Creating Space in Stiff & Busy Bodies
2026-01-18 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Thrive Yoga Crested Butte, 326 Elk Ave, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, United States
Life gets full and our bodies feel it. This month’s Kaiut workshop is all about softening tension, opening space in the joints, and reconnecting with a sense of ease.
No flexibility, no experience, and no “perfect poses” required. Show up exactly as you are. Together, we’ll move slowly and intentionally, creating comfort where the body feels tight or overworked, and offering the nervous system a much-needed moment to settle.
This practice supports:

Tight or achy neck, shoulders, and hips
Stiffness from winter, activity, or sitting
Stress, overwhelm, or poor sleep
Injury recovery or chronic tension
Anyone wanting gentle, grounded movement in a supportive space

Come move gently, breathe deeply, and reconnect with yourself and your community. All bodies and all levels are truly welcome.

Therapeutic Yoga Workshop
2026-02-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-03 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-06-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-07-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-02 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-09-06 15:00 - 17:00
Therapeutic Yoga uses a methodic application of sequences to unwind fascial patterns of holding and pain in the body. Much of the work is floor-based and passive, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy! This therapeutic style of yoga resets the nervous system, opens the joints, and releases patterns of restriction in the body, using long holds and specific alignment. This is an all-levels class and everybody—athletes, couch potatoes, young and old, will find this practice accessible and will benefit from it!

Healing from the Inside Out
2026-02-15 15:00 - 17:00
Support your body’s natural healing intelligence.
Through slow, stable postures and intentional pauses, we work with the nervous system to reduce pain, increase mobility, and create long-lasting change. This class is perfect for anyone recovering from injuries, living with chronic tension, or simply wanting to feel more ease and strength in their body.
In this session, we’ll explore:

Therapeutic joint mobility
Gentle strengthening for support and stability
Nervous-system calming for mind-body balance

Variations for all levels and abilities.
You don’t have to push hard to heal. You just have to begin by moving.

Deep Release for Happy Hips: A Yin Yoga Immersion
2026-02-22 15:00 - 17:00
This series of long-held, passive stretches targets the deep connective tissues in the hips. We will move the femurs in the hip sockets through all six primary directions of movement to cultivate an experience of freedom; this also provides a subtle but powerful release of tension throughout the hip anatomy. Designed to improve flexibility, release tightness, and relieve hip and lower back pain.
Correlating to the hips, we will finish this series with a custom 30-minute yoga nidra meditation to balance the Sacral Chakra, designed to cultivate creativity, pleasure, and joy.

Stillness as Medicine
2026-03-01 15:00 - 17:00
Experience the quiet power of stillness.
In this gentle Kaiut session, we emphasize parasympathetic nervous system activation, mindful breathing, and supportive postures. The focus is on deep rest and subtle movements that leave you feeling spacious, calm, and rejuvenated.
In this session, we’ll explore:

Restorative postures for nervous-system balance
Breath-guided awareness to ease tension
Gentle mobility that supports all joints

Time for stillness, reflection, and deep relaxation.
Slow down, settle in, and let stillness be your medicine.

Front Body Freedom: A Yin Yoga Immersion
2026-03-22 15:00 - 17:00
Yin Yoga for the front body targets the deep connective tissue in the chest, abdomen, and hips using passive, long held stretches to release tension, improve posture, and open the heart. This afternoon immersion aims to counteract the effects of activating the psoas, hip flexors, and quadriceps continually. If you work a desk job and/or are an active sportsperson, this is ideal for you!
Accompanying this session is a custom 30-minute yoga nidra meditation focused on the Manipura chakra, exploring themes of willpower to cultivate a sense of empowerment, confidence, and motivation.

Peace of Mind Practice
2026-04-02 19:00 - 20:15
Breath • Meditation • Gentle Flow
The Peace of Mind Practice is a nurturing, down-regulating class designed to support mental health, emotional steadiness, and resilience in everyday life. Together we’ll move slowly and intentionally through gentle, mindful yoga, paired with calming breath practices that help settle the nervous system and soften stress in the body. This is the kind of practice that reminds you: you don’t have to “push” to feel better — you can return to center through presence, breath, and simplicity.
We’ll begin with grounding breathwork to ease anxiety, steady the mind, and create space inside. From there, you’ll be guided through a gentle flow focused on releasing tension, improving circulation, and reconnecting with the supportive strength beneath you. We’ll close with a short meditation to integrate the practice and leave you feeling clearer, calmer, and more anchored from within.
This class is accessible for most bodies and experience levels. Come exactly as you are — tender, tired, full, or overwhelmed — and let this be an hour of coming home to yourself.
Offered as a donation-based class, benefiting CB State of Mind.

Thai Yoga Massage Partner Class
2026-04-03 19:00 - 21:00
Relaxation, Connection & Play!
In this class you will be guided through giving & receiving a gentle and relaxing Thai Yoga Massage sequence. TYM is an ancient healing art with roots in yoga, Ayurveda and Buddhism. A wonderful way to restore the body, ease the mind and reconnect us to one another through the simple power of presence & healing touch.
Saul brings 30 years of practice and teaching to this work, and will guide you through it with care, making it accessible and enjoyable for all.
All yogi’s and non-yogis welcome. No experience necessary. Please bring a friend or beloved to work with. If you cannot, we will try to pair you with another single.

Bhakti Vinyasa
2026-04-07 08:45 - 10:00
Bhakti Vinyasa is a soulful, heart-opening flow rooted in love, celebration, and devotion. Through mantra, breath, and rhythmic movement, we’ll weave body prayer into a dynamic all levels vinyasa practice set to inspiring music. This class invites you to move from the heart, awaken gratitude, and return to yoga as an offering. Come ready to flow, sing, and soften into devotion.

Feldenkrais Workshop: An Introduction to Awareness through Movement
2026-04-25 17:00 - 18:30
The Feldenkrais Method is a self-discovery process done through movement. Its aim is to produce an individual organized to perform with maximum efficiency and minimum effort. Awareness through movement classes lead people through a series of movements that are simple, gentle, exploratory, pleasant, and fun. The movements are designed to help clarify functions in the body (i.e. breathing, reaching, bending, or something more complex).

Feldenkrais for Freeing the Voice
2026-05-09 17:00 - 18:30
Open your Ribcage and Free your Exhale
In this workshop we will go through a sensory based movement experience to bring awareness and freedom to the ribcage for allowing a steady, smooth and full exhalation. Find more relaxation and power in your body and voice. A great experience for singers, athletes and anyone who wants to feel more freedom in their bodies.

Kaiut Yoga Masterclass
2026-05-24 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-06-14 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-07-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-08-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-09-20 15:00 - 17:00
Please join Alex Lambro, owner of Kaiut Yoga Crested Butte, in partnership with Thrive Yoga Crested Butte for a meaningful therapeutic yoga experience.
This immersive two-hour intensive is designed to help you move with greater ease, reduce physical discomfort, and deepen your understanding of how your body truly functions. Rooted in principles of neuroplasticity and neurological regeneration, the practice supports the body’s natural ability to restore movement, resilience, and vitality.
Through countless hours of annual teacher trainings, intensives, and yearly ongoing studies in Brazil with creator Francisco Kaiut, Alex returns home with the most current, accurate insights to thoughtfully share with her students.
This is an opportunity to experience the Kaiut Yoga Method directly with one of its leading voices in an environment created for learning, presence, and lasting transformation: physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Soulful Prana Vinyasa
2026-06-16 08:45 - 10:00
Join Monica Mesa Dasi for a soulful Prana Vinyasa practice blending breath, movement, music, and devotion. Together we’ll move as prayer, awaken the heart, and reconnect with the light, love, and aliveness within.

Take Refuge: Yoga, Breath & Inversions for Challenging Times
2026-06-19 18:30 - 20:00
A Special Community Fundraiser for CB State of Mind
When life feels overwhelming, one of the most powerful things we can do is take refuge in our breath, our bodies, our practice, and in one another.
Join Monica Mesa Dasi for a heartfelt evening of yoga, breathwork, mantra, community, and healing. Through simple breath practices, yoga as body prayer, heart-opening movement, accessible inversion options, and guided reflection, you’ll explore how shifting your body can help shift your perspective, energy, and inner state.
This practice is both simple and profound—offering tools you can return to again and again during life’s most challenging moments. Whether you are navigating grief, stress, uncertainty, loss, or simply seeking greater peace and resilience, this class offers a space to reconnect with your own inner strength and remember the support that is always available within you.
Having called Crested Butte home for more than 30 years, this community holds a special place in Monica’s heart. It is where she raised her family, shared her life’s work, and where she experienced the loss of her son, Cheyne. Drawing from her own journey through grief after losing her son to suicide, Monica offers this practice with deep compassion for all who have been touched by suicide, mental health challenges, loss, or heartbreak.
In recent months, our Crested Butte community has experienced several heartbreaking losses to suicide. In a small town, these losses touch all of us: family members, friends, coworkers, classmates, neighbors, and the countless people whose lives become connected through shared grief. This evening is offered as a space of healing, connection, remembrance, and hope for anyone who has been impacted by these recent losses, by suicide at any time, by mental health challenges, or simply by the challenges of being human.
As we gather during a week that includes Juneteenth, a day honoring resilience, liberation, and the enduring strength of the human spirit, we come together to remember our own capacity to heal, support one another, and find light even in difficult times.
You will leave with practical tools you can return to whenever life feels challenging, and perhaps most importantly, a reminder that you are not alone. Within you lives a source of strength, peace, and wisdom that no circumstance can take away.
All proceeds benefit CB State of Mind and its important work supporting mental health, connection, and suicide prevention in our community.

Love Like the Sun
2026-06-20 17:30 - 19:00
We will begin with a soulful, heart-opening flow guided by Monica, weaving breath, movement, intention, and solstice-inspired reflection. Together we’ll awaken the body, expand the heart, and reconnect with the power of love within.
As the evening unfolds, Annie will guide a deeply restorative practice designed to help you soften, receive, and integrate the gifts of the season. Through supported postures, stillness, and rest, you’ll be invited to settle into a profound sense of ease and renewal.
