The fabric trapeze (which is similar to a “hammock”) is hung close to the floor so that students can use the prop to either partially or fully support the weight of the body. Many Aerial Yoga postures are designed to help the student better understand the purpose of traditional Yoga postures. Some Aerial Yoga postures are designed to help students achieve advanced traditional Yoga postures. Advanced Yoga postures can take years to learn, and even more time to understand and glean their benefits. The practice of Aerial Yoga is meant to help speed up that process in a safe manner. You can think of Unnata Aerial Yoga as akin to a vitamin supplement to your traditional Yoga practice.
Unnata Aerial Yoga Class
Students spend time using the hammocks, and also spend time on the floor under the watchful eye of a traditionally certified Yoga instructor. This way, students not only achieve the immediate benefits of spinal decompression that hanging provides, but they also learn how to achieve many of those same benefits through improved core strength and a better understanding of alignment in their Yoga postures on the floor.
Classes slowly progress from using the hammocks to hold a little bit of body weight to using the hammocks to hold 100% of the body’s weight. The slow progression emboldens new students, and carefully introduces what can be very intense new sensations to the student.
Small class sizes encourage a friendly, non-competitive, non-reclusive atmosphere to the class. Students are welcome to ask questions, make comments, tell stories, and participate in the playful banter that naturally emerges when a person is having fun.
