Guest Teacher Weekend · Fri Oct 23 – Sat Oct 24
A weekend of strength, skill + exploration.
Move. Explore. Experiment. Three sessions — mobility, arm balances & inversions, and backbends — built for yogis who are curious about their practice and ready to dig a little deeper.
Featuring Guest Teacher
Desirae Penton‑Crosley
ERYT‑500 · Founder, Hidden Dragon Yoga · Owner, Dragon Asana
Guest Teacher
Desirae Penton‑Crosley
Move. Explore. Experiment.
The Practice Lab is a weekend designed for yogis who are curious about their practice and ready to dig a little deeper. Through strong movement, intelligent alignment, mobility, drills, and hands-on exploration, we’ll investigate how the body moves, where strength and mobility meet, and how small changes can completely transform a pose.
Expect to work. Expect to play. Expect to learn something.
You don’t need an advanced practice to participate — every lab offers layers and options so you can explore from exactly where you are. This may be hard. We won’t leave you behind.
The Lineup
Come to one, come to all three — each lab stands on its own, and together they build.
Friday, Oct 23 · 6–8 PM
Open + Prepare
A strong, feel-good practice through the hips, shoulders, hamstrings & spine.
We’ll combine flow, longer holds, active mobility, and intentional opening to create more freedom in the body while maintaining the strength and stability that supports it. Think: less passive stretching, more understanding how to create usable mobility.
Saturday, Oct 24 · 10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Strength + Flight
This is where we turn things up.
We’ll break down the mechanics behind arm balances, inversions, transitions, and stronger standing postures through alignment, drills, repetition, and play. Learn where the strength actually comes from and how seemingly impossible poses become approachable once you understand the pieces.
Saturday, Oct 24 · 2–4 PM
Strength + Space
Backbends aren’t just about flexibility.
We’ll explore how strength, mobility, alignment, and breath work together to build more intelligent, sustainable backbends — starting with shoulders, thoracic spine, hips, core, and posterior-chain activation, then progressively building toward deeper variations, with options along the way. We’ll close it out slow: counterposes, breath, and a long savasana to integrate the weekend.
Every lab meets you exactly where you are.
Pick Your Path
Every lab stands alone at $50. Book the full weekend as a bundle and save.
$50
Pick the lab that speaks to you — mobility, flight, or backbends.
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Meet Your Guest Teacher
ERYT‑500 · Founder, Hidden Dragon Yoga (OKC) · Owner, Dragon Asana (Gunnison, CO)
Desirae is known for an alignment-based, intelligent, and playful approach to practice. With more than 2,500 hours of training and over 10,000 hours of teaching, she loves helping students build strength, refine their practice, and better understand how their bodies move.
She’s led nearly 20 teacher trainings and multiple international retreats, bringing together her love of alignment, anatomy, philosophy, and challenging asana. Her teaching is strong, detailed, and curious — plenty of room to explore, ask questions, try something new, and have fun along the way. She believes the practice isn’t about achieving the perfect pose, but about paying attention, staying curious, and discovering what’s possible.
Practice Hard. Stay Curious. Pay Attention.
Space is limited for all three sessions — book your single lab or the full-weekend bundle before Oct 1 to lock in the early bird rate.
