Telluride Yoga Festival

Our inner space is a living reality, made up of fire, air, earth, and water (the tattvas). Each element defines our life challenges and at the same time gives us the power to meet them. When imbalanced we struggle. When in balance our joy is unstoppable. Join Kia to understand the significance of balancing the elements within yoga, and a curated experience of vinyasa, kriya, breathwork, and mantra designed to bring your elemental body into a coherent state. This is where pure joy exists.  Kia will also touch upon the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, which offers insights into life's challenges with courage and clarity to rise above the limitations of our ego-driven minds and align ourselves with the higher purpose for our existence. A perfect way to start your weekend.  

In today’s world, we experience overwhelm, stress depression, and addiction more than ever before. To heal, rejuvenate, and renew ourselves, we must learn how to shift into our parasympathetic nervous system.
In this class, we will cultivate profound relaxation through Movement, Breath, Mantra, and Music!
We will connect with the present moment and release all that is unnecessary.  Come and Relax!

The Yogic Sages called upon each of us to ignite our full potential and left us with techniques to do just that! Join Kia for an expansive yoga practice designed to awaken and stabilize your energy, fostering greater power, confidence, and creative connection. Class includes a warming vinyasa flow, pranic building kriya, and deep meditation. Don't miss this opportunity to awaken insight and inner vision.

Join me for a powerful meditation, workshop, and discussion as we explore essential topics designed to enhance your creative journey. The teachings of Rick Rubin and 'CREATIVITY'  have changed my life forever and it will change yours too, but only if we INTEGRATE and use the tools laid at our feet.

 Monitoring Your Inflow: Delve into the art of monitoring the sources that influence your creativity, gaining insights into how external stimuli shape your ideas and inspirations.

Navigating Fear and Creative Blocks: Address the challenges hindering your creative process, discover techniques to navigate fear, and overcome mental blocks that may impede your artistic expression.

Learning to Have Fun While Bringing Ideas to Reality: Uncover the joy in the creative process by exploring ways to infuse playfulness and enjoyment into the act of transforming your ideas into tangible realities.

Creating Accountability Through Community: Foster a sense of accountability by building connections within a supportive community. Explore how shared experiences and encouragement can empower you to stay committed to your creative goals.

You will not want to miss this immersion and exploration of creativity, where thoughtful discussions flow gracefully with guided meditations and visualization, opening up your creativity portal as far and wide as possible.

In yoga, we commit to conserving the precious prana (vital air) we are given. The life force of the body, however, is inseparable from the life force of the planet. This lecture and meditation explores how the ecosystem of the subtle body —the breath, bloodstream and thought waves-- is interdependent with all of nature.  We will discuss what regenerative agriculture is and how can we apply its principles to our bodies, minds, and farms to promote restorative ecologically conscious systems. This discussion digs deep into the idea of building healthy soils and biosequestration through practices and design, and the importance of regenerative agricultural methods to mitigate climate change. These panelists explore how it is essential to also work with the practices of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness before, during, and after operations to fully integrate the regenerative lifestyle for the health, and wellbeing of people, plants, and the planet.

It takes guts and glutes to be strong and free. If you suffer from chronic hip pain, it could be that you need more strengthening as well as stretching. We can only grow stronger and more open relative to how stable we are inside. Learn how you can use your yoga practice to build some support for your backside.

Experience the liberating power of releasing your emotional body with asana, kriya and breathwork. This transformative class invites you to reconnect with the flowing expression of your soul and intuitive mind. Through dynamic kundalini kriya movements, you'll rhythmically release stagnant energy, creating space for profound inner peace and heightened awareness. Dive into deep states of tranquility between poses and tap into elevated consciousness, gaining insight into your higher nature.

This sacred cacao ceremony opens the pathways (nadis) to the heart chakra so that we can clean and clear out negative feelings and experiences that are blocking our path forward into harmony and balance.  A fully expansive sound healing with Crystal Singing Bowls and Gong will accompany this truly auspicious offering.

Take time to relax, refresh, and renew. If you're overwhelmed with a busy mind, Yin can help to soothe your thoughts, encourage inward focus, and allow your body to experience deep relaxation. A perfect complement to Vinyasa, essentially the "yin" to your "yang". Yin Yoga uses long, passive holds to target and heal the connective tissues, such as ligaments, bones, joints, and fascia. The holds can be challenging, and the benefits are amazing - regulated energy, lower stress, deeper relaxation, improved health... A delicious treat essential for all levels! No experience necessary.

Turn down the noise and tune into your inner rhythm. Through this sensory adventure, we’ll flow through asana, mantra, beats, and a soul flow experience.

We’ll wring out all that clutters our inner connectedness and awaken to our true nature and move, breathe, sing, and dance our way back to ourselves.

As yogis our field of study is ourselves, from skin to soul. This slow-flow + Yin practice is an embodied journey that engages our tissues, our breath and our vital life force to re-activate an awareness of our wholeness and our true nature.

For the final day of the festival, start your day with this immersive experience crafted to complement the soul-enriching affirmations and journal prompts found within the pages of Faith Hunter's new journal "The Return to You." In this session, you will engage with mindful reflections that encourage self-discovery and affirmations that foster a deep-seated love for oneself. The workshop is a sanctuary where mindfulness meets self-compassion. Faith’s guidance helps you unlock your emotions, challenge limiting beliefs, and embrace the fullness of your being. You'll cultivate inner peace through intentional breathing practices and meditation, setting the tone for introspective journaling sessions where your thoughts and affirmations take flight. This workshop is not just a class; it's a transformative process that gifts you the clarity and courage to return to your truest self. Join us to honor your path, illuminate your spirit, and write the story of your heart's revival.

Learn and practice powerful Shakti mantras (ancient chants to the divine feminine) to help connect your voice to the center of your power. Through applying special yogic techniques such as pranayama and specific asana we will open up our sonic channels and fill them with divine vibration, creating a resonant, harmonic field of transformational healing energy.

The Tea Ceremony is a perfect elemental art. Silently, we drink tea from ancient trees grown in reverence. In this special space, we give the water, fire, and tea leaves a chance to communicate with us in their subtle and silent tongue. Old-growth trees have been taking in sunlight, rainwater, and starlight for hundreds of years. Drinking tea from their leaves in a ceremonial space allows us access to parts of our hearts that we usually cannot reach.

This practice pairs perfectly with tarot. After the tea ceremony (three bowls of tea in silence), we draw cards for the entire group and then for the individuals present who want personal readings.

Tarot card reading is like looking at oneself through the clarifying reflection of an intuitive friend. In these sessions, you are invited to participate as Jade interprets the tarot cards you draw from their deck. Tarot is not about reading the future or divining destiny. The cards are a set of elemental archetypes so ancient and true that we find ourselves magnetized to those that speak to our present situation.

You will leave this session feeling honored and held in reverence. A practice of tea ceremony and tarot can allow you to feel reconnected to your intuition. The elemental realm is already working on your behalf to create what your higher self desires. When we listen to the heart’s wisdom, we open to following the watercourse way toward what is in our highest potential.