Aerial yoga involves practicing yoga poses in the air using a soft cloth trapeze. Beginners start on the ground and gradually progress to suspended poses. Aerial yoga can help achieve advanced poses safely and increase flexibility and strength. The practice releases bodily tension and promotes proper alignment.
Aerial yoga involves practicing yoga poses in the air by suspending the body or parts of the body on a soft cloth trapeze that hangs low to the ground, covered by yoga mats for safety. Beginners practicing aerial yoga begin by practicing poses on the floor and, with the help of the yoga trapeze, gradually progress to poses that require the entire body to be suspended a few inches from the floor. Practicing yoga in the air can help students achieve advanced yoga poses more quickly but safely by using the cloth trapeze to help with proper positioning and natural decompression of the body.
Michelle Dortignac, the founder of this type of yoga, is a yoga teacher and aerobatics professional. That is where she gets her inspiration for aerial yoga techniques and methodology. She began teaching this hybrid yoga class in 2006 in New York City.
In a typical aerial yoga class, a certified yoga instructor guides students through yoga poses on the floor and with the support of the cloth trapeze. The long cloth hangs from the ceiling like a hammock and is made of the same material used in aerial gymnastics or the circus. Over time, students learn to use the cloth trapeze to fully support their body weight in certain yoga poses. Gradual development allows even beginners to benefit as they gain confidence in the use and confidence of the cloth trapeze. Classes are often fun and fun, and students may need to share yoga trapeze, fostering a spirit of joy and friendship.
In contrast to the regular practice of yoga on the floor in which the body exhibits tension against the force of gravity, yoga in the air releases bodily tension. Students can naturally achieve proper body position and alignment by straightening the spine and shoulders. The pull of gravity, when the body is in a hanging position, naturally decompresses the spine and body while promoting a sense of letting go, the essence of yoga spirituality.
Aerial yoga students can increase flexibility and strengthen muscles without straining them. Using the cloth trapeze also allows students to achieve poses or deepen stretches in a way that they could not achieve on their own. For example, the yoga trapeze can increase the upward pull of the hips into downward-facing dog or adho mukha svansana, a pose in which the body creates a triangle with the floor.
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