Listen to How to Make Yoga a YES for Everyone with Denise Druce.
In this episode, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Denise Druce. Denise Druce holds a special place in my heart. It is because of her yoga teacher training, Yoga Assets, that I am a yoga instructor. I can’t wait to share with you how yoga teacher training (aka transformation) changed my life. We also dive into Denise’s TEDx talk, How Yoga Training Re-Creates Prison Environments for Inmates.
Here are some of the topics we cover:
- Why yoga teacher training?
- What sets Yoga Assets apart from other trainings?
- Taking yoga where it isn’t: into the Utah prison systems
- Denise’s mission and non profit: Yoga Forward
- What can yoga teach us during quarantine?
For nearly four decades, Denise Druce has been inspiring people to live healthier, happier lives. She calls herself an Elevator…when you’re around her, you’re going up! Denise has taught a wide variety of fitness classes over the years, from step to indoor cycling to her current and lasting love, yoga. She teaches her students to stand at the “Soft Edge of the Hard Place” in fitness and in life. Her non-profit Yoga Forward is “taking yoga where it isn’t”…prisons, shelters, schools, and shopping malls. She has a Masters Degree in Public Health, is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT500, and is a breast cancer Thriver. She spends most weekends on the road, making the world a better place by getting more people trained to teach yoga everywhere. Denise and her husband, Michael live in Salt Lake City with their three boys.
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