Aerial Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer
About Gillian
I have been teaching yoga to people of all ages and abilities since 2007, and I truly believe in its power to transform lives. Helping people stay active, connected, and balanced is not just my work — it’s my passion.
My Journey into Aerial Yoga
A few years into my yoga teaching career, I began developing aerial skills in trapeze and silks. It was through this exploration that I discovered aerial yoga — a playful, yet powerful way to explore traditional yoga postures, strength, flexibility, and body awareness, all while seeing the world from a new perspective.
“I highly recommend Gillian Watt of Aerial Yoga Edinburgh for Aerial Yoga and aerial skills training it truly opened a new door in my yoga practice. The training expanded my skills as a teacher and broadened what I could offer my students.
The practice inspired me so deeply that I went on to encourage my own students to train, and later invited Gillian to Northern Ireland to teach and facilitate the Aerial Yoga Teacher Training. Gillian’s teaching is clear, supportive, and deeply knowledgeable, and her Aerial Yoga Teacher Training manual is the best aerial yoga teaching resource I have ever come across.
Training with Gillian is inspiring, empowering, and professionally enriching. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”
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Aerial Steps Teacher Training
Aerial Steps is my professional aerial yoga teacher training programme, designed specifically for certified yoga teachers who want to safely and creatively incorporate aerial yoga into their teaching.
I have been teaching aerial yoga since 2012 and practiced aerial disciplines including trapeze, silks, and hoop since 2009. My training includes:
- Introduction to Teaching Aerial Trapeze and Silks (NECCA Circus School)
- Level 1 Silks and Cocoon
- Extensive experience teaching yoga since 2007
Why Aerial Yoga?
Aerial yoga continues to grow in popularity — and it’s more than a trend. The yoga hammock is a versatile prop that can enhance any yoga style, offering support, challenge, creativity, and new ways to explore familiar postures.
Professional Aerial Yoga Training
I deliver specialist aerial yoga teacher training courses for qualified yoga teachers looking to expand their skills. Courses are designed and delivered at your venue, making them accessible and adaptable.
- Minimum participants: 8
- Locations: UK & Europe
- Duration: Typically 2 days (tailored options available)
Prerequisites: This course is open only to certified yoga teachers seeking to develop a rewarding new teaching pathway.
What You Will Learn
- Adapt aerial yoga practices to meet participants’ needs
- Safely take yoga postures into the air using the hammock
- Use the hammock at different heights, including restorative/yin practices near the ground
- Plan, prepare, instruct, and adapt aerial yoga sessions
- Design balanced, creative aerial yoga classes
- Apply health and safety legislation while using the aerial hammock
Course Format:
- Face-to-face training: 2 days
- We deliver the in house training at your location /studio
- Aerial Yoga Teacher Certificate upon completion
- Course pricing confirmed dependant on number of attendees