Lift, trust, soar—experience the art of flying together
Workshop #1: INTRODUCTION & ESSENTIAL SHAPES
Cost:
Early Bird (register by June 20, 2025):
1 Workshop: $70 - 2 Workshops: $60 each - 3 Workshops: $55 each
Regular (after June 21, 2025):
1 Workshop: $80 - 2 Workshops: $70 each 3 Workshops: $60 each
Dates:
July 6th ( Level 1)
July 13th ( Level 1)
July 20th ( Level 2)
Prerequisites:
Pre-existing aerial experience (beginner or above)
Comfortable with straight-arm inversions (tucked or straight legs)
Comfortable staying upside-down for at least 20 seconds
No duo experience required
- Tips & fundamentals of partner work
- Fundamental technique & engagements for safe practice
- Essential hand-to-hand shapes
- Exploring mirroring & stagging shapes on the apparatus
Instructor: Hélène & Vova (Duo Elova)
Lift, trust, soar—experience the art of flying together
Workshop #1: TRICKS IN HANDS & FEET
Cost:
Early Bird (register by June 20, 2025):
1 Workshop: $70 - 2 Workshops: $60 each - 3 Workshops: $55 each
Regular (after June 21, 2025):
1 Workshop: $80 - 2 Workshops: $70 each 3 Workshops: $60 each
Dates:
July 6th ( Level 1)
July 13th ( Level 1)
July 20th ( Level 2)
Prerequisites:
Pre-existing aerial experience (beginner or above)
Comfortable with straight-arm inversions (tucked or straight legs)
Comfortable staying upside-down for at least 20 seconds
No duo experience required
- Preparation for soft dynamic work
- Further hand-to-hand shapes
- Basing from feet Static transitions from hand-to-hand or feet-based shapes to the apparatus, and vice-versa
Instructor: Hélène & Vova (Duo Elova)
Lift, trust, soar—experience the art of flying together.
Workshop #3: INTERMEDIATE TRICKS & SEQUENCING
Cost:
Early Bird (register by June 20, 2025):
1 Workshop: $70 - 2 Workshops: $60 each - 3 Workshops: $55 each
Regular (after June 21, 2025):
1 Workshop: $80 - 2 Workshops: $70 each 3 Workshops: $60 each
Dates:
July 6th ( Level 1)
July 13th ( Level 1)
July 20th ( Level 2)
Prerequisites:
- Pre-existing trapeze experience (intermediate or above)
- Comfortable being approximately 15ft high
- Comfortable staying upside-down for at least 40 seconds
- No duo experience required
- Soft dynamic work
- Dynamic transitions from hand-to-hand or feet-based shapes to the apparatus, and vice-versa
- Further hand-to-hand shapes and additional shapes based from feet
- Sequence building
Instructor: Hélène & Vova (Duo Elova)
AERIAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (50 HOURS)
One Week Intensive:
Saturday August 23 - Friday August 29, 2025
Saturday 3:30 - 9:00 PM
Sunday 1:30 - 5:30 PM
Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Faculty:
Janie Prince & Amanda McDonald with Tingting Huang
TUITION*: $2500
Early Bird: $2200 (pay in full by July 1, 2025)
$500 Deposit* is due upon acceptance to guarantee your place in the program.
$20 non-refundable application fee is due with your online application.
Om Factory Aerial Yoga 10-Class Pack included with paid tuition — a $420 value!
Applicants should complete the ONLINE APPLICATION (and submit $20 application fee) no later than August 1, 2025.
TRAINEES RECEIVE:
50 hours of training, covering Aerial Yoga safety, alignment, embodied anatomy, modifications, hands-on assists, transitions and more -- everything you need to safely guide students through beginning and open level Aerial Yoga classes.
- Your AERIAL ASANA MANUAL, a complete and comprehensive resource of Aerial Yoga poses adapted from classical yoga and modern aerial acrobatics
- OFSY ANATOMY MANUAL, a detailed, full-color guide to the human body
- Access to an ONLINE VIDEO LIBRARY breaking down Cirque covered in the training
- CERTIFICATE of Completion from Om Factory School of Yoga Aerial Yoga Teacher Training (pending completion of all course requirements)
- 10-CLASS PACK: valid for any Aerial Yoga class at Om Factory
*Om Factory can occasionally offer partial work-study scholarships or other financial assistance for Aerial Yoga Teacher Training. Contact tt@omfactory.yoga for more info.
OFSY’s Fall 2025 16-Hour Advanced Aerial Yoga Teacher Training
with Amanda McDonald
Learn to fly higher in OFSY’s Fall 2025 Advanced Aerial Yoga Teacher Training, led by Amanda McDonald! This 16-hour program is designed to give aerial yoga teachers the skills they need to sequence intelligent, dynamic and challenging classes at the intermediate/advanced level.
Expect to spend a lot of time in the aerial hammock apparatus, while you learn exciting advanced skills that will take your students to new heights. Additional modules include how to safely spot these advanced techniques and how to effectively sequence them into your classes. We’ll also look at advanced transitions, conditioning exercises for advanced poses and the art of weaving yogic philosophy into class. Interested students must fill out an online application for the program prior to enrolling. For more information, please check out our website or email tt@omfactory.yoga.
Labor Day 2025 Program:
Saturday August 30, 3:00 - 9:00 PM
Sunday August 31, 1:30 - 5:30 PM
Monday September 1, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Tuition
TUITION: $899
EARLY BIRD: $749 (Pay in Full by July 1)
AYTT Grad Discount: $699
$20 application fee.
Prerequisites
All applicants must:
- have a minimum of one year experience teaching Aerial Yoga AND/OR a minimum of two years of dedicated Aerial Yoga Practice at an intermediate level.
- be comfortable inverting in the air and with working fifteen feet above the floor.
- fill out an online application prior to enrolling in the program.
About the Instructor:
Amanda McDonald has practiced yoga since she was a teenager (thank you Blockbuster Video), but got serious after moving to NYC to pursue a musical theatre career. She started taking yoga to feel good & stay fit, and found solace & calm. After realizing that she'd rather be at the ashram than on the stage, she moved to India to follow this path.
She has been teaching full time since graduating from OFSY's 200-Hour Vinyasa Teacher Training in 2011. She has completed trainings at Studio Anya, Yogamaya, The Breathing Project, and Yoga Union. She considers herself incredibly lucky to have studied with such masters, and hopes she can share a tiny portion of the joy, peace, and clarity she has found with their help. She is a co-creator of OFSY's Aerial Yoga Teacher Training curriculum and continues to teach Aerial Yoga and lead trainings at Om Factory. Amanda loves the lessons yoga teaches us about life and enjoys seeing students win small victories and gain confidence both on and off of the mat.