Denver Yoga Summit

ADMISSION NOTE: This exclusive session requires a Teacher Track Ticket for entry.

Go beyond mechanical cueing and discover how language can shape the "energetic architecture" of your classes. Drawing on decades of hosting YTTs, this workshop presents four distinct types of verbal communication designed to invoke specific mood and awareness states in real time. Just as an artist creates a bounty of color from basic pigments, you will learn to color your teaching with greater insight, precision, and levity.

Teaching is an intentional craft, not a haphazard act. While most 200-hour trainings provide the basics, this session offers the refinement needed to make your instructions feel "held" in the moment rather than rote. Through self-evaluation and collective wisdom sharing with fellow educators, you will transform your verbal approach into a powerful tool for student transformation.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Self-Audit: Evaluate your dominant verbal style and identify areas for expansion.
• Atmospheric Mastery: Understand how to invoke specific grades of attention through four core language types.
• Peer Exchange: Participate in a collaborative forum to share and receive insights from the teaching community.

Upgrade to a Teacher Track Ticket to secure your spot and earn your CE credits!

This class is suitable for men and women. Manoj will bring statues of yogic Goddesses and relate them to your personal archetypes.  The pinnacle of the Goddess archetype is the Wisdom Goddess with side archetypes of the Mother and the luminous Devi. Discover the archetypes of the slumbering Goddesses or Shakti within us as Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kali, Durga, Tara and Kwan Yin. Unleash this Shakti, within you as the creative power of the One. This Shakti archetype guides us through all aspects of life transitions such as adulthood, relationships, marriage, parenting, profession, mentoring and finally enlightenment. With Shakti's guidance, we are able to fully express the heroine’s journey to Self Actualization.

Manoj will help you find your personal deity Goddess archetype

The Devi Mahatmya is one of the most profound mythological transmissions within the yogic tradition. It is an unfolding of the Divine Feminine as creator, sustainer, and destroyer. In this teaching, the Goddess is not a distant deity, but an intelligent, living force that arises whenever balance is disrupted meeting illusion, limitation, and fragmentation with radical clarity and grace. This workshop is an immersion into the myth as a living map of consciousness. Rather than studying it as symbolism alone, we enter its field, allowing the narrative to mirror the inner process of transformation.

Through story, meditation, practice, and inquiry, you will be invited to experience the myth as a mirror of inner transformation, the Goddess as living intelligence, and the cyclical nature of creation, preservation, and dissolution. You will also receive an initiation into three Kriya techniques that you can integrate into your own classes, offering practical tools to guide students into embodied states of awareness, energetic clarity, and inner stillness through lived experience rather than concept.

Hindu gods and goddesses are not just distant mythological characters—they are precise, symbolic expressions of the psychological and elemental forces that move through our everyday lives.

Join celebrated Vedic astrologer, cultural bridge-builder, and Tibet Imports co-founder Sarita Shrestha for a grounded, culturally rooted masterclass. Drawing from her roots in Nepal and over three decades of spiritual counseling, Sarita strips away the superficial, Westernized romanticism of Eastern deities. Instead, she introduces them as living intelligypes of intelligence that can actively support protection, courage, discernment, and renewal in your real, daily life.

Rather than approaching these forms as abstract mythology, this interactive workshop teaches you how to map specific deities to your own emotional and karmic patterns. Learn how to work with the energies of Ganesh, Lakshmi, Durga, Shiva, and Saraswati to navigate common adulthood challenges, make high-stakes decisions, and deepen your self-reflection.

Who it is for: Designed explicitly for yoga practitioners, teachers, and seekers who want to move beyond surface-level studio symbolism into something deeply meaningful, respectful, and usable.

ADMISSION NOTE: Access to this session requires a Full Teacher Summit Pass or a Teacher Track Add-On Ticket for entry and CE credit tracking.

Many alignment cues go completely unheard while students are deep in their physical flow. Or, worse, a student internally hears "you're doing it wrong," even when that is not what you said. The result is a student who leaves feeling self-conscious, a class that loses its physical momentum, and an instructor who stops offering alignment cues altogether out of frustration.

Join Denver Yoga Summit founder and master educator Brittany Hopkins Switlick for an invaluable, practical workshop that delivers the ultimate solution to cueing fatigue. Content from Brittany's elite 300-hour Advanced Leadership Teacher Training, this session teaches a repeatable, four-step formula for delivering powerful alignment insights mid-class in under two minutes flat.

Core Curriculum Competencies:

• Momentum Preservation: Learn to deliver a comprehensive, multi-layered alignment insight mid-class in two minutes or less without stalling class flow.
• Empowerment Framing: Master the psychological linguistic shifts required to frame physical alignment cues so students experience a new possibility rather than criticism.
• The Four-Point Connection: Discover how to seamlessly connect a single structural cue to real-time safety, physical strength, breath capacity, or cross-pose application.
• Real-Time Discernment: Upgrade your scanning eye to spot alignment opportunities in real time, knowing exactly when to deploy the formula versus when to keep the class moving.
• Note: This is a limited-capacity, hands-on laboratory. Please ensure you have upgraded your Visitors Center to a Teacher Track Ticket

Being rich isn’t about how much you have; it’s about how fully you live. Step into the quiet, shaded sanctuary of the Creek Garden for an extraordinary workshop that flips the script on female wealth. In yoga, we constantly move beyond the physical posture into a space of deep self-inquiry, practicing the raw awareness required to ask: What is true? This session invites you to bring that exact same fierce presence to your relationship with money, identity, and power.

Guided by bestselling Rich Like Her author, FEROZ founder, and 25-year veteran E-RYT 500 yoga teacher AJ Bishop-Andrews, this transformative masterclass bridges the gap between spiritual alignment and practical financial clarity. Drawing from her two decades as a senior executive at JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, AJ helps high-achieving women stop performing success and start embodying true abundance. Through a potent blend of meditative inquiry, group dialogue, and deep reflection, you will dismantle external pressures, audit where your financial habits are out of alignment with your core values, and learn to make fiscal decisions rooted in absolute self-trust.

What to Bring: This is a non-asana, interactive workshop open to all levels. Please bring a journal, a pen, a water bottle, and a light jacket for the shaded garden clearing.

Many yoga classes chase depth — longer holds, deeper stretches, bigger shapes. But joints don’t become more stable from hanging out at end range — they become more resilient when the muscles that support them are actively engaged and intelligently loaded.

In this workshop designed specifically for yoga instructors, we’ll explore how dynamic, muscle-driven movement builds joint stability more effectively than static holds or passive stretching alone. We’ll break down the different ways muscles support joint motion — concentrically, eccentrically, and isometrically — and why each plays a critical role in creating strength that translates off the mat.

You’ll learn how to harness the stabilizing system of the body to create practices that feel strong, adaptable, and sustainable. These tools are especially powerful for students with hypermobility, arthritis, or a history of injury — but they elevate every class you teach.

You’ll leave with practical drills, refined cueing language, and a more nuanced understanding of joint mechanics — so you can build strength inside mobility and teach in a way that develops true resilience for your students.

True resilience isn’t about the absence of adversity; it’s about choosing exactly how we rise to meet it. Join combat veteran, global motivational speaker, and internationally celebrated yoga teacher Dan Nevins for a powerhouse keynote presentation that will completely redefine your understanding of human potential.

In 2004, Dan survived an IED explosion in Iraq that resulted in the loss of both of his legs and a traumatic brain injury. From the depths of a grueling physical and psychological rehabilitation, he discovered the life-saving, transformational power of yoga—a practice that taught him to stop fighting his reality and start mastering his inner landscape. Through raw, vulnerable storytelling and the wisdom of his lived experience, Dan invites us to radically rethink our self-imposed limitations, dismantle fear, and reconnect with our innate capacity for massive growth. Leave this session with an unshakeable perspective shift and a concrete framework to meet your own personal and professional obstacles with fierce, grounded courage.

Many treat meditation as an isolated task: something we check off for twenty minutes before the chaotic pace of the day takes over. The third chapter of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras asks a radical, different question: What if meditative awareness was not a rigid practice you returned to, but the very way you lived your life?

Step into the quiet sanctuary of the Secret Garden for a profound masterclass with legendary author, healer, and lineage master Nischala Joy Devi. Drawing directly from her globally celebrated, feminine-rooted translation, The Secret Power of Yoga, Nischala guides participants into the deeper mysteries of the Vibhūti Pāda (the third chapter).

Together, you will explore how the mechanics of sustained, unbroken awareness (saṃyama) shape not just your inner landscape, but your immediate relationships, your daily choices, and how you show up in the world each day. This is an intimate, contemplative inquiry that gives you the rare time to sit inside ancient scripture, quiet the mind, and physically feel where these truths live in your modern adulthood experience.

A 90-minute hands-on lab for chair-based classes: smart sequencing, prop strategies, and adaptable variations you can use immediately. Join Abigail for fresh inspiration on making yoga more inclusive for people living with disabilities, chronic illnesses, injuries, or older adults. In this Teacher Track workshop, you’ll learn chair yoga essentials you can use right away: how to set up the chair and props for support and stability, how to build chair sequences that feel cohesive (not random), and how to create useful posture variations so students with different physical abilities can participate. You’ll move, test prop set-ups, and practice adapting common shapes in real time, then leave with a chair yoga sequence you can start using now.

We are in a pivotal moment where the old paradigms of recovery are no longer enough. Human Recovery asks us to widen the lens; to recognize that recovery is part of the human experience. We are all recovering from something: grief, trauma, substances, conditioning, loss, or disconnection.

This keynote introduces an emerging ecosystem of whole-person recovery through the partnership of Serenity For Life and Human Recovery, LLC. Collaboratively they have created an integrative model that weaves together psychotherapy, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), trauma intensives, Human Recovery coaching, and community to support the full spectrum of healing. We are creating a continuum of care that honors the complexity of the human experience. Through yoga, somatic practices, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and lifestyle medicine, we create spaces where healing is relational, sustainable, and deeply transformative.

Healing without feeling isn’t possible, recovery is not about fixing what is broken, it is about returning to wholeness.

ADMISSION NOTE: This exclusive session belongs to the Art of Teaching Track. Access requires a Full Teacher Summit Pass or a Teacher Track Add-On Ticket for entry and CE credit tracking.

Energy work does not have to feel abstract, esoteric, or separate from the way you already lead a room. Step into the secluded, wildflower-lined oasis of the Creek Garden for an invaluable, career-shifting workshop with global Energy Medicine Yoga (EMYoga) creator Lauren Walker and EMYoga Master Teacher Blaine Wilkes.

This highly practical, teacher-focused intensive offers clear, accessible methods to weave EMYoga techniques directly into your public classes, without forcing you to alter your signature lineage, class structure, or authentic teaching voice. Designed to seamlessly bridge the gap between subtle body curiosity and confident classroom application, you will learn how to unpack heavy energetic concepts into simple, grounded language that your students can understand and trust immediately.

The Professional Takeaway: Walk away with an actionable toolkit of rapid energy-balancing protocols that integrate into standard vinyasa, hatha, or restorative sequences. Learn how to elevate student vitality and nervous system regulation without adding complex class prep time or overwhelming beginners with confusing jargon.

Note: This is a limited-capacity, interactive laboratory. Please ensure you have upgraded your Visitors Center to a Teacher Track Ticket

Tear down the walls that say there is any competition in the business of yoga. If you are a former, current, or aspiring yoga studio owner, you are warmly invited to claim a seat at this specialized, high-impact mastermind gathering. Presented under the tranquil, fragrant shade of the Lavender Pergola, this session is explicitly not a dry, competitive networking mixer, rather it's a collaborative, empowering experience built to refuel local conscious entrepreneurs.

Guided by Mimi Morales, the visionary leader behind the thriving Sunny Isle Yoga community, this circle creates a safe, family-like container to openly voice current business struggles, celebrate inspiring entrepreneurial achievements, and share tactical industry insights. Together, you will collaboratively brainstorm modern solutions for client retention, teacher burnout, and operational longevity. Walk away from the pergola feeling deeply supported, thoroughly inspired, and equipped with a powerful local network of allies to help you continue leading your community with fierce alignment.

ADMISSION NOTE: This exclusive session requires a Full Teacher Summit Pass or a Teacher Track Add-On Ticket for entry and CE credit tracking.

Stop just teaching isolated poses and start mastering the energetic climate of your room. Step into the absolute, silent sanctuary of the Secret Garden for an advanced, 90-minute continuing education workshop with veteran international educator and ParaYoga specialist Jeremy Wolf.

This teacher-focused exploration dives deep into the ancient art of sequencing through the lens of the three cosmic forces (guṇas): heavy tamas, fiery rajas, and luminous sattva. Jeremy will teach you how to move far beyond superficial, posture-by-posture planning and instead map out a class as a fluid, intentional energetic arc. Learn how to diagnose collective student fatigue, strategically build internal heat, and systematically guide a room into a state of optimal neurological balance and deep meditative clarity.

The Professional Takeaway: Walk away with a sophisticated, lineage-backed framework to consciously alter the energetic tone, mood, and mental focus of your public classes using smart structural pacing and purposeful alignment choices.

? Note: This is a limited-capacity, interactive laboratory. Please ensure you have upgraded your Visitors Center to a Teacher Track Ticket.

Life doesn't feel busy by accident. Between being a parent, a sibling, a friend, and an employee, we are often switching corporate and social roles so fast we completely lose track of who we are underneath them all.

Join mind-body storyteller, actor, and veteran corporate consultant Sravanthi Prattipati for an eye-opening keynote that explores the steep emotional cost of constantly performing success. Drawing from her high-intensity finance and consulting career at PwC, alongside her professional training on the theatrical stage, Sravanthi knows this tension intimately: how to convincingly become someone else, and what it costs your nervous system to keep doing that off-stage too.

This keynote strips away the external noise to deliver a practical framework for noticing when you are acting out of protective habit rather than authentic choice. Combining modern behavioral mindset practices with accessible mindfulness, you will walk away with tangible tools to show up more honestly in the roles you already carry, and a renewed sense of permission to slow down and lead from your truest self. If you've ever wondered who you'd be without all the noise, this session is for you.