Go deep and expand wide to learn what you need to know to either become a Living Yolates Teacher, or to elevate your daily practice, rituals, and life.
Gain a holistic and extensive understanding of how your body moves, flows, and works throughout the year and everyday. Connect to your inner and outer nature, learning about the natural rhythms that occur around you and inside of you.
Find balance, connect, grow, and transform and celebrate life with us in this unique Teacher Training certification program. Join us on our Teacher’s Retreat in May 2023 in Portugal to ground and integrate your online learning.
We begin Wednesday, the 11th of January 2023
and conclude in June 2023
at our Teacher Training Celebration Retreat in Portugal!
This is for you...
This is for you, who wishes to live a life in balance with your inner and outer nature. For you who longs for a change in your life, seeking empowerment. For you who wants to release insecurities, let go of low self esteem, and leap with trust into your power. For you who wants to take charge of your own life! After all it is you who are responsible for your own happiness. We are here to help illuminate your path, providing support, care, love, and guidance as you become the creator of your own life.
Transformation Through the 5 Elements
This training is for those who are passionate about living the Living Yolates Philosophy, those who want to master the Method, and those who are ready to transform into something beyond your imagination.
This journey takes you deep into your body and mind, working with the 5 elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine — connecting to each season as the best of yoga, pilates, dance, meditation, and energy work holistically blend together to create a seamless and nourishing experience, inside and out!
Wherever, Whenever
The Online Teacher Training is built in modules. For anyone, living anywhere, this English-taught course is a combination of live-streamed sessions, pre-recorded content, and more so you are able to learn and integrate at your own pace over the our time together over 4 online intensive modules, January through May 2023.
Our final modules will be completed together at our in-person Teacher Training Retreat in Portugal the end of May 2023.
Manage your own time, find your own flow with the material, and gain your unique sense of freedom as you grow. You are welcome to stretch the material out over the course of the year if that feels better for you but the intensive will be from January until May 2023. We will be available to you throughout your journey whichever way you choose!
Learn to flow in order to grow!
What will I learn?
The 7 basic elements of Living Yolates
Breath - Connection to life energy and Self
Mental awareness - your thoughts help to create your convictions, which creates your reality
The Method - proper alignment and technique with a focus on invoking spirit as well as inner and outer alignment
Release - let go of stagnation, tension, negative patterning, and rewrite your story
Openness - renewed sense of your vital energy, more ease, increased opportunities for new beginnings and potential.
Expression - your unique essence, intuition, and flow is your gift to the world
Connection - we are all a part of nature, all connected to the universal source energy and power, we all have free access. Remembering out connection to Source.
The Training
The Online Teacher Training is built in modules that will be taught over 4 months and ends during the Teacher Training Retreat (January through end of May, 2023). We will following the rhythms of nature, teach about the 5 seasons in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and help you to apply what you learn to your daily life. All 5 seasons are present within each month, week, day, and moment… learn how to play, balance, and support them!
Each module dives deep into:the season of focus and nature’s transformations that occur
movement classes within the disciplines of Living Yolates
breath work
energy work / connecting to the five elements of Chinese medicine
emotional and mental awareness practices
meditation, etc.
The Teacher Training Retreat
The Teacher Training Retreat included in the full price of the retreat will take place in Portugal, 30 May through 3 June 2023. We will integrate and celebrate our hard work together in person after our 4 months of virtual meeting and transformation. We are so excited to add this offering to our OTT as we realized just how important it is for us all to meet together as one.
There will be more information once you have joined the Teacher Training. Our intention for this time together is that we will all meet together to share in our successes, challenges, and excitement for whatever lies ahead after the training for each of us, all surrounded by the beautiful nature of Portugal. This will be an immersive and intensive retreat but with plenty of time for balance, rejuvenation, restoration, and play!
The Retreat is highly recommended but not required to join the 2023 OTT.
Throughout the training and retreat you will…
Step into your light and stand in your powerBecome your own leader and inner guide
Balance yourself through life’s ups and downs
Learn how to release tensions, worries, and fears
Take responsibility for your own health and happiness.
Practice self-compassion and self-love
Be part of a loving and supportive community
Learn how to use dance as a tool for liberation and healing
Learn about acupressure, and emotional links to organs and muscles / meridians
Learn how to listen to the language of your body
Learn everything you need to know to be able to practice and teach the Living Yolates philosophy and training method
Integrate music, sound and aroma therapy in your teachings to stimulate all senses
Mikkala and Isa will be your guides. Read more about Mikkala here
The Details
Beginning in January 2023, this training runs over the course of a total of 6 months (including a TT. retreat). This allows for you to go deep over time while also giving you the space to integrate. This can be extended to a year but the intensive program will end after the TT. Retreat. You will still receive support if you choose to continue over the year.
An optional, but highly recommended Teacher Training Retreat in Portugal, 30 May through 3 June 2023, price of retreat included in the TT cost. You may opt out of the Retreat and only pay for the Teacher Training online if you cannot make it.
Over 200 hours of online video content for you to stream at your leisure. We cover yoga, pilates, dance, alignment, Chinese medicine & reflexology, mental exercises, mantras and much much more
Live Sessions with Mikkala & Isa to help facilitate your learning process and inspiring you every step of the way. In these sessions we have movement-sessions and an online lecture component. Each live session is 5 hours, and is once monthly.
Follow up calls with Q&As and sharing circles to support your progress with your fellow teachers in training!
A basic understanding of Yoga, Pilates & Dance
Guided exercises to immerse into nature and embody the philosophy
Deeply transformative mental exercises and sharing circles
Opening the voice with mantras, singing circles and more
The electronic Living Yolates manual to come back to again and again!
Live Session Dates
Module 1: January 11, 2023, 10a -3p CET
LIVE Q&A: FEB 8, 2023, 4p-5p CET
Module 2: February 22, 2023, 10a -3p CETLIVE Q&A: MARCH 8, 2023, 4p-5p CET
Module 3: March 22, 2023, 10a-3p CETLIVE Q&A: APRIL 5, 2023, 4p-5p CET
Module 4: April 19, 2023, 10a-3p CETLIVE Q&A: MAY 17, 2023, 4p-5p CET
Teacher Training Retreat in Portugal:
30 May - 3 June 2023Exam Requirements
After this intense teacher training you will integrate everything you have learned and practice teaching with your own unique style. We require that you have practiced with family and friends at least 10 classes before scheduling the exam. The exam must be completed by August 1st., 2023 if you are committed to the 4-month online pacing. Exam dates for 12-month pace must be completed by January 11th, 2024 and need to be scheduled before the end of the intensive program.
To pass the Living Yolates Certification Test, it is important to understand that this is a professional assessment by Mikkala and Isa;Melody - From start to finish, can the teacher keep a seamless flow between the elements of the class (opening, warm up, yoga, pilates and dance etc.)
Alignment - Can the teacher guide people safely and powerfully into the postures using alignment cues, while keeping good alignment in her/his own body as well
Language - Use of tonality, words, voice cues to support the flow of class and reach the back row. Use the voice to show empathy (ground in & create safety) and evoke passion (activate and open hearts)
Demonstrate all styles - Pilates, Yoga and Dance. At least two exercises of each in the 30 min available.
Music - Being able to skilfully use music to support the flow in class and show a variety in moods.
Intention - To have direction, to know what you want and where you are taking people. To teach from heart to heart. The power in authenticity.
Participation - To have participated in the whole training. The training allows for 5% absence during the training. Mitigating circumstances might allow otherwise, but this is an individual assessment.
Your Investment:
Living Yolates Online Teacher Training with Teacher Retreat is 29.500 DKK
The 29.500 DKK includes:
The Online Teacher Training, including all live sessions, calls, material, support, and exam cost
Tuition for the Teachers Retreat in Portugal
Note: that there will be an additional cost for accommodation and meals depending on which room you choose. Additional costs range between 3.750 DKK and 5.000 DKK for food and lodging for the Teacher Training Retreat. You will work with our support, Kaitlin to choose which room is right for you!
Note: if you sign up for the Retreat and for whatever reason aren’t able to make it, you will receive a refund of 8.000 DKK.
The remaining 1.500 DKK will be kept to pay for administrative fees. No refunds will be issued after April 1, 2023 for Retreat.
Living Yolates Online Teacher Training is 20.000 DKK
The 20.000 DKK includes:
The Online Teacher Training, including all live sessions, calls, material, support, and exam cost
Note: If you join the OTT without the retreat upon booking and choose to add it on if space is available, your tuition will cost 12.000 DKK instead of the 9.500 DKK. Participation notice must be given before April 1, 2023.
Your Deposit
5.000 DKK of your tuition is due before December 1, 2022 to secure your space, as long as space is available.
Your deposit is non-refundable and is required for either the OTT with or without the Retreat.
The remaining balance after the deposit is due January 1st, 2023 unless you have requested an individualized payment plan.
Additional Retreat Cost
Tuition for the retreat is included in the above OTT with Retreat price
Accommodation and food in Portugal will vary based on the room you choose. Private and shared options are available!
Additional cost will be approximately 3.750 - 5.000 DKK, depending on the room you choose for our 4-night, 5-day stay.
You must join the Retreat portion of the OTT prior to April 1, 2023
FIND MORE INFO AND SIGN UP HERE!
We can’t wait to guide, support, and witness your unfolding!
Please write our team info@livingyolates.com with any questions you might have.
Love, Mikkala & Isa
