Become a Certified
Yoga Trapeze® Instructor
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Top Benefits You'll Experience
[Message from Lucas Rockwood, Founder]
If you love the Yoga Trapeze, and you would like to become a certified teacher or simply deepen your personal practice, I’d like to introduce you to our on-demand Yoga Trapeze Online Teacher Training course.
Since 2006, I’ve led yoga training courses all over the world and I’ve learned that for every one student who trains in person with us, there are at least 10 more students who would love to join but can’t make it due to travel restrictions or work and family responsibilities. Luckily, we now offer an at-home course you can do in your own time.
Here’s why students love teaching Yoga Trapeze:
Deliver Results
We love all styles of yoga, but YOGABODY students tend to be results-oriented. For students with back pain, poor flexibility, weak core muscles, and little to no grip strength (all very common issues), the Yoga Trapeze offers a way for them to experience remarkable transformation.
Share the Benefits of Inversion Yoga
Inversions have never been more popular, but most students can’t perform even a simple headstand, so they skip these poses and miss both the health benefits as well as the fun of going upside down.
Attract Students Easily
Traditional yoga has become so mainstream that it can be difficult to attract the attention of new students. Mat-based classes are amazing and will always be the core of yoga, but people like a little variety.
The Yoga Trapeze provides a fun and fresh way to introduce people to yoga. It takes the ancient practice of yoga and turns it on its head. As a teacher, it’ll help you attract new students; and for your students, they’ll have yet another great reason to give yoga a try.
Set Your Own Schedule
The ability to set your own schedule is one of the biggest draws of teaching yoga. As a certified Yoga Trapeze instructor, you can decide to work full-time or part-time, take random days off, and take vacations as you please. Finally, you’ll be in charge of your own time.
Travel and Teach Anywhere
As a certified Yoga Trapeze instructor, you can teach in any city or even any country that you want. More and more opportunities arise every day for adventurous types.
Earn a Great Salary
Even as a new teacher, you can make a great hourly wage. When you’re highly specialized in your teaching, you’ll typically make as much as senior-level teachers of more common styles. Not to mention, your private session rates will be comparable to that of a massage therapist or chiropractor.
Online Training: How it Works
The format of this course is on-demand video-based lessons (lectures and video classes), questions and answers, personal practice, and home study that can happen at any time. Early morning or late in the evening? As long as you do the work, you can set your own schedule. And despite working at your own pace, you will still get the opportunity to engage with other students and graduates through our alumni group, and connect personally with our trainers. Here’s how it works:
Practice + Study (2 hours daily). Set aside approximately two hours per day for study and practice. This can happen all in one session, or you can break it up into two or even four parts. It’s up to you. It’s alright if you miss a day, simply double up on another day to catch up.
eLearning Platform. You’ll be issued a login and password for our official eLearning platform where you’ll find pose-by-pose tutorials, setup and safety videos, checklists, flashcards, and more. This new and updated platform has five times the number of resources offered in any other course, and you get lifetime access!
Video Training Sessions. YOGABODY’s expert trainers will conduct training sessions and lectures via video that you can watch at any time. We’ll demonstrate poses as though you are in the studio with us.
Bonus Materials. New student forms, copy/paste promotional forms, business card templates, and more are all included in the program. We make it fast and easy to get started—a big part of the reason our graduates are doing so well.
The Opportunity
At YOGABODY, we have pioneered both group and private Yoga Trapeze classes in our studios, and the response has been overwhelming. More and more studios, fitness centers, and individuals worldwide are now looking for professionally-trained teachers to model our success and lead this fun and dynamic style of practice. Key teaching opportunities include,
- Private clients. This can be a great way to create highly individualized, solution-oriented sessions. Private clients offer you a flexible schedule, you can teach one-on-one sessions online, or from yours or their home or office, while earning a great hourly wage. It’s an opportunity to impact your students’ lives in a big way.
- Group classes are popping up in yoga studios all over the world, but most studios don’t have qualified teachers. Group classes are fun, challenging, and instant community builders. As more and more studios add inversion slings to their existing facilities, they need teachers like you.
- Gyms and fitness centers. Many already have the rigging for suspension trainers (TRX), so it’s easy to add Yoga Trapezes to their facilities for private or semi-private sessions with clients who are hungry for new ways to stretch and strengthen their bodies.
- Non-traditional locations. Yoga Trapeze teachers are not limited to traditional yoga environments. With so many pull-up bars, ceiling rigs, and other setups at rock climbing gyms and CrossFit boxes you could quickly get a Yoga Trapeze class going. Meanwhile many schools now offer yoga as an extracurricular activity, and the Yoga Trapeze can be a great addition to those classes.
Why People Love the Yoga Trapeze®
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Instant Spinal Traction
Back pain is an epidemic, but clients can use gravity to their advantage while using the Yoga Trapeze and elongate their spine with little to no prior yoga experience. For many, this type of pain relief is unmatched by any other form of treatment.
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Suspension Training
Functional fitness requires the pushing, pulling, and holding of weight. In traditional mat-based yoga classes, you push and hold your body weight constantly, but it’s very difficult to find pulling motions in these classes. Pulling is a crucial movement for back, neck, and upper body health. The Yoga Trapeze introduces functional pulling movements in a fun and dynamic way.
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Flexibility
Aside from inversions, there are dozens of hip openers, shoulder openers, and hamstring stretches that work amazingly well for flexibility. Using the leverage of the sling, suspension, and gravity, you can practice flexibility training in a whole new way.
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Deep Backbends
Backbends are some of the most challenging poses in yoga, and students often get so frustrated that they skip them altogether. On the Yoga Trapeze, you can do passive backbends (just hang and breathe) to open the stiff and stuck areas of your shoulders and thoracic spine.
The Curriculum
The Yoga Trapeze Training curriculum is designed to empower you with the anatomy, physiology, leadership, safety, and business skills needed to become a successful teacher. Course director, Lucas Rockwood, has been training professional instructors since 2006, and his approach is 100 percent focused on results. This is not a virtual yoga retreat or an extended workshop. You sign up to learn how to teach, and you’ll walk away as a qualified instructor.
Anatomy & Physiology
The movements and exercises on the Yoga Trapeze are atypical and rarely found in any studio or gym, so you’ll explore the physiology and anatomy of what’s going on internally. This knowledge will give you a deeper understanding of your own body, and more importantly, the bodies of your clients. We’ll place particular emphasis on the spine as that is a key area of focus.
Back Care & Back Injury
Many people are drawn to the Yoga Trapeze for back pain relief, so as a teacher, you need to be well-versed in common ailments, treatments, terminology, and safety protocols. We are not doctors, but our yoga can serve as a form of rehab therapy when taught correctly together with the support of health care professionals. Our students are not always as prudent as they should be; you need to understand the landscape of back pain and medical problems so you can navigate it safely and effectively as a teacher.
Sequencing & Class Planning
You’ll learn dozens of individual poses during the course, but more importantly, you’ll learn how to structure and sequence both beginner and intermediate flow classes. You’ll also learn how you can teach pose-by-pose workshop-style sessions, which are great for guest teaching gigs while traveling.
Leadership & Class Management
Leading a Yoga Trapeze class is much more challenging than teaching a mat-based class because students are upside down and twisted around. They often cannot see you, and can sometimes be talking or laughing. As an instructor, you must enforce safety and keep control over your group and private classes. Leadership, word choice, body language, and demonstrations are of the utmost importance.
Safety
The Yoga Trapeze is extremely safe when taught correctly, but anytime you’re hanging upside down, there is potential for danger. As a teacher, your job is first and foremost to keep everyone safe. That means checking the rigs, disallowing wild students, teaching appropriate level postures, and constantly staying vigilant. Safety is a key part of your job, and it’s something you’ll master during the course.
Marketing & Business
It’s great to learn a new skill, but if you don’t know how to market and sell your services, what’s the point? You’ll learn how to use common tools, such as social media, to attract and retain clients, charge for your services, and earn a great living. This is not a mindset module; we’ll teach you exactly what to do to get paying clients right away.
Meet the Teachers
LUCAS ROCKWOOD
Master Trainer & Director (E-RYT, YACEP)
Lucas Rockwood is an internationally-renowned yoga trainer, TEDx Speaker, author, podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur.
Lucas’ corporate training clients include Facebook and Noom. His early yoga and meditation teachers include Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (deceased), Paul Dallaghan, Alex Medin, Gabriel Cousens MD, and SN Goenka (deceased).
Lucas left the USA in 2003 and traveled and taught extensively before making Barcelona, Spain, his home base. In a previous life, he worked in theater, publishing, and as a plant-based chef and nutritional coach. He’s the father of three international kids and remains as passionate about yoga as when he first began practicing in 2002. Lucas is the founder and managing director of YOGABODY® and the YOGABODY Teachers College®, host of Age Less / Live More (podcast), and author of Yoga Business Mastery: Earn a Great Living Doing What You Love.
CAMILO CARREIRO
Trainer (E-RYT, YACEP)
Camilo began practicing yoga in 2010 and enrolled in his first yoga training course to deepen his practice. However, he quickly fell in love with teaching and decided to make a career change from political scientist to become a full-time yoga teacher. Camilo joined the Barcelona YOGABODY team in 2015 and immediately became involved in sequence development, course planning, and new teacher mentorship.
Camilo leads workshops and classes to all levels and has mentored and taught hundreds of trainees around the world. He teaches the YOGABODY 200hr Teacher Training program, Trapeze Teacher Training, Stretching Coach Training and Breath Coach Training courses. Alongside course leadership, Camilo maintains a busy teaching schedule - and loves every minute!
Camilo’s Yoga Certifications includes Yoga Alliance E-RYT Registered Trainer / YACEP Provider, YOGABODY Teaching Diploma (YTD) & Applied Yoga Studies Diploma, Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Certification, Yoga Trapeze™ Cert, Stretching Coach & Breath Coach.
Can I Really Learn to Teach Online?
Our approach to online training is different, and the success of our graduates speaks for itself. While many online schools just send you links to a bunch of videos and expect you to figure things out on your own, we support and guide you every step of the way, no matter your experience level or background. Our teaching team and administrative support team will help you achieve your goals step-by-step, and you’ll get the opportunity to make amazing new contacts from around the world through our alumni group afterwards. It is so inspiring to see our graduates teaching professionally, earning a great living, and helping students transform their health.
Top Benefits of Online Training:
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A Deeper Learning Experience
With online training, you have more time to learn, practice, and digest the material. The on-demand format means you can start learning immediately after you register, as soon as today, and you can learn at a pace that naturally fits you.
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No Travel & No Time Off Work
Study and practice when you can: mornings, evenings, whenever! Our trainers and our students are from all over the world, in many different timezones.
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Affordable Investment
Online tuition is much lower than in-person courses, and with no travel expenses, it becomes the most affordable option for high-level training.
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Busy Schedule? No Problem
You can go at your own pace and do the course work whenever suits you best. We know that work and family obligations can be overwhelming, this format allows you to create a learning schedule that fits your life.
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Lifetime Access
You’ll have access to your eLearning Center during and after the course, so you can always stay up to date on the latest teaching techniques. We are constantly improving and adding resources to help your professional career.
What if I’m Not a Yoga Teacher?
No problem! The vast majority of trainees in this program have no background in yoga or group fitness training. The course will lead you step-by-step through everything you need to know to start working professionally. You can get insurance, teach in gyms and yoga studios, and even set up your own business after this course. Read our student reviews to see what our graduates are up to.
Tuition Investment
The Yoga Trapeze is the most popular yoga inversion sling in the world, with more than 200,000 students in 81 countries—but there are hardly any teachers. YOGABODY is excited to offer this Yoga Trapeze Online Teacher Training Course, where you’ll learn how to teach both group and private sessions for beginner and intermediate students.
Tuition Fees Include:
- On-demand video classes, mentorship, and support from trainers
- Lifetime access to eLearning training and business resources
- A 30hr Yoga Alliance YACEP and ACE registered course
100%, 365-Day Satisfaction Guarantee
If for any reason (or no reason at all), you’re unhappy with this course, just email us for a full and prompt refund anytime within a year of purchase. We stand behind all our programs unconditionally because our customer success and happiness rates are so high. We’re responsive, reliable, and we’re here to help.
About The Certification
This course is registered with both Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (CE) and the American Council on Exercise (ACE). By successfully graduating from this course, you’ll be qualified at the 30-hour academic level for the official Yoga Trapeze Teacher Training. If possible, we recommend you also attend an apprenticeship at a local studio to obtain the practical, real-world training experience.
It’s possible to start teaching immediately without any additional training. We currently have instructors in 21 countries (and counting), and the demand for teachers far outreaches the current supply. So it’s a great time to get trained.
Frequently Asked Questions
Customer Reviews
“Great for personal and business learning.”
Yoga Trapeze Teacher Training was a great experience in giving me a structure, communication effectiveness, and foundation for the yb trapeze and for teaching it with clarity . Instruction was professional. Was interesting to experience increase in physical strength and flexibility too.
Monika Faulhaber
“A thoroughly enjoyable experience…”
I had a thoroughly enjoyable experience learning to teach yoga trapeze under the superb instruction of Lucas and Camilo. I feel confident to teach now and would recommend this course to anyone who is contemplating teaching.
– Gabrielle
“Very high quality and extremely informative!”
The Yoga Trapeze Teacher Training was an amazing experience! YOGABODY is one of the best investments you could ever make if you are looking to become, or deepen your practice as a yoga teacher! You definitely can’t go wrong with their science-based approach!
– Seth McFarlane
“The teachers are motivating and inspiring...”
The daily learning and videos are challenging but it really drives home the point of daily practice. The teachers are motivating and inspiring and their passion for the trapeze makes them all compassionate teachers. This class is unmatched.
-Kiki M.
“This course is amazing!”
The way this is taught is in an easy-to-understand way, and I now feel more confident and knowledgeable to put together a routine to target specific areas for myself and others. I highly recommend this course!
– Jo Eva
“A great investment!”
This was informative, well-structured, organized and clear. It was easy to follow and I had so much fun while getting to know the trapeze and my own body too.
– Beth Bradley
“This class gets an “A” from me!”
The course info is very thorough and the photos and videos for almost every YOGABODY trapeze pose make learning, memorizing and teaching the poses so much easier.” Namaste, this class gets an “A” from me!
– Heather Silguero
“You will feel empowered and want to teach when the course is over.”
It’s a wonderful feeling to not only be able to learn that you can heal yourself (I improved an injury), but also to teach others to do the same. This program is hands-on and fun. You will feel empowered and want to teach when the course is over.
– Brittney Littlejohn
“I’m blown away by this program and am so glad I went through the training.”
There is SO much to do with the Yoga Trapeze that I wouldn’t have ever known without the training. I’m so excited to continue this new training myself, as well as help so many of my current clients.
– Carrie Klauk