Prescott College plans to offer a five-day yoga microcredential on the San Juan River in spring 2027, combining guided yoga practices with the outdoor work and exploration involved in a multi-day river journey.
The Yoga Immersion on the San Juan River will take place along the river’s upper corridor in a southwestern canyon near Monument Valley in Utah. Participants will travel downstream while practicing ways of connecting with the surrounding landscape through yoga, breathing exercises, meditation and reflection.
## Yoga in a river setting
The course is designed around daily experiences on and near the river. Participants will have repeated opportunities to practice yoga asana, or physical postures, as well as breathing and meditation techniques in an outdoor environment.
Each day will blend exploration of the canyon landscape with personal exploration through different yoga practices. The natural setting is central to the course, with the river trip providing the context for participants to consider their relationship with place.
The program also includes conversations and reflections about yoga philosophy and principles. Those discussions are intended to help participants examine their understanding of yoga and identify the ideas and practices that are most relevant or meaningful to them.
Rather than separating yoga sessions from the rest of the journey, the immersion will connect those practices with the group’s movement through the river corridor and its day-to-day activities.
## Shared work on the San Juan
Participants will take part in the practical responsibilities required to travel and live in a river environment for several days. That includes sharing the work involved in paddling downstream and supporting daily life during the trip.
The course brings those outdoor skills together with its focus on yoga and place. Time on the water, exploration of the landscape, group responsibilities and personal practices will all be part of the five-day experience.
The shared workload is one of the program’s main components. Participants will not only attend yoga and reflection sessions but will also contribute to the tasks necessary for the group to move through the river corridor and live together in that setting.
This structure places physical yoga practices alongside the demands of a multi-day outdoor journey. Breathing, meditation and philosophical reflection will be incorporated into a schedule that also includes paddling and landscape exploration.
## Prescott College instructors
The immersion will be taught and led by Julie Munro, a Prescott College faculty emeritus, and Rachel Peters, the college’s director of field operations.
Their roles will cover a program that combines instruction in yoga with the field-based elements of river travel. Prescott College describes the offering as a microcredential, with the full experience scheduled to last five days during the spring 2027 term.
The college’s announcement identifies the upper San Juan River corridor and the canyon area near Monument Valley as the setting but does not provide specific trip dates in the supplied information. It also does not list participation requirements, pricing or enrollment deadlines.
For Prescott-area students and others considering the program, the planned course represents a field-based Prescott College offering located outside Arizona. Its curriculum centers on three connected elements: yoga practice, engagement with the canyon landscape and participation in the practical work of traveling as a group on the river.
Additional program information is available through Prescott College’s announcement about the Yoga Immersion on the San Juan River.