Aerial Yoga Classes in Cairns
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Balance
Build Core Strength
Gravity
Mindfulness
Aerial Yoga
$25 per class • Get discounts with our Class Passes
The latest trend in the fitness craze: a fusion of dance, yoga, flexibility, core, conditioning and balance, while realigning your body and decompressing your spine. Aerial Yoga is a wonderfully relaxing exercise technique. Many of the positions will be familiar if you’ve practised traditional yoga in the past, however we add a new dimension to the stretches when using the silks. This type of exercise is great for any age, and particularly helpful for those with spinal compression issues as the inversion helps to separate the vertebrae.
What is Aerial Yoga?
Aerial Yoga (also known as Anti-Gravity Yoga or Inversion Therapy) is the practice of traditional Hatha yoga using a soft fabric hammock which supports up to 453kgs. The hammock is a prop intended to assist alignment, deepen body position awareness and provide the immediate benefit of spinal decompression. By having the weight of the body partially or fully supported by the hammock, we can explore and create space in our bodies as intended in traditional Yoga practices but with reduced compression of the joints and spine. It also assists proper posture and alignment through relaxation, therefore finding a more balanced and unencumbered expression of each pose.
Aerial Yoga is a fusion of many beautiful and beneficial physical disciplines of the aerial arts, ballet, dance, yoga, flexibility, strength, core work, conditioning and balance training. Many Aerial Yoga postures are designed to help the student better understand the purpose of traditional Yoga postures and some are meant to help students achieve advanced traditional Yoga postures which often take years to learn.
How It Works
Developing a fit and strong body is imperative for our overall health and well-being. Using gravity to our advantage facilitates deeper stretches, full back extensions and more exhilarating cardio and strength exercises. Aerial Yoga incorporates four main training techniques; yoga, aerial arts, strength training and cardio; a professionally trained instructor will lead you through a unique progression of poses using a secured fabric yoga hammock. Progression training makes the practice appropriate for all levels of fitness and flexibility. Whether you are eight, eighty or anywhere in-between, there is no need to feel intimidated, or worried you won’t be physically challenged.
You will be in a comfortable and caring environment with an instructor who wants to help you succeed in reaching your individual fitness goals. No prior yoga or aerial experience is required. This class is tailored to every age, shape, size and fitness level.
Body Benefits
Over time, our bodies suffer from the constant compression effects of gravity. Through Aerial Yoga the fascia unwinds, the mind quiets, core-strength is built, posture is challenged and improved, flexibility, muscle tone and cardiovascular fitness increases, it can even assist in restoring a more youthful appearance, increase brain activity and clearer thinking.
Aerial Yoga poses release oxygen and nutrients to the brain that penetrate through the skin and scalp. It is a natural cleanser that enhances skin elasticity, hair growth and joint mobility while gently decompressing the spinal vertebrae. Safe inversion therapy using a yoga hammock has been deemed one of the most beneficial practices for the body because it gently uses gravity to counteract the daily compression being upright has on our bodies.
In addition to receiving a total body workout, experiencing greater peace of mind, body and soul, it is a class which emphasises having fun and enjoying our bodies while learning new skills.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do I wear?
How do I prepare for class?
Is it difficult?
What happens in a typical class?
Aerial Yoga supports your traditional Yoga practice in a number of ways. It challenges Yoga postures such as inversions and deep backbends with less effort and strain. Deep muscle releases achieved in the air allow students to explore deeper stretches than in their traditional Yoga postures on the floor.
Common Yoga related injuries caused by overstretching and compression on the lower back are addressed through Asanas that strengthen shoulders without compromising flexibility and which strengthen core abdominal muscles without compression of the spine.