Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga & Fitness Certification
25-HOUR
Certification
3-DAY
Immersion Program
3 MONTHS
To complete additional training modules
Welcome, Sea Maidens and Merfriends!
Step into your sanctuary of floating bliss, where your love for the water meets a mindful movement practice designed to enhance self-awareness while you embrace the beauty of nature around you.
At Aviana, we specialize in a unique Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP) yoga experience that allows you to engage your senses, connect deeply with the natural world, and discover a body-intelligent practice that feels more accessible than you ever imagined—all while floating on the water.
With over 12 years of experience in leading SUP yoga classes and teacher trainings, we are dedicated to helping you find harmony within yourself and with the outdoors.
Whether you’re looking to develop your own practice on your personal board or aspire to become an instructor of SUP yoga and fitness classes, read on to explore how our program can support your journey and growth.
Stand-Up Paddleboard Yoga Teacher Training
25-Hour Certification
Offered through a 3-Day Intensive or as a Retreat Teacher Training
Duration
6 hours each day for 18 contact hours
Additional Training Hours to Be Completed Via Training Modules and Practice Teaching Hours over the course of the 3 months following the training.
Pre-requisites
To apply for the training you must have a yoga certification OR a solid yoga practice with a background in group fitness, or movement instruction of some kind.
Inclusions
Included with your training is the Aviana SUP Yoga Teaching Manual which is a full color beautiful text displaying clear images of the SUP yoga poses you’ll be exploring as well as other important information regarding equipment and safety protocols to be considered. It can be tough taking notes while floating out on your board or enjoying the outdoors, so we have you covered with a manual that will help you reference everything you learned during the training weekend!
Curriculum
- Basics of Paddling Technique and Exercise to Work on Form
- Water Safety Essentials
- Equipment: Boards, Paddles, Anchoring Options, Safety Gear
- Setting up for a Class
- Benefits of SUP Yoga
- Asanas on the board
- Sequencing Classes with Body Intelligence
- Power Fitness Exercises with the Board
- Meditations
- Review of Asanas and Exercises
- How to be an effective teacher that sets every class up for SUCCESS!!
- Practice Teaching
This training is weather dependent and will be determined within 24 hours out of the start time as to whether or not the class will be able to run based on weather conditions. Please plan to reserve 4 days for the training in the event of a need to postpone a day.
In the event that the weather is projected to be inclement for all 3 days, refunds will be issued if the training needs to be cancelled.
The following conditions are contraindicated for this training:
- Pregnancy
- Recent Surgery (within 6 months)
- Heart Conditions
- Easy onset of Vertigo
- Recent Injury
- Shoulder injury in the past 6 months
- Adcanved Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Severe Arthritis
- Severe Muscle Spasms
- Severe Balance Issues
- Hernias
- Medications that cause dizziness, light-headedness or fainting
Upcoming Trainings
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Pricing
Meet Your Instructor
Holly Johnson is actually THE very first yoga instructor to offer Stand Up Paddle Board classes on Horsetooth Reservoir in Fort Collins Colorado, she pioneered the way for SUP Yoga and Fitness in the Front Range of Colorado starting in 2012!
She has been teaching yoga since 2011 and offers you the professional guidance you need to have a safe and highly effective, while enjoyable class. She not only will guide you with your optimum alignment for ease within each posture, but will help you tap into the soulful offerings of the water and the nature that surrounds you to aid in a deeper level of connection to your yoga practice and self growth.
Atoll Paddle Boards
Need a board for your practice or a fleet for your classes? Aviana Yoga recommends Atoll Paddle Boards as your source for your Stand Up Paddleboard needs.
Please reach out directly to Holly Johnson to order your boards and receive the latest specials and deals!
(970) 988-6168
Frequently Asked Questions
Aviana offers an aerial yoga practice where you maintain a connection with the hammock throughout the practice, which allows you to surrender into being held and supported while flowing through a moving meditation. There is great attention given to the alignment of the body and the relationship of the body to the anchor points in the ceiling. From the foundation of a rooted connection to the body and to the hammock the practice takes on a full sensory engagement through the instructor’s attentiveness to the sights, sounds, and aromas. Aviana is a full immersion experience developed to guide the practitioner into a meditative journey of growth and awareness with lengthened, toned elegance.
Absolutely! You would not be alone, there are many instructors that enroll in the aerial yoga teacher training to experience aerial yoga for the first time. Since aerial yoga is presented in so many ways, sometimes it can be better for you to enter with a beginner’s mind.
Your practice teaching hours are important to developing yourself as an instructor, we will discuss this at the training to make sure that you have a place where you can hang at least two hammocks. If you live near the studio where the training is being facilitated, oftentimes, there is an arrangement set up with that studio for you to complete your practice teaching hours there.
Aviana withdrew support of the Yoga Alliance many years ago and stands by that decision to this day.
To receive your aerial yoga certification, you must complete the in-person training intensive and then complete the remaining training modules within a 5-month period following your in-person intensive. All training modules will be reviewed with feedback given and must be completed to the satisfaction of Aviana safety standards for a certification to be granted.
Some students complete their training and remaining training modules within 2 months of attending the in-person training, but you have up to 5 months to complete them with the option to receive extensions if need-be.
Yes! There are payment plans that allow for you to break your tuition into 3 or 4 months of payments.
Since the aerial yoga training intensive is for only 3-5 days, depending on the training that you are attending, there is a plethora of information covered each day, so it would not be advisable to miss a whole day of the training
In the event that you need to leave one of the training days early or arrive late, please reach out to the trainer facilitating the training and let them know so that arrangements can be made to support you with getting up to speed with whatever material you will miss during your time away.
The Aviana Aerial Yoga Teacher Training differs from other aerial yoga teacher trainings available due to the intentional focus on optimal body alignment, moving meditative sequences, full sensory engagement, and the connection to the power of sisterhood. The training intensive is presented in a way that it feels like a retreat infused with a teacher training so that you can immerse yourself into your own growth and expansion as you discover your wings.
The examination training module is very straightforward, everything that is on the test is included in the training intensive or in your training book. It is a short exam and not something to stress about. You will have the opportunity to retake the exam one time in the unlikely event that you do not pass on the first try.
Yes, Aviana is here to support you through each step of the journey, do not hesitate to reach out to Aviana or to embrace the support of sisterhood in the Sisters of the Silks Community Group.
While you are an instructor in-training, you will need to offer classes to log your practice teaching hours. There are several ways that the classes can be offered, and it will vary depending on the hosting studio you are teaching out of. The classes can be donation-based where proceeds support a local cause, or proceeds go to the hosting studio to support the costs of the use of the space.
Once you are certified, you will have discovered your wings to take you where you would like to go. Since the launch of the Aviana yoga teacher training program there has been a lot of growth in the aerial yoga industry with a number of studios, park districts, retreat centers, gyms, health clubs, and therapy centers installing hammocks to be able to offer classes. If there isn’t one in your area, Aviana offers consulting to help support the launch of new spaces.
