http://www.thecourageousspace.com/

Courageous Space, 1280 Sherman Street Suite 214, Denver, CO (2025)

09/16/2025

Okay so this isn’t the whole crew, but here’s a lil sneak peek of the 200-Hour class of 2025 - as a treat ❤️‍🔥

It is a time both tenuous and critical to believe in the ability that love has to liberate our collectives. Love as in resistance, love as in accountability, love as the willingness to be still and feel. The kind of love that breathes and moves with Courage.

This cohort has been leading with the heart to say the least, and we’re beyond excited to experience where their dedication takes us all. Stay tuned as their journey unfolds - there will be opportunities in Nov and Dec to come experience these Courageous leaders!

🪷 The work we do in the Courageous School is rooted in yoga dhārma, and so asks us to hold multiple truths at the same time. It creates friction to allow the pain the world and our communities are in to be part of our practice, and still hold steady in the understanding that change is possible. And it checks out because of what we do at Courageous is research in how the dynamic tension between honesty and hope creates new possibilities.

We offer both entry level and advanced yoga teacher training and continuing education for credentialed instructors. Learn more at the link in our bio, reach out or come by for class.

Whatever you do, let’s take a page from this crew’s book 🙏🏽 and Keep Practicing Courage.

09/05/2025

Advanced Yoga Teacher Training early bird pricing just dropped and we want you here❤️‍🔥 Apply today to transform your teaching into powerful, embodied leadership:

❤️‍🔥300-Hour Embodied Justice
Yoga Teacher Training
January-December 2026

*early bird registration open now-Oct 15th*

The 300-Hour Embodied Justice training is for certified yoga instructors who believe that yoga can transform our world. If you are ready to live your practice in a new and powerful way as connection, resistance & justice - this one’s for you.

The Courageous curriculum is built to help yoga instructors root themselves in authenticity, touch the heart of the dhārma teachings, and initiate and embody transformation in their communities. We strive to empower people who believe justice happens one remarkable act of love at a time.

Expect this heart-deep dive to integrate and take your 200-Hour foundational training in Philosophy, Physiology and Teaching Techniques to whole new depth. Your personal yoga and meditation practice will grow and you’ll leave grounded and equipped to offer sincere and effective practices from an embodied understanding.

👉🏽 Sliding Scale Financial Aid available for POC and Q***r folks. Flexible financial planning for all trainees - everyone interested encouraged to apply.

Head to the link in our bio to learn more and apply.

“We don’t need perfect leaders. What we need are people who are tender enough to feel. Present enough to witness. Humble enough to listen. Courageous enough to act.” -Prentis Hemphill

08/31/2025

Fam we have not three, not two, but ONE chance to practice with Courage this Monday!

⛓️‍💥 Movement for Liberation
Mondays
5:30p
with Liv

movement for liberation is a class rooted in yoga’s history of resistance. this moment calls us to be shed the narratives, habits, and patterns that have tricked us into thinking empire is not to be challenged. come be in community that breathes, moves, and holds one another in our collective journey of releasing the stories that no longer serve us and imagining a more liberated future.

Head to the link in our bio to pre-register, learn more about our Space Holders or sign up for our monthly newsletter.

👉🏽 normal Monday schedule resumes next week!

Whatever you do, keep practicing Courage ❤️‍🔥

08/21/2025

Courageous Core.

The Courageous Space is a diverse community in the heart of Denver’s iconic Capitol Hill neighborhood. We offer yoga and dance movement and meditation for the understanding that liberation can only be collective.

All experiences with movement welcome - come as you are. Donation-based classes, affinity spaces, workshops, Young Artist Mentorship & Yoga Teacher Training.

Head to the link in our bio to learn more.

Keep practicing Courage.

08/05/2025

Leo Sun, Libra Moon - Virgo Rising. Courageous is turning FIVE this summer!

🦁🎈🧁🎉

We simply could not do what we do without you Fam! We started five big years ago from the desire to disrupt, grow & inspire Courage in our community but this space has become more than we ever could have imagined! And one thing about us is that we are alive and thrivin’ mostly from word of mouth and babes, you did that.

We’re feeling grateful for everything you’ve helped us do and become, and all the ways you’ve let us support your journey.

If you’re wondering what to get us for our special day 💅🏽 it’s you! Come to class, bring a friend or two and lock in with our beautiful, Courageous community. Top it off with a by spreading the Courageous word to folks in your world.

Turns out love & solidarity do make a big difference.Thank you for being Courageous - we have never ❤️‍🔥 you more.

Lets make year six the best one yet🫰🏽

08/03/2025

Join us in love, solidarity and Courage as we lift up our relations who are suffering.

🔥 Yoga For Collective Liberation
Sunday, Aug 10th &
Sunday, Aug 17th
9:30-11a

Proceeds will be shared with on the ground, direct nutrition relief efforts in SWANA. Expect a newbie-friendly practice intended to gently build heat, community connection & honesty.

🖤 at the heart, the teachings of yoga are intended to help us witness and intervene in suffering, and have a way of bringing us face to face with the truths of interconnection. Practices of breath, movement and meditation are like a comb for our body mind - they help us see where we are adding suffering to pain. When we apply the compassion & strength we learn on the mat to relationships, we see how much our practices have the potential to change outcomes.

That’s why we’re invested in yoga as it was originally taught: as harm mitigation, honesty, generosity, wise use of creative power, and right relationship with impermanence. Being a practitioner of yoga in this historical moment means being firm & clear as to where we stand on abuses of power, greed & the inequitable organization of pain in our world.

The good news? Our actions make a difference. In fact, they can’t not: all the more reason to come practice Courage.

🪷 Courageous Space is a diverse community in the heart of Denver’s iconic Capitol Hill neighborhood. We offer yoga and dance movement and meditation from the understanding that liberation can only be collective. Donation-based classes daily.

Head to link in bio to preregister or learn more.

07/25/2025

Before postural practice or asana, before breath work - even before meditation, the very first steps on the path of yoga practice are ethics: how we respond to others and ourselves in the shifting landscape of humanness.

This is where traditional yoga study actually begins, and the place that the most experienced practitioners frequently arrive back at.

The point is not to learn right from wrong. The point is to notice the impact of our thoughts, words and actions - to experience our inseparability from others and the environment.

The precepts of yoga are simple albeit challenging, moment to moment practices that point us experientially to our interwoven nature:

•ahiṃsā - proactive protection of those in danger & refraining from harm

•satya - honesty, truthfulness, authenticity

•asteya - equitable distribution of resources

•brahmacharya - wise use of our creative energy

•aparigraha - holding life gently, working with our attachments & aversions

These precepts are compassion in action, and speak loudly, clearly to our collective suffering in this moment. Like all socially engaged practices or forms of activism, yoga asks us to start where we are and use what we have to speak out and act up against organized and state sanctioned violence.

The deep breath we practice in class? Grounding for hard conversations. The determination of a balance posture? Steady passage through challenging decisions.

The sitting in meditation we do in the studio? Embodied experience that can help us hold many truths at once, speak truth to power and live our relationships in a way that divests from abusive power structures.

They are like a compass, aiming our hearts and actions at justice and collective liberation, related to, but off of the mat.

May all beings be protected and nourished. May all beings be sovereign. May all beings be free and may our practices of Courage be a support to those in pain.

06/19/2025

Join us this Saturday for International Day of Yoga as we get focused on our roles and ability to make an impact in the struggle for collective liberation:

☀️108 Sun Salutations
9:30-11a
w/ Jordan

This rigorous and rhythmic practice is gently led and intended to create a meditative state in which we can witness our minds and connect with our hearts. We’ll be exploring the many impactful roles we can play in the struggle for collective liberation, integrating the lessons of the spring and welcoming the transformative heat of summer.

This largely self-guided practice is appropriate for folks of all experiences: we’ll break it down together - bring a friend.

Proceeds will be shared with liberation and basic needs efforts for those most impacted in SWANA.

We need one another to be Courageous - come practice.

06/10/2025

Q***r is a doorway - a passage from, through, and to Courage - an invitation to take up space. Collective liberation has always been at the heart of yogic practices, and the dharma teachings of interconnection remind us that any struggle for safety and sovereignty involves every struggle for safety and sovereignty.

When you practice with Courageous, you are in a community that centers Q***rness every month of the year - this Space doesn’t just think about you in June - it was built with you in mind. You too, allies and those for whom it’s not time to come out: our struggles for liberation are intertwined.
May our lived understanding of oppression become the firm and protective arms we wrap around our neighbors. May we recall our inherent worth and act accordingly, taking up space in every room we walk into, in the name of the global majority, Indigenous people, the Earth & all the divine forms in which life expresses itself. May we use this Pride-filled month of remembrance to inventory the ancestors and transcestors who have come before us - not only the difficulties they have overcome but the joy, the grief, the fluidity, the vision and tenderness they have brought into this world. May we live and love in ways that upheave carceral behaviors and reconnect us to our pre-colonial birthrights of care, guardianship and mycelial relationship.

Those who came before taught us that Love is the only thing that matters and we get to carry on their legacy. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥

Blessed be the Q***rs.

05/16/2025

Come kick off this year’s Pride celebration with Courage:

🏳️‍🌈The Big Q***r Movement Class🏳️‍⚧️
Sunday, June 8th
8-9:15a
🏛️ at the Cheesman Park Pavilion

**NEW lululemon yoga mat & Courageous swag for ALL attendees!!**

This annual park ditty is back but this year we’re revving the gay-dometer to bring you the Q***rest, funnest, most radical dance & yoga hybrid class in town - a little something to help us remember where we come from, how far we’ve traveled & the strength, vision & compassion Q***rness can teach the world.

Okay so if you were gay in the 90’s or knew someone that was, you might remember that vibe you used to get hanging out with friends. Wether it was the skatepark, the mall, the arcade or a friend of a friend’s basement - Q***r community has always had a way of doing what it does best: creating welcoming friendship rooted in love & the Courage to be who we truly are.

Grab your bestie, throw your hair in a butterfly clip and jot it down on your Lisa Frank calendar. This class is open to all Q***r fam & Q***r allys.

🎟️ Ticket donations go to support the Pay it Forward Fund - our community-driven fund that allows us to scholarship BIPOC & Q***r folks through the Courageous Yoga Teacher Trainings. The goal of lessening financial barriers? Get more diverse & more disruptive teachers into positions of leadership - places where they can help infuse our communities with compassion, wisdom and Courage.

Spots are limited and ticket sales and donations will be MATCHED by our sponsors at lululemon (that means your 💵 money 💵doubles in value) so don’t be shyyyyy.

👉🏽 can’t make it? Help us reach our goal with an online donation and receive a limited edition custom Courageous sticker only available to our online doners!

Blessed be the Q***rs 🏳️‍⚧️🙏🏽🏳️‍🌈

05/11/2025

May we live in ways that disrupt, challenge & defy any power that negatively impacted parent-child bonds.

May that fire consume any imperial izm that exists in our relationships & contribute to the safety, nourishment, sovereignty & liberation of all beings & our Mother Earth.

04/28/2025

Phew!! We did it! Thank you so much to everyone who came out to celebrate Earth Day with us and meet our beautiful building neighbors!

In the greater global moment, it was a joy to witness such focused, local action. Power to the people! We left the event with big feels: the earth is our guardian and our greatest teacher and this is the threshold of criticality - now more than ever is the time to apprentice ourselves to nature. One act of Courage at a time will do.

Here’s what the community came with yesterday and some hot reminders we can all take with us into our week:

🍄‍🟫 we are mycelial - we can reorganize resources, send messages and nourish one another. We don’t need permission or guidance from those in positions of power

⚖️ balance is key - nature gives and receives without inhibition. Both are *practices* (meaning we can try and try again) and both are necessary

🌸 YOLO - our lives our brief and impactful, and everything we say, think, do creates a ripple in the web of collective karma

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ the vibe we bring to the function can only get queerer - nature transforms, finds a way and loves itself unapologetically and we need the leadership of people who embody that

🌏 no one is alone - friendship, allyship, solidarity are all available here and now. We have everything we need

What were your takeaways?👇🏽

To say we love and doesn’t quite sum it up - you’ll have to visit them and feel the magic firsthand!

Keep practicing Courage, Fam ❤️‍🔥

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