Introduction to Aerial Yoga
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100 Hrs Aerial YTTC Fee
12 DaysAerial Yoga has moved from a novelty to a regular part of many studio timetables, and studios increasingly look for teachers trained to a real depth. The 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh at Rishikesh Yog Kendra is built for exactly that. Over twelve residential days, it takes you from the foundations of safe aerial practice through to the wider posture range, sequencing and teaching skills a confident aerial teacher needs, all grounded in the principles of traditional yoga.
The extra hours matter. With 100 hours across twelve days, there is time to build a broad repertoire, to practise each skill until it is reliable, and to spend real time teaching rather than only learning. It is a fuller alternative to a short foundation course, and it suits people who want a thorough grounding before they teach, whether they are starting fresh or already work in movement.
Aerial Yoga, sometimes called air yoga, uses a soft fabric hammock to support part or all of the body. That support lets the spine decompress, opens up inversions, and makes some alignments easier to feel than they are on the mat. What sets this course apart is its emphasis: the hammock is a tool in service of yoga, not an end in itself. Breath, alignment, anatomy and safe movement stay at the centre, which is what allows you to teach with understanding rather than repeat a routine.
The course welcomes complete beginners as well as intermediate practitioners and existing teachers. Groups are small, instruction is personal and hands-on, and safety is built into every session. Studying in Rishikesh, a long-standing home of yoga, gives the training a depth and rhythm a weekend workshop cannot, and the residential setting keeps you close to the practice for the full twelve days.
If you are looking for a well-rounded Aerial Yoga Teacher Training that prepares you to teach with genuine confidence, this Aerial Yoga Course in India is designed to do that.
The 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training at Rishikesh Yog Kendra is a twelve-day residential course in Rishikesh, India, that trains you to teach Aerial Yoga safely and confidently. It combines daily hammock practice with alignment, breath awareness, anatomy, sequencing and teaching methodology, all built on a foundation of traditional yoga. The course welcomes beginners as well as intermediate practitioners and teachers.
Aerial Yoga is a form of yoga practised with the support of a soft fabric hammock suspended from a secure fixed point. In a mat practice, the floor is your only support and gravity pulls in a single direction. The hammock changes that. By taking part of your body weight, it lets the spine lengthen and decompress, supports the body through inversions, and makes certain alignments easier to feel than they are on the mat. In some postures this makes the practice gentler on the joints; in others it asks for more stability and control. What stays the same are the roots of the practice: breath, alignment and awareness remain central, simply expressed in a new relationship with gravity.
The course runs for 100 hours over twelve days and is fully residential. Living on campus for the twelve days means you practise every day in a steady rhythm, with your teachers close at hand and the essentials of daily life taken care of, so your attention stays on the training. Instruction is given in English and Hindi, which keeps the course accessible to international students.
The training is deliberately hands-on. Most of each day is spent practising with the Aerial Yoga Hammock: learning how to enter and leave postures safely, how to move between them, and how to work within your own range. Over twelve days there is time to return to each skill more than once, so that setting up and checking the hammock, understanding where and how the body meets the fabric, and recognising common mistakes all become genuinely familiar. This repeated, practical work is what builds real competence, rather than a passing acquaintance with poses.
What the 100 hours include:
Because this is a teacher training and not only a personal practice, a substantial part of the course is given to how to teach. You learn to structure and sequence an aerial class, to give clear and safe instructions, to demonstrate well, and to adjust a student in the hammock. The longer format leaves room for repeated teaching practice with your peers, so you finish having led several classes rather than only one or two.
The 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training suits a broad range of students. Yoga teachers, Pilates and fitness instructors, personal trainers, dance instructors, studio owners and other wellness professionals take it to add aerial work to what they already offer. Intermediate practitioners join to deepen their own practice, and complete beginners are welcome too, since the course starts with the fundamentals and, over twelve days, has the time to build well beyond them.
By the end of the course, you have a solid, practical understanding of Aerial Yoga and the confidence to teach it responsibly. You leave able to plan and lead safe, well-structured classes, to guide students of different levels, and to bring the care and precision of traditional yoga to a modern aerial practice. Many students also find that this Aerial Yoga Training refreshes their own practice and gives them a new direction in which to keep growing as a teacher.
The 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training suits complete beginners who want a thorough grounding, intermediate practitioners, and movement professionals such as yoga teachers, Pilates and fitness instructors, dancers and wellness practitioners who want to teach Aerial Yoga to a solid standard. No prior aerial experience is required; the extra hours simply give more time to learn well.
A twelve-day course is a real commitment, so it is worth being clear about who it fits. The length is its strength: it gives beginners the time to build genuine confidence, and it gives those with more experience space to refine and extend what they already do.
This course is likely a good fit if you recognise yourself in any of these:
You are new to Aerial Yoga and would rather learn it thoroughly than rush the basics. The extra days give you time to absorb each stage.
You already move well and want a fuller aerial training that stretches your practice and prepares you to teach.
You want to add aerial work to your classes, taught in a way that respects the principles you already teach from.
Your grounding in strength, control and movement transfers directly, and the longer course gives you a complete new offering.
Your body awareness suits aerial work well, and the extra time lets you develop it into something you can teach.
Whatever your background, you would rather train properly once than settle for a brief introduction.
The course welcomes a range of ages and fitness levels, and it is taught in English and Hindi. Because groups are small, mixed-experience classes work well: beginners are supported step by step, and stronger practitioners are given room to go further.
Be ready for what twelve days ask of you. This is a residential, hands-on course with daily practice, and aerial work calls for physical engagement and steady attention. You do not need to arrive strong or flexible, but you do need to arrive ready to practise, follow safety guidance and learn actively. Those who do tend to progress a long way in the time.
If that describes you, the 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh is very likely a strong fit, whether aerial work is new to you or a natural next step.
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Rishikesh Yog Kendra teaches Aerial Yoga on a foundation of traditional yoga, in small groups, with daily hands-on hammock practice and individual guidance. The 100 hour format adds time for a wider posture range, deeper anatomy and alignment work, and extended teaching practice, all in a safe, residential setting in Rishikesh.
Plenty of schools offer aerial training, so it is fair to ask what makes a longer course worth choosing. In our case it comes down to how the extra time is used and what you can do by the end. Here is what stands behind our 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh.
Breath, alignment and awareness come first, and the hammock is used to serve them, so you teach with understanding rather than by imitation.
With 100 hours across twelve days, you can build a broad repertoire, repeat each skill until it holds, and progress from foundations toward more advanced work at a sensible pace.
Groups are kept small, so your teachers see how you move, correct you directly, and adapt to how you learn.
You practise every day with the Aerial Yoga Hammock, which is how safe technique becomes second nature.
Our instructors explain the reasoning behind each movement and answer your questions, so you finish understanding what you teach.
Safety is a first principle: setting up and checking the hammock, working within range, and keeping students safe are built into every session.
The longer format allows several supervised teaching sessions, so you build real confidence leading a class before you leave.
Staying on campus keeps you close to the practice from morning to evening, in a town that has been a centre of yoga study for generations.
Students come from many countries, which broadens how you think about teaching and often leads to lasting connections.
Choosing a course comes down to what you want to leave with. We would rather you finish able to teach Aerial Yoga safely and well, with the depth a fuller training allows, than able only to perform in a hammock.
In a 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training you learn to practise and teach Aerial Yoga in depth: hammock safety and setup, a broad range of postures and inversions, transitions and sequencing, alignment and safe movement, breath awareness, functional anatomy, and teaching methodology. The course is built on traditional yoga foundations and includes extended, supervised teaching practice.
The 100 hours are arranged so that each area builds on the last, and the extra time lets you go further in every one. You begin with the foundations that keep the practice safe, develop a broad and reliable posture repertoire, and then spend substantial time learning to sequence and teach. The subjects below form the core of the training.
The course begins with a safe setup, because everything else depends on it. You learn how the Aerial Yoga Hammock works, how to check and adjust it, how to judge a safe height and space, and how the body should make contact with the fabric. Entering and leaving postures with control, and the safety principles behind every movement, are practised until they are second nature.
With more hours available, you build a wider range of postures than a short course allows: supported standing and seated shapes, backbends, and a fuller set of inversions where the hammock holds the body safely. You work on each until it is reliable, so you can later teach it with confidence rather than caution.
You learn to link postures smoothly and to build complete classes: how one shape prepares the body for the next, how to pace a session, and how to structure aerial classes for different levels and aims. The extra time allows real practice in designing sequences, not only following them.
Good alignment protects you and your students, and it runs through the whole course. You learn correct positioning in each posture, how the hammock changes familiar cues, and how to spot and correct common mistakes, along with the principles of safe movement that keep the joints and spine protected.
Aerial Yoga is still yoga, so the breath stays central. You learn to coordinate breath with movement, to use it to steady the body in demanding shapes, and to bring the calm awareness of traditional practice into aerial work. This grounding keeps the practice meaningful rather than purely physical.
To teach safely, you need to understand the body. This part of the course covers the anatomy most relevant to aerial work: the spine, shoulders, hips and core, how they move and bear load, and where care is needed. You also study how the hammock’s support affects the body and how to adapt for different bodies and limitations.
Given real room by the twelve-day format, alongside the daily hammock practice.
A good part of the 100 hours is given to teaching itself: structuring and sequencing a class, giving clear and safe instructions, demonstrating, observing a class in motion, and adjusting a student in the hammock. You learn to manage pace, timing and safety while a group is moving.
Finally, you teach. The longer format allows several supervised teaching sessions, where you lead your peers, apply what you have learned, and receive feedback. Teaching repeatedly, rather than once, is what turns knowledge into genuine confidence by the end of the course.
The course opens on the ground. Before anything else you learn what the hammock is, how it is rigged and checked, and how a body behaves once it is partly supported by fabric rather than the floor.
You cannot teach aerial without being able to rig for the person in front of you, and getting this wrong is where most aerial injuries begin. It is taught as a practical skill, repeated until it is automatic.
The core of the course, and the reason it runs two hours every morning. You work through the aerial postures from the ground up, starting with the ones that keep both feet down and building toward full suspension across the twelve days.
Going upside down is what draws most people to aerial, and it is also where the risk sits. Inversion is treated here as a skill to be built rather than a trick to be attempted — the hammock supports the body so it can stretch more deeply than it could on a mat, and inversion work strengthens the spine.
Aerial loads the body in ways a mat practice does not, so the anatomy here is specific rather than general — and on this course it extends into the therapeutic side, which is much of why aerial is used with students who cannot work on the floor.
A short module, and arguably the most important one on the course. It is what separates a teacher who can lead an aerial class from a practitioner who performs well in one.
Its own hour on the timetable, separate from the practice itself. Rather than handing you a fixed routine to repeat, this module teaches you to build your own — which is what makes the certificate worth something once you are home with your own students.
Ninety minutes every evening on the floor. Aerial is not a practice that stands entirely on its own — the alignment, the breath and the postures all come from the mat, and a teacher whose only vocabulary is the hammock is a narrower teacher.
Breathing while inverted is not the same as breathing on a mat, and students who have never thought about it tend to find that out the hard way. Breath technique is taught alongside the asana rather than as a separate discipline.
Forty-five minutes every morning, before the first aerial session. A mantra is a set of sounds and vibrations carrying specific effects, passed down by ancient yogis and seers, and daily chanting is what keeps this a yoga training rather than a movement workshop.
You teach during the course, not only afterwards. With twelve days there is room for real practice teaching and real feedback, which is the clearest difference between this course and the shorter one.
A gentle rhythm — from first breath at dawn to stillness at night.
* Schedule may vary slightly depending on the programme and season
Yes. On successful completion of the 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training, you receive a Certificate of Completion from Rishikesh Yog Kendra. Certification is based on full participation across the twelve days together with a practical assessment of your aerial practice and your teaching, so it reflects genuine competence rather than attendance alone.
Certification is designed to reflect what you can actually do by the end of the course.
When you complete the course and meet its requirements, you receive a Certificate of Completion from Rishikesh Yog Kendra confirming that you have finished the 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training. It recognises both your personal practice and your readiness to teach Aerial Yoga safely.
Assessment is continuous rather than a single exam. Your teachers follow your progress across the twelve days, in daily practice and in how you apply what you learn. Consistent attendance and active participation matter, because aerial skill is built through steady, hands-on work, and ongoing feedback means you can act on it while the course is still running.
The main focus of certification is practical. Toward the end of the course you demonstrate your own aerial practice and lead teaching sessions for your peers, where your alignment, safety awareness, clarity of instruction and ability to guide others are all considered. With more teaching practice built into the 100 hour format, this evaluation gives a fuller picture of your readiness to teach.
Once these requirements are met, your certificate is issued. More than a formality, it is a sign that you can take the practice into a class of your own with care and confidence.
The 100 Hour Aerial Yoga TTC runs four times a year, beginning on the 25th and running twelve days. Tuition, accommodation and three sattvic meals a day are included. Groups are small and the batches are infrequent, so places tend to go early.
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Here is exactly what the fee for the 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training covers, and what it does not. The course is residential, so your stay, your meals and every hammock and prop you need are already included — and we would rather be plain about the few things that sit outside it than leave you to find out later.
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We strongly believe that a student needs practical exposure apart from book knowledge to have a great career. For the same reason, we organise weekly excursions to various holy sites as well as picturesque sites in Rishikesh. The excursions are an important part of the curriculum. You can avail yourself of the opportunities to practice yoga and meditation in some of the serene and tranquil spots in the region.
Rishikesh has some famous spots, like Kunjapuri Temple, Ganga beach, Rishi Vasishta’s Cave, and the Beatles Ashram. Many tourists also throng the region for various pursuits. You can experience the heights of spirituality at such places. Moreover, you can establish a stronger connection with nature. So, it is important for you to go on such excursions as part of your training in Rishikesh.
Life here is as much a part of the training as the classes themselves. Days begin early with practice, meals are simple and satvik, and there is quiet time to study, rest or walk down to the Ganga. Students arrive from all over the world and rarely leave as strangers. See it for yourself below.
In aerial more than anywhere else, you learn only as well as the person watching you — upside down, you cannot see your own alignment, so someone else has to. Our instructors are certified teachers with years in the fabric as well as on the mat, and Vimlesh Joshi Ji, who founded the school, teaches the aerial work himself alongside Hatha and Ashtanga. They explain the reasoning behind each practice, correct you personally, and make room for questions, so you leave able to teach rather than only to perform. Meet the team below.
Founder · Hatha, Aerial & Ashtanga
Founder of Rishikesh Yog Kendra, Vimlesh Ji has spent more than a decade teaching Hatha, Aerial and Ashtanga yoga in the Himalayan tradition.
Students do not need to worry about food or a room to stay in — we provide clean, comfortable rooms and nutritious food for the length of the course. The location is beautiful and calm, and there is a good view of the mountains from the room each morning.
You choose an individual room or a shared one, whichever suits you. Every room comes with the essential amenities including free Wi-Fi, and enough space to sit, meditate and practise in without disruption.
The food is what keeps you going through the aerial practice. Our staff serve healthy, nutrient-rich breakfast, lunch and dinner with fresh vegetables — the vegan meals a yogi eats — and no extra charge is applied for any of it.
Our campus sits in the quiet foothills of the Himalayas — open practice halls, a rooftop terrace to sit out on, and the hills in full view from sunrise to dusk. Close enough to the Ganga for a morning walk, far enough for the silence a practice needs.
Clean, spacious rooms with an attached washroom and enough floor space to meditate or practise on your own. Housekeeping takes care of the rest, and you choose between a private or a shared room.
Three fresh vegetarian meals a day, along with seasonal fruits and herbal tea. Everything is cooked in the school kitchen and included in your course fee — no separate charges for food or stay.
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No. The 100 Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training is open to complete beginners, and it also suits intermediate practitioners who want a fuller training. Because the course runs for twelve days, there is time to start from the fundamentals and still reach a good depth, so no prior aerial experience is needed. Existing yoga, Pilates, dance or fitness experience will help, but it is not required.
Both are built on the same principles, but the 100 hour course is more comprehensive. It runs for twelve days rather than seven, which gives time for a wider range of postures and inversions, deeper anatomy and alignment work, more sequencing, and considerably more supervised teaching practice. The 50 hour course is a strong foundation if your time is limited; the 100 hour course is the fuller option for those who want to teach with more depth and confidence.
No. You do not need to arrive strong or flexible. The hammock supports part of your body weight, which makes aerial work more accessible than it looks, and strength and control develop through daily practice over the twelve days. Your teachers help you work within your own range at every stage.
Aerial Yoga is safe when it is taught and practised properly, and safety is a first principle throughout the course. You learn to check and set up the hammock, how the body should contact the fabric, and how to enter and leave each posture with control. With small groups and close supervision, mistakes are corrected early, and these safe habits are exactly what you will later pass on to your own students.
You learn to teach, and the longer format gives you more time to do it. Alongside your own practice, you study teaching methodology and lead several supervised teaching sessions with your peers. By the end of the twelve days you have taught repeatedly, which is what builds real confidence.
Aerial hammocks and their fixings are designed to hold well above a typical person’s body weight, so most students never need to think about it. If you have a specific concern about weight, height or an injury, tell us when you enquire and we will give you honest guidance before you book.
Wear fitted, comfortable clothing that covers the backs of the knees and the underarms, since these areas rest against the fabric in many postures. Avoid zips, buckles or rough jewellery that could catch or damage the hammock. The hammock and any props you need are provided. Once your place is confirmed, we can share a simple list so you arrive well prepared.
Yes. On successful completion you receive a Certificate of Completion from Rishikesh Yog Kendra, based on your participation across the twelve days and a practical assessment of your aerial practice and teaching. It confirms that you are ready to teach Aerial Yoga safely and with confidence.
From Delhi to your mat in Tapovan — by air, rail, road or bus, here is every way students make their way to us.
Jolly Grant Airport, about 25 km from Rishikesh, has daily flights from Delhi. We can arrange a cab from the airport to the school for an additional fee.
Daily trains connect Delhi to Haridwar railway station. Once you arrive at Haridwar, we can organise a pickup for you at a reasonable charge.
We can also arrange a cab to bring you the whole way from Delhi to the school in Rishikesh, for a reasonable fee.
Buses run from Delhi to Rishikesh bus stand through the day. On arrival we can arrange a cab for the short hop to the school.





