Scaling the Heights: 32-Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training with Sandy Shum

9, 10, 16 & 17 January 2027
9am - 6pm

Working with the aerial hammock opens new possibilities to explore traditional yoga asanas, one can work on developing strength, mobility, alignment, body awareness and confidence while experiencing both the support and challenge of suspension.

This training is designed for both Aerial Yoga practitioners who wish to advance and refine their personal practice and aspiring or current yoga teachers who wish to develop the skills to teach Aerial Yoga safely and confidently.

Throughout the training, you will explore the hammock as a support, a movement tool and a way to experience familiar asanas from a different perspective. The practice progresses from foundational aerial techniques to supported and suspended asanas, inversions, transitions and more fluid movement.

A special focus of the training is learning how to move beyond individual poses. You will explore mini aerial sequences, discovering how asanas and transitions can be progressively connected to create smooth and purposeful aerial flows.

For those wishing to teach, you will also develop essential skills in cueing, demonstration, sequencing, modification, assistance and safe spotting.

You do not have to be planning to teach to participate. The training is equally suitable for practitioners who simply want to deepen their knowledge, progress their aerial practice and move with greater confidence.

1. Foundations of Aerial Yoga
History and development of Aerial Yoga • Benefits and applications • Understanding the hammock as a support and teaching tool • Practice principles and etiquette

2. Functional Anatomy & Body Mechanics
Understanding the spine, shoulders, hips and core in aerial practice • Alignment and stability • Gravity, suspension and weight transfer • Traction and release

3. Safety & Health Considerations
Hammock setup and safety awareness • Health considerations and contraindications • Safe positioning • Appropriate progressions and modifications • Safe entries and exits

4. Aerial Asana Practice
Foundational to progressive aerial asanas • Standing, supported and suspended positions • Strength and mobility • Forward bends, backbends, twists and balances • Restorative applications

5. Inversions, Transitions & Aerial Skills
Inversion foundations • Building confidence upside down • Safe entry and exit techniques • Progressive aerial skills • Connecting movements through safe and controlled transitions

6. Mini Sequences & Aerial Flow
Moving beyond individual poses • Connecting asanas and transitions • Learning progressive mini sequences • Developing continuity and control • Building longer, fluid aerial practices

7. Assistance & Spotting
Teacher positioning • Safe assistance and spotting • Supporting students through entries, exits and inversions • Observation and appropriate intervention

8. Teaching Methodology & Sequencing
Leading an Aerial Yoga class • Effective cueing and demonstration • Teaching different abilities • Modifications • Art and science of sequencing • Creating progressive Aerial Yoga classes • Teaching practicum

Participants who successfully complete the full 32-hour training and required practical components will receive a 32-Hour Aerial Yoga Teacher Training Certificate.

Whether your intention is to progress your own aerial practice or develop the skills to teach, Scaling the Heights provides a structured journey to explore, understand and experience Aerial Yoga at a deeper level.

About Sandy Shum 

Born and raised in Malaysia, Sandy later moved to Singapore for work. She took her first yoga class after a downfall in her life in 2002 and was hooked. She went on to obtain her first Yoga Instructor's Certificate awarded by the Vivekananda Yoga Centre in 2004 and has been teaching since then. She also completed certifications from Yoga Vidya Gurukul in 2009 and 2010, Universal Yoga in 2013 – and continues to enrich her practice and studies in Yoga.
Sandy's classes are focused on the union of body and mind via the breath. Through alignment instruction and individual awareness, she helps students to strengthen and free both body and mind. Sandy has discovered how Yoga has blessed and changed her life. Her goal is to help bring the same feeling to others through its practice.

Schedule

9, 10, 16 & 17 January 2027
9am – 6pm (32 Hours in total, breaks included) 

PURE Yoga Ngee Ann City 

PURE Members

First 5: 1260

Early-Bird*: $1470

Regular: $1840

 

Non-members

First 5: $1370

Early-Bird*: $1590

Regular: $1990 

*Early-bird ends 9 Dec 2026.

Early-Bird Pricing will be reflected at checkout. 

Non-members' pricing includes complimentary 1 week pass at PURE Yoga/Fitness Ngee Ann City. Please email events.sg@pure-international.com to access. 

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• This event is open for registration to Public and PURE members.
  
• No refund or credit will be given for cancellations starting from 9 Dec 2026.
• All refunds are subject to a 10% processing fee that will be deducted from your refund. 
• PURE bears no responsibility for any missed sessions. No refunds or makeup sessions will be provided.
• PURE reserves the right to modify the event schedule, content, or venue. Participants will be notified of any changes in a timely manner.
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