Earth and Aerial - Aerial Yoga Teacher Training

Established 2019

43 Broad Street, Hudson, MA, USA

Hudson, MA

Program Instances

Hybrid Start anytime 3 days • 60 hours • $ 1499+ Hudson, MA, US	Led by Lora Markova and Katharine Scalora		Inquire See up-front pricing
Hybrid Start anytime 3 days • 60 hours • $ 1499+ Hudson, MA, US	Led by Lora Markova and Katharine Scalora		Inquire See up-front pricing

Purpose

Start with our online course and pose library to build your foundation. Then refine your skills in person through practice teaching and real-time feedback. Graduate ready to lead classes, not just understand the theory.

What to expect

Inside the Training: Your Online Course & Pose Library

Get instant access to a structured online training portal that supports your full 60-hour certification before, during, and after the in-person weekend.

Inside, you’ll find organized modules, pose tutorials, guided flows, manual pages, sequencing assignments, and knowledge checks designed to help you learn in a clear, progressive way.

200+ aerial yoga poses and transitions
Step-by-step instructional videos with clear teaching cues
Organized pose families and structured learning modules
Manual excerpts, worksheets, and teaching assignments
Guided flows to help you apply what you’re learning
Self-paced modules you can revisit throughout the year

Style/Lineage

This isn’t just an aerial yoga teacher training. It’s a complete learning system designed to take you from student to confident aerial yoga teacher—with clear structure, real teaching experience, and ongoing support every step of the way.

Additional Information

What You’ll Learn (and Actually Be Able to Do)

This training goes beyond memorizing poses. You’ll learn how to confidently lead real aerial yoga classes from start to finish.

Teach a Variety of Aerial Yoga Classes: Lead thoughtfully structured beginner, mixed-level, and themed classes with clarity and confidence.
Cue 200+ Aerial Yoga Poses & Transitions: Guide students safely and effectively through a wide range of movements using clear, concise language.
Build Seamless, Well-Structured Sequences: Create flows that make sense in the body and connect various poses together seamlessly.
Identify & Correct Misalignments: Quickly recognize what’s happening in the room and adjust students safely.
Modify & Progress for Different Bodies: Meet students where they are while still challenging them appropriately.
Lead Grounding & Savasana with Intention: Create a full experience, not just a physical workout.
Understand Equipment & Setup: Learn how to safely rig, use, and manage aerial yoga equipment.
Develop Your Own Teaching Voice: Communicate clearly, confidently, and authentically.

Why Choose Our Aerial Yoga Teacher Training?

Our training is designed to prepare you for real teaching, so you leave with more than just memorized poses or a certificate. You’ll learn through a structured blend of online study, hands-on practice, expert feedback, and supported teaching experience.

Core competencies

By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…

Teaching Skills	Demonstrate the ability to cue a single aerial yoga pose using both action-oriented and experience-oriented language, blending mechanics with sensation awareness. Build a complete aerial yoga class sequence using the practicum template, including pose family selection, transitions, timing, and a clearly identified peak pose. Deliver a complete aerial yoga safety talk that is reassuring, accurate, clear, and appropriately timed for the start of class, adapting tone and language for new versus returning students, while identifying signs of motion sickness, fear of inversion, silk discomfort, and uneven student readiness. Demonstrate at least three hands-on assists appropriate for aerial poses, such as ankle traction, calf massage, or "rescue movements" that address unsafe or risky positions, following consent procedures and anatomical awareness. Teach a complete Aerial Yoga Essentials community class using the practicum sequence template, demonstrating competency in safety communication, cueing, sequencing, and student management.
Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics	Explain the physiological reasons each contraindication category presents risk in aerial yoga, particularly as they relate to inversion, suspension, fabric pressure, and changes in head position. Apply self-regulation language in class by consistently offering modifications, normalizing pose exits, and reinforcing that sustainable long-term practice outweighs short-term pushing. Explain how inversions, suspension, breath work, and savasana each affect the autonomic nervous system, and why understanding this arc matters for class design.
Practice Skills	Design a Pose Family 1 class segment that builds progressively from grounded shapes toward beginner transitions, using a combination of action and description oriented cues. Create a standing-behind-the-silk sequence of six to eight poses that builds from simpler standing shapes toward a peak balance pose, using a combination of action and description oriented cues. Guide students through Pose Family 4 and 5 shapes with step-by-step cueing, including clear entry and exit protocols for inversions such as Monkey and/or Star poses. Guide students through Pose Family 6 and 7 shapes such as Flying Downdog, with correct silk positioning, and safe entry from standing, including appropriate beginner modifications for students new to floating. Guide students through hammock-mode poses with correct silk setup, student entry, body positioning, and exit, including restorative and reclining shapes appropriate for cooldown and savasana.
Lifestyle & Ethics	Identify the ethical responsibilities of an aerial yoga teacher, including maintaining scope of practice, obtaining consent before touch, describing the teacher's role in supporting appropriate participation without diagnosing or treating. Explain the dynamic load concept, the ten-to-one safety ratio standard, and why professional installation by a licensed structural engineer and rigger is required for any aerial yoga setup. Apply personal self-care practices—including consistent movement outside of teaching, recovery from repeated demonstration, and structured rest between high-intensity teaching days—to sustain the physical readiness and attentional quality that aerial yoga instruction demands.
Business Skills	Apply skills developed across the assisting and supervised teaching phases by leading the safety talk, guiding centering, teaching short sequences, and delivering savasana in live class settings. Apply professional practice standards by obtaining appropriate liability coverage before teaching, maintaining active credentials, and documenting student health intake and consent. Apply professional positioning skills to create a teacher bio, a class description, and a social media presence that accurately represents the aerial yoga specialty, reflects the Earth and Aerial Yoga methodology, and meets the professional communication standards of the American Yoga Council.

AYC allows each school to state and evaluate the competencies each student acquires. Students rate how well the program delivered them.

Program Emphasis

Evaluation methods

Program evaluations

Solo Project Or Presentation
Oral Exam
Written Submission
Direct Observation

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.

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Program Faculty

Featured Faculty

Katharine Scalora

aka Kat Scalora

Kat Scalora is the co-founder and Managing Director of Earth & Aerial Yoga (established 2019). She has been practicing yoga for over 25 years and teaching for nearly 10 years. She has led thousands of yoga and aerial yoga classes, and has trained over 50 aerial yoga teachers.

earthandaerialyoga.com

Hudson, MA, US

Lora Markova

Lora Markova is the co-founder and Creative Director of Earth & Aerial Yoga. She has been practicing yoga around the world for over 25 years, has led thousands of yoga and aerial yoga classes, and has trained a number of aerial yoga teachers.

earthandaerialyoga.com

Hudson, MA, US

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