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
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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.Core competencies
By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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.
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Program Faculty
Featured Faculty
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.
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.