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𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐆𝐀 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐀

This training is designed for yoga teachers and students who wish to deepen their knowledge and expand their practice or teaching in Aerial Vinyasa Yoga. Aerial Vinyasa Yoga with Elements is a comprehensive training that weaves together Yoga, Vinyasa, Conscious Movement, Dance, Fluid Motion inspired by Water, and deeply Restorative practices.

Guided by the five elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Spirit, this training invites you to remember that

what exists in the macrocosm also exists within the microcosm.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

Working consciously with the silk, in harmony with the breath, creates space in the body, calms the mind, and awakens subtle layers of awareness. The practice encourages you to move freely, to dance, to face fears, to play, to discover your own rhythm, and to feel.

This training is a fusion of Body, Breath, Movement, the Elements, and the Silk, an embodied exploration of unity, presence, and flow.

  • Introduction to Aerial Yoga, the roots of this practice

  • Safety rules, setting up the class

  • The silk and the body

  • The Five Elements theory

  • How to use the theory of Five Elements
    (Earth, Water, Fire and Air) in Aerial Yoga practice

  • Methodology: Asanas with the silk

  • Restorative Practice

  • Aerial Yoga and Inversions

  • Transitions

  • YogaLab

  • Pranayama

  • Sequencing – putting it all together

  • Spotting and adjusting

  • Daily Aerial Yoga practice

  • Practicum (practice teaching)

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐒:

WHEN:
3 - 7 February 2026

 

TIME:
10.00 - 17.00 (including 1 hour break)
Total of 30 study hours

 

INVESTMENT:
Early Birds: €1.250 (until December 1st, 2025)
Regular price: €1.350
Prices are including 21% VAT
Contact us for payment plans and special rate

LOCATION:

Mahé Yoga Studio, Dorpsstraat 115s
2712 AE, Zoetermeer

Limited Spots: This Course is YACEP Accredited

WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?
 

Certified Yoga Teachers (200h or more)
If you’re already a yoga teacher, an aerial training helps you expand your teaching repertoire. You’ll learn how to safely guide students using the hammock to support, deepen, or playfully challenge their asana practice.
 

Movement or Fitness Instructors

Dancers, Pilates instructors, or fitness trainers often take aerial yoga training to incorporate a new, creative element into their classes. It adds a dimension of suspension, strength, and mobility that’s unique to aerial work.
 

Dedicated Yoga Practitioners
Even if you don’t plan to teach right away, aerial yoga training can deepen your personal practice. You’ll gain a better understanding of alignment, inversions, and body awareness while developing confidence and control in the air.

Dedicated Yoga Practitioners
Bodyworkers, therapists, and holistic practitioners may use aerial techniques as a supportive tool for relaxation, nervous system regulation, and trauma release — particularly through restorative and therapeutic aerial styles.


WHAT YOU'LL GAIN
 

✔️ Skills to safely teach or integrate aerial yoga into your classes

 ✔️ Knowledge of anatomy and alignment specific to the hammock

✔️ Confidence in sequencing, spotting, and creating flow

✔️ A playful yet mindful approach to movement and teaching

 

WHO IS THIS PROGRAM NOT SUITABLE FOR?
This program is not suitable for those with serious injuries or significant physical limitations. If you have any concerns about your condition, we encourage you to reach out before enrolling for guidance.

After completing the Aerial Yoga Teacher Training, our aim is for you to feel confident, grounded, and safe within the silk,
whether you wish to begin teaching or simply deepen your personal practice.

This training is designed to be accessible and supportive for all levels of experience, making it suitable for everyone
who feels called to explore the art of Aerial Yoga.

 

 

"I completed 50 hours of Aerial Yoga with Catarina a few weeks ago and it was such a fabulous course I would highly recommend it! Previous to the training I had only practised Aerial yoga a handful of times so I wasn’t sure what to expect but I had the most fun time ever. Catarina is very inspiring and patient and teaches in a way that suits all abilities on the silk. A week I’ll always remember ❤️ "
 

- Gillian, Scotland

WHAT IS AERIAL YOGA?

Aerial Yoga is a modern practice that blends traditional yoga principles with the playful support of a silk hammock. Emerging in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was developed by yoga and movement teachers seeking new ways to explore alignment, strength, and freedom in the body. The hammock allows practitioners to experience postures in a state of suspension, relieving pressure on the joints and spine while deepening flexibility and awareness.

Its roots, however, can be traced back to Yoga Kurunta, an ancient practice described in traditional yoga texts. In Yoga Kurunta, practitioners used ropes attached to walls or ceilings to support and refine their postures. The ropes helped to cultivate precision, alignment, and the experience of surrender—qualities that are also central to Aerial Yoga today.

In this way, Aerial Yoga can be seen as a modern evolution of Yoga Kurunta: a continuation of the same spirit of exploration, balance, and liberation through supported movement and conscious breath.

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CONNECTION BETWEEN AERIAL YOGA & FIVE ELEMENTS:

Aerial Yoga and the Five Elements practice complement each other beautifully, creating a deeply holistic and transformative experience.

Working with the silk invites a sense of freedom, suspension, and flow, qualities that naturally connect us to the Elements that shape both our inner and outer worlds. Each Element offers a unique energy and teaching:

  • Earth grounds and stabilizes us within the silk, fostering strength, presence, and trust.

  • Water inspires fluid movement and emotional release, inviting softness and adaptability in every transition.

  • Fire builds confidence, courage, and vitality through dynamic sequences and inversions.

  • Air encourages expansion, lightness, and grace, reminding us of the power of breath and spaciousness.

  • Spirit (Ether) weaves everything together, guiding us toward unity, awareness, and connection to something greater.
     

By consciously integrating the Five Elements into Aerial Yoga, the practice becomes more than physical, it becomes a journey through nature’s wisdom. Each session harmonizes the body, breath, and energy field, awakening balance and vitality both on and off the mat.

This fusion helps practitioners not only move with the elements but also embody them, finding a deeper rhythm, emotional intelligence, and a renewed sense of harmony within themselves and with the world around them.

 

- Catarina Ferreira, Portugal

ABOUT THE TEACHER'S TRAINER:


CATARINA AIRES MOTA
 

Woman. Sister. Mother.
Taurus rising, Sagittarius soul.

 

From a young age, Catarina has been guided by a deep curiosity to understand herself and the world around her. Her journey began through the art of touch, studying massage, and soon expanded into a lifelong exploration of the body, mind, and spirit.
She is, above all, a seeker.In 2001, she graduated in Ayurvedic Massage, followed by training in Sound Massage with Tibetan Bowls (Peter Hess Method) and Kundalini Massage in India (2008). Over the years, new tools continued to appear on her path, each one deepening her connection to the healing power of movement and presence.

Catarina is an internationally certified Yoga and Aerial Yoga Teacher.

In 2012, she completed her 200-hour Tantra Yoga Teacher Training with the Tri Dosha Method in India. From that moment, movement as medicine became her way of life, first as a personal practice, then as a path to support others. Living in Norway at the time, she began teaching and quickly discovered her passion for sharing this wisdom.

Ever the student, she continues to explore Yoga, Aerial Arts, Breathwork, Vinyasa Flow, Dance, Afro Dance, Water Movement, and Plant Medicine, following what feels true and alive in her own body.
 

Movement healed her. It became her language, her medicine, her truth.
She works in harmony with Nature and the Elements, allowing each to guide her teaching.

Catarina’s classes are dynamic, sometimes powerful and energizing, sometimes soft and restorative, but always rooted in breath, awareness, and respect for each individual’s unique body and journey.
 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞.

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"I highly recommend this teacher training program: the program it self is very professional and each day is logically organised after each element. The teacher Catarina lives and breathes this material and she spreads so much knowledge, enthusiasm and love for the craft. You will come out a changed person ❤️"
 

- Elisabeth Gilli, Norway Oslo

THE INVESTMENT:
 

In-Person Training at Mahé Studio, Dorpsstraat 115s, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
 

Early Birds: €1.250 (until December 1st, 2025)
Regular price: €1.350
Prices are including 21% VAT
Contact us for payment plans and special rate

 

30 hr Aerial Yoga Teacher Training Certificate as YACEP;
hours may be added towards your Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance
(only valid if you have taken 200hrs Yoga Teacher Training)

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