human connection

With warmth and wit, Manoj invites us to see love not just as emotion, but as a spiritual practice—a yoga. Come ready to laugh, reflect, and leave with your heart a little more open and your relationships a little more sacred.

Manoj will help you find your personal deity Goddess archetype

(This workshop is 80% lecture, 10% meditation, 5% Mantras and 5% light spiritual stretches.)

You don't have to do anything in this session besides receive. Step inside the cozy, protected sanctuary of the Healing Yurt for an immersive experience where the sound does the work for you. Often described as "the thing that finally worked when everything else felt like effort," this sound bath is designed to be a complete vacation for your nervous system.

Led by Mariel Serrano—a trauma-informed sound healer, yoga teacher, and specialist working at the intersection of applied psychology and somatic practice—this session combines crystal singing bowls, intentional breathwork, and guided meditation. Mariel skillfully creates a safe, deeply grounded environment that your nervous system can trust. This session is intentionally accessible to absolutely everyone—including people who have never stepped into a wellness space before, and people who feel like they’ve been in too many. Come as you are, lay down, and let the vibration restore you.

Space in the Yurt is limited.

Before the music begins, we begin. ✨

Join us at the Main Stage Field on Friday evening for our brief, powerful opening ceremony to kick off the Denver Yoga Summit. Hosted by our fantastic emcee Jordan White, this session features a beautiful land acknowledgment that will have us feeling connected to each other and the land, rooted in presence and respect by Indigenous educator Sequoia Garza-Keith. Summit founder Brittany Hopkins Switlick will then open the container, setting our shared intentions for the magical three days ahead. Come ground your feet on the earth, meet the community that will spend the weekend on the mats around you, and get ready for an unforgettable Denver Yoga Summit!

The Summit officially begins here. You’ve spent two hours exploring the marketplace, finding your bearings, and/or meeting the souls on the mats around you. At 6:00 PM, we officially gather as a collective. Sequoia Garza Keith will open the portal, introducing us to the sacred land beneath our feet and to each other, giving us space to arrive fully and set a unified intention for the three days ahead.

Then, Mose takes the Main Stage.

As a globally touring producer and DJ, Mose creates at the vibrant intersection of global rhythms, medicine songs, and ancestral melodies. He spends extended periods in deep retreat and silence between tours; what he brings back is music that feels less like a performance and more like a transformative passage. His sole intention is to open something dormant within each of us.

The journey begins in stillness. By the end, everyone on the Main Stage field is moving as one living, breathing wave. You won't quite know how you got from one to the other—only that you arrived together.

The elements: The sun will set over the dramatic Rocky Mountain foothills at 7:30 PM. You are outside. It is September in Colorado. There is no controlled version of this experience, and we wouldn't want one. This is not the pregame—this is the first moment we are all together. It is an experience you will carry home in your bones.