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VaYU Community Reach Out · Denver

VaYU in Denver

Bringing Yoga, Ayurveda & Modern Science Together

Date
Saturday, Nov 21, 2026
Time
5:30 – 9:00 PM MST
Venue
Joy Burns Center
2044 East Evans Ave, Denver, CO

An evening with VaYU — the first yoga university outside India — on what it would take to build a Teaching, Research & Wellness Center here in Colorado. Keynote from Dr. Indranil Basu.

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Know VaYU

Care that doesn’t make Denver choose

VaYU advances authentic yoga through research, graduate education, and partnership — working alongside healthcare professionals and community leaders.

Most people meet modern medicine and traditional healing in separate buildings, with separate records and separate conversations. Our Teaching, Research and Wellness (TReW) Centers put them under one roof: modern medicine, Ayurveda, and Yoga Therapy together, close to home, so that care is within reach.

Colorado already takes movement, prevention and wellbeing seriously — and it has the research institutions to hold that work to a standard. We would like to build a TReW Center here, and on November 21 we want to talk with the people who could make it happen.

This evening is built for conversation, not lecture — and it ends with something concrete you can do.

What a TReW Center brings

One roof
Modern medicine, Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy practised together rather than in parallel.
Evidence first
Grounded in VaYU’s graduate research and published work, not claims.
Close to home
Built with local clinicians and community leaders, in the city it serves.
Teaching built in
A training site for the next generation of yoga therapists and integrative clinicians.

The venue

Joy Burns Center, Denver

Address2044 East Evans Ave
Denver, CO
DateSaturday, November 21, 2026
Time5:30 – 9:00 PM MST
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Who should attend

If you are already in one of these rooms in Denver, you belong in this one

Community Leaders
You know who needs to be in the room, and you can open the door.
Healthcare Professionals
Physicians, nurses, therapists who see where conventional care stops short.
Researchers & Academicians
Collaborators for VaYU’s graduate research and published work.
Wellness Leaders & Entrepreneurs
Studios, clinics and health ventures already serving Colorado.
Philanthropists
Supporters who want to see a TReW Center built in their own city.
Yoga Practitioners & Teachers
Practitioners looking for the research and rigour behind the practice.

Keynote speaker

Dr. Indranil Basu

Dr. Indranil Basu

Interventional cardiac electrophysiologist

Dr. Basu has spent his career on the boundary this evening is about. He is a founder of the American Association of Yoga & Medicine, works with MIT LinQ, practises at the VA Medical Center in Nashville, and is the author of Yoga, Meditation & Cardiology.

MIT LinQ Amer. Assoc. of Yoga & Medicine VA Medical Center, Nashville

What to expect

An evening built for conversation

Three and a half hours, and most of it is people talking to each other.

5:30 – 6:15
Arrival & welcome
Registration, refreshments, and unhurried introductions.
6:15 – 6:30
Why we’re here
VaYU leadership on the evening’s purpose.
6:30 – 7:00
Keynote — Dr. Indranil Basu
Yoga, meditation and cardiology: what the evidence supports.
7:00 – 7:30
VaYU and the TReW model
The research, the graduate programs, and what a Center in Denver would actually be.
7:30 – 8:00
Open Q&A
With Dr. Basu and the Denver program committee.
8:00 – 8:45
Dinner & roundtables
Smaller conversations, by interest.
8:45 – 9:00
How you can help
Concrete next steps, and close.

Registration

Reserve your seat in Denver

Seating at the Joy Burns Center is limited. Registering also helps us plan catering and roundtables.

VaYU in Denver
Saturday, November 21, 2026 · 5:30–9:00 PM MST · Joy Burns Center, 2044 East Evans Ave
I am attending as *
Area of interest * (select all that apply)
How would you like to help bring a TReW Center to Denver? (optional)
Food preference

Questions? Email info@vayuusa.org or call the Denver committee below.

Denver program committee

The people organising this evening

Local volunteers. Call or message any of them with anything — venue questions, who to bring, or how to help.

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Sridhar Talanki
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Shruti Keskar
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Shivani Raina

Also this fall

VaYU is holding the same evening in two other cities — the Bay Area on Oct 23 at the Stanford Faculty Club, and Phoenix on Nov 14.

Many paths. One shared purpose.

Come to the Joy Burns Center on November 21. Bring someone who should hear it. Help us build a Teaching, Research & Wellness Center in Denver.

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