Many traditional systems of healing and cosmology, (such as Yoga, Ayurveda, & Native American Spirituality)  believe that a deep understanding of our natural world and her elements is absolutely necessary if we are to understand anything about life, creation, transformation and self-realization. 

In these workshops, we will be delving into the five elements of the natural world—earth, water, fire, air & ether—which are the building blocks of everything that makes up our universe. These elements are represented in our bodies, minds and energy systems, therefore, as we learn to work with them, we are learning how to create balance and harmony within ourselves and within our world. 

For this series, I am offering 4 workshops that allow us to explore each of the elements through a yoga posture sequence, breathwork, mental focus and meditation.  Hopefully you can come to all 4! But it is completely appropriate to pick and choose the workshops that best fit your schedule and your needs. Ultimately, the intention is for you to leave these workshops being able to honestly say, “I feel more at peace because I am more in tune with my natural world.” 

Details on each workshop below:

$40 each workshop or $130 for all by 2/7, $150 after 2/7

Workshop 1 : Earth, Get Grounded

Friday February 28th, 6 - 8:30 pm

In this workshop we will explore the element of earth. Earth is solid, dense, grounding and stable.  Earth is present in the bones and muscles of the body (ananamayakosha). The yoga practice will include:

• Balancing postures with a focus on foundation, building stability, strength, endurance, concentration & focus.

• Breathwork

• Meditation

• Discussion

Leave feeling grounded, balanced and calm.

Workshop 2 : Water, Flow

Saturday February 29th, 11 am - 1:30 pm

In this workshop we will explore the element of water. Water is fluid, mobile, adaptable, nourishing, purifying and connecting.  Water is represented in the fluids of the body which circulate nutrients, hormones, blood cells, oxygen, and lubrication throughout. Water has the capacity to soothe all pain and inflammation. Water forms the energy sheath (pranamayakosha) which moves breath and energy. It helps us to soften and become more receptive. The yoga practice will include:

• Flowing sequence of postures with a focus on slow movement and compassionate connection to the body. A practice that promotes mobility of the spine.

• Breathwork

• Meditation

• Discussion

Leave feeling flexible and nourished in body and mind.  Notice a sense of love and connection.

Workshop 3 : Fire – Transform

Saturday February 29th, 3:00 - 5:30 pm

In this workshop we will explore the element of fire.  Fire represents creation, light, heat, luster, energy, understanding, metabolism, and the power of transformation. It is related to the brain and nervous system, digestive system, thoughts, emotions, and obsessions (manomayakosha). The yoga practice will include:

• Poses that build heat with a focus on twists and core.  Using the transforming quality of will and focus to move through stuck emotions and patterns.

• Breathwork

• Meditation

• Discussion

Expect to leave feeling warm and happy; energized and clear about what you want to create.

Workshop 4 : Air and Ether,  Aware and Free

Sunday March 1st, 11 am - 1:30 pm

In this workshop we will explore both the elements of air and ether (space). 

Air is invisible like the wind. Air is light, formless, dry, cold, and mobile. Air is the potential within space that becomes active and moves when force is applied. It is associated with positivity, freedom and openness. Air flows freely through a body and mind that have cultivated an attitude of surrender, an attitude of faith in both self and the divine. In the body, air is represented by the respiratory process, nerve impulses, and the wisdom sheath (vijnanamayakosha).

Ether is referred to as space, and its qualities are vast, spacious, expansive, subtle, pervasive, and limitless. It is the element that encompasses all the other elements. Ether is the essence of emptiness, omnipresence. It is the space between the cells in the body, the hollow spaces in the intestines, blood vessels, bladder and lungs, the bliss sheath (anandamayakosha), our true nature and oneness with all known and unknown.

The yoga practice will include: 

• A purifying moving practice encompassing all of the elements and ending with observation of the relationship between thought, breath and experience. 

• Because of the nature of these elements there will be more time dedicated to breathwork & meditation than given in the previous workshops.

• Discussion

This practice will leave you feeling alert, awake, aware, open, creative, and content. You’ll breathe deeply and evenly and have an unwavering presence in the now with a heart filled with grace and beauty.

Samadhi 300 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training

Ripen Your Teaching, Refine Your Skills

Are you ready to join the next level of yoga teachers? Become a 500-RYT through Samadhi’s 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training, Embody Samadhi. We have crafted this professional development program in order for you to have greater expertise into the science of yoga. You will be mentored by Denver’s top instructors including Cheryl Deer, Brittany Belisle, Hansa Knox, Kristine Whittle, Santosh, Soozie Kinstler and Alejandro Morin.

This yoga teacher training is advanced not because you dive deeper into asana, but because you go deeper into your path as a teacher. You’ll develop advanced understanding of teaching techniques beyond guiding asana.

For a free consultation to discover if this program is your next step, email the YTT Coordinator, or begin your journey today by filling out our application.

Join us for our annual retreat to Mount Princeton Hot Springs for a weekend of community, ceremony & self-restoration.

This year, we are interweaving all of our favorite healing modalities--forrest yoga, yoga nidra, sound healing, acupuncture, hiking, healthy food & mineral soaking--so that we can bring our bodies, minds & spirits back into a place of alignment. As we are infinitely connected to all that surrounds us, the healing we embody on this retreat extends far beyond ourselves; the work we do here helps to nourish all of our relationships, including our relationship with the earth, and empowers our ability to give back.

LOCATION

Mount Princeton Hot Springs 
15870 Co Rd 162, Nathrop, CO 81236
(719) 395-2447

Located in Nathrop, Colorado between the towns of Buena Vista and Salida, Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort is an ideal spot for a yoga retreat and getaway to the beautiful Arkansas River Valley to immerse yourself in nature. In addition to the planned retreat activities, enjoy the hot springs, spa services, juice bar and other outdoor activities throughout your stay!

September 26th - October 4th, Intensives run from 8:00am - 12:30pm daily

Experience this brand new opportunity to practice a blissful yoga practice and Ceremony with Ana and Jose, without taking the teacher training program. Join them, and their teacher trainees every morning for a full immersion into Ceremony and a 3.5-hour Forrest Yoga class that will ignite your Spirit and set you up for the rest of your day. If you're planning on taking the Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training but would like to know a little bit about it first, let these sessions act as a little teaser for you.

Ana and Jose will teach the traditional Ceremonies of Forrest Yoga. Each day is a magical experience for your body, mind and Spirit:
• Up-level your personal practice
• Enjoy investing in your own self-care
• Detoxify your body and your mind
• Learn to work with and heal any injuries you may have
• Experience ways to make advanced poses accessible

The morning sessions are open to yoga teachers and experienced yoga practitioners of all yoga styles.

You can choose to either book single days for $120 each day or the full 9 days of the training, $1900 for all sessions.

To book day 8 and 9 you must have participated in one or more of the previous days of the morning intensives.

Troncones, MX

Join us—Cheryl Deer & Cher Aslor—for a uniquely fulfilling, and wholly nourishing retreat to the beaches of Troncones, Mexico.  "I believe in the healing powers of this land that we will be visiting," says Cheryl.  "I have been there before and experienced opening and ease."

Completely unplugged, you'll have the chance to let the chaos of everyday life slip away, while the rhythm, scents, and subtle sounds of the ocean draw you into a state of total relaxation.  Imagine the way all the usual sounds disappear when you go fully under water, head submerged, heart immersed in the sensation of surrender.  Creativity and growth can arise when we allow the “shoulds” and to-do lists to fall away.

Through dynamic daily Forrest yoga practices, Pilates, yoga nidra, swimming, surfing, strolling & journaling, you will have the invaluable opportunity to connect your mind, body and spirit back to Mother Earth.  You'll learn to honor the four directions as individual parts of the self, and to re-discover your own sense of spontaneous flow.

Together, we'll deepen our knowledge of pranayama, meditation & the self, so we can act to embody the changes we've each been longing to make.  Ceremony, laughter, spontaneity, flow, good healthy food, and community, will be our medicine at this weeklong oasis of awakening.  Through deep connection with spirit and each other, you will go home better able to walk in your highest purpose—and to help your friends and family do the same.  “When we retreat, we are reminded of what’s already inside us—space, breath, joy,” says Cher.

 If this sounds like something your mind + body + soul has been longing for, you belong in Mexico with us!

Ripen Your Teaching, Refine Your Skills

Are you ready to join the next level of yoga teachers? Become a 500-RYT through Samadhi’s 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training, Embody Samadhi. We have crafted this professional development program in order for you to have greater expertise into the science of yoga. You will be mentored by Denver’s top instructors including Cheryl Deer, Jeremy Wolf, Hansa Knox, Kristine Whittle, Santosh Powell Brittany Belisle and Alejandro Morin.

This yoga teacher training is advanced not because you dive deeper into asana, but because you go deeper into your path as a teacher. You’ll develop advanced understanding of teaching techniques beyond guiding asana.

Why Choose Samadhi’s Advanced Program?

Don’t just memorize concepts, tricks, and techniques—Embody Samadhi.

Mentorship

Samadhi Yoga Denver is honored to have top teachers designing, leading, and refining our 300 hour program. Additionally, we humbly host national teachers each year so that our 300 hour students can experience the highest level of instruction.

Experiential Learning

Our yoga teacher training focuses on teaching practice and development. You will lead community classes, receive one on one feedback from your teachers, and focus on the development of your personal practice and relationship to yoga.

Lineage

Lead teachers of our Advanced Teacher Training are deeply rooted in lineage. Samadhi brings in teachings from Rod Stryker, krishnamacharya, Thich Nhat Hanh, Anna Forrest, Bihar School, B.K.S. Iyengar, and Tias Little along with more.

Flexibility

Our advanced teacher training i is meant to be a program that fits your path as an individual. You can finish the program in as little as one year, or take up to three years. You are able to craft the concentration of the program through the electives you choose to take, this allows you to get the most value out of the program for where you want to take your teaching.

Authenticity

The core strength of the advanced teacher training program is that our students are supported to deeply inhabit the fundamental values and teachings of yoga as a time-tested way of life. While our content is rich and varied, we feel that the most powerful way to affect the world is to transmit the energy of the practice.

What we will not do is consume yoga as just another commodity. We know that yoga is sacred and we aspire to keep it that way.

300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - Embody Samadhi: Truth Module

Friday February 8th - Sunday February 12th

See more detailed times on the Samadhi Website below.

Truth is one module of the year long 500 Hour Samadhi Yoga Teacher Training, taught by Hansa, Anne Hart and Cheryl Deer: (You can begin the full training at any time with any module or elective)

• Embody Samadhi, our 500hr Yoga Teacher Training in Denver consists of  300 hours of in-depth study and experience. (150hrs of Core Modules (5) and 150 of  Course Electives).   To ensure that you are ready, please have a solid yoga practice history, and at least a 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification, that would allow you to skillfully incorporate the following into your practice and teaching:

• Advanced asana and pranayama
• Advanced adjustments and hands on healing
• Deeper philosophical questions and understandings
• A committed meditation practice on and off the cushion/mat
• Broader understanding of anatomical structure and movement principles
• Recognition and incorporation of key ayurvedic principles into living and teaching
• A willingness to peel off layers of false identification
• A commitment to being coachable, vulnerable, truthful, and authentic
• A readiness to experience and share more joy, gratitude, and happiness in the world
• An excitement about deepening your sense of dharma as service
• A readiness to share and hone your sense of humor
• An understanding of energetic principles that will help you skillfully design your personal practice (and others’)
• A way of practicing yoga that embodies the heart of the ancient tradition
• PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE…

Cheryl is teaching the following module of the training:

TRUTH MODULE

This module is designed to help you find your authentic voice and method as a yoga teacher and to further develop your healing and teaching skills. Trainees will be teaching more advanced yoga postures and sequencing, and learning how to apply these practices to students of all levels and range of injuries. The yoga intensives are taught in a way that leads to deeper knowledge of yourself and how to create more freedom by connecting to the power of truth, compassion and healing. The training will include chanting, meditation, pranayama, three-hour advanced yoga practice that includes learning hands-on assists, sequencing, teaching to all levels, healing and connecting to spirit through ceremonial truth speaking.

• Chanting
• Pranayama
• Intensive yoga practice
• Learn more and new hands-on assists
• Further knowledge of sequencing to include sequencing for more advanced postures
• Teaching to all levels, body types, and life challenges Experience working with injuries
• Healing injury circle
• Ceremonial truth speaking
• Meditation
• Develop empathing skills
• Practice teaching from your authentic self
• Practice connecting to and allowing spirit to move through you
• Personal practice discussion and development
• Integrating these practices with your life

Participate in the entire weekend of immersive study with Ana Forest. Ana Forrest has been changing people’s lives for nearly 40 years. An internationally recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing, Ana created Forrest Yoga while working through her own healing from her life’s trauma and experience. With thousands of licensed practitioners around the world, Forrest Yoga is renowned as an intensely physical, internally focused practice that emphasizes how to carry a transformative experience off the mat and into daily life.

Cheryl will be assisting Ana on all of the workshops below:

DATES & TIMES:

Friday Evening 1/27: Celebrate Your Practice  6-8:30pm

• Rekindle the fires of passion and pleasure with Forrest Yoga. Reconnect to your energy and delight in your strength. Bring healing and inspiration into your personal practice. Exhilarating and Delicious.

Saturday Morning 1/28: Building the Warrior Heart 10a-12:30p

• Learn the magic of heart-opening asanas. Open your core, which gives your heart support and counsel of your other primary chakras. This helps your heart and Spirit be more resilient, flexible and adept at surfing emotional waves. Learn to remove obstructive shielding from your heart so it can truly and honestly feel each new experience afresh.

Saturday Afternoon 1/28: Luminous Core 1.28.17 2:30-5p

• Take a physical and mental journey deep into the core of your own being, where you will create a heightened sense of awareness through breath and asanas. Open to the amazing quality of feeling that lives inside as you sweat, breathe and enter into the incredible mystery that is your core.

Sunday Morning 1/29: Heal Your Back 10-12:30p

• Plagued with back pain? Revitalize and strengthen your back. Stimulate healing by learning how to bring fresh oxygen, blood and nerve energy into your back and torso. Forrest Yoga teaches poses created specifically to heal and strengthen your back. Work, sweat and attain freedom from back pain.

Sunday Afternoon 1/29: Inversions & Arm Balance (Intermediate/ Advanced) 2:30-5pm

• Inversions and arm balancing poses are challenging and exciting. They rejuvenate the mind and body. They increase circulation of blood, oxygen, and energy, stimulating the endocrine and immune systems. Both arm balancing poses and inversions develop mental and physical strength, balance and flexibility. In this session, learn the essential elements of these powerful poses. Learn the skills of balance and then have fun applying them to your life. Intermediate/Advanced NOTE: This session is not appropriate for pregnant woman or those with detached retinas, or wrist or arm injuries.

INVESTMENT:

$285 For All Workshops
$65 Individual Workshops