Aston Academy
Education and training for fitness professionals.
Fitness professionals
Mentoring program
Are you struggling to find your edge in this highly competitive industry?
Find out how to be the best fitness professional you can be ...
As the Managing Director of one of Australia’s most successful health and fitness studios, you now have the unique opportunity to access Donna Aston directly for career and business support and coaching.
An initial 60 minute consultation with Donna will establish your requirements. From here, Donna will format her recommendations for your own tailored mentor program.
Some of the areas covered include:
  • Expanding your training repertoire, including a schedule for future learning
  • Expand upon your nutritional knowledge to assist clients with fat loss, performance & health
  • Learn how to accurately measure body composition and monitor your clients progress
  • Marketing, PR and word of mouth - developing your brand
  • Client care/retention - exceeding your clients expectations
  • Company culture - building a strong and successful team
  • Motivation and inspiration for yourself and your clients
  • Getting started - how to build a clientele from scratch
  • General business coaching
  • Emotional Intelligence - improve your awareness, communication and management skills
One-on-one coaching, group sessions or formal presentations are available within a company structure.
For enquiries or bookings, please contact us on (03) 9827 8671 or education@DonnaAston.com
CIRQ: BODY TRAINING SYSTEM – instructors CEC workshop
The CIRQ body training system (1403) was developed by Donna Aston and gymnast/performance artist, Shannon McGurgan. It is currently used extensively and with great success by all trainers at the Donna Aston Fitness studios. The Donna Aston studios have been fitted out and designed to cater for advanced teaching of this method of training, using equipment such as roman rings, tissue, crash mats, trapeze and parallel bars. While this equipment is a great (and relatively inexpensive) addition to any training facility, your body weight is really the only 'tool' necessary for the introduction of CIRQ - developed to bring the fun back into training for trainers and clients alike.
As a fitness professional, the addition of CIRQ to your repertoire will help you and your clients shift your training to the next level, developing skills and results previously never considered possible.
This is a Fitness Australia Approved program
Full-day workshops run intermittently throughout the year. Enquire today
Shannon McGurgan
Co-creator of CIRQ: Body Training System
Shannon began his performance life as a gymnast and has since moved through a huge range of circus skills during the 15 years he has been performing. These skills include double and solo trapeze, hand to hand acrobatics, solo and double straps, fire manipulation, Chinese poles and clowning.
He has performed all over Australia including shows with The Robinson's Family Circus in Perth and Canberra, 12 months on tour with Circus Royale in 2006, Shows as part of The Melbourne Festival, The Adelaide Fringe and The Sydney Mardi Gras as well as corporate shows in most Australian Capitals. Internationally he has performed in the USA, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and China.
His current projects include Circus Trick Tease, www.circustricktease.com which is a small circus company based in Melbourne that parodies a traditional circus. The show includes acrobatics, handstands, feats of strength, singing and dancing. He is also Director of 'Shaggles Magic Circus World' which draws on all of Shannon's skills and experience to create a circus wherever it goes.
As a Cirq (level 1) qualified trainer, you can expect to leave this workshop with the following:
  • New and exciting skills to begin teaching your existing clients, or indeed to attract new clients
  • A solid foundation of the biomechanics involved in basic acrobatic skills
  • Confident spotting and instruction of basic Cirq skills
  • Knowledge of a system of progress used to successfully condition your client and safely integrate Cirq into your clients training
  • An understanding of what level these skills can advance to over time
  • This is a Fitness Australia Approved Program