Aerial Somatic Therapy Practitioner Training · Level 1

What You’ll Walk Away With

Four days inside the Aum Dome. You’ll leave with the ability to offer full AST sessions to clients, with skill and with confidence, from day one.

• A working understanding of fascial anatomy and how suspension reaches tissue in a way few other methods can
• The ability to read and support a client’s nervous system in real time, inside a session
• Full session architecture, including AST’s proprietary 5-phase sequence, from intake through integration
• The AST self-bodywork curriculum, so this becomes a practice that sustains your body, not just your clients’
• A felt, personal relationship with the work, the foundation that lets you offer it to others with integrity

The Cohort

Every training collects an exceptional group of people in the healing arts. Each brings their own area of mastery and embodied knowledge. Limited to 8 students, the group becomes a high-level container in itself. You’re not learning alone. You’re learning alongside people who understand the work at a depth. The collective wisdom in the room becomes its own teaching.

“I’m ecstatic to be among the first practitioners of this modality out in the world, and to witness the long-awaited birth of this magickal modality!

The certification training brought together such deep threads of relationship, joyful play, embodied exploration, body-mind wisdom of such magnitude there are no words to describe it. Depth in presence, in experience, in wonder, in healing, in the mystic, in relationship through time, and in the LOVE.

I’m still digesting the magic & play & wisdom & soul nourishment from time with these amazing humans.

We ALL need experiences, people, communities, and passions that nourish us in multi-faceted ways: inside heart, mind, soul, as well as in body & nervous system unwinding, recognition, appreciation, and mutual support.

All of this is a reflection of the magick of this modality.”

Michelle Nayeli Bouvier, B.S., E-RYT, I-AYT Movement Educator, GYROTONIC® Trainer, Prana Vinyasa® Teacher Trainer

“I have enjoyed learning many styles of massage but this experience was super special, unique and gratifying. I was surprised and delighted how much deep rest I received from being flown in the treatments. Maura’s instruction is filled with the lightness and charm of the fiery creature she is, yet grounding in the decades of training she has invested in. I learned how much less I can do to offer effective healing. Whether you are a bodyworker now or if you are just interested in learning how to move and be moved in a dreamy way, I highly recommend learning more about Aerial Somatic Therapy with Maura.”

Jason Nemer Co-founder of AcroYoga, World Champion & Olympian of Sports Acrobatics & Best-Selling Author

“It’s like being in a safe, nurturing cocoon. It’s a beautiful way to unwind tensions, stress, and trauma from the body, and helps regulate the nervous system.

It brings people into a safe, comforting environment where they can feel nurtured, nourished and soothed.

Being a practitioner is really fun. It feels like a dance. It’s really intuitive. The great thing about this training is you learn a whole system and a format. But within that, you can use your own guidance and intuition to find new ways of working with a client.

It feels so good in my body. I thought it might be difficult for me because I have some injuries. I thought that could be a problem and that I might not be able to do some of the things. I found that I could do all the things that were taught.

With giving, I feel like I’m actually receiving. I feel much better after I give in a session.

I’m hanging a swing in my office and doing sessions and incorporating sound healing and healing on the emotional level along with affirmations and clearing old belief systems. It is so powerful to reset layers in the womb-like environment and help clients reset with new belief systems.”

Nikaya Kipp Holistic Health Coach, HHP, INHC, Vibrant Health & Coaching, Sound Healer

“There’s NOTHING like this modality, but we could say it’s got some feeling of Watsu + Therapeutic AcroYoga & Thai Massage + deep nervous system restoration from being in the fabric cocoon + gentle inversion benefits of playing with gravity + benefits of dilation & profusion of the fluid body like cranial sacral through a seriously magical interplay of the fabric becoming a medium of communication with fascia & biotensegrity (that my mind is exploding with ideas around!)

It creates freedom, surrender, a sense of ease, fluidity, flow, and integration. It’s an opportunity for a deep sense of surrender. It gives a feeling of safety and cradling, and sinking into a really beautiful fluidity and flow that creates a sense of ease in my body and all throughout my being.

What surprised me the most is how much joy I felt in the giving process. I felt a lot of fluidity and felt like I was stepping into a magical flow. I felt ease, tranquility and therapeutics going on in my body as I was giving, just as much as when I was receiving.

I am really excited about incorporating this modality into my own practice, hanging the silk and working with people in the silk cocoon to facilitate their integrated healing.

I feel really grateful to be immersed in this practice and to be able to bring this into the work that I offer. It’s transformative and really a beautiful practice.”

Callie Stolz-Dominic Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Licensed Massage Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Owner of Santosha Wellness Center

“This modality is fluid, transformative, connected and refreshing. There’s a deep grounded-ness that comes from it and an ability to expand and reach into areas that have been blocked up or haven’t been paid attention to.

It helps me really connect with the person I’m working with, watching their movement and how my body feels as I’m helping people through their process. The saying I’ve heard in the training, “If it feels good for me, it feels good for the other person” has been a fun piece to work with.

The experience is heavenly, freeing, opening, expanded, full-body orgasm release and expression.

I’m not a traditional bodyworker. For me, the training of grounding, centering, extending of energy, being aware of where I’m at in space and time and how I have an effect energetically is where I can most incorporate the training into the work that I do.

I’m impressed with how the training is broken down and taught in a way that addresses all the different learning styles. I’m impressed by the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of the teaching.”

Amy Koellner Clinical Counselor, Life Purpose Mentor and Transformational Guide

“This modality is thrilling, opening, feeling beyond limitations, unlimited, very safe, very next-generation consciousness.

To be a giver of the modality is so exciting, to be in sync with the other person through our breath as they get to relax and open more… my body is leveraging everything in perfect balance and harmony with them. That allows them to keep opening more and more, and then I open more and more, and pretty soon we are in perfect synchronicity in the opening, together, healed.

To be a receiver, it’s different every time. The second time was very emotional for me, especially when I stretched out in the swing, everything that was locked up in me started opening. There were tears and growls and all kinds of things starting to come out. The third time I fell asleep. I was transported into a dream world, where my body was doing its own thing, and I was out of the way. My body was vibrating, and everything was moving. I was so relaxed and not trying for anything.

What surprised me the most about this modality is how easy it is. It’s not simple: there is a lot to learn and a lot of layered learning to do, because the learning is dimensional. There are the intellectual terms and processes and then there are the dimensions and layers. There is an ease in learning this modality that allows itself to settle into my psyche and being and my brain.

A lot of my work is to help people clear somatically. I’ve been using my hands and my body to help move energy in people. I use a lot of sound, inner sound vibration to get things moving in them. That is enhanced in the swing. It’s much easier for the person to access because their bodies can open so much more that the baggage can move out. I am excited to experiment with that.

I would like to share gratitude, and the incredible freeing up of myself and thank you thank you thank you from all the different parts of me.”

Racquel Palmese Spiritual Mentor, Counselor, Transformational Guide & Owner of Circles of Light Healing Center