AERIAL Yoga TEACHER TRAINING
San Diego, California
aerial Yoga Teacher Certification
La Jolla Cove, California
Aerial Yoga Level 1 Training 2025
WINTER: February 27th - March 3rd
Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Friday, 6pm-10pm
Saturday, 8am-5pm
Sunday, 8am-5pm
Monday, 6pm-10pm
SPRING: May 8th - 12th
Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Friday, 6pm-10pm
Saturday, 8am-5pm
Sunday, 8am-5pm
Monday, 6pm-10pm
FALL: September 11th - 15th
Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Friday, 6pm-10pm
Saturday, 8am-5pm
Sunday, 8am-5pm
Monday, 6pm-10pm
Aerial Yoga Level 2 Training 2025
SPRING: May 29th - June 1st
Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Friday, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, 9am-3pm
Sunday, 9am-3pm
FALL: November 6th - 9th
Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Friday, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, 9am-3pm
Sunday, 9am-3pm
Investment:
Level 1: $1,450
Level 2: $1,250
Bundle: $2,400 -- Save $300
*only applicable for the Spring L1 + Summer L2
Aerial Yoga Low Hammock 2025
SPRING: March 20th - 23rd
Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Friday, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, 9am-3pm
Sunday, 9am-3pm
Investment:
$1,250
Limited spaces available. Payment plans are available. Full payment due 14 days before the first day of training. Paying in full is an option too :)
Aerial Yoga Training - San Diego
Experience our Aerial Yoga Teacher Trainings at Trilogy Sanctuary - a collection of aerial yoga immersions that will change your life and educate you to become a competent aerial yoga instructor. Our San Diego Aerial Yoga studios include a beautiful rooftop yoga studio in La Jolla with ocean views and an indoor studio with 16 aerial rigging points. Trilogy Sanctuary also offers infrared yoga (heated yoga), private meditation rooms, a vegan cafe and spiritual healing and counseling - so many holistic services to enhance your teacher training experience! View our La Jolla Area Guide for hotel accommodations if you are traveling to San Diego, California to become a certified aerial yoga teacher.
Leila Caldera, founder of Trilogy Sanctuary, along with Hannahsita Smyth, have created a complete Aerial Yoga curriculum for both Level 1 and Level 2. They have drawn on valuable knowledge discovered from many years of practicing and teaching, in addition to creativity from years of being aerial acrobatic performers. They have a combined experience of 20 years in the field of yoga, fitness and aerial arts. Their individual styles of teaching will inspire you to find your own creative and individual teaching style.
In addition, Trilogy Sanctuary leads Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training - perfect for yogis looking for opportunities to teach private yoga clients and at vinyasa yoga studios, or to deepen and transform their own yoga practice.
Trilogy's Training happens on our sky deck and in our earth room - two stunning YOGA sTUDIOS !
Aerial Yoga L1 Teacher Training
The mission of this Aerial Yoga Training is to provide each student with the foundation to teach skillfully with compassion, safety, and integrity, while honoring their individual voice and style. The curriculum will guide you to integrate the hammock as a prop into your existing yoga or fitness teaching and personal practice. You will discover a new relationship with gravity, deepen your understanding of alignment, and enhance Pranic flow throughout the body. Trilogy’s aim is to fully integrate mind, body and spirit. Therefore, our trainings will touch on how to thoughtfully guide your students towards a more mindful practice, not only using Aerial Yoga for the many amazing physical benefits, but also as an instrument for emotional and spiritual growth - deepening one's connection to their own practice and dharmic journey.
Throughout this training, you will be given the tools you need to create classes such as Gentle Aerial Yoga, which encompasses a more healing and restorative approach, Aerial Yoga Level 1, a well rounded class for beginners, and Aerial Yoga Fitness, a class that focuses on strength building in order to progress to higher level classes.
After graduating from Trilogy’s Aerial Yoga Teacher Training, you will have the skills and confidence to immediately teach your own well-sequenced, stimulating, and creative Aerial Yoga classes. You’ll also belong to an authentic, conscious and vibrant community of fun and sincere Aerial Yoga instructors from Trilogy Sanctuary.
Curriculum:
Opening warm-ups
Creative sequencing
Inventive transitions
How to ‘read’ your students
Hands on adjustments
Inversions — Inversions — Inversions!
Restorative postures
Conditioning (strengthening for upper body and core)
The benefits of Inversion Therapy
The spiritual and emotional benefits of practice and poses
Practice teaching
Safety techniques for rigging & knot tying
Bonus Experience: Aerial Sound Healing, handstands in a hammock, and Low Fabric workshop
Aerial Yoga L2 Teacher Training
This is an advanced training intended for aerialists that are looking for creative ways to teach advanced aerial classes, including aerial yoga level 2 classes, flips and tricks, and aerial performance. Many of the poses and tricks learned in this training are intended to be challenging in order to create a powerful, energetic and dynamic class. Our Advanced Aerial Training is intended to equip teachers with the skills needed to confidently and safely teach a captivating and one-of-a-kind class for your students.
Learn how to empower students and support growth on their journey into a deeper aerial practice, while having fun along the way! In order to attend this training, you must have completed Trilogy Sanctuary’s Aerial Yoga Teacher Training or an equivalent training elsewhere. Advanced Aerial training will cover 50 new poses, including new and creative warm ups, strength building and conditioning that focuses on the muscle groups needed to perform more advanced poses, fun and challenging level 2 poses, flips and tricks, transitions, working towards a performance based practice and effective and fun ways to cool down. This training is intended for aerialists with a strong practice.
Curriculum:
Anatomy: Looking at Pull Muscles
The importance of grip strength & how to safely build it
Sequencing an Aerial Yoga L2, Aerial Fitness or Flips & Tricks Class
Exploring more advanced poses from the basic inversions: Back & front belt
How to build Strength & Flexibility safely
How to create an accessible class for students of varying levels
Deep dive into Aerial Yoga L2 Poses 40+ new poses!
Aerial Performance Flips & Tricks 30+ new poses!
Conditioning poses to build strength for an advanced practice 30+ new poses
Creative flows & new ways to move in the hammock
Exploring creative transitions & fabric entry methods
How to build Performance Skills in a class environment
Practice Teaching.
Low Hammock Aerial Yoga Teacher Training
Our Low Hammock Aerial Teacher training is intended for those looking to teach a variety of Aerial classes with the hammock set at a lower height, between ankle-knee height or around hip height from a kneeling position.
This training will cover a variety of poses that can be done with the low hammock and includes an extensive manual with 75+ Poses and variations. This training is thorough, thoughtfully curated and will give you all the tools you need to teach with confidence and to creatively structure a safe and inspiring class for students of all levels.
This 25 hour training will cover the following topics:
Restorative Poses
Deep Stretch Poses
Strengthening Poses
Aerial Therapeutics & Myofascial Release
Using the Hammock as a tool to release tension
How to support injuries
How to incorporate props into your teaching
Finding release in the physical & emotional bodies
How to create a gentle and restorative class
How to create a deep stretch class with a focus on certain muscle groups
How to create a fitness/TRX style class
For Level 1 and Low Hammock: 200 hour yoga instructor certification (RYT), Personal Training certification (CPT), Massage Therapist certification (RMT), or Physical Therapist certification (PT). or Pilates Certification. Plus at least 10 Aerial Yoga or Low Hammock Classes.
*If you do not have one of the above certifications, you must have been practicing Aerial yoga for at least two years.
ELIGIBILITY FOR APPLICATION
RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS:
For Level 1: 200 hour yoga instructor certification (RYT), Personal Training certification (CPT), Massage Therapist certification (RMT), or Physical Therapist certification (PT). or Pilates Certification. Plus at least 10 Aerial Yoga Classes.
*If you do not have one of the above certifications, you must have been practicing Aerial yoga for at least two years.
For Level 2: Completion of Trilogy Sanctuary’s Aerial Yoga Teacher Training L1 or equivalent.
TRAINING & TUITION INCLUDES:
- One Aerial Manual, a complete and comprehensive resource of aerial yoga poses adapted from classical yoga and modern aerial acrobatics
- A certificate of completion from Trilogy Sanctuary
- Free aerial yoga classes at Trilogy Sanctuary for one month during or after training.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION
Paid tuition in full
Complete 30 contact hours of in-studio curriculum
Complete 5 hours of home study (assigned during the weekend) - to be submitted within 14 days of the final day of training
Complete 3 hours of Trilogy Aerial class observations. This is to be scheduled between the first day of training and the following Friday (can be completed as early as Tuesday for those traveling from out of town).
Complete 2 additional hours of your choice. See the following options to mix and match!
- Class observation
- Class assists
- Aerial class sequences submitted via email (recommended for out-of-towners)
To reserve your spot, a $500 non-refundable deposit is required
Please email leila@trilogysanctuary.com for more information
NOTE: There is no official certification governing body like Yoga Alliance for an Aerial Yoga certification. Trilogy Sanctuary is one of the leading Aerial Yoga studios in North America so it is a highly recognized certification with very high standards. The training will give you the tools to teach Aerial Yoga classes anywhere in the world!
Why Trilogy Sanctuary?
& more on the Certification
Trilogy Sanctuary is a Yoga Alliance Certified studio. Yoga Alliance certifies our 200 hour yoga program. Aerial Yoga is currently an unregulated form of yoga, and Yoga Alliance does not offer certifications for Aerial Yoga trainings. If the aerial training is part of a 300 hour extended yoga training then it will be certified, as it counts as a part of the complete 500 hour training. For a stand alone Aerial Yoga teacher certification, there are actually no governing bodies that give credentials of any kind to these types of trainings.
When choosing a training, it is important to find a studio or program that is well known and has a high standard of teaching. There are many franchised programs that are very restrictive - taking a training with them means you can only teach at their franchised studios. Trilogy’s Aerial Yoga certification is incredibly well rounded, and has no restrictions on where you can teach. It will give you the tools you need to teach a Level 1 or Level 2 Aerial Yoga class anywhere in the world.
Trilogy Sanctuary is one of the leading Aerial Yoga studios in California, so it is a highly recognized certification with very high standards. We only accept students who we feel will become competent teachers, which is one reason why we only accept those with a 200 hour yoga, pilates or PT certificate, OR at least two years of Aerial experience. Lastly, our trainings are one of the few that will give you the opporitunity to gain experience in teaching real students, in our community classes. For those looking to teach, this is an invaluable part of the training process and is essential to creating a good teacher.
If you do decide to choose us to certify you, we offer support from start to finish, to ensure that all of our students feel confident in teaching a safe, fulfilling, and fun class to all students!
Meet your instructors
LEILA DORA
Leila’s interest in yoga sparked at a very young age with early memories of being intrigued by her mum standing on her head. Her curiosity for all aspects of yoga, physical and spiritual lead her to India in 2010, where she became a certified Yoga Teacher.
During her time in India, she was brought back to the roots of yoga; how it is a way of life, not just movements on a mat. Leila says “I feel that in the West we have come far away from the true meaning of Yoga. It has become just another way of getting fit and getting the body into shape. While finding harmony in the physical body is important in Yoga, creating it in the mind and spirit holds perhaps the greatest benefit.”
As well as teaching yoga, Leila has always had a passion for circus arts. Being fire dancer and performer her love of Aerial silks naturally lead her to Aerial Yoga. For her, Aerial yoga creates the perfect balance of strength, grace, flexibility and flow. It is playful and exciting, and at the same time relaxing and nourishing.
Her passion for yoga, aerial, food and healing inspired her to create her own wellness space. Her and her husband created Trilogy Sanctuary in 2014, to further encourage health, wellness, community and soul connection. She has been teaching Yoga for 10 years, and Aerial Yoga for 5 years and has lead a number of aerial trainings both in the USA and aboard. Leila’s classes are light hearted and soulful, offering students insightful ways to deepen their mind body connection through the art of play and movement.
Hannahsita Smyth
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Hannahsita was blessed to fall in love with the outdoors and be very active. As a kid, she played sports, but soccer became her passion and she played through grade school, high school, and college. She was hooked into fitness and loved the accomplishments and failures of sports. Hannahsita received a Bachelor of Education in Biology and a Minor in Health Education and Exercise Physiology. Certified Personal Trainer in Slow-Motion. Certified 300 hour Yoga Instructor Core Power. Anti Gravity Yoga, Galaxy Lifestyle. Trilogy Sanctuary certified Aerial yoga Instructor. Hannahsita has over 6 years of experience teaching yoga and aerial yoga classes. She works full time as a COT for a private eye clinic in Poway, California. She spends the rest of her time teaching classes, running workshops, and proudly leading aerial teacher training programs.
“I have a purpose to serve. A mission to return a service back to this existence. I believe that our culture has become too soft and comfortable. And with great comfort we lose growth. We learn to limit our lives into a box, which allows little choice to be made. I am strongly passionate about a movement of people creating space in our bodies, minds, and environments through creative aerial yoga. With space in our bodies and minds, we have space open to choices to explore, expand, and evolve… By doing we create a new flow. We create new thinking. A new becoming.”
“Trilogy’s Aerial Yoga Teacher Training is impressively thorough. When the intensive was complete, I was confident in my abilities to lead safe and therapeutic classes. The training manual is extensive and a fabulous reference when planning classes. I recommend this training to any yoga teacher looking to add to their teaching repertoire. It was a really amazing training.!”
