Colorado · Since 2024
Our youngest city, and the one growing the fastest. Denver launched in 2024 with one Saturday morning class in City Park and no fixed plan beyond that. Seven gatherings a month now run across City Park, RiNo, Berkeley and the Golden Triangle, and in November the city hosts its first full-scale festival.
Denver told us what it wanted within about six weeks. More outdoors, more altitude-aware instruction, and somewhere warm to go in January. We listened.
2024
Launched
1,700
Members
7
Gatherings a month
On the calendar
Four of the 7 gatherings that run here every month, with the venue, the price and the person teaching on each one.
YogaSaturday, September 26
A steady all-levels practice on the lawn by Ferril Lake, with the front range in view for the whole standing sequence.
BreathworkThursday, October 15
A breathwork session built specifically for a mile of altitude, with a slower ramp and longer recovery than the same class at sea level.
FestivalsSaturday, November 14
Denver’s first full-scale festival: two stages, a hiking meetup that leaves at eight, and a closing circle facing the mountains.
YogaSaturday, December 12
Long-held floor shapes by candlelight on a December evening, with the room warm, the lights low and nothing asked of you but stillness.
Community stories
Two members on what actually happened after the first time they turned up.
There were nine of us at the first one. By August we were splitting into two circles because the lawn could not hold everybody in one.
Hannah came to the very first Denver session and has been to almost every one since. She trained through the Strength Collective in 2025 and now leads the second circle at City Park herself on the Saturdays when attendance goes past seventy.
Hannah Voss
Member since 2024, City Park
I moved from Houston and could not work out why a walk uphill was flattening me. The RiNo breathwork session explained more in ninety minutes than six months of guessing had.
Curtis arrived in Denver in early 2025 and found the altitude harder than anyone had warned him. He now helps run the twenty-minute altitude briefing that opens every Denver breathwork session, aimed squarely at people in their first year in the city.
Curtis Bellamy
Member since 2025, RiNo
Partnerships
Space, permits, food and clinicians, given at cost or for nothing at all. These are the Denver organizations behind that.
Public space
Secured the City Park permits and the Sculpture Park site for the Front Range Wellness Festival.
Venue
Gives us the RiNo studio at cost every month for altitude breathwork sessions.
Outdoors
Leads the guided hikes that open our Denver festival and trains our volunteer trail hosts.
Venue
Hosts the winter candlelight sessions in Berkeley and keeps the hall warm at their own expense.
Testimonials
I moved here for the mountains and spent a year not really talking to anyone. Nine months in this programme changed that completely.
They built the altitude briefing after listening to newcomers complain for one season. Most organizations would have taken three years.
Denver
Our Denver sessions are paced for a mile above sea level, with rest built into the sequence instead of offered as an exception. Newcomers are the majority, not the minority.