Denver Yoga Summit

A Drum Journey is a rhythmic spiritual experience.

Similar to a sound bath, it's a meditative environment to have visions without the aid of psychedelics. Although, unlike sound baths, the experience is from one singular buffalo drum, which releases a sound vibration that moves through the cells of the body, rather than bouncing off the body. This can induce auditory hallucinations, believed to be the singing and instruments from ancestors of the land, sounds of wildlife can be expected; also visions, similar to a dream, with symbolism and emotion; opening the mind to solutions while remaining open to what the spirits may bring.

During the Journey, the brain starts producing theta waves, the frequency responsible for dreams.

Other scientific benefits include a drop in cortisol levels, aka, the stress hormone. When cortisol levels are high, the body lives in its sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). By lowering these levels, the body shifts into its parasympathetic nervous system (rest & digest). Drum Journeying can also raise levels of Immunoglobulin A, which helps fight inflammation, illness, and pain. Thus, Drum Journeying can actually make us healthier! Look into NCBI for more science!

You can look forward to 60 minutes of meditation broken into sections.

• 5 minutes of adjusting into the space:

A brief explanation of what a Drum Journey is, & how it worksA cleanse (smudge) of the space, using Palo Santo, in order to neutralize the energy for safe Journeying.A meditation, in which you will create a haven in your mind to return to at any point.

• 45 minutes of drumming:

Toward the conclusion of the Journey, the tone of the drum will change to gently bring you back into your haven.

To wrap up the evening, there is a ~10 minute quiet window to discuss your experiences & visions.

What to bring?

• Socks (if your feet get cold!)
• Soft & cozy clothes
• Pillow &/or blanket
• Eye covering (if desired)

Your nervous system has been working exceptionally hard and this session is here to completely support your recovery. Step inside the protected sanctuary of the Healing Yurt for a quiet, deeply restorative experience that requires absolutely nothing from you. No talking, no movement, and zero performance.

You will simply sit, relax, and receive AcuDetox—a specialized five-point ear acupuncture protocol used worldwide to accelerate stress reduction, ease anxiety, and build emotional resilience. Once the tiny, sterile needles are placed, you will sink into a luxurious live sound bath while the protocol does its magic. Most participants leave this yurt experience feeling profoundly calmer, lighter, and more present than they have in weeks. Some fall asleep. Both are perfect.

Flexible Scheduling: This pop-up session runs four times across the weekend so you can slot it exactly where your body needs it most.

Community Impact: A suggested $20 donation directly supports Breathe Receive and their vital wellness outreach work within the Denver Metro community.

Breath is one of the most powerful—and underutilized—tools we have for regulating the nervous system, sharpening awareness, and changing how we respond to life.

In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore several foundational pranayama practices and how they directly influence energy, mood, focus, and emotional regulation. Rather than treating breathwork as an abstract concept, we’ll look at when and why to use specific techniques—whether you’re feeling anxious, depleted, overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected.

Simple, Intelligent Breath Practices
Prāṇāyāma does not need to be intimidating, esoteric, or reserved for seated workshops.
And yet, many yoga teachers either skip it entirely in asana classes or overcomplicate it to the point where students feel confused or disconnected.

This session is about practicality and discernment.

In this applied workshop, Arundhati B shares the exact prāṇāyāma practices she weaves into her movement-based classes — intelligently, safely, and with clear purpose.

You will learn:
• Which breath practices integrate naturally into asana sequences
• How to layer prāṇāyāma without disrupting class flow
• When to stimulate, when to settle, and how to read the room
• How to cue simply without diluting depth
• The difference between teaching technique and cultivating experience

This is not about adding complexity. It is about adding clarity.
Whether you are a newer teacher or seasoned educator, you will leave with practical tools you can use immediately — and a deeper confidence in guiding breath within dynamic classes.

Step into a deep, sensory cocoon. Hosted inside the cozy, protected sanctuary of the Healing Yurt, this 45-minute immersive sound bath is engineered to rapidly down-regulate an overactive nervous system.

Utilizing premium 432 Hz crystal singing bowls precisely tuned to harmonic frequencies that correspond with the body's seven primary chakra centers, this session creates a rich, somatic clearing wave. The experience is gently layered with the delicate ring of ethereal chimes, soothing seed shakers, and the hypnotic, rhythmic washing of an ocean drum. Designed from the ground up to dissolve physical tension and restore subtle energetic balance, this is your invitation to lay down, drop the effort, and melt into absolute, grounding rest.

Flexible Self-Care: This restorative session runs across multiple time slots throughout the weekend, allowing you to drop in whenever your battery needs a vital recharge. All levels welcome.

Most of us are looking for a way to quiet the constant noise of modern life and tune back into our true nature. This breathwork experience is that portal. Step into the majestic, open-air sanctuary of the Open Air Chapel for a profound, high-vibe ceremonial healing journey. Guided by master somatic facilitator and Heart Centered Humans founder Chelsea Renee, this masterclass utilizes the Activate Breathwork technique to safely usher you into expanded states of consciousness.

Through a precise combination of continuous intentional breath, immersive music, and expert energetic guidance, you will soften the protective walls built around your heart. This transformational session is explicitly engineered to help you bypass the critical mind, allowing clarity, emotional release, and vibrant creativity to naturally emerge. Come breathe beneath the open Colorado sky, shatter subconscious conditioning, and reconnect deeply to your intuition, inner wisdom, and purpose. Leave your mat feeling radically alive, completely unburdened, and profoundly present.

You won’t just learn the map of your energetic anatomy—you will physically feel it. Meet us on the Main Stage Field for a profound exploration of the subtle body and the hidden channels through which your raw life force moves. Guided by master somatic educator and shamanic practitioner Jessa Lin Rose, and powered live by the euphoric, genre-bending beats of international touring sensation DJ Sol Rising, this masterclass bridges the gap between ancient practice and modern neurological pattern transformation.

Jessa holds a rare mastery-level background in neurolinguistics and nearly a decade of immersion in shamanic lineages, allowing her to bring absolute depth and clinical precision to spaces that are often diluted or abstract.

Moving together against the backdrop of the Rockies, you will use dynamic movement, intentional breathwork sequences, and vocal sound integration to actively perceive and interact with the unseen biofield. Sol Rising—a former DMC finalist with over 200 million streams—weaves an exclusive, live electronic soundscape of ambient, chill-trap, and lo-fi textures to safely guide your nervous system into an expanded state of awareness. Leave the field with a radical connection to your intuition, an unshakeable sense of personal sovereignty, and a deep cellular reset.

When the midday slump hits sets in, you don't need another cup of coffee, you need a neurological reset. Step inside the cozy, protected sanctuary of the Healing Yurt for an interactive, high-vibe masterclass exploring the science of invigorating botanicals. This specialized session examines specific, premium essential oils traditionally associated with boosting alertness, stimulating circulation, and igniting physical vitality.

Blending an educational lecture with a live, hands-on sensory application, you will learn exactly how to utilize aromatics to support high energy and sharp mental engagement without triggering overstimulation or anxiety. Leave this quiet yurt oasis with a dedicated question-and-answer segment, a completely refreshed mind, and practical, real-world frameworks to naturally supercharge your daily routine. All levels welcome!

Fatigue and possibility live in the same individual and collective body, especially for those doing work in the name of community, justice, and liberation. This session holds space for both, moving through the world as it is and toward the world as it could be.
We'll begin by naming what decolonizing our yoga practice actually asks of us, using pricing and accessibility as a real, lived example of where extraction quietly persists, including within our own communities, where the patterns we resist elsewhere can take root.
From there, a guided somatic practice lets us feel the world as it is in the body, the weight, the fatigue, the truth of where we've been.
We'll then turn toward freedom dreaming, specific, collective imagination of the world as it could be.
Drawing on the yogic concept of sankalpa, a resolve planted and returned to, we'll move into a guided partner practice, trust and interdependence made felt, sovereign expression created and stewarded together rather than alone.
Part conversation, part embodied practice, this session is an invitation to imagine a different way of being with each other, and to honor an ancestral way of being alive together too, and what it means to be integral stewards and co-creators of our lives, and our collective times.

Step into a sphere of pure devotion, breathe it in, and carry it home in your bones. Meet us on the Main Stage Field for an extraordinary, long-form musical odyssey with Colorado's premier sound journey jam band, Bhaktisphere. This is a living, breathing landscape of sound that moves fluidly between kirtan-style mantra chanting, vast ambient medicine journeys, and high-vibe, danceable jams under the open Colorado sky.

Drawing from a rich tapestry of spiritual lineages, including Buddhism, Taoism, Kundalini, and ancestral traditions, Bhaktisphere treats every gathering as a portal for collective awakening. Driven by elite professional musicians utilizing electric ambient guitars, synths, spoken word, and the haunting resonance of the Native American flute, the band specializes in spontaneous, channeled songwriting that mirrors the energy of the crowd. Participation is entirely optional, and there are zero rules: movement is welcome, stillness is welcome, and whatever naturally arises within you is the perfect response.

Your nervous system has been working exceptionally hard and this session is here to completely support your recovery. Step inside the protected sanctuary of the Healing Yurt for a quiet, deeply restorative experience that requires absolutely nothing from you. No talking, no movement, and zero performance.

You will simply sit, relax, and receive AcuDetox—a specialized five-point ear acupuncture protocol used worldwide to accelerate stress reduction, ease anxiety, and build emotional resilience. Once the tiny, sterile needles are placed, you will sink into a luxurious live sound bath while the protocol does its magic. Most participants leave this yurt experience feeling profoundly calmer, lighter, and more present than they have in weeks. Some fall asleep. Both are perfect.

Flexible Scheduling: This pop-up session runs four times across the weekend so you can slot it exactly where your body needs it most.

Community Impact: A suggested $20 donation directly supports Breathe Receive and their vital wellness outreach work within the Denver Metro community.

You came in as a stranger. You leave as part of something vastly bigger. Gather on the Main Stage Field for the official closing ceremony of the summit weekend. Summit founder Brittany Hopkins Switlick will guide a short, intentional closing ritual to seal our collective container, giving us a dedicated space to name the insights we are carrying home, honor the souls we practiced beside, and consciously mark the shift from this sacred weekend back into our daily lives.

The Grand Giveaway: Before the music starts, we will be drawing the official raffle prizes live! Be ready to win wellness gear, studio passes, and summit treasures to our lucky community winners.

Then, GRAMMY® nominee Gem Auset takes over the decks for the ultimate sonic send-off. Her live electronic DJ set closes the summit exactly the way it started: with a massive collective exhale that transforms into free-flowing, uninhibited movement. Come celebrate the music, the prizes, the mountain air, and the beautiful truth that yoga doesn't just look like static shapes on a mat.