Why we’re Creating the Denver Yoga Summit

My brother died last summer.

He had a heart attack. One of six brothers, gone in an instant. And in the months that followed, I felt him close. Not in a way I can fully explain. But in the way that grief sometimes strips away all the noise and leaves you standing in front of what actually matters.

I believe he sent me to Los Angeles.

Not literally. But in September 2025, I went to a large summit event in LA with my friend Nicki. It was exactly the kind of gathering I’d imagined building for years: teachers and leaders all pointing toward the same thing, a room full of people choosing to be changed. On the way home, I told Nicki about a vision I’d had back in 2014. I was standing on a stage. The team around me knew the tools. Everyone was pointed in the same direction.

I still hadn’t remembered the domain.

The Forgotten Domain

In 2023, when my daughter Vinni was six months old, I had the idea for a Denver yoga conference. I bought the domain. Then I looked at my life: postpartum, perimenopausal, a baby in my arms, a family, and a yoga school. I looked up and said, “Dear Universe, can we put a pin in this?” And then I completely forgot about it.

When I got home from LA, my husband Adam brought up the studio question again. He’d been asking me for years whether I’d open another brick-and-mortar space. My answer was always the same: a hard no. I’d owned Container Collective Yoga from 2014 to 2021. We made it through the pandemic with a third of our membership. I could have rebuilt. But I was 41, recently divorced, with a two-and-a-half-year-old son. My ego told me the community needed me to stay. My higher self knew that I didn’t have to keep sacrificing my health for the sake of everyone else. I sold the building and took the classes back online. I rested. I healed.

So when Adam asked again this last September (2025), I said no again. But this time I asked him why he kept asking.

His answer is the reason this event exists.

What Adam Said

“You’re so good at bringing people together and having them feel welcome and like they belong. And you’re so good at having people see that yoga is so much more than the shapes we make on the mat. I think you need that. And honestly, I miss the community you made that I was a part of at CCYOGA.”

That night, we both remembered the domain.

I called Nicki. I called Jamie. The Denver Yoga Summit was real from that moment.

What I Actually Believe

I’ve been teaching yoga since 2005. I’ve taught thousands of students and trained hundreds of teachers. I’ve written a book about moving beyond the ego patterns that keep us small. And after all of it, I keep coming back to two things.

Most people experience yoga as a fitness class and never discover it’s a complete way of living. And too many people walk into yoga spaces feeling like they don’t quite fit.

I’ve seen both things up close. At Container Collective, we had people in pajama pants next to lifelong athletes. Teenagers sharing space with people in their seventies. People who had never done yoga before and people who had been practicing for decades. What held them together wasn’t skill level. It was the feeling that they belonged.

That feeling is not an accident. It’s a choice. You build it on purpose or it doesn’t exist.

What Yoga Gathering Is For

On September 11–13, 2026, we’re gathering at Chatfield Botanic Gardens for three days. The setting matters. Seven hundred acres of native plants and working farmland. The Rocky Mountain foothills as the backdrop. Space to breathe.

We have teachers coming who work in functional medicine, adaptive yoga, trauma-informed practice, Vedic astrology, and more. We have student tracks and teacher tracks. We have seva woven into the structure. Five percent of proceeds go back to local nonprofits. Some people would call it a yoga festival. We think of it as something closer to a really fun yoga conference.

But the real goal is two moments.

When you arrive, we want you to feel immediately that your presence matters and that you belong. When you leave, we want you carrying something real: a felt sense of connection to yourself and the people around you, and more tools to live yoga in your daily life.

Not yoga as a workout. Yoga as a way of being in the world.

That’s what my brother reminded me was worth building.

If you want a taste of what we're building before September, the Reconnection Reset is free and open to everyone. Come as you are.

With love,

Brittany

Founder & Director, Denver Yoga Summit

If you're curious about the philosophy behind what we're building, start here.