Live Your Yoga
Advanced 300hr Embodied Breath Yoga Teacher Training
September 2026 - January 2027
2026 Fall 300hr ADVANCED Embodied Breath Yoga Teacher Training
SAVE THE DATE:
September 2026 - January 2027
Training is broken out into
THREE 100 Intensives:
September
𝟏00hr YIN YOGA:
Earth/Water Intensive
November
100hr VINYASA YOGA:
Fire Intensive
January
100hr ADVANCED MEDITATION + BREATHWORK:
Air/Ether Intensive
held at Pleasure Point Sanctuary
in Santa Cruz, CA
GET ON THE WAITLIST
by filing out an application below!
$750 Non-Refundable Deposit to Secure Your Spot!
Payment Plans available!
Our Advanced Training is Broken Out into Three 100 Hour Intensives:
All trainings are held at Pleasure Point Sanctuary in Santa Cruz, CA.
September 2026 100hr - Yin Yoga Intensive:
Weekend Intensives: Saturday & Sunday on 9/12-13 and 9/18-19, 8am - 5pm
Weekend Workshops: Sunday 8am Yin Class on 9/6 followed by 2-3 hour workshop w/ Caren Camblin and Sunday 9/27 workshop 3-5pm followed by 6pm Yin Class with Katie Jacobson
Weekday Classes (hybrid/online): Thursdays from 6-8pm on 9/3 (online orientation), 9/10, 9/17, 9/24
November 2026 100hr - Vinyasa Yoga Intensive:
Weekend Intensives: Saturday & Sunday on 11/14-15 and 11/21-22, 8am - 5pm
Weekend Workshops: Saturday 10am Flow Class on 11/7 and 11/28 - followed by 2-3 hour workshop with guest teacher
Weekday Classes (hybrid/online): Thursday from 6-8pm on 11/5, 11/12, 11/19; no class Thanksgiving Day
January 2027 100hr - Advanced Meditation, Breathwork, and Sharing Your Gifts Intensive:
Weekend Intensives: Saturday & Sunday on 1/16-17 and 1/23-24, 8am - 5pm
Weekend Workshops: Saturday 10am Flow Class on 1/9 and 1/30 followed by 2-3 hour workshop with guest teacher
Weekday Classes (hybrid/online): Thursday from 6-8pm on 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28
This is More than just a Training:
5 Months of Individual Mentorship
Three 100hr Transformative Intensives
Optional 1:1 coaching and check-ins with Kayla
A community of incredible instructors devoted to the path of yoga
Exploring your intimate relationship with sacred and ancient practices
And going deeper and wider in the practices
Living your yoga in a personal and sacred way
Modules
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Learn in depth how to teach yin yoga, yin yoga philosophy, and anatomy while deepening your own practice with yin yoga energetics
Earth and Water elements
Grounding + slowing down
Applied Ayurveda for yoga teachers
Advanced alignment and anatomy for yoga teachers
Yin yoga + Taoist philosophy
Aligning students with earth energy, teaching from a place that is grounded within yourself
Advanced boundary work for yoga teachers
Teaching Prenatal Yoga
Uncover your deeper why / calling / your dharma
Will include advanced training modules covering posture clinics, cueing, anatomy for yoga teachers, and refinement
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Lean into your spiritual heart center and uncover your soul’s deeper calling and your dharma / yogic path:
Spiritual heart alignment as a leader
Advanced vinyasa yoga anatomy and sequencing
Tuning into one’s deeper calling and why/dharma
Refining how you share your gifts with the world
Training will have a service–focus on finding your voice, purpose, and living your dharma
Advanced Theming and Storytelling
Chanting + Bhakti Yoga
Advanced Leadership Skills + Psychology
Refining your voice and purpose
Advanced cueing
Self-care as a yoga teacher
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Learn Advanced Breathwork + Meditation practices and Sharing your gifts and teaching super powers:
Immersive and experiential deep dive into meditation + breathwork practices
Mindfulness-based practices and psychology
Refine skills for leading advanced meditation and breathwork classes
Nervous system and science backed practices
Teaching Postnatal Yoga
Deepening into one’s own practice
Share your gifts, community building
How to teach sustainably, the business of yoga, and self-care for longevity
Elevated + embodied business practices. Take your spiritually aligned business to the next level
Meet Your Lead Teacher, Kayla Tahani Copeland
E-RYT 500 | MA, APCC | Yoga Teacher, Psychotherapist, Artist
This training is more than a curriculum — it’s a living transmission. And who leads it matters deeply.
I created and curated the 300hr Advanced Embodied Breath Yoga Teacher Training because I believe that the most transformative yoga education doesn’t just teach you how to sequence a class — it invites you to live your yoga. To discover your dharma. To become the teacher only you can be.
I’ve been on this path since I was a teenager. Yoga found me when I needed it most — as a lifeline, as a mirror, as a practice that kept revealing more depth the more I gave myself to it. Over the years, that path has woven itself through advanced studies in yoga, breathwork, mindfulness-based psychology, and somatic therapy. And now, everything I’ve gathered is poured into this training — for you.
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I hold a rare combination of credentials — and more than that, I’ve spent years learning how they talk to each other.
As an E-RYT 500, I’ve led Yoga Alliance–approved 200 and 300-hour teacher trainings both locally in Santa Cruz and internationally, including immersive programs in Costa Rica, France, Greece, and more. I’ve guided thousands of students through the kind of practice that reaches beneath the surface — into the body, the breath, the felt sense of who we are.
As an associate psychotherapist (MA, APCC), I bring a clinical lens to everything I teach. My therapeutic approach weaves together Gestalt therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic inquiry, and mindfulness — and those same frameworks show up in the way I hold space in a training room. I know how to meet people where they are at. I know what it means to guide someone through something vulnerable and real. As teachers and leaders, the way we hold space and the way we meet ourselves and our students is essential.
Teaching yoga is an art.
And as an artist, I bring a quality of aliveness and expression to this work that goes far beyond technique. I want you to feel that in every module. -
How I Teach
My teaching lives at the intersection of the ancient and the embodied — the philosophical and the deeply personal.
I don’t separate the physical practice from the inner one. In my classes and trainings, we move, we breathe, we inquire. We slow down enough to actually feel what’s happening. We honor the body as wise, the nervous system as a guide, and the practice as a living relationship — not just a set of poses to execute correctly.
I teach with warmth and rigor. I hold high standards for my students because I believe in what they’re capable of — and I create the kind of spacious, safe container where real growth can happen. You’ll be challenged, yes. But you’ll also feel held.
What I care most about is this: that you leave this training more yourself than when you arrived. More connected to your voice, your gifts, your dharma as a teacher and as a human being.
That’s what I’m here to guide you toward.
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Personal Mentorship, Woven Through Every Module
One of the things that sets this training apart is the opportunity to work with me directly — not just as a group, but one-on-one.
Alongside the full 300hr training, you will receive personal mentorship: three private sessions with me, one aligned to each module of the program. This is where the training becomes truly yours.
In each session, we’ll meet you exactly where you are. We’ll look at what’s opening up for you in the material, what’s asking to be refined, and what’s ready to emerge in your teaching. We’ll explore your goals, your strengths, your growth edges — with honest care and clear reflection.
This is the kind of guidance that changes the arc of your teaching life. Not because I hand you the answers, but because I help you find your own.
Mentorship includes:
— Session One (Earth/Water): Clarify your goals, ground your intentions, and begin to name your unique gifts as a teacher
— Session Two (Fire): Fine-tune your voice and teaching style as it emerges mid-training
— Session Three (Air/Ether): Integrate your growth and map a clear vision for what comes next
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A Note From Me
I’ve been on this healing journey since my teenage years, and I can tell you with every part of me — this practice changes lives. It changed mine.
I’m so deeply honored to hold this container for teachers who are ready to go further, go deeper, and step more fully into the gifts they’re here to share. This training is something I’ve poured my whole self into — the practices, the lineages, the psychological depth, the community.
If you’re feeling the pull toward this — trust that. It’s not an accident that you’re here.
I can’t wait to walk this path with you.
With so much love,
Kayla
this training is for you. the mentorship is with you.
1:1 mentorship with Kayla — woven through each module of the 300hr, to help you get the most out of this training and out of yourself
you’re stepping into something big.
a 300hr training is already so much more than a certification — it’s a portal. it’s an invitation to go deeper into your practice, your purpose, your path as a teacher.
and sometimes the most transformative thing that can happen in a training isn’t what you learn in the group — it’s having someone who truly sees you sit across from you and reflect back what’s moving, what’s ready, what’s yours to step into.
that’s what this is.
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three sessions. three modules. one continuous thread of growth.
one private session per intensive — timed to meet you exactly where you are in the arc of your training.
not generic check-ins. not a formula. each session is shaped entirely around you — your goals, your growth edges, your gifts, what’s alive and what’s asking to be refined.
it’s the difference between going through a training and being changed by it.
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3 sessions designed to integrate your learning and make the most out of your experience.
At a glance:
Session 1: Aligned with the Yin Yoga Intensive.Ground Your Foundation. Discover Your Dharma.
Session 2: Aligned with the Vinyasa Yoga Intensive. Fine-Tune Your Gifts. Clarify Your Voice.
Session 3: Aligned with the Advanced Meditation, Breathwork & Sharing Your Gifts Intensive. Integrate. Elevate. Step Into What’s Next. -
session one: getting grounded in who you are
before anything else, we slow down.the earth/water module is all about going inward — and your first mentorship session mirrors that. we’ll take stock of where you actually are in your teaching journey right now. not where you think you should be. not where you’re hoping to arrive. where you are.
together we’ll start to clarify what you’re here for in this training, name the strengths you’re already standing on (even the ones you can’t quite see yet), and identify the growth edges that are asking to be met. this session plants something. we’ll tend to it all training long.
you’ll come away with:
— clarity on your personal goals and intentions for the full 300hr
— a felt sense of your unique strengths as a teacher
— honest, loving awareness of your growth edges
— a foundation to return to when things get hard or disorienting
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session two: fine-tuning your gifts
you’re in it now.the fire intensive has a way of lighting things up — in you, in your teaching, in the places where you’ve been holding back or playing small. mid-training is exactly the right moment to pause and check in.
in our second session, we’ll look at what’s opening up for you. we’ll go deeper into your specific gifts — especially the ones you might not be fully claiming yet — and work on refining how you bring them into the room. your voice. your presence. your dharma. where your teaching is asking for more aliveness, more specificity, more you.
you’ll come away with:
— deeper clarity on your unique teaching gifts and style
— more refined language and embodied presence in the classroom
— a sense of how your dharma is revealing itself through this training
— specific things to focus on and practice in the stretch ahead
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session three: integrating and stepping forward
you’ve come so far.this final session is for integration — bringing all of it together, and preparing you to step fully into what’s next. we’ll look at how you’ve grown, what has shifted, and what you’re ready to take into the world. we’ll talk about what it means to teach from an aligned, embodied, sustainable place — not just after training, but for the long arc of your teaching life.
and we’ll map out a real vision for what comes next. whatever that looks like for you.
you’ll come away with:
— a clear, integrated sense of your own growth over the training
— confidence in your voice, your gifts, and your direction
— a personalized vision for your path as an advanced teacher
— a felt sense of readiness for what you’re stepping into
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this mentorship is for you if…
you want more than a certification — you want a training that actually changes you
you’ve felt the quiet uncertainty of not fully trusting your own gifts as a teacher
you know you’re ready for the next level, and you want support in finding your own way there
you’re craving a real relationship with a mentor who will see you clearly, meet you honestly, and walk with you through the whole journey
you’re done waiting to feel “ready enough” — and you want someone in your corner as you step forward
You want a guide who will see you clearly, challenge you gently, and walk with you through the whole journey
You’re ready to stop shrinking and start stepping forward — with support
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mentorship from someone who has lived this path
I didn’t come to teaching yoga through a straight line. I came through years of my own deep practice, through training in psychology and somatic healing, through learning to trust my own voice even when it felt uncertain or incomplete.
that’s what i bring to this mentorship — not just my credentials (though yes, E-RYT 500, MA, and APCC) — but my lived understanding of what it means to grow into yourself as a teacher. to do the inner work that makes the outer work meaningful.
I have a way of seeing people — their patterns, their potential, the gifts they’re already carrying but haven’t fully claimed. it’s what I do as a therapist and as a yoga teacher, and it’s what I’ll bring into every session with you.
this isn’t a coaching formula. it’s a real relationship, held with intention, woven through one of the most important chapters of your teaching life.
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three private sessions with Kayla — one per module — held throughout the arc of the training is included in your tuition.
we want you to get the very most out of your learning so we’ve included these sessions are into your experience.
Optional Additional Add-ons:
If you would like to schedule additional mentorship sessions with Kayla, you are welcome to do for an additional fee.
This training is steeped with resident experts in
their field of yoga
More than anything, you will connect deeply to your personal gifts and dharma and to be in service. Yoga is so much more than the poses and THIS training facilitates self-study and how to live your yoga!
But at its heart, this program is about stepping into your gifts as a leader and yoga teacher.
Welcome to the next step in your journey.
Meet Your Co-lead Teachers
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Katie Jacobson
Katie Jacobson, Co-Lead 100hr Earth/Water: Yin Yoga Intensive
Explore the Applied Psychology for Yoga Teachers with Katie Jacobson, Yoga Teacher & Psychotherapist katiesjacobson.com
Katie is a yoga teacher, Ayurvedic health counselor, associate marriage and family therapist, and forever student based in her hometown, Santa Cruz, CA. Katie’s yoga journey started twenty years ago when she was a competitive athlete in high school. It was her love for movement that initially sparked her interest in the practice. During challenging college years, the mat became a place of refuge and Katie experienced deeper transformative
and healing benefits on and off the mat.
In 2013, Katie completed her first yoga teacher training with Yogi Vishvketu in Rishikesh, India. She continues to study with and assist San Francisco based teacher, Janet Stone, and draws inspiration from yin yoga teachers Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley.
Katie’s classes are deeply nourishing, as she offers students a compassionate space to look inward, cultivate steadiness and ease, and strengthen and stretch both body and mind. With an Ayurvedic lens, classes are typically seasonally inspired to support alignment and well-being. Katie invites students to reconnect with their inner wisdom and remember their innate wholeness.
Nature is Katie’s greatest teacher — she enjoys hiking and exploring new trails, swimming in the sea, wandering through farmers markets, cooking and sharing meals, and gathering with community.
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Kenny Graham
Kenny Graham, Co-Lead 100hr Earth/Water: Yin Yoga Intensive & 100hr Advanced Breathwork & Meditation
Explore Functional Yoga, honoring each body as unique + Yoga Anatomy, Pose Set Up for longevity with Kenny Graham. Gain insight into the Yoga mythology, deities, and Storytelling.
Kenneth (Kenny) Graham is former lead teacher at Pleasure Point Yoga and honorable guest teacher of our 200hr Yoga Teacher Training IN Costa Rica for our 2025 immersion training.
Kenneth is registered at the highest level ERYT 500 with Yoga Alliance and has taught over 20 Teacher Trainings around the world and studied for over 20 years with numerous influential teachers, across diverse and intriguing philosophies.
He has drawn on Darren Rhodes and Paul and Suzee Grilley for some of his deepest inspiration on how he currently teaches asana. Students love his eclectic nature. He has a unique ability as a teacher to make material accessible to students and is able to unite diverse teachings from asana to meditation to philosophy in a fresh and lively way. His mission is to bring together a community of teachers who are confident and well rounded in their knowledge and wisdom.
Kenny teaches functional yoga honoring each body as unique. Practice is key!
IG: @kennygrahamyoga
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Jessica Weitzenhoffer
Jessica Weitzenhoffer, Co-Lead 100Hr Fire: VINYASA, Heart of Yoga, Live Your Dharma & Service
Explore Vinyasa Yoga depth and breadth, strong vinyasa flow and foundation, intelligent, soulful sequencing, and connecting with your classroom while activating your dharma in a real & authentic way.
Jessica first discovered yoga in her hometown Santa Monica when she was 12. In High School she attended Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga studio weekly after school. In 2014 she completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Joan Hyman and Carmen Fitzbibbon of YogaWorks Los Angeles, where her love affair with yoga and the calling to share it with others deepened. Over the years she’s studied with Maty Ezraty, Annie Carpenter, Janet Stone, Shiva Rae, Tias Little and Jason Crandell, and traveled to the motherland India to dig her feet into yoga’s geographical source. Jessica completed her 300-hour & Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Mount Madonna Center, where she lived and volunteered in the Ayurveda and Yoga Teacher Training departments for 2.5 years, immersing herself in the teachings of Baba Hari Dass and Classical Aṣhțāṅga Yoga.Jessica, RYT 500, brings her embodied wisdom and somatic precision into each of her classes, weaving down-to-Earth insights and breath into a deep alignment-based vinyasa flow. Her classes are intentional and fun, intelligent and creative, challenging and accessible. With a whole-hearted commitment to honoring and sharing the teachings of yoga, Jessica’s classes are enriched by yoga philosophy, yoga mythology, Ayurveda, psychology, and the wisdom of daily life. Unfolding progressively with harmony and balance, Jessica’s classes creatively awaken presence, curiosity, “a-ha’s,” laughter, and sweat that bridge body, mind, spirit, and heart.
Guest Teacher Faculty:
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Kate Bentley
EMBODIED + APPLIED AYURVEDA FOR YOGA TEACHERS
Drawing from the classical teachings of Ayurveda and Yoga through her teacher Baba Hari Dass, Kate Bentley will help teach Embodied Ayurveda (sister science to Yoga) and well being with tools for natural healing and co-creation of long term solutions for inner and outer balance.
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Emily Perry
ETHICS OF TEACHER / STUDENT RELATIONSHIP
Learn the ethics of the student and teacher relationship with the Founder of The Embodied Breath training, Emily Perry. -
Caren Camblin
YOGA PHILOSOPHY + EMBODIED NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
An Eastern philosophy professor at UCSC, Caren Camblin will guide you through yogic philosophy, social justice in the yoga world, and an advanced experiential through the Bhagavad Gita.
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Sherry Cassedy
YOGA PHILOSOPHY + YOGA SUTRAS
Integrate the meaning and Sanskrit of The Yoga Sutras as you apply it to your life and yoga classes with Sherry Cassedy.
www.thresholdguidance.com. -
Kelsey Lettko
ADVANCED EMBODIED BUSINESS FOR YOGA TEACHERS + ENTREPRENEURS
Step out of your own way. Tap into your unique gifts as a teacher and align with your WHY to create an impactful experience for your students and a sustainable relationship with teaching yoga.
www.elevated-you.com -
Hannah Lerch
THE ART OF MANTRA + BHAKTI YOGA
Learn and deepen into the history & art of chanting and Bhakti yoga with Hannah. Share the gift of mantra in your classes and heal through sacred sounds. -
Lily Dwyer Begg
PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL YOGA + ADVANCED POSTURE CLINIC
Learn the art of teaching prenatal and postnatal yoga from a trauma-informed and experiential lens. Walk away with confidence, knowing how to support your students through every step of their journey!
www.lilydwyerbeggyoga.com
This Training Will Guide You Deeper into your Yogic Path + Dharma.
Deepen Your Teaching Practice + Gift
Uncover your gifts and deepen your teaching practice in this transformative Advanced 300 Hr Yoga and Breathwork Teacher Training with Lead Instructor, Kayla Copeland and and veteran yoga guest teachers and the Pleasure Point Faculty
Innovative & Life-Changing Program
The Advanced Embodied Breath Yoga & Breathwork Training program is integrated & rich: you’ll graduate from this program aligned to your spiritual heart center, have deep connection to your personal yogic path and live your Dharma.
Learn From In-Demand Experts
Kayla Copeland brings experience in multiple forms of Yoga, Meditation, Yoga Nidra, & Mindfulness-based Counseling Psychology.
Plus we have an incredible line-up of expert guest teachers with vast knowledge leading you through their area of Yoga mastery!
300hr Advanced Tuition
$4,600 Regular Tuition
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$4,250 Early Rate Tuition Expires June 1st, 2026
Yoga Teacher Training Tuition Rates are per person and include your tuition and all the training and classwork required to become certified through Yoga Alliance. Excludes books, Yoga Alliance registration fees.
$750 Non-Refundable Tuition Deposit
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