200 hr Yoga Teacher Training: Earth Embodiment

16-Day Fusion & Integrative Foundation

January 2 -january 17, 2024

at Casa Kula, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

Immerse yourself in the magic of the forest, realize your inner stillness and access the wisdom that resides deep in your heart and soul. Feel embraced by incredible natural beauty and the power of the elements, as we uncover the true teacher within.

The Earth Embodiment 200 hr YTT will focus on shamanic techniques for cleansing and transformation, making use of the majestic mountain scenery and mystical lake serenity that support a profound transformative energy deep within the soul. The simple living and nourishing environment of Casa Kula complements your studies, with a stunning lake-view deck, large stone temazcal sauna and beautiful flower gardens. Enjoy the support of community living as you learn how to live and breathe your yoga, taking it off the mat and into life.

Join us to awaken the power of your spirit while living in a conscious eco-friendly community space tucked in the beautiful mountains of incredible Lake Atitlán. Stand strong in your sovereignty and stay explorative in your collaboration, as you build trust in yourself as a facilitator. Learn the mastery of listening and observation as you co-create with spirit. Step into your power as the yogi that you are.


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ONLINE DIGITAL LIBRARY ADD ON - ONLY $200 USD!

Gain access to your 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training course curriculum with our Digital Library including fresh digital, video and audio formats of yoga flows, anatomy, physiology, meditations and so much more! Lifetime access online to stay fresh as a teacher and student of your yoga practice.

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Not included: Additional wellness services, airfare and airport transfer.

See our payments and cancellation policy here. Please contact us if you have any questions.


Our16-day Fusion & Integrative Framework

Kula’s 16-day Fusion & Integrative Framework is our newest model that has been created out of our students’ needs for accessibility, engagement and integration. We envision for our 200 hr yoga teacher trainings to not only be a transformational immersive experience for you, but to be a catalyst that bridges the gap between your spiritual and daily life. We want to support and empower you on this inward holistic yoga journey from Guatemala to your home life through online pre and post-training two hour live calls with your facilitators and fellow yoga students.

IN PERSON PORTION

Our in-person 16-day YTTs are designed to bring the teachings alive through learning in a dynamic and interactive community at the sacred location of Guatemala! This is the time to embody the yoga teacher in you through peer teaching and hands-on assists.

We will have an optional Kula Karma day following the training that you will have the opportunity to participate in OR a Karma project after the training to shine your light in your hometown!

HIGHLIGHTS Of the 200 HR YTT guatemala TRAININg

  • Eat delicious vegetarian meals and fresh teas sourced from our permaculture food forest

  • Heal and transform in ceremony in our sacred temazcal

  • Explore the beautiful Lake Atitlán, forest gardens and waterfalls

  • Experience the powerful heart-medicine, cacao, in its home land.

  • Experience conscious off-the-grid living in eco-cabins

  • Practice yoga in a beautiful outdoor space surrounded by forest with stunning views of nature

  • Shop for beautiful textiles and handicrafts in local indigenous villages

ONLINE PORTION

LIVE CALLS: Online pre-course and post-course LIVE 2-hr calls two weeks before/after the training.

PRE-COURSE MATERIAL: 40 hrs self-paced recorded online that will need to be completed prior to your in-person training dates.

You will have forever access to this material to refer to after the training when you go into the world and teach! (Extend this to 200 hrs of content with our digital library for $200 more!)

ONLINE CONTENT INCLUDES

  • Kula Basic Flow recordings w/ asana analysis and sequencing

  • Holistic Yoga and 7 Moving Principles

  • Yoga History & The Four Paths

  • Intro to Shamanism

  • Yoga Anatomy

  • Bandhas & Pranayama

  • Kula’s Signature Flow Design

  • Intro and Exploration of Chakras

Requirement: Students learn the Kula Basic Flow online prior to the first peer teaching that is near beginning of in-person portion so they are ready to teach!


Meet Your Kula Co-Founder Facilitators…

Jessi Luna

Since a young age, Jessi has studied dance and creative movement. Since her first RYT200 in 2008, Jessi has led retreats and workshops throughout the US, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Bali, and Costa Rica. She completed her RYT500 Certification in 2012 and now leads teacher trainings in places she most enjoys to share.

Jessi teaches a Vinyasa based practice to combine elements of dance and natural movement with traditional yogic sequencing. She incorporates attention to rhythm of the breath and allows for organic movement to flow in each pose. She is grateful for the journey of yogic creativity and loves to share this movement of bliss with others along the way. 

Jessi, along with her husband Zach and her parents, created Seven Springs Retreat Center in her mountain home of East Tennessee. Inspired by retreat centers from around the world, Seven Springs provides a natural and holistic space for local and global communities to experience high quality holistic education in the United States. Retreats offered vary from yoga, massage, natural medicines and foods, creativity, social innovation, team-building, eco-building and permaculture.

Randi Schiffman

Randi’s open heart, affectionate manner and infectious laugh create an instant environment of friendship and authenticity. A true pollinator of people, her direct communication, sense of humor and energizing, activating manner allow for deep work to be done with a sense of playful acceptance for what is.

Randi ERYT 500 has taught over 50 yoga teacher trainings since 2010. Her expertise is in sharing Holistic Yoga, a well rounded practice including meditation, pranayama, mudra, bandha, mantra, theme weaving and intelligent sequencing. A certified Thai Massage Therapist, she is especially known for her firm and intuitive based hands on assists.  She facilitates with a strong energy and passion for the practice which supports her compassionate, graceful and empathic nature. She has an innate ability to take in knowledge, experience it, and share wisdom in an authentic way.

She is internationally known as a teacher of teachers.  Her embodied and empowered approach to life provides an inspiration to students, encouraging all to access their inner wisdom through authenticity and radical self love.

Co-Founder Guest Teachers

JIYA JULIA RANDALL

Jiya Julia Randall is one of the founders of international yoga school and retreats organization Kula Collective and a guide for empowered and conscious living.

Jiya is a deeply connected leader who roots her teaching in the healing energy of nature.  Her teaching invites students to explore their own, unique unfolding, through profound awareness and trust in the wisdom of the Self.  Through her studies with teachers and shamans across the world, Julia has developed a powerful sense of energetic connection and a strong set of philosophical and intuitive teachings, which she shares through creative hatha and yin yoga, sacred fire and medicine ceremonies, kirtan and healing therapies.  Jiya is also a talented musician and sound healer, who seeks out native chants and medicine songs from around the world to complement her work.

Jiya is YA-certified at the ERYT-500 level and has facilitated both intensive and module-format teacher trainings at RYT-200 and RYT-300 levels for several years, through multiple schools.  Following her degree in Physics at Imperial College, London, Julia worked as an Energy Consultant and part time copywriter and editor in London, UK, before moving to Central America in 2009 to pursue a life centered on yoga and holistic health.  British by birth, Jiya is now based in Bali and teaches in Thailand, Australia, Mexico, Greece, USA, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Peru.

ZACHARY TOWNESMITH

Zachary inspires participation and thoughtful consensus in a wide array of groups. He is dedicated to developing intercultural relations and facilitating innovative solutions for regenerative well-being. 

His Cum Laude B.A. from Harvard College led him to explore issues of privilege and work for justice from his hometown of Philadelphia to the Guatemala City garbage dump. This work has taken him throughout the Americas engaging diverse stakeholders in strategic planning through the development of creative and critical thinking in fields such as education, public health, business, creative industries, and entrepreneurship. 

His 500hr Yoga Teacher training instills a diversity and depth to his facilitation. He embodies these ancient practices in ways that are socially relevant and culturally appropriate

He believes that interpersonal relationships and creativity are the keys to regenerative enterprise, and works in settings ranging from corporate board rooms to dirt-floored rural schools.  His multi-cultural and multi-lingual fluency are valuable assets as groups develop and maintain creative environments of respect and trust. Watch his TedX talks here (Spanish) and here (English).

Zach brings a deep love of learning and leads the evaluation process of the Kula Collective YTT curricula. In order to evaluate students’ learning and to support their integration he adapted the Flow Design process to fit in to all Kula teacher training certifications. This ensures that all graduates have honed their personal Vision and designed a 90-day plan to begin to integrate their experiences into the rest of their lives. 


About Casa Kula

Casa Kula is the Guatemalan home of Coby and Ananda, two of our Kula Collective co-founders. It is an eco-friendly and nourishing space, filled with all the comforts of home, including healing herbs, tropical fruits, loving animals and warm smiles. Casa Kula is located in Tzununa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, with stunning views of the serene Lake Atitlan and her volcanoes seen through banana palms, avocado trees and lush green coffee forests.

This grounding retreat space offers delicious vegetarian meals, daily yoga and meditation, a large temazcal sauna, beautiful lake-view teakwood yoga platform and flower-strewn ceremony and community areas as well as comfortable shared accommodation and glamping options. Enjoy the stillness and beauty of the mountains supporting you in your process as you relax into the embrace of heart-centered community.


Accommodations

Cabañas

Casa Kiya

Hobbit House

Casa Inti


Example of Daily 200 hr YTT Kula Schedule

subject to change.

6:00-8:30 Meditation & Yoga Asana class (Art of Practice)

  • 8:30-10:00 Breakfast

    10:00-11:30 Philosophy Discussion (Art of Living)

    11:30-1:00 Special Topic, Anatomy or Ethics Discussion (Art of Living/Healing)

    1:00-1:30 Lunch

    1:30-3:00 Personal sadhana

    3:00-4:00 Techniques class (Art of Teaching)

    4:15-6:00 Techniques or Practicum (Art or Teaching)

    6:00-7:00 Dinner

    7:30-8:30 Kirtan, sharing and meditation (Art of Healing) {every other day}

    8:30-9:30 Studying or journaling in Silence

    Every 4th day of the 8 day cycle is a half day, and every 8th day a full day of Self Sadhana.


What You’ll Leave the Training With

  • Understanding of anatomy of the human body so cueing becomes effortless

  • Confidence in creating creative and holistic sequences for your students

  • Experience practicing teaching and getting feedback from your student and your experienced facilitators

  • Exploration of your own way of teaching and using empowered words in your classes

  • Certification to register as a Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance

  • Community and support of other holistic yoga teachers

  • Song and ceremony experiences that you can share and incorporate into your teaching

  • Solid foundational daily practices to incorporate into your life, including meditation, asana and pranayama

  • Clarity and focus with a 90 Day plan to this your training into actionable next steps to becoming a teacher

  • Transformative inner healing as you uncover new layers of your self, your yoga practice and your role as a teacher


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Hear From Our Students

I feel more confident in myself. I feel like I can step into a class knowing that I have the tools to facilitate a holistic experience. I don’t have to be a perfect teacher, but I can be a fully whole and present teacher.
— KATHLEEN PRENGAMAN, Kula Grad