200hr Teacher Training
FOUNDATIONS
Elemental 200hr Yoga Teacher Training
JANUARY – JUNE 2021
Globally Online
(with Pleasure Point Yoga option Santa Cruz, CA)
Are you ready for the Journey?
Go Deeper In The Practice You Love
Start Sharing the Gift of Yoga
Lead Yoga Teacher Trainers Kenny Graham and Emily Perry have joined forces with Pleasure Point Yoga to create a powerful & comprehensive 200Hr Yoga Teacher Training.
Innovative & Life-Changing Program
The Elemental Yoga Training program is integrated & rich: you’ll graduate from this program ready to teach an amazing class while feeling like you’ve deepened your personal practice.
Learn From In-Demand Experts
Kenny Graham and Emily Perry bring decades of experience in multiple forms of Yoga, Chinese Medicine, Philosophy and Meditation.
Reserve Your Spot in the Elemental 200Hr Yoga Teacher Training
Apply Now and Begin Your Immersion into the Practice of Teaching Yoga.
NEW INNOVATIVE FORMAT
Global Online Access
Access this full spectrum, heart-centered training from anywhere in the world: through a combination of pre-recorded and livestream content, you’ll dive deep into the rich history, practice, and philosophy of yoga and beyond.
The Elemental Yoga Teacher training Experience
Yoga Foundations
Learn the fundamental elements that make up the practice and teaching of yoga, including the foundations of alignment and teaching using our integrated approach. In-depth Asana and Posture Clinics, including hands-on adjustments, Anatomy for yoga Teachers, and Prenatal Yoga. Refresh foundational postures + refine advanced ones.
Meditation, Breathwork & Mantra
Learn to teach Meditation, Breathwork (Pranayama), and Mantra— three powerful yoga practices. Learn practical tools for deepening your personal practice, and for teaching your students. Integrate mindfulness and breathwork into your life. Learn the power of mantra in transforming your students lives.
Functional Yoga
Honors the differences between human beings and human bodies. A functional approach to yoga explores posture and practice from the inside out, not trying to fit the body into the pose but adjusting the pose when necessary to fit the body.
Transformative Teaching
Learn to teach Hatha Yoga, Restorative, Yin, and Vinyasa Flow Yoga. Transformative sequencing & theming modules will teach you to theme classes & sequence intuitively. Learn exceptional teaching techniques while developing a personal Sadhana (practice) that inspires you.
Embodied Philosophy
Our Elemental Yoga Teacher Training includes in-depth study in the yoga texts foundational to the practice and understanding of yoga. Through our embodied approach you’ll learn to integrate yoga wisdom into your teaching and your life.
Community & Service
Something beautiful inevitably unfolds when a group of people come together to practice. Something in the energy shifts as you leave your shoes at the threshold. You’ll experience a deep sense of connection to the group of people who you’ve embarked on this journey with. You’ll learn about Seva and service and how to authentically serve your community.
Your Lead Teachers
Kenny Graham
Kenneth Graham is the Founder and a lead teacher of Elemental Yoga Teacher Training in Santa Cruz Ca.
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.
Emily Perry
Emily Perry is a lead teacher for Elemental Yoga Teacher training.
Emily Perry is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the highest level (E-RYT500), and has taught Teacher Trainings all over the world. A Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, Emily bring her expertise in Chinese Energetic systems to her work and teaching.
Emily teaches Bhakti Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Mindfulness, & leads kirtan. Her classes and immersions are infused with energetic alignment, mudra, chanting, & pranayama.
Emily has spent nearly twenty-five years studying yoga, mindfulness, and energetic healing systems, and she weaves the essence of these teachings into her work as a teacher. She has trained in Vinyasa Flow Yoga, and is influenced by her studies with Janet Stone and in Shadow Yoga.
She teaches dynamic workshops at festivals, and leads retreats, immersions, and 200 & 300 advanced teacher trainings globally. Her podcast, Rock Your Purpose, can be found on Apple Podcasts. www.emilyperry.com
HOW IT WORKS
Over a decade of Online teaching Experience
Since 2010, Emily has been offering online courses and trainings, and is an expert in creating an engaging experience. In addition to livestream classes on training weekends, you’ll get access to beautiful, pre-recorded content, downloads, and more through our teacher training course platform.
A Dynamic, Powerful Training With Global Online Access
Access From Anywhere
All you’ll need is access to the internet and a phone or computer. Manuals and required reading will be accessed through our course platform.
A Dynamic Experience
Core training content will be a curated blend of pre-recorded and livestream content. Livestreams are recorded and accessed later in the teaching platform.
How the Weekends Work
We’ll meet online via Zoom on meeting weekends. Three weekends have an in-person option but are also livestreamed (indoor or outdoor, subject to change per our local ordinances in Santa Cruz, CA).
Community Connection
You’ll stay connected and engaged with your Elemental peer study group, as well as through the private Facebook Community. Q&A calls between sessions help you clarify & grow.
A Well Rounded Experience
You’ll Learn Through:
- Livestream training & conversation (recorded)
- Pre-recorded Video Training
- Audio training downloads (great for mantra practice!)
- PDF worksheets
- Online journaling & assessments
Integrate & Grow
Teacher training resources will be well organized in the course platform so you can access them again and again.
Just as with an in-person experience, you’ll have material to read and work on between meetings.
Elemental Yoga Topics
What you will learn:
- The pillars of yoga practice: asana, pranayama (breathwork), meditation and mantra (cultivation of your own practice and how to teach)
- The Foundations of exceptional yoga teaching
- Yoga History and Philosophy
- Anatomy Foundations: skeletal segments, muscle groups and the spine and its structures
- Skeletal variations and how it applies to yoga postures
- Effective pacing, rhythm, sequencing and theming
- Confidence-building through practice teaching
- Modifications and postural variations
- Creative and effective use of props
- Hands-on assists and adjustments
- Cultivating your voice
- Ethics and business of Yoga
- Ayurveda
- The psychology of yoga
- Embodied Philosophy
This training is for you if:
- You have had a steady practice for at least 18 months
- You want to dive deeper into your own practice with a community of like-minded people
- You are ready to set out on a path of working as a yoga teacher
More Than Just a Yoga Teacher Training…
just an immersion to prepare you to teach yoga.
The Elemental Yoga training experience is designed to support you in going deeper into your practice, and into the heart of the teachings of yoga so that you can embody your yoga. During the training, you’ll experience your own inner transformation and evolution, and as you connect with your inner wisdom and gifts.
The Elemental Yoga Teacher Training program is integrated & rich: you’ll graduate ready to teach, with a nourishing and grounded personal practice.
Apply Now and Begin Your Immersion into the Practice of Teaching Yoga.
Reserve Your Spot in the Elemental Yoga Teacher Training