Denver Yoga Summit

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.