Denise Druce, Cofounder of Yoga Forward - Snow College Entrepreneurship Seminar

Since donning a pair of leg warmers in 1981, Denise Druce has been inspiring people to live healthier, happier lives. Her journey through the fitness industry over four decades has included teaching high impact aerobics, step (on wooden benches!), group resistance training, indoor cycling, and her current passion, yoga. Denise has a Masters Degree in Public Health, is a certified yoga therapist, and a yoga teacher trainer.

In 2017, Denise and her best friend formed Yoga Forward, a non profit that “takes yoga where it isn’t”. With an army of volunteers, they offer yoga classes, and 200-Hour yoga teacher training inside the Utah State Correctional Facility. She inspires her students to find purpose in their pain as a place to serve, and to stand at the “Soft Edge of the Hard Place”…in fitness and in life. Her most recent hard place is thriving amidst Stage 4 cancer, which she lovingly…