Live Your Yoga

Advanced 300hr Embodied Breath Yoga Teacher Training

September 2026 - January 2027

Held at Pleasure Point Sanctuary in beautiful coastal Santa Cruz, California

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Welcome to The Embodied Breath 300hr Advanced Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training

The Embodied Breath in-person 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training curated and led by Lead Teachers, Kayla Copeland and Co-Led with Kenny Graham, Katie Jacobson & Jessica Weitzenhoffer PLUS expert guest teachers steeped in their area of expertise and Pleasure Point Sanctuary Staff.

Yoga and breathwork have changed your life, and now it’s time to deepen your knowledge and skillset and advance to the next yogic level…

And, as you might have noticed, this isn’t any ordinary yoga teacher training.

Our 300 Hour Yoga and Breathwork Certification program takes you deep into the aspects of this sacred and ancient practice that create authentic healing and transformation, including:

  • Yin Yoga energetics + philosophy

  • Soulful and intelligent Vinyasa Yoga

  • Elemental and chakra-based sequencing

  • Guiding embodiment + self-inquiry practices around dharma, grounding, and emotional flow

  • Somatic work around boundaries and nervous system regulation for yoga teachers

  • Advanced Taoist and yoga philosophy

  • Advanced posture alignment and anatomy

  • Applied Ayurveda for yoga teachers

  • Dharma exploration + Spiritual / Intuitive alignment

  • Advanced Theming + Storytelling

  • Trauma-informed cueing and sacred leadership

  • Energetics of the voice and authentic presence

  • Guided meditation practices (body-based, intuitive, heart-centered)

  • Advanced nervous system-based breathwork practices

  • Advanced meditation practices and teaching meditation

  • The art of holding meaningful space as a leader

  • Integrating mindfulness with the energetics of healing and transformation

$750 Non-Refundable Deposit to Secure Your Spot!

Payment Plans available!

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

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The 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:

    • 9/6: Sunday 8am Yin Class on 9/6 followed by 2-3 hour workshop w/ Caren Camblin

    • 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 Jessica Weitzenhoffer

  • Weekday Classes (hybrid/online): Thursdays from 6-8pm on 11/5, 11/12, 11/19; no class Thanksgiving Day

January 2027 100hr - Advanced Meditation, Breathwork, and Sharing Your Gifts:

  • 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): Thursdays from 6-8pm on 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28


This is More than just a Training:

  • 5 Months of Individual Mentorship

  • 3 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

Training Modules

Embodied Breath Advanced Training Modules

Over five months, we’ll walk you through our three 100 hour segments - yin yoga, vinyasa yoga and advanced breathwork & meditation teacher training pathway.

You’ll develop not just as a yoga, meditation and breathwork teacher — but as a leader and visionary in your community.

THE PHYSICAL PRACTICES

You’ll dive deep into the more advanced physical aspects of yoga & breath in Asana (Posture) Workshops, Advanced postures and transitions, Yoga Anatomy, Hands-On Assists, Use of Props, Modifications.

THE ENERGETIC PRACTICES

Learn and embody energetic and subtle body practices and techniques, including Advanced Meditation & Breathwork, Mantra and Chanting, & Kundalini Energy Work.

THE TEACHER’S PATH

Learn transformative teaching techniques, including advanced sequencing & theming, finding your voice, purpose and living your dharma, being in service, and sharing your gifts as a teacher.


Read more about the Training Modules below:

  • 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

    • Uncover your deeper why / calling / your dharma

    Will include advanced training modules covering posture clinics, cueing, anatomy for yoga teachers, and refinement

  • Lean into your spiritual heart center and uncover your soul’s deeper calling and your dharma / yogic path:

    • Spiritual heart alignment as a leader

    • 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

    • Prenatal Yoga

    • Advanced Theming and Storytelling

    • Chanting + Bhakti Yoga

    • Advanced Leadership Skills + Psychology

    • Refining your voice and purpose

    • Advanced cueing

    • Self-care as a yoga teacher

  • 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

    • Deepen one’s own practice

    • Share your gifts, community building

    • How to teach sustainably + self-care for longevity

    • Elevated + embodied business practices. Take your spiritually aligned business to the next level


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 Lead Instructor - Kayla Copeland

MA, APCC, E-RYT-500
Holistic Associate Psychotherapist | Professional Yoga Teacher | Artist

I am the leader of the Embodied Breath™ Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training, an E-RYT 500 and an artist. I have my B.S. in Psychology and am currently pursuing an M.A. in Mindfulness-based Counseling Psychology. I have been honing my skills since the early 2000’s and my intention is to support you in diving deeper into the practices of yoga, yoga philosophy, mindfulness, psychology, and so much more in a beautifully meaningful way.

I have studied extensively with Sri Dharma Mittra in New York City and Aimee Nitzberg in Santa Cruz, California.

I lead yoga and wellness retreats locally and abroad. My teaching focuses on mindfulness, breath awareness, and somatic experiencing while weaving in essences of Buddhist Psychology and Taoist principles. I fuse fluid movement, strength building, and a loving awareness of self.

I cannot wait to share these practices with you and watch all your growth unfold!

Kayla’s Weekly Schedule at the Sanctuary:

Strong Bhakti Flow - Sundays 10am

Mixed Flow - Mondays 5:30pm

Slow Flow + Breathwork - Wednesdays 9am

Yin Yoga - Fridays 4pm

MEET YOUR CO-LEAD TEACHERS

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

OUR GUEST TEACHER TRAINING FACULTY

  • Kate Bentley, MA, 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.

  • 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, YIN YOGA PHILOSOPHY AND EMBODIED NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION

    Caren Camblin will guide you through your Yoga, Social Justice, & Ethics through the lens of the Bhagavad Gita.

  • Sherry Cassidy, YOGA PHILOSOPHY & YOGA SUTRAS

    Integrate the meaning and Sanskrit of The Yoga Sutras as you apply it to your life with Sherry Cassedy. 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. kelseylettko.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, Jessica Weitzenhoffer, Kenny Graham, & Katie Jacobson 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

Sign Up by June 1st, 2026 and SAVE $350

$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

Payment Plans Available

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Pleasure Point Sanctuary is Accredited with the Yoga Alliance at the highest level