CorePower Yoga founder Trevor Tice, who helped bring fitness-oriented yoga to the masses, was found dead Monday in his San Diego home.
Police say the 48-year-old entrepreneur’s death is considered suspicious, but have provided few details.
CorePower Yoga founder, Trevor Tice.
Tice, a Telluride native, was found dead about 12:15 p.m. Monday by San Diego police officers. They were called to the yoga pioneer’s expansive home in the city’s posh Sunset Cliffs neighborhood by a friend who had gone to the house earlier to check on Tice because he wasn’t answering his phone. Police said the friend looked inside and found what they described as concerning circumstances.
Tice got hooked on yoga after a serious climbing accident left him with six permanent screws in his shattered ankle, according to a CorePower biography.
“Traveling for his technology business, Trevor practiced a variety of yoga disciplines at yoga studios across the country and found an opportunity to make yoga dynamic, challenging and convenient,” the biography reads.
Tice opened the first CorePower Yoga studio on Grant Street in Denver in 2002, where he offered heated yoga classes in spa-like studios. With six teachers, including Tice, teaching four classes per day, it took several months before classes began to fill up, the company said.
“But they did. And it wasn’t long before people were talking,” the biography reads.
CorePower, known for its workout-centric, sweat-inducing approach to yoga, now has more than 150 studios across the U.S. Earlier this year, the company announced it will open its first New York City studio in early 2017. There are more than 20 CorePower locations in Colorado.
The company’s headquarters is in the Industry building in Denver’s River North Art District. In 2015, Tice told a national business publication that he envisioned the company eventually going public and operating more than 500 studios nationwide.
Before he founded CorePower, Tice owned TechPartners International, an IT company he sold in 2001 to a U.K. firm for $60 million. He studied business at the University of Colorado.
Tice purchased the home where he was found dead in January for $3 million, according to real-estate broker Coldwell Banker. Investigators believe he was the only person living at the home, which appeared to be undergoing a remodel.
San Diego police say an autopsy should be completed within the next day.