Denver Yoga Summit

Resonance & Radiance: Mantra, Mudra, and Meditation Track: Mantra and Mudra, Meditation Level: All levels Duration: 60 minutes

Sound has always been one of yoga's most direct pathways inward. This session uses it intentionally.

Resonance & Radiance is a meditative experience built around harmonium, mantra, mudra, and breath. Jackie DeConti guides participants through a practice designed to quiet the nervous system, align the body's energetic centers, and create the conditions for genuine stillness — the kind that is hard to find in ordinary life.

The session opens with a grounding breath and body scan, giving everyone time to arrive fully before anything else begins. From there, participants are introduced to mudras paired with breathwork for relaxation and energetic balance. The heart of the practice moves into call-and-response chanting with live harmonium — no prior experience required, no wrong way to participate. Humming is welcome. Silence is welcome. Whatever arises is welcome.

A guided meditation follows, drawing the resonance of the chanting deeper into the body and mind. The session closes with a final tone and a moment of shared quiet.

Participants leave with practical tools they can take home — specific mudras, breath practices, and simple mantras they can use to regulate their nervous system and reconnect to themselves in daily life. No yoga experience is needed. Just a willingness to listen.

What if your core workout was also a philosophy class?

This dynamic session blends the precision and control of Pilates with the intensity of HIIT-style intervals, woven together by the five Yamas — yoga's foundational ethical teachings. Each movement sequence carries both a physical intention and a philosophical one, so students are not just building strength but practicing the way they want to live.

The class moves through a grounding breath and spinal articulation series rooted in Ahimsa — non-violence, meeting the body with honesty and care. Bridge work anchors the practice in Satya, truthfulness about what the body can actually do today. Core mat sequences draw on Asteya, taking only what is needed and nothing more. The session builds into HIIT-style Tabata intervals — no-jump burpees, mountain climbers — held within the spirit of Brahmacharya and Aparigraha, channeling energy with focus and releasing the need to compete or compare.

You’ll leave with a stronger body, a felt sense of the Yamas in action, and proof that the mat and the rest of life are not as separate as they seem.

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.

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.

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.

Stop guessing which yoga style your body needs. Hosted against the natural elements of the Creek Garden, this 60-minute experiential workshop introduces the practical science of Āyurveda to help you customize a truly supportive daily practice.

The Doṣic Framework We Will Explore:

• Vata (Air & Ether): For the creative, intuitive, and fast-moving mind that requires grounding and stability.
• Pitta (Fire & Water): For the driven, intellectual, and high-achieving spirit that requires cooling and spaciousness.
• Kapha (Earth & Water): For the steady, thorough, and solid body that requires stimulating movement and heat.
• The Takeaway: Participate in three short, distinct movement sequences to physically feel the shift of each doṣa in your own system. Walk away with a clear diagnostic toolkit to audit your weekly yoga classes and protect your energetic balance.

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.

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.

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.

Deconstruct your stress loops and reclaim a steadier internal rhythm. Hosted in the fragrant, tranquil shade of the Lavender Pergola, this 75-minute therapeutic session focuses entirely on what a pose opens internally, rather than what it looks like on the outside.

The Three Stages of the Unwinding:

• Mindful Movement: Slow, fluid active sequences to gently mobilize the joints and release surface-level restlessness.
• Myofascial Release (MFR): Targeted rolling techniques to decompress bound-up connective tissues, improve blood flow, and unlock stubborn physical knots.
• Restorative Yoga: Long-held, fully supported floor shapes paired with guided meditation to deeply soothe and regulate the nervous system.

Perfect for anyone experiencing chronic burnout, desk stiffness, or mental exhaustion. Absolutely no prior yoga experience required. Please bring a mat and extra layers for the final resting poses.