
Welcome to
Pleasure Point Sanctuary.
We are a transformative yoga, dance & movement sanctuary located in the heart of Santa Cruz, CA.
May our offerings transport you back home to yourself again and again.
Join Us for a FREE Embodied Breath Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training Info Session
Are you interested in joining us for our immersive training in Costa Rica & Santa Cruz, CA?! If so, attend a FREE Information session to meet your lead instructor, Kayla Copeland, and learn more about the training, instructors and curriculum. You’ll have a chance to ask questions and help us support you in your decision making journey.
FREE INFO SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE YOGA STUDIO ON THE BELOW DATES:
Sunday, March 2nd from 12pm-1pm
Sunday, April 6th from 12pm-1pm
TRAINING DATES:
Santa Cruz : May 16 - 18 (kickoff) and July 25 - 27 (graduation)
Costa Rica : June 21st - July 5th
ENROLL BY MARCH 1st AND SAVE $400 OFF TUITION!
Move and Grow with Us.
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We offer an extensive and unique variety of yoga asana classes no matter where you’re at in your practice. For those looking for a fiery movement experience, we have classes such as: multi-level Vinyasa Flow, Awake Heart Somatic Yoga and Sweaty Bhakti Vinyasa Flow. We also offer gentler and more restful yoga, such as: Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Somatic Restore Yoga, and Accessible Chair Yoga for disabled Yogis. In addition, we offer year-round Beach Yoga! All of our yoga classes are designed to help you tap deeper into yourself through your body, mind, and spiritual connection.
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We believe that if you have a body, you can dance. We offer a multitude of levels and types of dance and movement classes so that you can find something that works for you and brings you joy.
Our classes serve as places where people can feel safe, supported, and included while having FUN!
We offer a BASICS Hip Hop & Zumba class designed for beginners or those new to dance that help prepare you for our All Levels classes.
Where those who need more intense movement can do so in a cardio dance fitness, pilates or barre class.
While others can feel the rhythm and connect with diverse dance styles and infectious music in a Cardio Hip Hop & Zumba, Samba, Tropical Fusion or Latin Spice dance class.
For those who want more choreography and to learn full dance routines, we offer Cardio Funk and Inspire Dance.
Within our gorgeous offering, we also have fitness based classes to help strengthen core for improved movement with Core Foundations, Barre Fusion and Pilates Fusion classes.
Needing extra tender care for your muscles post any of your life’s physical passions, try our Restorative Stretch + Myofascial Release classes.
Move, Breathe, Express, Recover, and Live Better!
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The Embodied Breath: 200hr Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training runs two times per year and will give you a profound and life-altering experience while deepening your connection to your personal Yoga practice. Additionally, we will prepare you to share the gift of yoga with the world!
We hold one Fall training locally at Pleasure Point Sanctuary that requires your dedication to one weekend per month over six months for a truly functional learning experience.
For those who like to travel and have more freedom and flexibility in their schedules, you may love our global hybrid immersion training (14 consecutive days abroad + 2 weekends in Santa Cruz) where you live your yoga together in an intentional space of practice for a deep and transformational experience.
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Our in-house Sound Healers and those who travel to be with us provide a weekly reset so that you can find deep and needed rest while receiving healing through sound.
We also offer a Floating Sound Bath workshop where you are cocooned in our hanging silk hammocks for a unique and uplifting experience.
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Our Sanctuary offers unique and profound classes and courses rooted in meditation and mindfulness practices to get you grounded whilst exploring the depths of your soul.
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We offer ongoing workshops designed to bring you back home to yourself alongside ongoing global and local retreats to deepen your relationship to self in new and unique places.
Discover Our Studios
Yoga Studio
Located at 3707 Portola Drive, our beautiful, calming, and welcoming Yoga studio holds the container for the majority of our Yoga & meditation classes as well as sound baths, Kirtan and Spiritual Music Events. Our studio is a loving container adorned with a gorgeous tiger stripe bamboo floor, high ceilings, hanging lotus lights, and beautiful murals painted on the walls that are special to our heart. We recently upgraded our space with a brand new epic sound system enabled for deep bass for our music event lovers, AND brand new Yoga Props as of January 2025, including Manduka Blocks, Hugger Mugger Bolsters and Meditation Cushions, Blankets, Straps, Sand Bags, and Silk Eye Pillows. We do have a few Manduka Loaner mats if case you forget yours at home. We have the Manduka Pro Yoga Mat in various colors on sale for $125 + tax. We have drinkable tap water that is filtered. Our space is known to have a special loving vibe, ready to hold you as you move deeper into your personal Yoga practice and inner sanctuary.
Dance & Movement Studio
Located in the same complex, just down the way at 3603 Portola Drive, our dance and movement studio features a welcoming and inspirational environment to host all of our dance, movement, and fitness classes as well as some of our yoga teacher trainings and classes. This space is equipped with a brand new sprung hardwood floor (installed August 2024), an epic sound system for our bass lovers, Fixed & Portable Barres, 22 ceiling hardware for Silk Hammocks, and all the props to support your preferred practices, including , Barre & Pilates props (2.5lb & 5lb dumbbells, sliders, balls, & bands), Yoga Props (Blocks, Straps, Bolsters, Meditation Cushions, Blankets, Eye Pillows), and hydrogen-rich living water from Blue Zone Waters.
Try out our entire Sanctuary for only $25 for an Intro Week or $49 for an Intro Month.
Find your path.

The Embodied Breath:
200hr Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training
Costa Rica / Santa Cruz, Hybrid Immersion Training: May 16-18, June 21-July 5 (held in Costa Rica), & July 25-27, 2025*
*ENROLL BY MARCH 1st AND SAVE $400 OFF TUITION!
Santa Cruz Fall 2025 Functional Training: Oct 2025 - Mar 2026 (dates TBD)
Upcoming Workshops, Events & Retreats
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FREE Info Session: Yoga Teacher Training Costa Rica Immersion | March 2nd
Free Info Session on our upcoming The Embodied Breath: 200hr Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training Costa Rica & Santa Cruz, CA Hybrid Training
Come meet your lead instructor, Kayla Copeland, learn about the training, guest teachers, what to expect, ask questions, and help us pull out any stops to get you there!
Info Sessions Dates: March 2, April 6
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YOGA & CULTURAL EXPERIENCE | Provence, France 2025
Return home to yourself in the French countryside with Kayla Copeland & Megan McAllister.
Journey to picturesque Provence decorated with rolling vineyards, olive groves, pine forests, and lavender fields, and known for its beautiful scenery, light, and contrasting colors as we slow down, tend to our inner sanctuary, and return to self.
September 13th - 20th, 2025
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AWAKEN YOUR SPIRIT DANCE & REJUVENATION RETREAT | MEXICO 2025
Dance in the light of your heart where your spirit is most alive with Joy Smith & Megan McAllister in Baja, Mexico
Dance, Play, Yoga, Surf, Swim, Sunbathe, Commune with Nature, and be in Community to discover the sweet calm and inspiration in their heart.
October 14th - 19th, 2025
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Alchemy of Sound & Silence w/Grammy-nominated Manose | Friday, February 14th
Manose, Grammy-nominated multi instrumentalist vocalist & composer, has been touring for more than two decades. Spreading the power of healing music, he has won millions of hearts all over the world. His offering of 111 days of free daily meditations on his social media became a lifeline for many during the COVID pandemic.
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The Temple of Touch: Tantra Thai Massage Valentine’s Edition w/Sidney Nicol Saturday, February 15th
Desire thrives through creativity and trying new things! Make this Valentine's Day a special opportunity to equally bask in the pleasure of giving and receiving sacred touch. You will discover together, techniques of Tantra and Thai Massage. Connect more deeply with mindfulness, clear communication and an open heart. With this inspiration we learn to paint outside the lines of conventional relationships. This is the gift to bring home to share again and again.
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Mantra Bliss Concert w/Prema Love | Friday, February 28th
Join us for an evening of healing music, mantra, community!
Prema Love is an internationally touring multi-instrumentalist and voice alchemist based in Maui, Hawaii. She has performed at major festivals and for spiritual teachers Ram Dass, Amma the hugging Saint, and 3 Divine Mother Saints of India. She is currently releasing her 5th album with highly acclaimed Grammy nominated Producer Ben Leinbach www.premalovemusic.com
Let’s move and grow together
Check out our daily schedule below and sign-up for a class with us! We’re excited to spend time together.

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
May all beings be happy, healthy and free. May all beings be free from suffering.
Voted Best Yoga Studio in Santa Cruz 2023 & 2024
