AERIAL Yoga TEACHER TRAINING
San Diego, California
aerial Yoga Teacher training Certifications
La Jolla Cove, California
COMING IN AUGUST 2026:
100 hour intensive Aerial Course, including L1, L2, flips tricks & Dance, Low Hammock & kids. $2500 investment. More info coming soon!
Aerial Yoga Level 1 Training 2025
FALL: September 11th - 15th
Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Friday, 6pm-10pm
Saturday, 8am-5pm
Sunday, 8am-5pm
Monday, 6pm-10pm
Aerial Yoga Level 1 Training 2026
WINTER: January 22nd - 26th
Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Friday, 6pm-10pm
Saturday, 8am-5pm
Sunday, 8am-5pm
Monday, 6pm-10pm
FALL: September 17th - 21st
Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Friday, 6pm-10pm
Saturday, 8am-5pm
Sunday, 8am-5pm
Monday, 6pm-10pm
Aerial Yoga Level 2 Training 2025
FALL: November 6th - 9th
Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Friday, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, 9am-3pm
Sunday, 9am-3pm
Aerial Yoga Level 2 Training 2026
SPRING: May 14th - 17th
Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Friday, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, 9am-3pm
Sunday, 9am-3pm
FALL: November 5th - 8th
Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Friday, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, 9am-3pm
Sunday, 9am-3pm
Aerial Yoga Low Hammock 2026
SPRING: March 19th - 22nd
Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Friday, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, 9am-4pm
Sunday, 9am-4pm
Investment:
Level 1: $1,450
Level 2: $1,250
Low Hammock: $1,250
Bundle: $2,400 -- Save $300
*applicable for L1 & L2 Training OR L1 & Low Hammock in 2026
Payment plans are available. Full payment is due 48 hours before the first day of training. The deposit will secure your spot.
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, an indoor studio with 16 aerial rigging points and our stunning rooftop Dome with 9 aerial points. Trilogy Sanctuary also offers infrared yoga (heated yoga), private meditation rooms, a plant based & gluten free 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, and have been leading these trainings for 8 years at Trilogy Sanctuary. 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 25 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 open air SKY DECK, OUR cosy EARTH ROOM & our stunning Rooftop Dome!
Aerial Yoga L1 Teacher Training: 40 hour intensive
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
Creating your own intelligently sequenced class
Safety techniques for rigging & knot tying
Bonus Experience: Aerial Sound Healing, & a Low Fabric workshop.
Hours & Expectations:
This is a 40 hour training and is composed of 30 contact hours and 10 non-contact hours. All students are expected to complete all 40 hours to receive their certification. The non-contact hours consist of 5 hours home study, plus 5 hours of extra-curricular classes, either observing, assisting, practice teaching or attending classes at Trilogy Sanctuary.
For students coming from out of town, we recommend staying a couple of days extra after the contact hours are complete so that you can finish your non-contact hours. If needed, all hours can be completed over the weekend in between contact hours but we recommend spacing things out more so that you have time to really soak up all you are learning.
Aerial Yoga L2 Teacher Training: 20 hour intensive
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. It will add a new layer of inspiration to your existing teaching and practice.
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 60 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 belt, front belt & standing in the loop
How to build Strength & Flexibility safely
How to create an accessible class for students of varying levels
Deep dive into Aerial Yoga L2 Peak Poses 40+ new poses!
Aerial Performance Flips & Tricks 30+ new poses!
Conditioning poses to build strength for an advanced practice 30+ new poses
Exploring creative transitions, flows & fabric entry methods
How to build Performance Skills in a class environment
Practice Teaching.
Hours & Expectations:
This 20 hour course is composed of 18 contact hours with an additional recommended 2 hours of practice. Students can choose any L2, flips & tricks or Dance classes to take during non-contact times to complete their hours. All hours should be completed by Sunday evening.
Low Hammock Aerial Teacher Training: 25 hours
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
Hours & Expectations:
This 25 hour course is composed of 20 contact hours with an additional 5 hours of non-contact time. The 5 hours are composed of 3 hours home study and attending or observing 2 low hammock classes on the Trilogy Schedule over the weekend.
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 and take our recommended online anatomy course prior to our training.
For Level 2: Completion of Trilogy Sanctuary’s Aerial Yoga Teacher Training L1 or equivalent. Plus six months of experience teaching students level 1 classes
For 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 Classes. *If you do not have one of the above certifications, you must have been practicing Aerial yoga for at least two years and take our recommended online anatomy course prior to our training.
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
- One month of unlimited classes at Trilogy Sanctuary. This can be started any time after the deposit is paid, and is valid until 6 months after training ends. You can let us know your requested start date.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION
Paid tuition in full
Complete all contact hours of in-studio curriculum
Complete all required hours of home study (assigned during the weekend) - to be submitted within 14 days of the final day of training
Complete additional hours of non-contact time, which includes class observations, class assist and taking extracurricular classes. For students coming from out of town, your hours are prioritized so they can be completed promptly. We do recommend staying one or two extra days after our contact hours end, so that you can complete these hours at your leisure.
To reserve your spot, a $500 non-refundable deposit is required
For questions or to apply- please fill out our application at the end of this page.
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. Our trainings are registered YACAP trainings on the Yoga Alliance website and all hours can be claimed as continuing education credits for those who are doing their 300/500 YTTS.
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 variety of Aerial Yoga styles 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 have been leading Aerial trainings here for 10 years and have certified hundreds of students. 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.”
OLIVIA QUIMBY
Yogi, Dancer, Aerialist, Tantrika… saying that Olivia fully embodies herself is an understatement. Since 2006, Olivia has been studying, practicing, and fully devoted to the art and wisdom of yoga. After traveling the world Olivia rooted in San Diego and became deeply immersed in the friendships, culture, and community of the South West. She loves to share what lights her up in her Yoga and Aerial classes.
“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.!”
