𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 & 𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐆𝐀 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆
This course is designed to help you experience and learn how to use the aerial silk as a supportive tool for Restorative and Yin-style practices. It offers a transformative journey where the mind-body connection is gently reawakened in a safe, nurturing environment.
Throughout this training, we’ll explore the foundations of Aerial Restorative Yoga, using the hammock to support the body in poses that release tension, encourage alignment, and restore vital energy. You’ll also gain insight into functional anatomy, teaching techniques, and intelligent adaptations for different body types and levels, enabling you to guide your students with confidence, safety, and compassion.
Our goal is to empower both students and teachers to not only master the physical techniques but to also understand the therapeutic essence of this practice, supporting the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of those you guide.
𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍:
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The philosophy and purpose behind Yin and Restorative practices
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The foundations of Aerial Yin Yoga (long-held, passive stretches targeting the fascia) and Aerial Restorative Yoga (focused on deep relaxation and rejuvenation)
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How to incorporate props such as bolsters, blocks, and straps to enhance support and alignment
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Guiding the invisible or subtle movements, understanding micro-movements and energetic awareness
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Exploring hammock height variations and their impact on the practice
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Essential safety guidelines for a mindful and secure teaching environment
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Key asanas and modifications using a low hammock or silk
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Understanding benefits and contraindications for different students
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Applying hands-on or verbal adjustments with sensitivity and care
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How to create balanced and effective sequences for various levels and intentions
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The difference between Aerial Massage and Aerial Yoga, and how to integrate therapeutic touch
WHEN:
12 - 14 February 2026
TIME:
10.00 - 15.00 (including 1 hour break)
Total of 15 study hours
INVESTMENT:
Early Birds: €575 (until December 15th, 2025)
Regular price: €650
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 restorative & yin 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 Restorative & Yin 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 Restorative & Yin Aerial Yoga.
"Ive attended to Aerial Yoga Teacher Training in 2023. It was a wonderful week in the presence of incredible women,
and Catarina is is a dedicated and loving teacher.
The entire course is designed to empower, release constraints, look within, and grow. It's not just about learning techniques and sequences. Beyond daily practices on the mat or silk, there's also time for sharing and moments of relaxation and inner care. I totally recommend!"
- Carol, Portugal Lisbon
WHAT IS RESTORATIVE & AERIAL YOGA?
Restorative Aerial Yoga is a therapeutic practice designed to calm the nervous system, encourage deep rest, and restore the body’s natural balance. Using the aerial hammock as a supportive prop, the body is gently cradled in passive postures that allow for total release of muscular tension and effort. This environment of safety and surrender stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, shifting the practitioner from “doing” into “being.”
From a teaching perspective, Restorative Aerial Yoga emphasizes energetic holding space, subtle cueing, and the use of props to create full-body support. The teacher learns to observe signs of relaxation and release, guiding students through breath awareness, grounding techniques, and mindful transitions. This approach enhances emotional regulation, supports recovery from stress or burnout, and cultivates a sense of spaciousness in both body and mind.
Yin Aerial Yoga integrates the principles of Yin Yoga with the lightness and decompression offered by the hammock. Poses are held for several minutes to gently stress and hydrate the fascia and connective tissues, improving mobility and joint health. The hammock helps reduce compression on the joints, allowing for a deeper yet safer exploration of each posture.
Energetically, Yin Aerial Yoga targets the meridian lines and subtle energy pathways of the body, promoting balanced energy flow and emotional release. Teachers learn to guide long-held postures with sensitivity, focusing on functional anatomy, target areas, and the role of stillness as a pathway to introspection and transformation.
Together, Restorative and Yin Aerial Yoga offer a holistic approach that bridges physical, energetic, and emotional healing, empowering teachers to hold space for their students’ full spectrum of experience, from tension and fatigue to renewal and inner peace.
- Catarina Ferreira, Protugal
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.
"Your teachings are with me. I think the most powerful one is having this relationship with my breath and my body, having my movements be guided by my breath! Wow! And also the fire, to initiate and go for it! To test my own limits and my strength and endurance! Feels good and empowering!"
- Celine, Oslo Norway
THE INVESTMENT:
In-Person Training at Mahé Studio, Dorpsstraat 115s, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Early Birds: €575 (until December 15th, 2025)
Regular price: €650
Prices are including 21% VAT
Contact us for payment plans and special rate
15hr Restorative & Yin 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)