For the yogis that do not thoughts having two toes off the bottom, AntiGravity yoga might present a brand new problem. It might sound like one thing you do in a spaceship, however actually, you want little greater than a silk hammock hanging from a ceiling — and a way of journey — to follow AntiGravity Yoga. AntiGravity is one model of aerial yoga, a sort of train that mixes yoga with different varieties of train, similar to dance and gymnastics, right into a hybrid mind-body exercise.
Former gymnast Christopher Harrison based AntiGravity Inc. in 1991 as an acrobatics efficiency firm, and developed the model’s signature silk hammock just a few years later. When he found the advantages of doing yoga — particularly inversion poses — within the hammock, he rebranded his firm and started providing lessons to the general public. In 2007, AntiGravity Yoga was born.
Anybody who can do at the very least three consecutive sit-ups can do AntiGravity Yoga, in response to the model’s web site. Throughout a category, you will be "cocooned" in a supportive silk hammock whereas an teacher leads you thru a sequence of postures designed to "recalibrate the physique" and decompress the backbone. Throughout inversion postures, you will dangle about three inches above the bottom.
"Once you’re hanging the other way up in meditation as an alternative of sitting proper facet up in your cushion, you’ll be able to virtually really feel every vertebrae sucking away from the one beneath it, lengthening and stretching you out," says Brigitte Bourdeau, a yoga teacher in New York Metropolis. And in reality, AntiGravity Yoga guarantees that after a category, you’ll be stretched to your most peak — making you a quarter-inch to an inch and a half taller than while you began. (Sadly, these results aren’t everlasting.) [Source: AntiGravity Yoga]
Since you’ll be the other way up lots, it is essential to not put on something too free on prime to class. Cotton or cotton blends are advisable over slippery synthetics, which may make staying in place within the hammock troublesome. You do not want socks, however you could need to put on sticky gloves to assist your grip. As soon as you have taken AntiGravity Yoga in a classroom setting, you’ll be able to even buy your personal hammock to follow in at residence.
Whereas AntiGravity Yoga is the unique aerial yoga method, different applications in studios throughout the nation additionally use the phrase aerial yoga or flying yoga to explain their follow. Flying Yoga Shala, for instance, a studio in Oakland, California, presents lessons in aerial yoga (utilizing silk hammocks) and FlightCamp TRX (utilizing the TRX suspension system).
