Denise Cook has been teaching yoga in the tradition of Vinyasa Yoga since 2000 in the Denver, Colorado area. Her first teaching and physical practices were in the Ashtanga tradition, and she was influenced early by Johnny Kest and Beryl Bender-Birch and their guidance of teaching Pattabhi Jois' Ashtanga tradition. Her first introduction to yoga asana and pranayama was introduced to her by a physical therapist in 1993 during a healing treatment to deal with an on-going recurrence of childhood depression.