Teacher Training & Workshops

Anyone is allowed to take this course – whether you are a yoga teacher or not – to deepen their own practice and understanding of aerial yoga. However, to receive an aerial yoga teacher certification from us, you must be a 200hr certified yoga teacher or higher, or currently in progress to receive.

• Safety/Rigging/Benefits of Aerial Yoga
• Yoga philosophy: Yamas, Niyamas, Koshas, Sutras
• Limbs of Yoga and how they tie in with the aerial yoga practice.
• Roles/Responsibilities/Ethics of the Yoga/Aerial Yoga Teacher
• Anatomy Review
• Aerial Yoga Poses
• Aerial Yoga Poses Breakdown – Modifications/Contraindications/Benefits
• Guidelines on how to teach the poses, spot, and safely adjust alignment in the pose.
• Learning to teach different bodies and abilities.
• Practice teaching each other the poses.
• Designing a Class Sequence, Themes, and Practice Teaching
• Teacher Training Manual
• You will be prepared to teach Beginner – Intermediate level classes
• Certification upon completion (for 200hr teachers)

• Airfare
• Transportation to and from studio
• Lodging
• Meals

Andrea “Dre” Fors, has 20 plus years of experience teaching and performing aerial arts, teaching aerial yoga, yoga, pilates, and personal training. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia, is a YACEP and 500 E-RYT yoga instructor, and is a certified holistic wellness coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She has been a wellness advocate and instructor for corporations, including Google and for 5 star resorts, like Sea Island Resort., and currently is the Wellness Director for The Hotel Wailea in Maui Hawaii, . She helped open and run two of the first handful of public aerial arts studios in the country, and served as co-artistic director, choreographer, and dancer for D’AIR professional aerial dance company in Atlanta. Furthermore, she owned a professional performance company that performed both nationally and internationally for corporate events and resorts.

Her true path to wellness didn’t become apparent until her own health was declining, and there were no conventional answers. This led her on a crusade to unravel the answers, thus she spent many years independently studying the human body, diving deep into meditation and yoga, natural medicine, nutrition, and a plethora of ways to heal her own body. It took some time, but through all of these, she finally began to turn her health around and is living her fullest and healthiest life on Maui now, helping others reclaim theirs.
She founded ‘Uplift Maui’ in 2016 as a way to bring all of this knowledge and experience together. The name itself is a play on the idea of aerial yoga and arts literally being uplifting, but it also ties in the notion of uplifting the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of the individual, and the community as a whole.

Course price: $1650

**Early bird pricing before May 1st, 2025:  $1450

There is a $250 non-refundable deposit to hold your spot.