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9:00am MDT

Rise Up: All-Levels Empowering Flow with Dan Nevins
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Roll out your mat on the Main Stage Field and look up at the towering foothills of the Rockies. Now, prepare to look inward. Join combat veteran, global motivational speaker, and internationally celebrated yoga teacher Dan Nevins for a dynamic Vinyasa practice that will completely transform your relationship with your mat—and your life.

As a bilateral amputee, Dan’s deeply moving perspective on what it truly means to "root down to rise up" breathes new life into the phrase "yoga for every-body". This all-levels sequence is meticulously structured to build physical strength, unwavering confidence, and radical presence. Expect highly thoughtful sequencing, exceptionally clear physical options, and an unshakeable emphasis on feeling profoundly empowered in your body exactly as it is today. Come stand strong against the backdrop of the mountains. All levels, bodies, and backgrounds are warmly welcomed.
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Dan Nevins

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Dan Nevins is a world-renowned speaker and yoga teacher whose message of resilience, perseverance, and hope has inspired audiences for over a decade. A highly decorated U.S. Army veteran, Dan was severely injured in 2004 when an IED detonated beneath his vehicle in Iraq, resultin... Read More →
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Jennifer Leavitt

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
- Main Stage

9:00am MDT

Clear the Mind: Introduction to Meditation in the Creek Garden
LIMITED
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Limited Capacity seats available
If you think you "can't meditate because your mind is too busy," this session is for you. Step into the secluded, shaded sanctuary of the intimate Creek Garden. Guided by globally celebrated teacher Ryan Leier, this down-to-earth introduction to meditation removes the mystery and pressure from the practice, showing you that mindfulness can be both simple and joyful.

Resting under a canopy of ancient trees and surrounded by native flowers, you will use the natural, soothing rush of Deer Creek as your focal anchor. Ryan will introduce you to simple, accessible breath rituals and awareness techniques designed to instantly calm an overactive nervous system and anchor you in the present moment. You will leave this quiet garden oasis with a clear mind, an open heart, and a practical toolkit of simple habits to find your inner calm anytime, anywhere. Absolutely no prior experience required!
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Ryan Leier

Speaker, One Yoga
Ryan Leier is a globally recognized yoga teacher and community leader celebrated for profound dedication to the authentic teachings of yoga. Based in British Columbia, Canada, Ryan is the visionary behind the One Yoga movement and co-founder of Vinyasa Yoga for Youth, a non-profi... Read More →
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Dorothy Dorta

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
- Creek Garden

9:00am MDT

The Radiant Body: Chakras, Doshas & Your Inner Gifts
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
At the sacred crossroads of Ayurveda and the chakra system lies a map of your elemental nature and deeper gifts. These sister sciences illuminate the subtle and physical dimensions of who we are — revealing the intelligence woven through body, energy, and spirit.

Rooted in the wisdom of the five elements, Ayurveda expresses itself through the doshas — Vata, Pitta, and Kapha — the energetic blueprint through which we live our embodied lives. Each dosha holds profound strengths: Vata’s visionary creativity and intuition, Pitta’s radiant courage and transformative clarity, Kapha’s steady devotion and deep compassion.

When these elemental forces are explored alongside the chakras — the energetic centers of consciousness within the subtle body — we awaken a powerful understanding of ourselves. We begin to experience our constitution as a pathway toward healing, integration, and the ignition of our most radiant self.

Our time together will begin with a gentle, accessible overview of both systems, then unfold into slow, intentional movement, meditation, and reflection to embody your innate strengths. Open to all levels, bodies, and beings. Come ready to move slowly, listen deeply, and reconnect with your inner brilliance.
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Heather Lindemann

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Heather Lindemann is a yoga teacher and Ayurveda Wellness Guide devoted to tending the sacred spaces of our lives. She views the places we dwell—body, mind, and environment—as sacred portals capable of initiating us into deeper wisdom.

An E-RYT 500 teacher, former studio owner... Read More →
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Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
- Market Square Pavillion

9:00am MDT

Beyond Inhale and Exhale: The Hidden Curriculum of Breath
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
ADMISSION NOTE: This exclusive session requires a Teacher Track Ticket or Add-On for entry.

Somewhere along the way, the modern yoga world reduced breath to a repetitive background cue: inhale, exhale, repeat. But breath is not just a secondary technique. It is the single most intelligent anchor inside your asana practice—shaping nervous system tone, pranic direction, muscular effort, and mental steadiness long before we ever touch formal pranayama.

Join globally renowned yoga educator and host of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast, Arundhati B, for a deeply layered and practical masterclass that reshapes how we understand breath literacy.

What You Will Explore:
  • The Six Dimensions: Decode the six distinct qualities of breath and how each alters a student’s immediate internal experience.
  • The Three Layers: Navigate the physical, energetic, and perceptual nature of conscious breathing.
  • Effort & Expansion: Learn how breath logically organizes structural stability and deep expansion inside postures.
  • Beyond Ujjayi: Discover why reducing breath exclusively to ujjayi limits both the teacher's vocabulary and the student's growth.
  • Seamless Literacy: Learn how to deepen breath integration without turning a standard vinyasa class into a rigid pranayama workshop.
  • The Takeaway: This is not about adding more complex technique; it is about radically refining your perception. Teachers will leave with sharper, more intelligent cueing tools. Practitioners will experience how breath alone can completely transform the depth of their practice.
  • Note: This is a limited-capacity workshop. Please ensure you have upgraded your Visitors Center to a Teacher Track Ticket to secure your spot and receive your continuing education credits.
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Briana Mandelbaum

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
- Stable Pavillion

9:15am MDT

The Aim of Yoga: Unlocking the Power of the Sutras
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am MDT
What is the true aim of yoga beyond the physical pose? In this foundational workshop, we explore the core purpose of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as illustrated by the first five verses (1.1–1.5). By examining the nature of the mind and why we suffer, we uncover how these ancient texts provide a direct roadmap for liberation and higher understanding—moving from avidya (ignorance) to clarity.

Through a blend of philosophical inquiry and embodiment practices, we will bridge the gap between sutra study and your daily life on and off the mat. Participants will experience a guided kriya to "still mental fluctuations," followed by meditation designed to integrate these concepts into their existing practice. Whether you are a student or a teacher, this session will clarify the role of the mind in yoga, providing deeper context and a renewed sense of purpose for your personal journey.

Workshop Highlights:
  • The Greater Aim: Understand yoga as a holistic system for navigating the mind.
  • Embodied Philosophy: Move from intellectual theory into a direct experience of "stilling the mind."
  • Practical Reflection: Learn to apply sutra 1.1–1.5 to modern asana and daily self-reflection.
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Augusta Gruhlke

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am MDT
- Secret Garden

9:30am MDT

Strong Where You Sit: Chair-Based Yoga
LIMITED
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am MDT
Limited Capacity seats available
Redefine your boundaries and unlock new physical momentum. Meet us beneath the shaded, vine-covered pathways of the beautiful Lavender Pergola for a refreshing 60-minute practice that blends movement with the healing fragrance of blooming lavender. Led by expert instructor Abigail Atkinson, this specialized masterclass uses the chair as a steady reference point to explore innovative seated movement and rock-solid, chair-supported standing postures.

This session is thoughtfully designed for practitioners who can walk, but may navigate balance challenges or movement limitations. Abigail offers a brilliant, joint-friendly blend of mobility exercises, accessible functional strength, and balance work.

You will leave the pergola feeling deeply empowered, structurally aligned, and completely attuned to your body's unique morning energy. All capabilities and bodies are warmly welcomed!
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Abigail Atkinson

Speaker, Well With Abigail
Abigail is a yoga teacher, educator, and adaptive yoga specialist whose work was shaped by her recovery from a cerebellar stroke in 2012. After relearning how to walk, she became deeply interested in what helps people rebuild strength, resilience, and self-trust in their bodies. Her teaching... Read More →
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Heather McDermott-Martin

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am MDT
- Lavender Pergola

10:30am MDT

The Art of Surrender: Yin Yoga & Live Acoustic Music
Saturday September 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Some classes ask you to work. This one asks you to arrive. Step into the sanctuary and be guided by the soothing presence of Davida Wright and accompanied by the soulful, live acoustic guitar of Mike Galvin, this session is a masterclass in radical rest and deep somatic healing.

Unlike active practices, this Yin session invites you into unhurried, floor-based shapes held for several minutes to target deep connective tissues and melt away hidden tension. As Davida guides your physical alignment, Mike’s acoustic melodies shape the atmosphere with a gentle, floating spaciousness.

The Journey: You will begin with a grounding breathwork ritual to anchor your awareness, then melt into receptive postures designed to unlock physical stillness and emotional release.

The Atmosphere: The live music creates a rich, resonant soundscape that wraps around the entire space, supporting your nervous system in absolute surrender and deep connection.

The music will relax you. The practice will nurture you. All bodies, minds, and experience levels are warmly welcomed.
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Emma Dubas

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
- The Rustic Barn

10:30am MDT

Kundalini Shakti: A Kriya Journey to Ignite the Inner Current
Saturday September 12, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Roll out your mat on the Main Stage Field and prepare to step into the deeper, evolutionary layers of your practice. Rooted in ancient Tantric traditions and Himalayan Kriya Yoga, this powerful 90-minute immersion is guided by globally trained Sattva Yoga Master Teacher Catherine Wetenkamp. More than just a class, this session is a direct energetic transmission where breath, conscious awareness, and primal life force begin to move as one giant wave against the backdrop of the Rockies.

Kriya utilizes a precise combination of breathwork (pranayama), energetic locks (bandhas), sacred sound (mantra), and subtle, repetitive movement. These ancient technologies are engineered to safely awaken and guide your Kundalini Shakti (inner current) with absolute precision and reverence.

The Transformation: Kriya is often described as evolutionary action. It doesn’t just shift how you feel for an hour; it radically alters the lens through which you perceive reality, dissolving the mental barriers holding you back. This is your sacred space to refine your sensitivity to prana, clear away stubborn subconscious blockages, and experience what becomes possible when your system is prepared to hold more energy, more awareness, and more truth. Grounded, fierce, and deeply inward, this is for those ready to move beyond the surface of asana and into the work that transforms from within.
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Catherine Wetenkamp

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Catherine Wetenkamp guides others into their deepest power with clarity, reverence, and transformative presence. As a lineage-rooted educator, storyteller, and visionary guide, Cat is the founder of Seek Yoga Collective (formerly Kintsugi Yoga), a community built for seekers to... Read More →
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Jennifer Leavitt

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
- Main Stage

11:00am MDT

Prenatal Asana: Moving with Your Changing Body with Kelsey Mueller
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Pregnancy and postpartum are often framed as a transition into someone new, as if you are becoming someone you are not yet. This practice offers a different lens: nothing essential is lost in this process. Meet us beneath the cool, shaded arches of the Lavender Pergola to learn how to stay in relationship with what has always been within you while everything around you shifts.

Guided by Kelsey Mueller, this session is designed specifically for prenatal and postpartum bodies (not as a modified version of a standard class, but as a practice created for the intelligence and lived reality of this season). Surrounded by the soothing fragrance of blooming lavender, you will explore how to stay connected to yourself through change without overriding your body's signals.

What to Expect: This workshop-style class guides you through intentional movement designed to support pelvic stability, deep breath awareness, and whole-body integration. Expect grounding postures, joint-friendly strength building, and restorative pauses for nervous system support.

For Teachers Too: If you are a yoga instructor who wants to see real-time prenatal adaptation, functional movement, and nervous system-informed pacing in action, this masterclass is for you.

Come as you are. Your body knows more than you think. All stages of pregnancy, postpartum, and yoga experience levels are warmly welcomed.
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Kelsey Mueller

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Kelsey Mueller (E-RYT 200, RPYT, YACEP, RYC® Pro) is a Denver-based yoga teacher with over a decade of experience and nine years specializing in prenatal and postpartum care. A mother of four, she blends lived experience with extensive training to support bodies through pregnanc... Read More →
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Heather McDermott-Martin

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
- Lavender Pergola

11:00am MDT

Yoga as Primary Care: The Science of Longevity & Self-Regulation
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
What if your yoga mat was a clinical tool for cellular healing? Join functional medicine practitioner and immunological specialist Dr. Mitchell Rasmussen for a groundbreaking keynote that explores how yoga influences the nervous system, immune response, and cellular signaling. As the co-founder of The Facility Denver, Mitchell specializes in guiding care for individuals with complex, chronic conditions who have often "tried everything" without lasting results.

Moving far beyond traditional chiropractic care, Mitchell bridges cutting-edge biochemistry with timeless embodied practice. In this illuminating talk, he invites us to stop viewing yoga as a reactionary fitness routine for when we get sick, and instead recognize it as a foundational primary care practice for long-term health. Grounded in his three core pillars: Empowerment, Education, and Empathy, this session strips away the medical jargon to help you understand your own unique physiology. Walk away with a personalized, science-backed perspective on your practice and the actionable tools needed to work with your body instead of against it.
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Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
- Market Square Pavillion

11:00am MDT

Intelligent Alignment Masterclass
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
Stop chasing idealized, textbook shapes and start honoring the unique architecture of your own body. Join Denver Yoga Summit founder and veteran educator Brittany Hopkins Switlick for an empowering, deeply practical alignment masterclass. Drawing from her background as a professional dancer, and experience training hundreds of instructors at Lotus Yoga School, Brittany strips away the rigid "rules" of posture to teach you how to empower your poses intelligently.

Leave your this session with the practical tools and confidence to step into any yoga class and navigate your practice with safety, fluid ease, and deep self-awareness.
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Brittany Hopkins-Switlick

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Brittany Hopkins Switlick is a seasoned yoga educator, keynote speaker, and personal growth guide with over 20 years of experience. Based in Colorado, she is the founder of Lotus Yoga School (formerly Container Collective Yoga), where she has guided hundreds of students and aspiring teachers through transformative 200-hour and 300-hour programs. A former professional dancer and world traveler, Brittany’s teaching style is grounded, heart-centered, and deeply practical... Read More →
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Briana Mandelbaum

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
- Stable Pavillion

11:00am MDT

Reset Flow for Posture: Deconstructing the "Desk Body"
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
Hours spent hunched over a laptop or phone inevitably create the “desk body” (rounded shoulders, sleepy glutes, locked-up hips, and forward head posture). Over time, these structural patterns chip away at your daily energy, cloud your focus, and compromise long-term spinal health.

Step into the beautiful Open Air Chapel for a definitive antidote to modern screen time. Guided by Exercise Physiologist and The Healthy Yinzer founder Nick Venuti, this fast-acting functional flow seamlessly blends classical yoga, Pilates, and targeted corrective exercise.

Together, you will methodically wake up your deep core, ignite inhibited glutes, release chronically tight hip flexors, and strengthen your posterior chain to pull your spine back into natural alignment. By pairing precise biomechanics with intentional breathwork, Nick teaches your body how to sit taller, move smarter, and release stored physical stress.

The Takeaway: Leave your mat feeling physically taller, deeply re-energized, and equipped with practical, 5-minute movement drills you can slot into your workday to prevent injury.

Who it is for: Perfectly accessible to all fitness levels. Highly recommended for corporate professionals, remote workers, and yoga instructors looking for smart sequencing variables.
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Nick Venuti

Speaker, The Healthy Yinzer
Nick Venuti is an Exercise Physiologist, yoga teacher, and founder of The Healthy Yinzer, a wellness platform blending functional strength, yoga, Pilates, mindset coaching, and nutrition into accessible solutions for rebuilding health.

Before coaching clients worldwide or teaching free yoga to thousands online, Nick was the one who needed rebuilding, turning to yoga for relief in his early 20s when he was lost and injured. A transformative trip to Sedona gave him clarity, purpose, and a mission to help others before... Read More →
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Tyler Dudden

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
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Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator
Herbalism
Yoga Nidrā

Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
- Open Air Chapel

11:00am MDT

The Sounding of Silence: Meditation as Remembering
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
What is silence? In the ancient wisdom schools, silence was never understood as mere absence or emptiness. It was recognized as the living ground of being—the fertile stillness from which all of life arises.

In this experiential session, we will begin with a simple practice to settle into deep presence before exploring the teachings of the great Kashmir Tantra master, Abhinavagupta. Together, we will contemplate the mystery of silence as inherently sounding, and consider what it means that we are the form of the Unformed, the sound of the Unsounded.

What changes when we understand ourselves in this way? What if meditation is not a means of achieving a future state, but a sacred remembering of our essential nature?

Blending contemplative teaching with direct experience, this session offers an invitation to rest beneath the noise of striving and rediscover the presence that has always been here—whole, awake, and fiercely calling us home.
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Kimberly Braun

TEDx Speaker, Meditation Coach & Creator of the BLISS Sacred Sound Festival
Kimberly Braun, M.A. Minister, author, international speaker, retreat facilitator and meditation coach lives to inspire others to remember, connect to, and live from an ineffable Source at their center. She has discovered from an early age, through many unitive experiences ~including her NDE at age 19... Read More →
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Jennifer Leavitt

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
- The Healing Yurt

11:15am MDT

Cakra—Spirit to Nature: The Secret Vibration of the Petals
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:15am - 1:15pm MDT
What do the petals on a cakra diagram actually mean? While modern wellness often frames cakras as spinning wheels of color that get "blocked," classical yoga offers a far deeper truth: cakras are pure Spirit, always in perfect balance, and always available to ground us in who we already are.

Step into the absolute stillness of the Secret Garden for a session guided by master educator Hansa Knox. What This Journey Covers:

  • The Anatomy of the Petals: Learn how the letters of the Saṃskṛt alphabet (mātṛkā) dictate the vibrational blueprint and inner essence of each cakra.
  • The Three Dimensions: Explore how each letter has a direct spiritual (tattva), mental-emotional (vṛtti), and physical expression (marma points).
  • Prāṇic Āsana Integration: Experience how vocalizing and moving through the Saṃskṛt names of traditional postures alters the flow of life force in real time.


This is primarily an educational, lecture-based workshop with targeted experiential components. Perfect for yoga teachers, lineage seekers, and anyone looking to move beyond Westernized cakra theory.
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Augusta Gruhlke

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
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Sheri Gann

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 11:15am - 1:15pm MDT
- Secret Garden

12:30pm MDT

The Creative Sequence: 4 Methods to Refresh Your Classes
Saturday September 12, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm MDT
ADMISSION NOTE: This exclusive session requires a Teacher Track Ticket for entry.

If you’ve ever felt stuck teaching the exact same flows on repeat, this masterclass is your antidote. Join global sequencing mentor and founder of the Steal My Flow movement, Juliana LaRochelle, for an interactive, 90-minute workshop designed to shatter your creative blocks and streamline your lesson planning.

This session is explicitly not about performing advanced asanas or forcing tricky, unsafe transitions. Instead, you will master 4 simple, highly adaptable methods to make your standard public classes feel fresh, artistic, and deeply inspiring while remaining completely accessible to everyday bodies.

  • The Interactive Formula: Juliana will lead a high-impact mini-lesson on creative mapping, followed by collaborative group breakouts where you will work with your peers to build your own fluid sequences.
  • The Professional Takeaway: Walk away with a concrete, repeatable formula you can return to week after week, ensuring you never have to wait for inspiration to hit before a class.
  • Who it is for: Certified yoga teachers, teacher trainees, and dedicated practitioners looking to understand the deeper architecture of Vinyasa.
  • Note: This is a limited-capacity workshop. Please ensure you have upgraded your Visitors Center to a Teacher Track Ticket to secure your spot and receive your continuing education credits.
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Juliana Larochelle

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Juliana Larochelle is a certified yoga teacher and mentor with 12+ years of experience. She is the creator of the Steal My Flow movement, where she started sharing her sequences for other yoga teachers to use. She is known for making yoga sequencing easy, sharing creative flows... Read More →
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Elise Peterson

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Devoted yogi, long time nurse, always traveling, thinking & learning 💕
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Emma Dubas

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm MDT
- The Rustic Barn

1:00pm MDT

Cultural Reverence in Yoga Spaces: Practicing with Awareness, Accountability, and Care
Saturday September 12, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Modern yoga and wellness environments often extract from Indigenous cultures without fully understanding the histories, systemic harms, and deep ethical responsibilities that come with those practices. This vital workshop invites educators into a grounded, human conversation about cultural reverence—exploring how to move, speak, and teach in ways that honor Indigenous peoples while actively reducing harm.

Led by Sequoia Garza-Keith, a mixed Indigenous practitioner and educator, this session unpacks how Indigenous traditions have been historically criminalized and appropriated, and how those realities echo in today's studios. Rather than centering shame, this workshop emphasizes curiosity, humility, and practical toolkits for navigating nuance with genuine care.

Core Curriculum Competencies:
  • Land Acknowledgments: Learn precisely when, why, and how to deliver a meaningful land acknowledgment that moves beyond corporate performance.
  • Inclusive Space-Holding: Understand how to respectfully engage with Indigenous traditions under the assumption that Indigenous people are actively present in your class.
  • Accountability Over Paralysis: Master specific tools to navigate linguistic or cultural mistakes with transparent accountability rather than defensiveness or shutting down.
  • Lineage Ethics: Connect Western yoga ethics back to a living lineage of responsibility, relationship, and respect, rather than extraction.
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Jennifer Sukola

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
- Market Square Pavillion

1:00pm MDT

The Shoulder Secret Your Yoga Practice Has Been Missing
Saturday September 12, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
It’s not just about strength or flexibility — the alignment of your shoulders in yoga postures has everything to with scapular strategy.

In this workshop, we’ll demystify scapular biomechanics and anatomy to have the full picture so you’re not just following cues - you’re understanding the whole system. We’ll break down the how and why of the shoulders in weight-bearing postures so you can stop “muscling through”and build your foundation with intention. You’ll learn how your shoulder blades move with the arms overhead in postures like chair pose or even downward dog (hint: it’s not back and down!).

When you see how all the pieces fit together, subtle shifts in awareness will transform shaky transitions into grounded confidence. Expect anatomy made practical, drills you can feel immediately, and a whole new relationship with your shoulder alignment in yoga postures!
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Mona Hinman-Briscoe

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
- Stable Pavillion

2:30pm MDT

Teaching Through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Small Shifts, Lasting Impact
Saturday September 12, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm MDT
ADMISSION NOTE: This exclusive session requires a Teacher Track Pass or Add-On Ticket for entry.

What if a few subtle, deliberate shifts in your language and spatial awareness could radically alter how safe a student feels on their mat? This specialized workshop invites you to explore how teaching from a trauma-informed lens isn't a complex overhaul of your entire style—it is an intentional refinement of how you show up for your students and support their nervous systems.

Led by an expert in somatic regulation, you will learn how to transition from traditional commanding cues to choice-based, invitational language that respects individual boundaries. Bring your curiosity, and expect to leave with profound insights worth sitting with and immediate adjustments you can make in your very next class.

? Note: This is a limited-capacity workshop. Please ensure you have upgraded your Visitors Center to a Teacher Track Ticket to secure your spot and receive your continuing education credits.
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Elise Peterson

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Devoted yogi, long time nurse, always traveling, thinking & learning 💕
Saturday September 12, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm MDT
- The Rustic Barn

3:00pm MDT

Wild Shakti Yoga & Live Soundscape with Sol Rising
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Shakti—the creative life force within every body—does not need to be earned or unlocked. It simply needs space to move. Meet us on the Main Stage Field for a beautiful collaboration. Created by veteran embodiment guide Kimberly (Kimmy) Hidalgo and powered by the ecstatic, blissful beats of international producer and master scratch DJ Sol Rising, this session is designed to awaken your wild, untamed energy against the backdrop of the Rockies.

The journey opens in absolute grounding before Kimmy introduces a fluid, unhurried movement practice guided entirely by breath and raw sensation rather than rigid form or performance. There is no "perfect" expression of a pose. As you move, Sol Rising weaves an exclusive, live electronic soundscape—seamlessly blending hip-hop-infused mid-tempo, chill-trap, and ambient lo-fi textures to act as your medicine. Building into a warm, collective wave of uninhibited movement and connection, the session closes in deep stillness to allow your nervous system to fully integrate.

Who it is for: This all-levels, trauma-informed practice is for every body, every level, and every individual who has ever felt like they didn't quite fit the shape traditional yoga was asking them to make. Come home to yourself.
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Kimberly Hidalgo

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Kimberly Hidalgo is a yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, and embodiment guide with over eleven years of experience leading people into deeper connection with their bodies, intuition, and inner wisdom. Known to her students as Kimmy, she bridges traditional yogic foundations with intuitive, feminine-led... Read More →
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Amanda McAleer

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
- Main Stage

3:00pm MDT

Balancing Your Body Flow: The Five Prāṇavāyus
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
Restore your body's energetic blueprint in the tranquil, fragrant sanctuary of the Lavender Pergola. Guided by master educator Hansa Knox, this experiential session moves beyond the surface of anatomy to explore the five winds of prāṇa that dictate human movement and cellular healing.

What You Will Explore:
  • The Five Directions: Understand the unique dynamics of the five prāṇavāyus and how they interact to maintain whole-body balance.
  • Releasing Cellular Memory: Discover how trauma and physical injuries restrict prāṇic flow, and how target postures can safely clear these blockages.
  • Energetic Cueing: Master specific āsana alignment and breath patterns designed to enhance and empower your internal current.


This workshop is an intentional blend of lecturing, precise physical movement, and deep energetic awareness. Perfectly suited for yoga teachers looking to elevate their cueing, and practitioners ready to deepen their internal sensitivity.
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Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
- Lavender Pergola

3:00pm MDT

Japa Meditation: The Practice of Sacred Repetition
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
Most of us have heard the word mantra. Few of us have felt what happens when it actually moves through you. Step into a profound 45-minute immersion into one of yoga's oldest, most accessible, and most misunderstood meditation practices.

Japa is the practice of sacred repetition: offering a mantra again and again until the analytical mind completely quiets and something deeper begins to speak. Guided by Catherine Wetenkamp, a Master Teacher trained in Rishikesh, India, this session draws from a living Himalayan Tantric lineage. Cat carries these teachings with precision and deep care; what she offers here is not a simple technique, but a direct transmission.

You don't need prior meditation experience, and you don't need to know Sanskrit. You only need to show up and be willing to listen. Leave this session with a practical, powerful ritual you can use tomorrow morning at your desk, in your car, or in the quiet moments you didn't know you had.
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Catherine Wetenkamp

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Catherine Wetenkamp guides others into their deepest power with clarity, reverence, and transformative presence. As a lineage-rooted educator, storyteller, and visionary guide, Cat is the founder of Seek Yoga Collective (formerly Kintsugi Yoga), a community built for seekers to... Read More →
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Mona Hinman-Briscoe

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
- Stable Pavillion

3:00pm MDT

The Art of Dreaming + Living Journey
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Unlock the hidden architecture of your subconscious mind. Step into the shaded sanctuary of the Creek Garden for a rare, 2-hour multi-sensory immersion guided by spiritual educator and author Suzanne Toro. Rooted deeply in ancient, esoteric dreaming yoga lineages, this masterclass teaches you how to bridge your waking, dreaming, and sleeping states to refine your objective awareness and liberate stored karma.

Harnessing the natural, sacred energy of the botanic gardens, Suzanne methodically balances your biofield through a brilliant blend of lucid dreaming education, sound and electromagnetic therapy, pranayama, and gentle, restorative asana. The journey shifts seamlessly from cosmic storytelling through sacred song to silent, mindful observation.

The Takeaway: Leave this creek-side sanctuary with practical, daily tools to decode your dream states and foster lasting spiritual growth.

What to Bring (Critical): This is an extensive experiential workshop. Please bring a notebook, pen, yoga mat, hand towel or eye cover, a warm blanket, water, and dress in cozy layers as your body temperature will drop during deep meditation. Open to all levels.
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Mary Connolly Savoy

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
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Michael Donovan

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
- Creek Garden

3:00pm MDT

The Living Gita: Navigating Modern Life’s Battlefields
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most studied texts in the yoga tradition. It is also one of the most misunderstood. On the surface, it reads as a dramatic conversation on an ancient battlefield. In reality, it is a precise, psychological map for navigating choice, action, and meaning when the stakes of your daily life feel impossibly high.

Step into the silent, private sanctuary of the Secret Garden for a rare, life-changing workshop with world-renowned master teacher, healer, and author Nischala Joy Devi. A former monastic disciple to Sri Swami Satchidanandaji for 25 years and co-host of the acclaimed podcast A Woman's Gita, Nischala strips away the dry, rigid academic armor of scripture to make it deeply accessible, heart-centered, and relatable.

Rather than a dry lecture, this session brings the Gita into direct contact with the heavy questions you are actively carrying: What do I do when every option feels wrong? How do I act with clarity when I cannot see the whole picture? How do I stay grounded when the world around me is in chaos? Come experience a masterful, feminine-based interpretation of lineage wisdom that will touch your heart and redefine how you walk through the world.
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Molly Beach

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
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Sheri Gann

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
- Secret Garden

4:30pm MDT

Hanuman’s Journey & Our Inner Ramayana
Saturday September 12, 2026 4:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Hanuman’s Journey & Our Inner Ramayana: In this entertaining talk, Dr. Manoj Chalam illuminates Hanuman’s journey in the Ramayana and will relate it to the archetypical Hanuman energy within you. Like Hanuman we can access super human powers of wisdom, strength and service alongside deep humility and “move big Boulders”. Learn how awakening this energy leads to explosive transformation, both within and in the outside world, be it spiritual, personal or professional.

In parallel, Manoj will guide us with stories and symbolisms of the Ramayana through the lens of Advaita Vedanta philosophy; where Lord Ram is an avatar of Consciousness (Higher Self of formless), Sita is us (lower self in form) and Hanuman is the uniter of us to Consciousness.
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Melanie Judge

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 4:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
- The Rustic Barn

5:00pm MDT

Sādhana: Creating a Sustainable Daily Practice
Saturday September 12, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm MDT
Most people know what they should be doing, but find it nearly impossible to bridge the gap between information and actual daily practice. Enter the concept of Sādhana—the Sanskrit word for an intentional, daily spiritual practice. It is the grounding anchor you return to every single morning because it is what keeps you connected to your true self amidst the chaos of life.

Join world-class educator, Reiki Master, and ParaYoga specialist Jeremy Wolf for an illuminating, 90-minute workshop designed to end the cycle of starting over. Synthesizing traditional Eastern wisdom with modern somatic science, Jeremy strips away the guilt and idealism of modern wellness culture. You will learn the definitive psychological and energetic principles required to build a daily ritual sized specifically to your messy, everyday life—not a flawless, idealized version of it.

Who it is for: This masterclass is explicitly created for the practitioner who keeps starting over every single Monday. It is also an essential sanctuary for the yoga teacher who is constantly giving everyone else a practice while quietly wondering what happened to their own.
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Jeremy Wolf

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Jeremy Wolf is a Denver-based yoga teacher, Reiki Master, and international educator widely recognized for his expertise in Yoga Nidrā and the ParaYoga lineage. With over 25 years of formal study, Jeremy's teaching is a synthesis of traditional Eastern wisdom and modern somatic... Read More →
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Mona Hinman-Briscoe

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm MDT
- Stable Pavillion

5:30pm MDT

Courage in Chaos: Yoga as a Practice of Community Care
Saturday September 12, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm MDT
When the world feels fractured, what does yoga ask of us?

How do we embody sthira (steadiness) and sukha (ease) while witnessing collective grief, polarization, or harm? How do we stay rooted in compassion without becoming overwhelmed or disconnected? And how do we care for ourselves while holding space for others?

This experiential workshop explores how the teachings of yoga become a living practice — not only on the mat, but in the moments our communities need them most.

Through reflection, discussion, and stories from lived experience, Lindsay Grabb and Ericka Jones will share what it meant to lead UP Yoga in Minneapolis through the racial reckoning of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, COVID-19 pandemic, Congressional Assassination, Annunciation School mass shooting, and Operation Metro Surge (ICE raids). Together, they'll explore how yoga philosophy, clear values, and the practice of karma yoga became anchors for navigating uncertainty, making difficult decisions, and cultivating a community rooted in belonging and care.

Participants will be invited to explore:

How yoga philosophy can support courageous, compassionate action in times of uncertainty

Practices for remaining grounded while holding space for collective emotion and lived experience

The role of values as a compass for teaching, leading, and building authentic community

Ways to embody yoga beyond personal practice through service, discernment, and connection

How to create a practice and space of belonging inclusive of all — through safety, language, and self-care

Whether you're a teacher, studio owner, or devoted practitioner, you'll leave with renewed clarity that yoga is not simply something we do on the mat. It is a way of meeting the world with courage, wisdom, and an open heart — even when the path ahead is unknown.

Lindsay Grabb and Ericka Jones draw on their experience leading Up Yoga in Minneapolis through 2020's racial reckoning, the pandemic, and Operation Safety Net to explore how yoga philosophy and karma yoga anchor us in uncertainty. Leave with renewed clarity: yoga is a way of meeting the world with courage, wisdom, and clarity.
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Lindsay Grabb

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Lindsay Grabb is the founder and owner of Up Yoga in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which she opened in 2017 with a mission to create an inclusive community where people feel empowered to connect, grow, and lead both on and off the mat. A yoga teacher, educator, and mentor, Lindsay has spent nearly two decades helping students of all experience... Read More →
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Ericka Jones

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Ericka Jones is a Minneapolis-based 500-hour RYT, meditation teacher, and a prominent leader in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) space. As the founder of Yoga Coalition, Ericka is dedicated to creating yoga environments where every individual feels a true sense of belon... Read More →
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Michael Donovan

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm MDT
- Creek Garden

5:30pm MDT

The Art of Kids Yoga: Pacing, Play, and Purpose
Saturday September 12, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm MDT
ADMISSION NOTE: This exclusive session requires a Teacher Track Pass or Add-On Ticket for entry.

Kids are not small adults. They need entirely different language, completely different pacing, and a distinct reason to be on the mat. This specialized Teacher Track workshop is built for anyone who has wanted to bring the transformative power of yoga to children but didn't know how to bridge the generational gap.

Guided by children’s yoga specialist and Denver Yoga Summit logistics coordinator Jamie Martinico (RYT 500), this interactive 90-minute session delivers a working, practical foundation. Jamie leverages her extensive background in anatomy and kids' teacher trainings at Sunny Isle Yoga to strip away dry theory and give you a real, functional starting point. You will learn how to structure a children's class, how to speak to a child in a way that truly lands, and why kids' yoga is an entirely separate practice with its own profound purpose.

Who it is for: This session is a perfect career expansion for instructors who currently teach adults. It is equally valuable for parents, educators, or caregivers who want to share what yoga has given them, and anyone ready to remember what it feels like to just have fun on the mat.

Note: This is a limited-capacity workshop. Please ensure you have upgraded your Visitors Center to a Teacher Track Ticket to secure your spot and receive your continuing education credits.
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Jamie Martinico

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Jamie Martinico is a 500-hour RYT, Yin, and Children’s Yoga specialist who believes yoga is a profound tool for self-care and life transformation. With a background in massage therapy, she brings a sophisticated understanding of anatomy and integrity to every pose, helping stud... Read More →
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Molly Beach

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit
Saturday September 12, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm MDT
- Secret Garden

6:00pm MDT

Liberatory Yoga Flow (Trauma-Informed Hatha Vinyasa + Kemetic Yoga Rooted in Radical Imagination)
Saturday September 12, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Liberatory Yoga Flow is a trauma-informed yoga practice developed by Soraya Latiff that centers embodied autonomy, collective lived experience, imagination, and liberation. In this one-hour offering, Soraya brings together Hatha Vinyasa and Kemetic Yoga, honoring yoga's and her own ancestral lineages while creating space for practitioners to explore what liberation can feel like within their own bodies and lives.
Through intentional movement, breath, and accessible options for all levels, we will honor the wisdom our bodies carry, including our individual and collective lived experiences, while making space to reimagine and practice what is possible for ourselves and our collective.
This practice asks us to consider: What becomes possible when we are able to move beyond survival and toward the collective lives we dream of? What are we being called to remember, embody, and create in this lifetime?
We will close with meditation and guided visualization.

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Soraya Latiff

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Soraya Latiff is a somatic artist, yoga and Pilates teacher, and the founder of In Movement There Is Blessing International Liberatory Yoga and Wellness Retreats and Sovereign Pilates, in Denver's historic Five Points neighborhood. She is from Trinidad and Tobago, Indo and Afro-Caribbean, and... Read More →
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Mark Machac

Support Team, Denver Yoga Summit



Saturday September 12, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
- Open Air Chapel
 

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