About Aerial Yoga
Aerial Yoga is a type of exercise that combines yoga with other types of exercise, such as dance and gymnastics, into a hybrid mind-body workout. Anyone who can do at least three consecutive sit-ups can do Aerial Yoga.
During a class, you’ll be “cocooned” in a supportive silk hammock while an instructor leads you through a series of postures designed to “recalibrate the body” and decompress the spine. During inversion postures, you’ll hang about three inches above the ground.
Aerial Yoga is a technique that incorporates yoga principles such as breathing, stretching and meditation with gymnastics and aerial arts. Muscles lengthen and tone while allowing the body to receive the benefits of zero-compression inversion. These kinds of inversions create space in between each vertebrae and releases stress and tension from the lower back. This form of yoga practice shares traditional yoga’s mind-body connection principles.
Most Aerial yoga classes begin in womb pose. The students begin class completely cocooned in their hammocks while participating in breathing and meditation exercises – simple, but very restorative! The suspended inversions involved in this type of yoga have many physical benefits for the nervous system.
Aerial Yoga in the OPEN AIR
Advantages of Aerial Yoga
- Aerial Yoga allows you to access the benefits of advanced yoga postures through the assistance of the hammock
- Upper/lower body strengthening especially the core muscles as well as increased joint mobility
- Eases back pain through decompression of spine & hydration of vertebral disc through gentle traction as well as toning/strengthening back muscles & abdominals
- Improves the circulation of blood, thus combating ageing and its symptoms as well as rendering better creativity by boosting your mental abilities
- Allows you access to deeper relaxation thus lowering stress levels & associated benefits
About our Aerial Yoga Instructors
SVETLANA ABELA
Sveta is a certified Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga Instructor and holds various international certificates including Power Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Ying Yoga, SUP Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Acro Yoga, Budokon Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Yoga for Seniors, Yoga for Athletes and Yoga for Kids. She has taught Yoga around the world in Europe, Russia and Asia for the last 15 years.
GABY
Gaby is a certified aerial yoga instructor. She has done her teacher training at Power Yoga World. She has been practicing aerial yoga since 2015 and teaching since 2016. Furthermore, Gaby has been dancing for a number of years and has passed various exams. She is also an assistant dance teacher.