Evolving Towards Simplicity

A Yoga Intensive with Donna Farhi

Wheat Ridge, Colorado, USA, 11-15 July, 2025

Sometimes, the simplest yoga practices can be the most potent. Small and gentle movements, when applied with sensitivity, can reap powerful changes, restoring elasticity, balance and ease. In this special intensive, Donna invites you to join her in a shared inquiry to deepen your connection with core asana, breathing, and meditative practices. These practices can form the bedrock for a sustainable (and enjoyable) yoga practice whatever your age.

The practice of yoga asana (postures) can be distilled into “seed” forms that constitute an alphabet that we can use for our own purpose and to achieve our personal goals. Through subtle adaption, variations, gradation, and creative sequencing, these simple forms can be applied in almost infinite application. Through sensing and feeling what is needed, we can learn to move into a practice by listening to what the body is already self-suggesting.

Each day of this intensive will be divided into a morning and afternoon session. We’ll explore a wide variety of practices, from active practices that build strength and vitality to more passive practices that restore calm and relaxation. Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend. 

Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain, when less will serve . . . Nature is pleased with simplicity.
— Isaac Newton

Leading yoga teacher Donna Farhi has been practicing for almost 50 years and teaching since 1982.  As a post-lineage pioneer, Donna has been at the forefront of generating a new model for teaching that fosters self-inquiry through the cultivation of a deepening trust in one’s own perceptions.  

Through creating a warm atmosphere free of judgment and competition she invites her students to investigate their experience and to adapt and evolve their practice according to their individual needs.  Incorporating the rigorous backing of anatomical principles for safe and sustainable practice, Donna offers progressive levels of engagement that allow people of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic yoga practice.  Considered the “teacher of teachers” people return to Donna’s intensives year after year to be a part of the inspiring evolution of her own practice and teaching. 

Donna’s livestream and online courses make her expertise accessible to teachers and students worldwide and, in 2021, Donna became the first yoga teacher to present the practice of yoga to a global audience through MasterClass USA. This e-learning platform provides classes taught by some of the world’s foremost minds and experts in their fields. 

Donna is the author of four contemporary classics: 
The Breathing Book; Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness; Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living; Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship, which is a curricular text for teacher training worldwide. Her fifth and most recent book, co-authored with Leila Stuart, Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain and Moving with Ease is becoming the go-to text for Yoga teachers, therapists and somatic practitioners. 

Details

Friday, 11 July 2025: 6:00pm-8:00 pm

Saturday, 12 July 2025-Tuesday 15 July 2025: 10:00 am -1:00pm and 2:30pm-4:30pm

Wheat Ridge, Colorado, USA

No partial enrollment is available for this intensive.

Class numbers are limited. Donna will have experienced teaching assistants on hand to help participants integrate the material.

Registration

The cost for the intensive is $725. You will pay an initial deposit of $350 at the time of registration. A second payment of $375 is due by 1 June.

Our cancellation policy: refunds will be made until 28 May 2025 minus a $50 administration fee. After 28 May 2025, no refunds will be made but we will facilitate transferring enrollments to people on our waiting list for a $50 exchange fee.

If you need to make your second payment of $360, an email will be coming from Tiffany in early September with a link. Questions in the meantime? Email Tiffany. Please note that, if you registered at the early bird rate and fail to make your second payment by 1 April 2025, your second payment will be $425 (the full payment price) and is due by 28 May 2025.

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