Learn to teach aerial yoga where yoga is taught

We run two aerial teacher trainings in Tapovan, Rishikesh. Every price is all-inclusive of accommodation, meals, course materials and certification, and is quoted per room type:

• 50-Hour Aerial YTT — 7 days, starting every Monday. Dormitory $195, Shared room $385, Private room $550.
• 100-Hour Aerial YTT — 12 days, starting the 17th of each month. Dormitory $390, Shared room $770, Private room $1,100.

Both are led by Mayuri Shewale (E-RYT 500, founder) with Priya Sharma (RYT 500, aerial specialist).

The 50-Hour Aerial YTT starts every Monday and runs Monday to Sunday, so there is almost always a batch within a week of when you want to arrive. The 100-Hour Aerial YTT starts on the 17th of each month and runs for 12 days. Upcoming dates are listed on each course page and roll forward automatically.

Yes. Both trainings start with safety fundamentals before anyone leaves the ground. The hammock takes your body weight, which is what makes inversions and deep stretches accessible to people who could not hold them unsupported. You do not need to be strong or flexible on day one — you need to be willing to be upside down.

The 50-Hour is a 7-day intensive: hammock fundamentals, rigging and safety, the core aerial asana vocabulary, and enough sequencing to teach a beginner class confidently.

The 100-Hour runs 12 days and doubles the contact hours. It covers everything in the 50-hour and then goes further into aerial anatomy, advanced inversions and transitions, restorative and yin work in the hammock, therapeutic applications, and a much longer teaching practicum with supervised feedback.

Choose the 50-hour if you want a specialty to add to an existing teaching practice. Choose the 100-hour if aerial is going to be the thing you actually build a schedule or a studio around.

You receive an Aerial Yoga Teacher Training certificate for the hours you complete — 50 or 100. These are continuing-education programmes certified under YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider), so if you are already a registered teacher the hours count toward your Yoga Alliance continuing-education requirement.

To be clear about what this is and is not: RYS designations apply to 200-, 300- and 500-hour foundational trainings. A 50- or 100-hour aerial specialty is a YACEP credential, not an RYS one. Anyone advertising a 50-hour course as "RYS certified" is describing it wrongly.

We are in Tapovan, Rishikesh, India — the quieter side of the river, walking distance from Laxman Jhula and the Ganga ghats. Aerial Rishikesh is a program of Swaastik Yog School and runs from its Tapovan campus.

Mayuri Shewale (E-RYT 500) is the founder and lead teacher, with 15 years of teaching behind her. She leads hammock fundamentals, rigging and safety, and the alignment work. Priya Sharma (RYT 500) is our aerial specialist and leads the inversion, restorative and spotting modules.