Denver Yoga Summit

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

In a world that rarely asks you to be still, yin invites you to drop beneath the surface and explore the quieter world within. Here, the body becomes a landscape. Stillness, the guide. Each posture, an invitation. Each breath, a homecoming.

This slow, contemplative yin yoga practice emphasizes long-held, floor-based postures that target the deeper connective tissues of the body. The class invites stillness, patience, and inward attention, and creates space for physical release and mental quiet.

Ideal as a complement to more dynamic practices, this session supports flexibility, joint health, and nervous system regulation while cultivating mindfulness and introspection.

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.

Did you know that your traditional yoga practice might be creating a structural blind spot? Many practitioners and teachers unknowingly overemphasize external hip rotation (think Pigeon Pose, Warrior II, and tree pose), inadvertently creating chronic instability in the SI joint, lower back, and pelvis.

Led by elite movement coach and Exercise Physiologist Nick Venuti, this eye-opening workshop unpacks the critical biomechanics of hip health. Drawing from his extensive training and his work coaching everyday professionals up to NHL players, Nick introduces the vital role that internal rotation plays in long-term joint longevity.

This is an interactive masterclass where science meets self-awareness. You will learn easy-to-implement corrective drills, isolated yoga/Pilates-based activations, and clever sequencing strategies designed to restore global balance to the pelvic ring.

The Takeaway: Step off the mat with a radical new understanding of pelvic stability, balanced hip function, and an actionable template to protect your lower back from injury.

Who it is for: An essential workshop for yoga teachers wanting to upgrade their cueing safety, as well as dedicated practitioners navigating mysterious low-back or hip tweakiness.

The Framework: Shift your awareness from external sensory input to internal energetic restoration. Hosted by esteemed global pioneer Nischala Joy Devi, this experiential workshop bridges traditional Upanishadic scripture with advanced relaxation science to map the architecture of human wholeness.

The Five Layers We Will Decompress:

• Annamaya Kosha (Physical): Systematically releasing deep-seated muscular tension and structural holding patterns on the mat.
• Pranamaya Kosha (Energetic): Balancing the breath matrix to regulate vital life force and cool the nervous system.
• Manomaya Kosha (Mental): Quieting the analytical mind, emotional loops, and everyday sensory overwhelm.
• Vijnanamaya Kosha (Intuitive): Activating higher wisdom, witnessing awareness, and clear inner knowing.
• Anandamaya Kosha (Bliss): Resting effortlessly in your true, unconditioned nature—pure joy, connection, and peace.
• The Takeaway: Walk away with an unshakeable state of mental clarity, a completely recharged biological battery, and a functional framework for daily somatic self-care. Absolutely open to everyone. Please bring a blanket and an eye cover.