AERIAL Yoga TEACHER TRAINING
BECOME AN AERIAL YOGA TEACHER. FIND YOUR STYLE. TAKE YOUR PRACTICE FURTHER.
San Diego, California
Trilogy Sanctuary's Aerial Yoga Teacher Training is designed for teachers, movers, aerialists and dedicated practitioners who want more than a certification.
Our trainings give you the technical foundation, safety knowledge, teaching skills and creative tools to become a confident and versatile aerial teacher — while encouraging you to develop your own authentic voice and style.
Rather than teaching one prescribed method, we teach you how to understand the principles behind aerial yoga so that you can create intelligent, inspiring and accessible classes of your own.
With more than a decade of experience developing aerial yoga at Trilogy Sanctuary, our curriculum brings together yoga, fitness, aerial arts, creative movement, restorative, somatic and therapeutic practices and hands-on teaching experience.
This is aerial education designed to help you become not just a certified teacher, but a better teacher.
100 hour intensive Aerial Course, including L1, L2, flips tricks & Dance, Low Hammock & kids. $2500 investment. More info coming soon!
THE TRILOGY AERIAL PATHWAY
BUILD YOUR FOUNDATION. DEEPEN YOUR SKILLS. FIND YOUR SPECIALTY.
Our aerial training pathway is designed to grow with you.
Begin with the foundations of aerial yoga in Level 1, deepen your understanding of low hammock work, then progress into advanced aerial yoga, flips, tricks and dance.
Each training can stand alone, or you can complete the full pathway to develop a comprehensive understanding of aerial teaching and movement.
Whether your passion is restorative aerial yoga, strength and conditioning, creative flows, advanced aerial movement, performance or working with children, Trilogy gives you the tools to follow the direction that inspires you.
Aerial Yoga Level 1
40 hour intensive
FEBRUARY 18–22, 2027
Level 1 is the foundation of the Trilogy Aerial Yoga Teacher Training program.
This immersive training will give you the knowledge, experience and confidence to safely and creatively teach Aerial Yoga classes to a range of students and levels.
You'll learn how to use the hammock as both a yoga prop and a unique movement tool, developing a deeper understanding of alignment, gravity, inversions, strength, flexibility and creative sequencing.
We don't want you to leave with a memorized sequence. We want you to understand why you're teaching what you're teaching — and give you the tools to create your own intelligent, engaging and well-rounded classes.
Throughout the training you'll explore creative sequencing, inventive transitions, opening and closing techniques, inversions, restorative postures, conditioning, hands-on adjustments, reading your students, inversion therapy, safety, rigging and knot tying, and the art of teaching with confidence and clarity.
You'll also practice teaching and receive guidance as you begin developing your own teaching style.
Our approach recognizes that aerial yoga can be many things. It can be athletic and challenging, gentle and restorative, playful and creative, or a combination of all of these.
We give you the foundation. You discover where you want to take it.
LEVEL 1 INCLUDES
Full manual with 100+ Poses and Variations • Creative Sequencing • Inventive Transitions • Inversions • Restorative Aerial • Strength & Conditioning • Hands-On Adjustments • Reading Your Students • Teaching Methodology • Class Creation • Rigging & Knot Safety • Inversion Therapy • Practice Teaching
Your 40 hours include 30 contact hours and 10 non-contact hours. Non-contact hours include home study as well as extracurricular classes, observation, assisting, practice teaching and immersion within the Trilogy community. For out of town students, we recommend planning on staying an extra day or two after the training to complete these hours. We can accommodate the completion of these hours over the long weekend if there are time constraints. Please contact us in advance to discuss.
INVESTMENT
$1,450
EARLY BIRD: $1,300
Save $150 when you register by October 31, 2026.
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TEACHERS
Leila Caldera @leiladora
Hannahsita Smyth @flowhican
Olivia Quimby @deeplydimensional
Low Hammock Aerial Teacher Training
30-HOUR SPECIALTY TRAINING
FEBRUARY 25–28, 2027
Take your aerial teaching beyond the traditional elevated hammock.
Low Hammock Aerial Yoga opens up an entirely different world of movement, allowing you to work with the fabric close to the ground for restorative work, myofascial release, aerial therapeutics, deep stretching, strengthening, and creative fitness-based classes.
This comprehensive training will give you the tools to confidently teach a variety of low hammock classes while learning how to adapt the practice for different bodies, abilities and intentions.
You'll explore more than 75 poses and variations, including restorative and therapeutic work, deep stretching, strengthening, mobility, release work and TRX-style conditioning.
You'll also learn how to use props, support students with common limitations and injuries, create intelligently structured classes and use the hammock as a tool for both physical and emotional release.
Low Hammock is an especially valuable addition to a teacher's toolkit because it dramatically expands the types of classes you can offer and the students you can serve.
LOW HAMMOCK INCLUDES
75+ Poses & Variations • Restorative Aerial • Deep Stretching • Strength & Conditioning • Aerial Therapeutics • Myofascial Release • Props • Injury Support • Gentle Aerial • Deep Stretch Classes • Fitness / TRX-Style Classes • Class Creation
This is a 30-hour training consisting of 25 contact hours and 5 non-contact hours.
INVESTMENT
$1,250
EARLY BIRD: $1,150
Save $100 when you register by October 31, 2026.
LEVEL 1 + LOW HAMMOCK BUNDLE
$2,250 — SAVE $450
There is no additional early-bird discount on bundle pricing.
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TEACHERS
Carly Mattson @cloud9carline
Hannahsita Smyth @flowhican
Lauren Dabbs @luna.laurenn
Aerial Yoga Level 2
25-HOUR ADVANCED TRAINING
APRIL 8–12, 2027
Ready to take your aerial practice and teaching to the next level?
Level 2 is designed for experienced aerialists and teachers who want to confidently teach more advanced, dynamic and creative aerial classes.
You'll move beyond the foundations of Level 1 and explore advanced inversions, peak poses, creative transitions, conditioning, strength development and more challenging aerial sequences.
This training is about more than collecting new poses. You'll learn how to intelligently build toward advanced movements, create progressions for your students and structure classes that feel challenging while remaining safe and accessible.
We'll explore advanced aerial yoga, aerial fitness and performance-oriented movement, including ways to adapt advanced concepts for students with varying levels of experience.
You'll also deepen your understanding of grip strength, pulling muscles, strength and flexibility development, creative fabric entries and effective conditioning for advanced aerial practice.
Most importantly, you'll learn how to teach advanced movement with intention — helping your students progress while keeping safety and intelligent sequencing at the center of the experience.
LEVEL 2 INCLUDES
Advanced Inversions • Peak Poses • Strength & Conditioning • Grip Strength • Creative Transitions • Fabric Entries • Advanced Sequencing • Building Unique Flows & Sequences • Advanced Aerial Fitness • Accessibility & Adaptation • Performance Skills • Practice Teaching
This is a 25-hour training consisting of 20 contact hours and 5 non-contact hours. Your additional hours can be completed through selected Trilogy aerial classes, allowing you to observe, practice and immerse yourself in the teaching environment.
INVESTMENT
$1,250
EARLY BIRD: $1,150
Save $100 when you register by January 31, 2027.
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TEACHERS
Leila Caldera @leiladora
Hannahsita Smyth @flowhican
Olivia Quimby @deeplydimensional
INTERMEDIATE AERIAL FLIPS, TRICKS & DANCE
25-HOUR SPECIALTY TRAINING
APRIL 15–19, 2027
Bring more play, creativity and performance into your aerial practice.
This intermediate-level training is for aerialists and teachers who want to explore the more dynamic side of aerial movement — including flips, tricks, aerial dance and performance.
You'll learn how to safely approach more advanced movements while developing the strength, technique and confidence needed to perform them.
The training explores how to incorporate tricks and dynamic movement into a class environment, how to create creative flows and dance sequences, and how to develop performance skills without losing the intelligence and safety that underpin good aerial teaching.
Whether you want to add exciting elements to your aerial classes, develop an aerial fitness or tricks class, or create full aerial dance sequences from a medium height fabric or simply expand your own movement vocabulary, this training gives you the tools to explore more.
FLIPS, TRICKS & DANCE INCLUDES
Intermediate Flips & Tricks • Creative Transitions • Full Aerial Dance Sequencing • Dynamic Movement • Strength & Conditioning • Fabric Entries • Sequencing • Performance Skills • Practice Teaching & Practice Performing
This is a 25-hour training consisting of 20 contact hours and 5 non-contact hours. Your additional hours can be completed through selected Trilogy aerial classes and extracurricular experiences.
INVESTMENT
$1,250
EARLY BIRD: $1,150
Save $100 when you register by January 31, 2027.
LEVEL 2 + FLIPS, TRICKS & DANCE BUNDLE
$2,000 — SAVE $500
There is no additional early-bird discount on bundle pricing.
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TEACHERS
Kirsten Leslie @a_fly_yogi
Rachel Seay @rachel.seayyy
Olivia Quimby @deeplydimensional
KIDS AERIAL TEACHER TRAINING
10-HOUR SPECIALTY TRAINING
$500
Bring the joy, creativity and benefits of aerial movement to the next generation.
Our Kids Aerial Teacher Training gives you the essential tools to confidently and safely introduce children to aerial yoga in a way that is engaging, playful and developmentally appropriate.
You'll learn essential techniques for teaching aerial yoga to children, along with safety guidelines and best practices for working with young students. We'll explore how to structure age-appropriate classes, plan creative lessons and games, and use props, toys and imaginative activities to make aerial yoga fun, interactive and engaging.
Aerial yoga can be a wonderful tool for helping children develop body awareness, coordination, strength, balance, confidence and a positive relationship with movement. Our training also explores inclusive teaching strategies for working with neurodivergent children and students on the autism spectrum, helping teachers create supportive environments and adapt activities to different sensory, communication and learning needs.
You'll learn how to keep young students motivated and engaged while creating classes that balance structure with play, allowing children to explore movement, creativity and the hammock in their own way.
Whether you're looking to teach dedicated Kids Aerial classes, incorporate aerial games and activities into children's yoga programs, or simply feel more confident working with young students in the hammock, this training will give you practical tools you can immediately bring into your teaching.
KIDS AERIAL INCLUDES
Essential Techniques for Teaching Kids Aerial Yoga • Safety Guidelines & Best Practices • Age-Appropriate Class Structure • Lesson & Game Planning • Using Props, Toys & Games • Engagement & Motivation Strategies • Inclusive Teaching Approaches • Working with Neurodivergent Students & Students on the Autism Spectrum • Creative Aerial Activities • Adapting Classes for Different Learning & Sensory Needs
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TEACHERS
Carly Mattson @cloud9carline
Hannahsita Smyth @flowhican
THE COMPLETE TRILOGY AERIAL PATHWAY
GO BEYOND ONE CERTIFICATION
For teachers who want to fully immerse themselves in aerial education, our complete pathway brings together the core Trilogy aerial trainings into one comprehensive experience.
Begin with the foundations in Level 1. Expand your teaching repertoire with Low Hammock. Develop your advanced teaching skills through Level 2. Then explore the more dynamic world of Flips, Tricks and Dance.
Completing the full pathway gives you an exceptionally broad aerial teaching toolkit — from restorative and therapeutic work to strength, conditioning, advanced aerial movement, creative sequencing and performance.
COMPLETE AERIAL TRAINING BUNDLE: $3,850
This is our best value for students who want to commit to the full Trilogy aerial education pathway.
WHY TRAIN WITH TRILOGY?
LEARN MORE THAN A SEQUENCE.
There are many ways to learn aerial yoga. At Trilogy, our goal is not simply to teach you a collection of poses and send you home with a certificate.
We want to teach you how to teach.
That means learning how to read your students, understand their bodies, communicate clearly, create intelligent sequences, offer meaningful modifications, build strength progressively and create classes that feel both safe and inspiring.
Our curriculum has been developed through years of teaching, practicing and performing aerial arts, yoga and fitness. It continues to evolve as we learn from our students, our teachers and the ever-changing world of aerial movement.
We believe there is no single right way to teach aerial yoga.
One teacher may be drawn toward restorative and therapeutic work. Another may love strength and conditioning. Another may want to create beautiful, flowing sequences. Another may be passionate about tricks, dance and performance.
Our job is to give you a strong foundation and the tools to discover and thrive with your own style.
REAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
BECAUSE YOU LEARN TO TEACH BY TEACHING.
One of the most valuable parts of the Trilogy training experience is the opportunity to immerse yourself in a real aerial yoga community.
Our non-contact training hours can include observing classes, assisting teachers, practicing your teaching and attending extracurricular classes at Trilogy Sanctuary.
This gives you the opportunity to observe how experienced teachers work with real students, adapt classes in real time, and use different teaching styles to create unique experiences. For students who want to take their learning further, we also offer the opportunity to practice teaching community classes with real Trilogy students. With guidance and support from our experienced instructors, you'll gain invaluable hands-on experience teaching actual students before completing your training. We believe this real-world teaching experience is one of the most valuable parts of becoming a confident, capable teacher — because the deepest learning happens when you move beyond practicing the theory and begin putting it into practice.
You won't simply learn what to do.
You'll learn how to respond, adapt and teach.
YOUR CERTIFICATION, YOUR CAREER
TEACH ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
Trilogy's Aerial Yoga certification is not a franchise certification and does not restrict where you can teach.
Our goal is to give you a comprehensive and transferable set of skills that you can take into your own teaching practice, studio, private work, workshops or community.
Aerial Yoga is currently an unregulated form of yoga, and Yoga Alliance does not provide a specific Aerial Yoga certification. Trilogy's aerial trainings are registered YACAP trainings, and eligible training hours may be used as continuing education credits for teachers pursuing further Yoga Alliance education.
We believe your certification should open doors — not limit them.
TRAIN IN THE TRILOGY COMMUNITY
MORE THAN A TRAINING SPACE
Your training takes place at Trilogy Sanctuary in beautiful La Jolla, San Diego, where aerial yoga is part of a vibrant, established wellness community.
Train on our open-air Sky Deck, in our Earth Room and beneath our iconic rooftop Dome.
Between training sessions, you can immerse yourself in the Trilogy community, attend aerial and yoga classes, practice, connect with fellow teachers and experience the unique environment that has made Trilogy a destination for movement, wellness and community.
For students traveling to San Diego, your training can become an immersive aerial and wellness experience rather than simply a weekend certification.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Every Trilogy aerial training includes a comprehensive training manual and a certificate of completion.
Students also receive access to a month of unlimited classes at Trilogy Sanctuary, giving you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the community, practice what you're learning and continue developing your skills.
WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?
Our Level 1 training is designed for experienced yoga, movement and fitness practitioners who are ready to incorporate aerial yoga into their teaching or deepen their personal practice.
Recommended prerequisites include a 200-hour yoga teacher certification, personal training certification, massage therapy certification, physical therapy certification or Pilates certification, together with aerial yoga experience.
If you do not hold one of these certifications, you may still be considered if you have at least two years of consistent aerial yoga experience and complete our recommended anatomy preparation.
Level 2 training is for teachers who have completed Trilogy's Level 1 training or an equivalent aerial yoga teacher training and have experience teaching Level 1 classes.
Specialty trainings have their own recommended prerequisites and are designed to meet you at different stages of your aerial journey.
YOUR NEXT CHAPTER IN AERIAL
LEARN. TEACH. CREATE. EXPLORE.
Whether you're looking to add aerial yoga to an existing teaching practice, build a new career, deepen your personal practice or simply explore what is possible when we change our relationship with gravity, Trilogy's Aerial Yoga Teacher Training gives you the foundation to begin.
Come learn with us.
Come find your style.
Come discover what you're capable of.
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.
CARLY MATTSON
After a back injury and years of chronic pain, Carly discovered Aerial Yoga in New York City in 2015. Through this practice she found relief from pain and experienced immense improvements to her quality of life. This started a transformative journey for her and marked the beginning of a deeper connection of body, mind and spirit.
In 2018, she completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) and 50-hour Aerial YTT in Melbourne, Australia. With this newfound knowledge, Carly immediately began teaching and has continued her education through various modules and trainings, such as 40-hours in both Pranayama and Ayurveda and a 50-hour Mindfulness Based Yoga Therapy immersion. Her teaching portfolio now includes numerous Aerial Yoga levels and styles including low fabric, tricks and flips, and kids’ aerial yoga, as well as hatha and restorative yoga, mat and chair classes for older beginners, and grief and trauma-informed practices.
Carly is currently pursuing a 500-hour yoga therapy certification through Yoga Medicine. It is her goal to deepen her understanding of yoga’s therapeutic applications and inspire others to find their own paths to well-being. Carly continues to blend her personal healing journey with her teaching, encouraging students to get curious about their breath and embrace their practice as a catalyst for deeper exploration, connection and transformation.
LAUREN DABBS
Laurens love for movement led her to study to be an aerial and yoga instructor in Costa Rica in 2016. Since then she has been teaching both modalities in San Diego for the last five years and has also taught in Costa Rica. With her love and fascination for the body, she went on to study 1,000 hours to be a Holistic Health Practitioner and Massage Therapist at Healing Hands School of Holistic Health. In this program she learned both Eastern and Western modalities with an extensive focus on anatomy, meridians and bodywork. In Lauren’s class you can expect a fun, creative flow that both strengthens, brings you in touch with your body and balances the mind. Lauren is trained in Vinyasa, Yin, Reiki, Yoga Nidra, Aerial Yoga, Silks and Lyra. Currently, Lauren teaches Yoga and Aerial full time at several studios in San Diego and has her own private massage practice in Carlsbad Village. She considers herself a student of life, constantly expanding and growing her knowledge in the field.
KRISTEN LESLIE
A Maryland native, Kristen and her family are beginning a new journey in San Diego. She was first drawn to yoga 20 years ago when seeking ways to help manage anxiety, and it has since become an integral part of her life. She has a deep appreciation for mental wellness, mindfulness, and breath work.
Kristen’s love affair with aerial arts began after taking her first aerial yoga class in 2016. It was like magic, and she knew immediately that it would become a large presence in her life. She became a certified Aerial Yoga Instructor in 2018 through AerialKim Aerial Yoga, and completed her Vinyasa 200-hour RYS YTT in 2019 with Yoga Centric in Bel Air, Maryland. She has also studied aerial hammock, silks, and lyra, and loves teaching acrobatic elements in her classes. She has taught all levels of aerial yoga, including aerial yoga dance flow and advanced pose workshops.
As a teacher, Kristen would like to help others find strength and love for themselves. She values the sense of connection in the yoga community, and tries to foster this in her classes by keeping them welcoming and collaborative. Her classes are high-energy, playful, and creative, as she combines elements of flexibility, relaxation, strength-building, technique, and flips & tricks in each. Overall, her hope is to help everyone find a little of their own magic, and that they leave empowered, strong, and inspired.
RACHEL SEAY
Rachel is a 200hr RYT and aerial yoga teacher based in San Diego. With a background in dance and gymnastics, she immediately fell in love once she discovered aerial. After completing her yoga teacher training, she went on to complete her aerial yoga teacher training as well. She strives to create a fun, playful, supported and welcoming environment in her classes, while empowering her students to discover all that they are capable of.
“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.!”
Aerial Yoga Training - San Diego
2027 TRAINING DATES
AERIAL YOGA LEVEL 1
February 18–22, 2027
LOW HAMMOCK
February 25–28, 2027
AERIAL YOGA LEVEL 2
April 8–12, 2027
FLIPS, TRICKS & DANCE
April 15–19, 2027
EARLY BIRD DEADLINES
Level 1 & Low Hammock: October 31, 2026
Level 2 & Flips, Tricks & Dance: January 31, 2027
