Earth & Aerial Yoga Teacher Training
Established 2018
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Purpose
We transform passionate practitioners into confident, compassionate instructors through comprehensive education in technique, cueing, safety, and real-world teaching experience.
What to expect
The Earth & Aerial Yoga Teacher Training equips you with the essential skills to confidently lead safe and engaging classes for beginner and mixed-level students. You’ll receive comprehensive instruction in technique, cueing, sequencing, class management, and the art of teaching, all grounded in a strong foundation of safety and support.
We break down every aerial yoga pose and transition into manageable steps, guiding you through safe entries and exits, proper alignment, and options for modifications or advancements. You’ll learn how to cue clearly and concisely, observe students, and correct unsafe body positioning.
Once you’ve built a strong foundation, you’ll practice your teaching skills with real beginner students. These supervised sessions help solidify your knowledge and build confidence as you learn to guide and challenge students at every level.
What you can expect from this training:
• Master tools and techniques to confidently sequence and lead aerial yoga classes for all levels
• Learn practical approaches to safety, alignment, and cueing
• Focus on mindful movement and body awareness
• Integrate breath and sensation into your teaching practice
• Solidify your teaching skills through hands-on experience with real students
• Experience personalized learning within a supportive small-group cohort
Style/Lineage
The Earth & Aerial Yoga Teacher Training is rooted in traditional yoga principles, emphasizing mindful movement, body awareness, and breath. At Earth & Aerial Yoga, we blend these foundations with self-discovered poses, ongoing research, and collaborative refinement to create a dynamic aerial yoga program that continues to grow and adapt.
Rather than focusing on performance or aerial tricks, our training prioritizes inner focus and the mind-body connection. You’ll learn to guide students in safely exploring their physical boundaries while keeping them connected to breath, alignment, and sensation. This intentional, embodied approach fosters both strength and mindfulness, helping students leave each session feeling accomplished, empowered, and recharged.
Program Emphasis
Core competencies
AYC allows each school to state and evaluate the competencies each student acquires
Knowledge
A general understanding of...
- The physical and mental benefits of aerial yoga
- How to cultivate a unique and authentic teaching style as an instructor
- How centering, savasana, music, and lighting shape the student experience
A professional understanding of...
- Directive cueing techniques that optimize clarity, accessibility, and safety
- Sequencing that follows Earth & Aerial Yoga's distinctive class trajectory
- Core aerial yoga safety principles, such as risk awareness and hands-on assisting
- How to set up and care for aerial yoga equipment
Skills
The ability to practice...
- 200+ aerial yoga poses and transitions
- Using clear and concise verbal cues
- Guiding movement effectively both with and without physical demonstration
- Using a confident, compassionate teaching voice
- Prompting attention to alignment, breath, and sensation
The ability to teach...
- Safe and engaging beginner, mixed-level, and themed aerial yoga classes
- Progressions and modifications of aerial yoga poses to support varying skill levels
- Identify and correct unsafe positioning in foundational aerial yoga poses
Requirements
Program evaluation
- Written exam
- Teaching evaluation
1. WRITTEN QUIZZES: After each training session, students complete an online quiz designed to assess their integration of core concepts. These quizzes emphasize deeper understanding rather than rote memorization, with questions covering sequencing logic, appropriate warm-ups, safe transitions, pose progressions, opportunities for common mistakes, and options for modifications and advancements. 2. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Each trainee is required to complete a structured self-evaluation, based on a recording of their practice teaching. This reflective process helps them build self-awareness and teaching precision. They assess their use of voice, clarity and conciseness of cueing, application of safety and modifications, class pacing, and their ability to observe and respond to students in real time. 3. FINAL EVALUATION: Trainees complete a live teaching practicum with real students, observed by a lead trainer. The evaluation focuses on the overall flow and structure of the class, safety and confidence in instruction, appropriate use of directive verbal cues, ability to manage student needs and offer real-time modifications, and general teaching presence and leadership.
AYC Verification
This program will grant the following AYC CE badge after you verify your credential.
Level 1 Yoga Teacher
Earth & Aerial Yoga Teacher Training
Lora Markova, Katharine Scalora
50 hours
Additional Information
While not required, it is strongly recommended that trainees have previously completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training before enrolling.
This training is designed as a flexible hybrid program, allowing participants to engage in both virtual and in-person sessions, or attend the entire live portion of the training in person. Students must have access to an aerial yoga silk if they plan to attend any sessions virtually. Students must complete all 50 hours of training and pass all tests and evaluations to receive an Earth & Aerial Yoga Teacher Training completion certificate. Recordings of the virtual components will be available for download. Any missed in-person hours must be made up by appointment at an additional cost.
Program Faculty
Lead faculty
Level 1
Hudson, MA
Aka Kat Scalora
Level 1
Hudson, MA
Up-front pricing and policies
Format
Attendance
Hybrid
Structure
Cohort
Minimum hours of instruction
50 hours
Total time commitment
0- 30 days
Program fees (USD)
Application fee
Application fees are non-refundable.
Program fees
Depending on timing
Housing fees
Depending on travel, lodging, and meals
Estimated total cost
All details are subject to change; confirm on program website
AYC verification fee
AYC verification fee
One-time. Payable to AYC.
40% goes to Earth & Aerial Yoga, 10% to the Give Back Fund, 50% to AYC Operations