Bloom Aerial Teacher Training
Aerial is More Than Tricks
Learn the frameworks, practices, and skills needed to become a confident & empowering aerial instructor.
Set yourself apart with the teaching intelligence and excellence most instructors never formally learn
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Teach beyond the tricks.
Become the instructor who recognizes the deeper layers of learning and teaching aerial. See what most miss, master your instruction, deepen your impact, and run classes that feel great for everyone.
Schedule a Strategy Session Enrolling now · small cohortStart seeing what most teachers miss.
A training built for depth & expertise.
Aerial has grown fast. Teaching standards haven't. Many instructors are not given clear frameworks to read students, perform diagnostics, and handle risks, challenges, and complexities of aerial work. BLOOM was built to close that gap.
A Common Approach
- Skill & cue memorization without a deeper teaching framework
- Teaching guidance with limited or no emphasis on learning theory, cueing theory, nervous system regulation, ethics, or troubleshooting for diverse bodies
- Anatomy basics without clear applications
- Limited mentorship or individualized feedback
- *What* to teach and say without understanding the hidden factors that determine whether students progress, fall behind, compensate, or quit.
The BLOOM Method
- 4 months of close mentorship with weekly coaching and personalized feedback
- Learn to see beyond movement, understanding the biomechanics, motor learning, nervous system, body awareness training, and human factors shaping every student's experience
- Build precise, adaptable cueing that utilizes motor learning theory and responds to diverse bodies and minds
- Turn knowledge of biomechanics, anatomy, pain science, and nervous system regulation into practical teaching instincts
- Become the instructor who can confidently diagnose, troubleshoot, and lead any student, not because you've memorized more progressions, but because you understand how movement and learning actually work
Bloom takes your development as an instructor seriously and addresses it one layer at a time. It is not a $500 weekend, and the results are exactly why.
If your training taught you these, it's time for a deeper foundation.
"More tricks = more progress."
In BLOOMProgress isn't measured by how many skills a student can check off. It's measured by the quality of their movement, neuromuscular coordination, technical understanding, physical adaptation, apparatus management, and confidence. Bloom teaches you to build true capability, not just collect tricks.
"If the cue doesn't work, try saying it lots of different ways."
In BLOOMThis is great advice, but before launching into more phrasing, we walk through a checklist of why the cue may not have worked. Then we troubleshoot from there, so nobody's time or energy is wasted.
"A scared student just needs a little encouragement."
In BLOOMFear is a complex nervous system response, and navigating it ethically requires us to understand what's happening. With Bloom, we make decisions based on very specific signals from the student, rather than assuming one strategy works for everyone. You'll learn how dysregulation blocks learning and raises injury risk, and how to ethically support students through it.
In BLOOM, we don't equate more tricks with more progress.
We look at physical adaptation, body awareness, motor planning, and the student's relationship with challenge, discomfort, and fear.
We give students the foundational education they deserve, and bring special care to our beginners.
A complete, inclusive, trauma-informed integrated pedagogy system for high-level aerial instruction - no matter where you're starting at with your teaching.
BLOOM applies neuroscience, psychology, and learning theory to the aerial classroom, across aerial silks/hammock and hoop, with cross-apparatus intelligence built in. This is not a course you passively watch. It's a mentorship you engage with deeply.
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- 4 months with flexible pacing options
- Weekly group calls: dialogue, troubleshooting practice, community
- Weekly 1:1 calls with Sara: true mentorship, not just a portal login
- Embodiment labs to integrate anatomy & physiology in your own body
- Guest masterclasses with anatomy & movement experts
- Community of instructors: surround yourself with teachers devoted to higher standards and continual growth
- Final assessment: open-note exam, written & annotated video teaching
- Lifetime access to all materials and every future update
Safety, taken further.
The purpose of BLOOM is to develop instructors who are prepared to support every student who walks through their door.
Psychological & emotional safety
Nervous system literacy, consent, and ethical fear navigation, built into every module, not a single safety talk.
Real risk management
Rescue and emergency response protocols you actually practice, plus scanning for risk and fatigue in real time.
CPR, required
BLOOM requires current CPR certification before completing the course, and graduates must stay up-to-date to continue to be BLOOM-certified.
Studio safety binder
A ready-to-adapt binder of protocols and procedures for your own space.
What BLOOM builds in you
Integrative Pedagogy
Motor learning, nervous system fluency, fear & pain psychology, applied, not abstract.
Technical Mastery
Advanced foundational technique: the subtle details that save students years of struggle.
Student Empowerment
Consent, autonomy, and teaching diverse bodies so every student feels genuinely supported.
Embodied Leadership
Read the room, regulate the energy, and lead a class culture that's unmistakably yours.
Real changes in how you interpret the classroom, make decisions, and support students.
You see what most teachers miss
You learn to watch a student and understand what's really happening in their body, not just whether a skill looks right, but why it isn't working and exactly what to address.
In the room: you recognize problematic body mechanics and technique. You find the real problem and fix that instead of guessing or overlooking.
You become a technique expert
You stop narrating movement and start breaking down real skill mechanics. You understand the why behind every fundamental, so you can explain it, adapt it, and troubleshoot it for any body in front of you.
In the room: you're not asking students to copy what you show them. You're teaching them to understand what they're doing and develop embodied aerial intelligence.
You know when to step in and when to wait
Learning happens in stages, and each stage needs something different from you. You learn to recognize where a student is and respond to that, rather than teaching on autopilot and interrupting students' process.
In the room: you hold back on purpose. You give students space to feel it before you jump in. That silence becomes one of your best tools.
You use real strategies for cueing, not guesswork
You are familiar with different cue types and their purposes, and can troubleshoot when something isn't clicking. You have a real process for figuring out why, not just different ways of repeating yourself.
In the room: You consider why the cue didn't work before reaching for a solution.
You know what to do when you don't know what to do
No program can teach you every scenario. BLOOM gives you a decision-making framework so that when something unexpected happens, you always have a clear next step, even in situations you've never faced before.
In the room: the moments that used to freeze you become manageable. You don't spiral in self doubt - you trust yourself to figure it out, because you have the tools to do that.
You redefine progress - and teach accordingly
You stop measuring progress by how many skills a student can do. You learn to see how their body, nervous system, vestibular system, and brain are adapting, how their confidence is building, and how their movement quality is deepening.
In the room: students get a strong, steady foundation in aerial. You prevent overwhelm and defeat. Beginners learn to organize and plan movement well - not rush and overgrip through everything.
You know how to ethically navigate fear and pain
Fear and pain are not mindset problems you can talk someone out of. You learn what's actually happening when a student freezes, shuts down, or pushes past their edge, and how to respond with real skill instead of hope.
In the room: encouragement gets replaced by real knowledge. You know what to do, what not to do, and when something is outside your scope to handle.
Your room feels safe to a diversity of students
You learn real information to support diverse bodies, movement histories, ages, and common conditions including pregnancy, POTS, and hypermobility. Safety isn't a general vibe. It's specific knowledge applied with care.
In the room: more students feel genuinely seen and supported, not just taken in stride. That changes who stays and who comes back.
You carry yourself like the expert you are
Confidence in teaching doesn't come from knowing every skill. It comes from understanding how learning works and trusting yourself to handle whatever walks through the door. BLOOM builds that from the inside out.
In the room: you hold the space with authority and care. Students feel it before you say a word.
Every one of these shifts comes from a real framework, something you can use the week you learn it and build on for years. Not confidence you're hoping arrives eventually. A foundation.
The AERIAL consent protocol
Consent in BLOOM works in two layers. It starts broad, then gets specific.
At the start of class, or one-on-one with a student, you ask a simple question: is touch okay, or do you prefer words? That preference is theirs, and it can change any time, they just have to let you know.
Adjusting a rib, repositioning a hip, or any touch used in a live demonstration, follows the same protocol every time.
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Ask / Explain
Before you touch or spot
Students know what's about to happen and why, even if they have recently provided consent.
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Respect
Honor the student's preference
Their answer is the answer, whether that's yes, no, or "let me think about it."
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Initiate
Once you've gained consent, place hands
You're working with a preliminary green light - it could still change.
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Assess
Read in real time
Even though verbal consent was given, you're responding to what's actually happening in the room, not running a script.
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Let Go
Support ends promptly
Help stops the moment it's no longer needed. Autonomy is the goal, not dependency.
Modules: live sessions + coursework
Teaching Aerial Arts
Risk & responsibility, trust-building, the neuroscience of motor learning, fear psychology, movement maps, teaching across body types, trauma-informed basics, teacher bias, scope & ethics.
Anatomy of Aerial Arts
Applied anatomy through Emily Scherb's Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts, a coloring book, 3D visualization software, then integrated through embodiment labs so it lives in your body, not a binder.
Physiology of Aerial Arts
The nervous system at play, spins & the vestibular system, pain perception, proprioception, breathing patterns, digestive distress, pregnancy & postpartum, POTS + hypermobility.
Advanced Foundational Theory & Technique
Key fundamentals in silks & lyra, evaluating movement, mechanics, cueing & spotting, and building progressions, with Sara's signature attention to detail.
The Classroom Ecosystem
Group management, regulating the room, triage, behavior management, emergency response, ladder rescue, scanning for risk & fatigue, mixed levels, resets & redirects, boundaries, nervous system leadership, community & culture.
Designing Classes & Curriculum
The student journey/curricula designs, class design & flow, somatic learning, contextual interference, identifying plateaus, redefining progress - movement quality, physiological adaptation, mindset, warmups & warmdowns, somatic and collaborative learning, long-term curriculum.
Embodiment Labs: where knowledge becomes integrated
Anatomy that's only memorized gets forgotten. In BLOOM's embodiment labs you integrate each concept through your own body first, so when you scan a room, you're not recalling a slide. You're recognizing something you've felt, and helping them feel it too.
"The core embodiment lab was my favorite, immediate positive change.", MW
This is a comprehensive training and mentorship. It's not for everyone.
BLOOM is for you if you…
- Already have experience training aerial and have access to a safe aerial setup - you do NOT have to be an advanced aerialist
- Are teaching now, or ready to begin, and want to do it right
- Are curious about how bodies, nervous systems, and learning actually work
- Want great student reviews, high retention, and full classes
- Value safety, consent, and ethical teaching
- Want to be the standout instructor in your area, not "good enough"
It's not for you if you…
- Want the fastest or cheapest route to a certificate
- Prefer strict formulas and scripts over learning how to think and respond to the diverse bodies and minds in the room
- Aren't ready to actively participate, labs, dialogue, assignments, 1:1s
- Are brand new to aerial (build your own practice first, we'll be here - but if you're already teaching, let's talk)
- Are looking for a rigging course - we cover the basics, but this is not a rigging certification.
Find out if BLOOM is aligned with your goals A strategy session is a conversation, not a sales pitch, we'll tell you honestly if it's not the right fit.
Sara Kaiser
Sara is an instructor and movement educator whose work brings neuroscience, psychology, learning theories, and trauma-informed instruction to aerial arts. She founded Embodied Aerial, built Bishop, California's first aerial community & studio, and created Aerial Silks Online.
BLOOM fills the gaps in the field by addressing the unseen factors that shape learning, cognitive load, nervous system states, memory formation, studio culture, boundaries, somatic experiencing, leadership, and safety psychology, synthesized into clear, usable frameworks.
Whether guiding a beginner through their first hammock knot invert (a love language) or mentoring experienced teachers, her focus is the same: to share the joy and empowerment of aerial arts.
Students & teachers on learning with Sara
"After completing the Bloom program I feel inspired, informed, and empowered to teach aerial in a way that embodies depth and longevity. Sara has encyclopedic knowledge and passion for aerial that is truly infectious, and it is apparent Bloom was thoughtfully crafted to share that passion."
M Whitaker · BLOOM Graduate"Having the knowledge of the amygdala vs the prefrontal cortex and how they interact (or really don't) helped solidify the knowledge that when someone is in fear they truly will not be able to learn anything."
Phie Mura · BLOOM Trainee"The stages of learning definitely shifted my perspective in how I teach. I noticed that I'm watching students and holding my cues when they're working on a skill to give them time to feel it in their bodies. It was super helpful for me, and I've noticed that my students are actually getting the skills when I give them the space to do it without cues."
Cassie Drumm · BLOOM Trainee"Even though I am studying anatomy and applied anatomy in school, the adaptation specifically to aerial arts has been very interesting to me while reinforcing what I am also learning about in school."
Ashley Brehm · BLOOM Trainee"The instruction was a perfect mix of science and heart, and no matter where you are in your teaching journey, Bloom is accessible and inspiring."
M Whitaker · BLOOM Graduate"Sara is an excellent instructor. She makes learning the art very safe and super fun. We are so fortunate to have someone of her caliber teaching aerial silks in Bishop."
Gigi de Jong · Former Trainer of Olympic Gymnasts"By far the best aerial instruction I've ever experienced. Beautiful community and outstanding instruction by Sara and all of the instructors."
Steph Salem · StudentBLOOM is a program you continue to evolve and grow with for your entire teaching career.
You keep access to every update and addition, and to the BLOOM teacher community, long after you complete your training.
Not a checklist. Not a crash-course. The expertise that changes how you teach for good.
By the end of BLOOM, you'll read movement by relying on real information, not guesswork. You'll know what to do when you don't know what to do. You'll navigate fear and pain ethically, build real safety, and carry yourself like the expert you're already becoming.
That's not a weekend's worth of content. It's four months of weekly mentorship, a signature framework, and lifetime access to a program that keeps evolving. BLOOM costs more than a short certification because it replaces guesswork with expertise you'll use for the rest of your career.
BLOOM is a single, complete program, not a series of levels or add-ons you piece together over time. It's a four-figure investment, and it includes everything: every module, every mentorship call, and lifetime access to what comes next.
If this is where you're headed, let's talk about what getting there actually looks like.
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