Testimonials

During my 200Hr Teacher Training, Summer was an inspiration as a teacher and facilitator. Her easygoing presence often supported me in absorbing the program, her calmness helped me feel grounded and centered when the challenges grew.
Summers yoga teaching style gave me the freedom to let everything be real, to be true to what was actually happening, rather than striving for results or progress. It was a very holistic attitude, especially knowing how much can happen during an Elemental Yoga class. I will take a lot forward from Summers yoga teacher training and I am excited to share this philosophy with my students.

From all the yoga classes I’ve been taking so far, I’ve enjoyed and learned from Summer’s classes the most. The way she uses simplicity, even when it gets challenging, showed me how to get deeper into Yoga. Summer always encourages you to tune into your own experience and you can really feel that Summer teaches from her body. Summer creates a safe space, where personal processes can rise without judgment. I love her gentle nature. I am really grateful for everything I have already learned from Summer and the new perspectives she taught me about yoga and how it can help me develop myself.

The Zen Shiatsu sessions with Summer moved me into a deep state of peacefulness and I could feel the effects lasting for days after the sessions. It helped me recover from a long lasting lung infection. The sessions did not only made me feel much better, they also created deep healing on a body level. I am not fighting my body anymore. I am listening to my body and slowly creating a positive relationship to it.

Summers sessions, combined with her grounded compassionate energy were part of me making peace with my body.

Summer is an earthy woman with a beautiful approach to yoga teaching, clearly is based on her own experiences of working with the elements. She always holds the space with her heart open, soft strength, with a grounded centered way about her. Her classes helped me to find a deeper sense of balance and peace within myself. I am very grateful for her teaching.

The RPYT with Summer totally exceeded my expectations. Everything was in its place, there wasn’t too much or little of anything. The balance of this experience showed the deep thought and preparation this School puts into leading their students through meaningful yoga studies. I didn’t feel confident at first at all, but now I know I can help women with their health through Yoga.

Summer is one of the sincerest teachers I’ve ever met! I didn’t feel any judgment from her, not even once. She was just so free in the role, and it always felt like she was just being herself. I was inspired by this every day, it helped me to be myself as well. She really showed me how to build so much new confidence in myself. Her teaching skills are great- always engaging and calm. I couldn’t have asked for a better yoga teacher.

The most impressive thing for me was my ability to live in the moment. I’ve always struggled with that, but here I had no problem with it. I really feel how I’m so much more in harmony with myself and the nature after working with Elemental Yoga. I feel that I found my balance. These were the most powerful yoga classes I’ve had in my life.

It's just phenomenal how much this course has changed me. I thought “I'll just go to a training, do some yoga, learn about pregnancy and giving birth” but it has been truly life changing. I've done many different therapies in my life, but never has the effect been so deep. I had no expectations on that level, yet I healed so much. Elemental yoga is just THAT powerful.

I used to attend several different styles of yoga classes before coming to the course, but my experience so far was nothing like the 5 element yoga concept taught at The Elemental Yoga School. The curriculum integrates a living model of the full spectrum of aspects which demonstrate a way of living in alignment with nature and its cycles. The course is so organic and comprehensive, and I want to keep growing into the philosophy it is teaching.

The teaching was brilliant at teasing out the ‘natural’ knowledge we all have and translated what our bodies already knew into a verbal language to make sharing and therapy skills possible. The under current of this course aims at developing conscious behaviors and teaching skills buried under layers of inorganic living, over-valued logic, and years of conditioning in western society. I am eternally grateful for it.

Quiet necessarily the course states the obvious, namely, how to live in harmony with Nature. In a very practical way, it was shown how life changes in the process of getting the 5 Elements in balance. I felt out of my depth at the start, but now I know that yoga is not an art viewed from the outside in, but it is an art to be learnt from the inside out.
I can see a massive leap in terms of strength and flexibility, as well as emotional balance and depth after the 4 weeks of practice

Summer is an Absolute goddess! Her superpowers are compassion, empathy, calmness, being centered and engagingly intelligent. The classes she prepared and taught ranged from super easy (restorative) to very challenging, but always evoked deep feelings on a level I thought I was not capable of drawing from Asana practices. It was a first time I realized the actual power of yoga and the 5 Elements, I felt gratitude to the point of tears, so many sensations and surges of powerful energy. It was so moving to see how the elements come alive inside me after Summer’s teaching.

This Yoga course is both a professional study and a personal journey through natures 5 elements. In the 28 days of one Moon cycle, the way the course is set, I learned to reset myself through this form of Yoga, which enhances my health via its connection to Nature’s cycles. I left confident that I will be able to implement this philosophy throughout my life. The whole experience showed me simplicity is a way of living.

This course teaches you a connection to your inner self, in the sense that you start understanding the true effects of the elements on yourself and how to flow through them individually. A rare gift. It was an all new experience on how to look at the construction of a yoga class, with a thorough understanding of how to let the elements create a deeply healing effect through ways of writing asana sequences and flows. Brilliant

I have been searching for months for different yoga courses and by far this is the only one that really spoke to me. The course topics are ingeniously put together as a rare and inspiring curriculum in yoga studies. The style of the Elemental Yoga School is a natural and organic way of teaching. The School even teaches you how to learn, which I only now realize is important.

I have practiced yoga for more than 10 years and have been doing self-practice since I began. At a stage I felt that yoga classes didn’t make sense to me, often leaving me with unsettled energies. Having the chance to go through this course however gave me a deeper understanding of yoga, nature and the elements, and how it can be used as a reliable therapy.

Accessing and experiencing nature through yoga classes has been a remarkable experience. I feel so grateful that yoga classes like these exist and must be more accessible in our community. This kind of yoga gave me a chance to re-connect with my inner needs in the simplest most natural ways possible.
Experiencing Elemental Yoga is like going back home after a long journey. Elemental yoga makes so much more sense than the kind of yoga I knew before, and the kind of yoga I see in my community.

The entire curriculum is woven together beautifully, with enough space and time for me to reflect and integrate the philosophies presented and the entire learning experience. Overall, I can say that the course gave me an opportunity to absorb, and enjoy many sincere experiences, and not to just sit and listen to big ideas. It is a beautiful gift which I feel excited to share with my community.

It is inspiring how Summer is able to hold the space for the whole group and still teach in a way that we are able to experience the yoga for ourselves, by ourselves. I loved how she delivers the instructions for body and breath, with visualizations, themes and concepts all threaded through the class, creating waves of energy for specific healing needs. I never feel that she is asking us to do anything during the class, it is more a way of guiding of me toward my own desire to find my limits and resistances within each pose. A very adept teacher, no doubt.

The Elemental Yoga School experience in itself, woke up a natural form of wisdom towards yoga and energy. It felt so fluid and fun, yet it was a strong, and challenging experience.
I especially appreciated how each new philosophy was discussed and debated as a group, enriching our picture of Yoga as a collective, and then how enough space was given to integrate each idea in a personal way. Every step of the way was absolutely organic.

All in all, it was an experience that helps shed the clutter and taps into the natural flow of life and wisdom, rather than just storing more knowledge and facts, which only calcify the mind. This course teaches wonderful Yoga Therapy skills, resulting in a newly fortified relationship to nature’s power to heal yourself.
As for the Yoga classes, after a few classes, I knew deep in my bones that things were coming into balance, energetic holes were being filled, polarities were being balanced and a stable deep strength was being built, both in mind and body. Hard to go back to my regular yoga sessions after this gem of a practice.

Summer teaches with a stable and steady energy that is very reassuring, she has a natural way of supporting the personal shifts that can be felt in every class. She is the rock that keeps you going and trusting yourself to know your own limits. Clearly wise beyond her years, she is an approachable, generous and kind hearted teacher.

Through its unique curriculum, this course brings you back in contact with what is most simple and most powerful: yourself, the rhythms of nature, the rhythms of your body, your internal energy. During this course I have experienced yoga in a way I had never done before, learning how this 5 Element discipline can support any aspect of my life.

I no longer see yoga as a chain of sequences just aiming at improving my flexibility. Yoga has become a means to fully express the best parts of myself and to balance the parts of myself that are an obstacle to my full expression. My whole perspective on the world around me has changed, making me more conscious of how I can feel a part of nature, and how to keep this harmony even when I am struggling in a city.

I have learned how to be a “natural being” again and how to stimulate and activate the connections I naturally have with a deeper nature within me. I think that in a society weakly inspired by power, technology and material productivity, all which leave us lost inside, this course is a real revolution. The best gift you can give, the best choice you can take.

I’ve found Summer’s teachings technique extremely efficient. She shares all the information in such a simple, yet precise and targeted way that they simultaneously are felt and understood. In line with this whole course, Summer teachings rely on demonstrating how “less is more”… encouraging me to see how a yoga class is not about the teacher, but a ritual offering each person a genuine chance to get in contact with their inner dialogue.
She teaches you how to find the creative energy behind these internal connections without becoming a part of it. A rare skill which makes her a gifted teacher.

This was a unique course that brought me deep into the natural rhythms of nature. Traditional yoga has been given a whole new meaning in the framework of the 5 Elements and the interpretation of the Meridian System. It was an exceptional healing experience to be taught how to follow the pathways of energy throughout my mind-body, so much so that all the way through the journey of this month-long course I felt I was following maps of my whole life. The rise and fall of the moon, the sun and every cycle in our lives was explored with wisdom and patience. Loved it! I am so grateful to have taken this journey!

Summer teaches from her heart! As a woman, she is naturally nurturing, calm when she is being attentive, and very knowledgeable. Her classes were challenging at times, but I could always feel the inner wisdom and creativity in how she was approaching teaching her sequences. Summer’s Yoga awakens new, healing energy, and her classes are thoughtfully integrated. Her work reached me in a very peaceful, powerful way.

The experience here has been a revolution for me, after many years of practicing different approached to Yoga, it was like a light being switched on.
The way Summer teaches, setting up a rhythm so deep and strong, has given me a new view of yoga and to experience the benefit of it. The way she has taught us through the elements has been gentle and still firm, with a clear theme for each class so you know which Element you are connecting to. She has really woken up the meaning of nature to us, and how to see how yoga and the elements are beautifully connected.

Summer’s teaching has been extremely beneficial for me, she has a beautiful way to encourage me to find my own limits and reach beyond what I thought was possible. She leaves enough space in her teachings to make my practice solely about me. I’m truly honored to have her gentle and kind presence as my 200Hr Yoga Training Teacher, and I am forever grateful for her unique style of teaching.

Summer teaches with compassion and understanding never losing sight that the Yoga is really most effective throughout the layers underneath the physical body. She is strong and still vulnerable, which makes her very approachable and she has the ability to create classes which are accessible and challenging for all levels of the students needs. Summer teaches in a way that creates intriguing experiences and leaves you the space to explore them. She teaches without making any pressure or expectations to achieve or perform within her classes. Outside the Yoga room, Summer has a nice earthy energy and an open easygoing personality and was fun to just hangout with. :)

This comprehensive 85 HR Elemental Pre-Natal Yoga Teacher Training course integrates skillfully the 5 Elements principles with the essential understanding and knowledge of Pre-natal Yoga practice and teaching.

I personally appreciate the quality of Summers teaching, which was a well-balanced way of teaching both theoretical ideas and practical skills. I feel like I learned through my experience as much as the lectures within the theory lectures. I loved that approach. I can take this very valuable knowledge and understanding of 5 Element Pre-natal Yoga into a new way of working with women and Yoga.

Summers groundedness and openness creates a space in which every student has the freedom to discover and develop skills within their own capacity. This allows a higher experience for all the students and a more holistic learning curve.

As a teacher, Summer is inherently a very calm, loving and grounded person. She has a vibrant spirit and can be as playful as a child. These aspects of her personality allow her to transmit her knowledge with love and incredible honesty – there’s no ego barriers between her and her students. This creates a very unique shared space of easiness and playfulness that enable students to feel welcoming and open and make them drop their resistances early and easily. A great teacher.

A fantastic opportunity to connect to myself, to the nature, to the lovely baby that is growing up inside my belly. I felt I could be myself, welcomed like I am. With respect and such generosity, Summer created a calm healing space and I felt always welcomed with my questions and doubts.

Practicing yoga in such beautiful nature, with respectful and open people, has been a really wonderful experience. More than just a peaceful time to be with myself, but to also meet and share it with inspiring people, all gathering our energies to learn together, to grow together. I really enjoyed the simplicity of the sequences we did. The perfect balance between deep and safe. I feel capable of leading classes in pre-natal yoga through this course. Thank you, Summer.

This course was exactly what I was looking for. Throughout the course you can clearly feel the holistic approach towards Prenatal Yoga and Women’s health in general. It is much more than a prenatal yoga teacher training and I feel it has brought me closer to myself and connected to nature on a much deeper level. I feel more grounded than ever and I am confident that I leave this course with lots of wonderful tools to share with women in my community. The Elemental Yoga School has my praising and I would gladly recommend this course to anyone interested in Prenatal Yoga.

Summer’s teaching style has really touched me. She has shown me that way beyond facts and details, yoga teaching is much more about the capacity to inspire people to find their deepest level of being. Summer has given me the confidence as a yoga teacher, and I feel ready to start sharing prenatal yoga.

I loved the gentleness of Summer’s approach, the simplicity of the yoga classes. The overall structure of the topics and the energy felt very natural. Summer made time to connect with everyone, so each and every one of us felt seen and heard. I really enjoyed her honesty and clarity about what she knows and doesn’t know, it has a revealing effect on the group and gives the feeling of a shared process.

This was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. The aerial mountain setting was a perfect environment to help us connect with each element and helped me work with myself and push myself.

The structure of the course not only helped me connect and work on myself with the help of each element, but it also provided an optimum learning environment. Without having a formal teacher training background, I was able to put the training to good use, gain a lot of confidence and in the end deliver a class totally connected to myself and without any inhibitions.

Before I came here, I had the belief that I wasn’t ready to be a teacher and this experience with Summer slowly helped me peal all those layers away and find that light. To have achieved this in such a short time is just miraculous. I thoroughly enjoyed learning Prenatal Yoga with Summer. Her understanding of Prenatal issues seen from an elemental experience was fascinating and I will take a lot away for myself. The knowledge shared was shared at a digestible level and covered all the important aspects of pregnancy in harmony with many other interesting concepts about women’s health

This training is the perfect way to learn how to teach Prenatal Yoga. It covers all the fundamental aspects that any yoga teacher should know while practicing with pregnant women (anatomy, general conditions/issues, physical and psychological changes…), but keeping the focus on the most important: the power of the 5 Elements. The healing that the elements can give to the body and how this can help a Mother to connect with her Child on a deeper level.

Summer’s way of teaching shows all her experience of elemental yoga and lifestyle. The whole training reflects this knowledge applied to such a delicate and sacred moment of a woman’s life. Every word she says comes from her heart and the deep connection she has with herself as a woman, completely aware of her feminine power and wisdom. She empowers women to be themselves, before being a good yoga teacher, and to get connected with their inner nature.

Right from the beginning I knew I was in the right place. The teaching, the girls in the group, the stunning location, it all felt just wonderful. The teaching Summer shared on Prenatal Yoga was structured in a way that I could get the most from every moment, along with the theory of the 5 Elements and the philosophy of Elemental Yoga which took me deeper into the whole training. The balance Summer found between teaching and sharing was perfect for me.

I really gained more than I expected from this training, and I feel that I can take my teaching deeper into women’s health and the needs of pregnant women with Yoga. Summer has thought this course through very deeply and offered a unique perspective on her subjects. It’s a one of a kind training and I can recommend it all at all the levels you would seek in a live in, catered training immersion. An excellent experience.

I loved learning about pre-natal yoga and the ways that yoga can be adapted to care for yourself, a baby and your inner child. The course integrated the elements beautifully and focused on empowering women to view their pregnancy positively. I enjoyed the practical classes and coming up with creative ideas to benefit mothers and hold space during this sacred time in their lives.
Summers teaching was informative and engaging. Her gentle delivery and thoughtful presentation of the course was clear in every practice. I appreciated Summers classes, the time she took to discuss creative ideas with me and how much she cares for women.

The pre-natal course brought me closer to myself as a woman and what I learned I feel I can apply to much more than pregnancy. It's amazing to be able to offer yoga to a woman going through such a life-changing transition. And I feel comfort in knowing that I can work to bring new life into this world in such a connected holistic way.

Summer brought a soft yet strong feminine spirit to the course, Though she may seem soft - she knows how to teach you through a challenging class. Summer has a genuine grace to her that's really wonderful to be around and I loved connecting with her during the Training.

My experience in the Elemental Pre-Natal Yoga Course has been a way to discover myself in another perspective. It was a great mix of study concepts and indulging in the feminine energies, sharing feelings about woman's explorations and how to use Yoga in a way that supports life-bearing and ritual connection. It was very interesting the way Summer taught us, because I started to realize how strongly connected the Elements are with pregnancy and I can't imagine a Pre-Natal Course without them. All the subjects are covered and she also introduces new ideas that in my opinion are needed in society that we live in. Society is slowly losing this sense of nourishment and gentleness that pregnancy and child bearing deserves.

Summers teaching is beautifully delivered. Her simplicity and her own connection to yoga proves that the key or reality of a successful yoga practice is to be pure, to teach from your heart. The way she creates a calm and peaceful atmosphere makes enjoyable practices where you have a great opportunity to connect with yourself and really explore. Therefore, the outcome is clear: you walk out with a peaceful, compassionate feeling to share with the world

I loved the Pre-Natal Yoga course. I understand pregnancy and what a woman goes though when creating life in a much deeper way. My compassion and connection to that process is on a whole other level than before taking this course and I'm truly excited to get the opportunity to work with pregnant women, helping them through their experience. Through these classes I also understand how to modify and adapt classes to the needs of not only pregnant women, but any people who may need alternatives to normal yoga Asanas.

I loved Summer's gentle, feminine approach to teaching that was also strong and informative. She was engaging, approachable, knowledgeable and passionate. Having the opportunity to learn Pre-Natal Yoga was such a gift and Summer shared it wonderfully!

This course was really a great experience and exceeded my expectations. As a woman taking the course, the way Summers ideas connected me into my body was really valuable to go through. The elements working with Pre-Natal Yoga was intuitive and really enriched my understanding, providing a reliable framework for how to care for someone going through their pregnancy.
Summer's teaching is graceful. I really connected to her energy and classes. Her prenatal insights and connection to feminine energy guided me to my own relationship to those concepts. She's an authentic and very effective teacher.

The Pre-Natal Yoga course was a surprising journey. I am grateful to have had this opportunity to study in this way and to learn more about the sacredness of Women and Womb. I feel more connected to this part of myself. I have learned a lot and look forward to empowering women and connecting them to their own inner feminine qualities.
Summer is amazing. You can feel her heart through her teaching. She held the space beautifully and I could feel the love to share her knowledge of prenatal yoga. She understands the sacredness of the divined feminine part of ourselves and the magic of creation.

I really enjoyed the pre-natal course, especially the Partner Yoga. The lectures were always interesting, helpful and well informed for the many changes that Yoga can support within the 3 trimesters. I feel confident in myself that I know the adaptions to make and I could teach a beginners' pregnancy yoga class.
I really enjoyed the way Summer teaches, she has such a sincere way to share ideas which makes you want to absorb and learn from her. Summer is very approachable. You can see the passion in her when she is teaching.

Having spent my life balancing male and female energies within myself, coming to Summers Pregnancy Yoga let me know deeper how to work with Mother Earth's beautiful energies. Summers gentle spirit brings out the gentle and soft within you, making you feel safe and in good hands. I would without a doubt entrust Summer to teach my wife and child Elemental yoga. A Wonderful teacher.

This course was really fun! Pregnancy Yoga, Partner Yoga, even Chair Yoga. In the beginning, I thought the ideas were really just for pregnant women, before and after childbirth, but Summer used the space to show how you can also use Prenatal yoga concepts with old or physically limited people.
I'm grateful that she was willing to spend time with me to explain the things I was confused with when my English didn't quite work!

I feel blessed to have been a part of the Elemental Prenatal Yoga Training. It is a beautiful mix of yoga practices, lectures, rituals, nature, sharing and still the space to simply just be. It was a wonderful experience and huge gift to myself.

I was able to enjoy and embrace all parts of it. The lectures were an open floor for discussion amongst us all, which were perfectly guided by Summer to make it feel safe. There was always space for everyone’s questions as well as individual knowledge and experiences to be shared. The balance of practices and information was great, and the amount of information to absorb was never too much.

I am very inspired by the gentle but profound teachings of Elemental Prenatal Yoga and I can’t wait to explore and share it, with myself and others.

I really resonated with Summer’s confident, pure and clear teaching approach. It was beautiful to experience how she gave the space and respect to all of us, so patient and caring. She clearly has a big amount of knowledge about Prenatal Yoga as well as Elemental Yoga, yet she is humble enough to admit when she doesn’t know something. This honesty allowed me to be myself and feel totally safe. I felt very supported by Summer, the group and nature all through the course.