Elemental Mandala Vinyasa Teacher Training | IN STUDIO

Emma Landolt | 7-9 June 2025 | Price: £450 | 30 hours

Elemental Mandala Vinyasa is a unique and dynamic flow moving 360 degrees around the mat, weaving together the four elements – Earth, Water, Fire, and Air – with chakra activation, creative sequencing, and a deep connection to the natural world. The practice is a fusion of Vinyasa-style movement, embodying elements of dance, fluidity, and strength, while incorporating Yin aspects and the nurturing qualities of Yoga Nidra to support integration. This training will help you create and teach classes that inspire embodied self-expression and awaken inner wisdom through the connection of movement, breath, and the elements.

Elemental Mandala Vinyasa combines creativity, fluidity, and nature-based wisdom in a way that can help students connect to both their physical bodies and their inner landscapes. It integrates the four elements, chakras, and shamanic teachings, providing a holistic and dynamic approach to yoga teaching.

This course can be attended as a stand-alone course or as an optional module on our 3 00-hour programme. We offer one Bursary for our trainings and you can read more about eligibility for this HERE

Elemental Mandala Vinyasa Study Series

The course resources include a 7-part Elemental Mandala Vinyasa video series which includes 7 chakras and 5 elements. In preparation for the course, you will be asked to practice the first four classes in the series to give you an understanding of how Emma teaches each element/chakra and mandala. You will have access to these recorded resources for 1 month before and 3 months after the training.

Elemental Mandala Vinyasa Content

DAY 1- EARTH – Muladhara

Introduction to Elemental Mandala Vinyasa
Philosophy of the Elements in Yoga: Introduction to how the four elements – Earth, Water, Fire, and Air – correlate with the body, the chakras, and emotional and spiritual balance.
The Mandala Structure: Understanding the circular, 360º movement around the mat and the significance of working with the whole body in fluid, non-linear ways. Teaching how to create themes that revolve around an elemental focus, infusing the class with both movement and meditation.
Shamanic Wisdom & Elemental Teachings: Connecting to indigenous teachings on the elements, the medicine wheel, and how the elements show up in the world, within our bodies, and in our practice.
Overview of Chakra System: A brief review of the seven main chakras, and how each element activates a specific chakra.
Dynamic Mandala Vinyasa Practice 1 – EARTH – Root Chakra.
Qualities of Earth: Grounding, Stability, Strength, Support, Nervous System regulation,
Body Connection: Foundations, Feet, Legs, Ham Strings.
Poses: Warriors, Forward Folds, Hanumanasana, Options for Inversions.
Sequence Design How to create sequences that build strength and stability in the lower body, focusing on rooting down and finding balance.
Yin Practice & Theory – Postures to cultivate Earth, stillness, support, and grounding. For legs & hamstrings (Caterpillar, Sphinx, Snail, Dangle, Twisted Roots)

Nidra Practice & Theory – to explore the elemental poetics and to invite deeper integration. Complementing the Earth practice with a grounding and supportive Yoga Nidra experience.
Reflections, Questions & Sharing

DAY 2 – WATER & FIRE – Svadisthana & Manipura

Dynamic Mandala Vinyasa Practice 2 – WATER – Sacral Chakra
Qualities of Water: Movement, Fluidity, Adaptability, Creativity.
Body Connection: Hips, Groin, Pelvis, Sacrum.
Poses: Deep hip openers & lunges. fluid transitions.
Yin Practice & Theory – Hips & Groin, emotional release. (Frog, Butterfly, Dragonfly) Gentle, Yin-focused breathwork to unlock emotional blockages.
Nidra Practice & Theory – focusing on fluidity, creativity and connection to emotions and unconscious.
Elemental Theory, Philosophy & Sequence Design
Water Archetypes: Unconscious, Emotions, Sensuality, Relating.
Creating flowing, spiraling movements to release emotional tension, create space in the hips, and cultivate creativity.
Fire Archetypes: Self Esteem, Willpower, Confidence. Intuition.
Building sequences that generate heat and intensity, activating the core, building inner strength, and transforming energy.
Dynamic Mandala Vinyasa Practice 3 – FIRE – Solar Plexus Chakra
Qualities of Fire: Power, Alchemy, Transformation, intuition, ignition.
Body Connection: Flanks, Core, Waist, Ribs,
Poses: Rotations & Twists. Fallen Stars, Shiva Twist, Eagles
Yin Practice & Theory – Postures to complement the element of Fire.
Poses focusing on the abdomen and solar plexus, to activate the digestive system and release tension. Twists, Detoxification (Cat Tail, Deer, Banana and Dragons)
Nidra Practice & Theory -A Yoga Nidra practice focused on integrating the element of Fire, alchemising and transformation, cultivating inner power, intuition and confidence.
Reflections, Questions & Sharing

Elemental Vinyasa Content

DAY 3 – AIR – Anahata & Vishuddha

Dynamic Mandala Vinyasa Practice 4 – AIR – Heart & Throat Chakra.

Qualities of Air: Breath, expansion, lightness, communication, freedom.

Body Connection: Chest, lungs, shoulders, arms, neck, and throat.

Poses: Heart openers, backbends, shoulder openers, thoracic spine, chest and throat opening poses (Pulses, Camel Pose, Cobra, Bridge, Fish, Wild Thing).

Elemental Theory & Philosophy. Structure & Teaching – How to create sequences that encourage freedom in the chest, shoulders and throat, promoting lightness and communication through breath.
Air archetypes: Love, Self, Wisdom, I Am. Giving & Receiving, Expressing, Communication. (75 mins)
Yin Practice & Theory – Postures to complement the elements and anatomy of Air. Backbends. (Saddle, Supported Bridge)

Nidra Practice & Theory – to explore the opening of the Anahata Chakra, elemental poetics of the Heart & I Am.

Teaching Practice – Students teach in groups. Each student creates their own short elemental vinyasa, with yin which is taught to their group.

Closing Circle. Reflections & Sharing

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Teacher Emma Landolt

Emma has been a passionate and dedicated yoga practitioner for more than 15 years and has been teaching since 2013. She initially turned to yoga to help a shoulder injury and was greatly inspired by the healing transformation that took place in her body as her yoga practice deepened. Her love of yoga took her to India where she trained to teach Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow, a combination of the traditional Ashtanga practice and a more contemporary Flow style.

Emma shares her ever evolving practice in regular classes and workshops in South London and leads retreats in India, Sri Lanka, Colombia and Europe. She has completed numerous teacher trainings; Inversions with Patrick Beach, Ashtanga with David Swenson, Yin Yoga with Josh Summers, Rocket, Mandala, Yin and Tripsichore with The Yoga People and Yoga Nidra with Uma Dinsmore Tuli. She is a registered Teacher with Yoga Alliance with more than 600 hours of training.

Her background in dance and Capoeira, teaching both during her twenties, has infused her yoga with the joy and poetry of physical movement. She uses this passion to create dynamic, flowing, dance-like sequences, which she guides her students through gracefully, joining the movements with breath and creating a feeling of lightness, ease and deep relaxation for her students. Her love of handstands and inversions brings a sense of fun and play to her offering.

Her teaching fuses elements of Rocket and Mandala styles, and she often mixes this dynamic practice with Yin Yoga to balance the sometimes physically challenging Yang style of Vinyasa. Her classes often include Yoga Nidra, the sacred yoga of sleep, as a guided meditation for true awakening. She uses breathwork, intention and philosophy to deeply relax and calm the nervous system, encouraging students to let go of the narratives in the mind and to drop into true Being. Her classes encourage awareness energetically, physically and spiritually. Emma creates a positive, nurturing environment for students to learn, experiment and transform through their yoga practice. Her classes empower and inspire students to rediscover their own sacred space which they can return home to again and again.

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Course Dates

The course has the following modules scheduled:

Saturday 7 June 2025 IN STUDIO

10-6pm
Sunday 8 June 2025 IN STUDIO

10-6pm
Monday 9 June 2025 IN STUDIO

10-6pm

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The cost is £450
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