Aerial Yoga Training

Learn and explore aerial yoga with Simmi Fink. Blending aerial yoga and spirituality you will gain a deeper understanding of the chakra yoga system including learning your own chakra life path energy, and other practices. You will also gain the skills and knowledge to practice, learn and teach aerial yoga. This is for yoga teachers and practitioners who love aerial yoga.

Sticking with the Chakra System of Pyramid Yoga's Scientific approach, this comprehensive 30 hr Yoga Alliance accredited aerial yoga course covers all you will need to know, from safety, rigging, spotting, adjustments & receive a manual with over 101 Poses (and tips how to flow into your own new moves).

Cost : R6,900

Early Bird R5,900 until 7 July 2025 - early booking is essential as spaces are limited to 10 participants.

Hammocks will be provided for the training and you can also purchased.  

Thursday 7 August from 09h30 -17h30 

Friday 8 August from 10h00 - 16h00

Saturday 9 August from 10h00 - 17h00 

Sunday 10th August from 10h00  - 16h00

(Provisional times and tbc)

This training course is a blend of aerial yoga and spirituality. You will gain a deeper understanding of the chakra yoga system including learning your own chakra life path energy, and other practices that do not form part of your conventional 200hr TTC. You will also gain the skills and knowledge to practice, learn and teach aerial yoga.

This course is accredited with Yoga Alliance and a YACEP designation, or Yoga Alliance Continued Education Provider course, taught by Simmi, a Yoga alliance experienced yoga teacher, with over 500 hours of teaching teachers. You will receive a certificate and a comprehensive manual.

Aerial Yoga is a fun approach to traditional yoga, allowing you to use gravity in a different way, as you are suspended from a Hammock. The hammock can be used in so many different ways, by many types of people, to increase strength, flexibility, power, weight-loss, trust issues, ADHD children and so, so much more.

The many benefits, Anatomical facts, Endocrine System, Contra-Indications, 8 Limbs of Yoga, Pranayama breath training, Overview of each chakra & the translation into not just the aerial yoga poses, but particular styles and ways of teaching according to different aspects and the qualities of each energy centre as follows:

Muladhara Chakra (Earth) : Learn about the relationship between gravity and the fabric, and the relationship between the fabric and the floor (with some body part on the floor/mat eg. feet/hands/knees) learning the foundational knowledge of this new incredible prop. Learn Low flying 'restorative' ways with the hammock.

Swadhistana Chakra (Water) : Learning how to FLOW with your hammock, including sequencing & many hip openers.

Manipura Chakra (Fire) : Learn how to use the hammock to bring on the heat & power in your aerial practice, firing up the core needed for more advanced moves as you develop your practice further.

Anahata Chakra (Air) : Backbends that defy gravity & don't hurt the joints.

Vishuddha Chakra (Ether) : We will bring in some spiritual aspects to our practice, including the voice as sound, how to teach, and make use of mantras etc in an aerial yoga class including Floating Yoga Nidra

Ajna Chakra (Electro Magnetism) : Finding the balance in your aerial Yoga practice & teaching methods. Balancing poses and standing in the fabric poses are incorporated as well as the art of concentration.

Sahasrara (Awareness) : Becoming conscious & blowing your mind. Let's expand, let's open, and let's FLY! advanced moves, Flips & tricks, according to the level of the class as well as the deepest meditations and savasanas ever experienced.