YOGA | Thursday 5:30 - 6:30p | Heating Vinyasa with Jordan

Expect a strength-building, energetic form of flow that will take you on a fluid journey from one pose to the next, ask you to encounter challenge, build discipline, and bring you back to the earth through poses that balance, cool and integrate.

Instructor: Jordan Smiley

Jordan (he / his / him) is a Diné and Tewa 2-Spirit leader and story-keeper, full time student and ERYT-500 Y-CEP yoga teacher. He is owner, Co-Director and lead of Teacher Development at Courageous Yoga in Denver, CO. After earning his Bachelor's in Creative Writing and Spanish Literature and graduating with Honors, Jordan was one of 8 candidates to be selected from a pool of 100 to serve as a Denver Teaching Fellow. With a focus in supporting English Language Learners, Jordan served as a bilingual para, Special Education support staff and classroom teacher in the public schools in the culturally rich and historically LatinX West Side of Denver for 10 years. Jordan understands yoga as a path of liberation, and offers philosophy, meditation, and āsana (postural practice) from the perspective that all inner, outer and collective work are intertwined. His skilled and masterful lineage of teachers and inspirations include both traditional, Indigenous and rebellious sources of wisdom. He has been studying the relationship between social justice and yoga for the last 10 years, with the support of teachers such as Reverend angel Kyodo williams, Michael Stone, and most notably, his grandmothers Maximaña and María, and his mother Carolyna. In the yoga community, Jordan serves as an equity consultant, speaker, curriculum designer, editor, writer and teacher trainer. He is known for infusing poethics into his innovative and playful movement classes and learning environments. His lived wisdom and diverse, strong and radical teachers allow him to support a variety of practitioners and speak with authenticity, love and fire across the topics of philosophy, social identity, physiology, human development and andragogy. Jordan is grateful to have taught for TEDx, Yoga Alliance, Integral Yoga, Honor Yoga's Roots, Breathe For Change, and Nike. He is a return teacher at Yoga on the Rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and has been published multiple times in Yoga Journal and on the Living Brave podcast. Jordan's gratitude extends continuously to the community who share the path of yoga, where it is his intention to embody fearless self-love, vigorous self-study and enduring compassion. He respectfully resides with his family on unceded land historically and currently cared for by the Hinono-eino, Noochee, Ndee and Tsitsistas people, known colonially as Denver, CO