Everything you can earn by turning it upside down

At a time when things are going faster and faster in our lives, aerial yoga is a practice that helps reconnect to the present moment, to slow down… through meditation and body consciousness. It gives a completely different dimension to yoga postures that are not always feasible on a mat, the hammock allowing a different exploration of movements.These unique therapeutic benefits, the new emotional sensations and the variety of sequences may entice you, if you are willing to surrender to the hammock and suspend the time. Vertebral decompression, increasing your joint amplitudes and flexibility, developing your balance and strengthening the whole body, improving your blood and lymphatic circulation, reducing anxiety and stress, reconnecting with the present moment, developing your memory and learning ability…. These are all the benefits you will reap for your physical and mental health.

VERTEBRAL DECOMPRESSION

 Throughout the day, our spine is under almost constant pressure, which leads to long-term problems that I’m sure you’re familiar with. The suspension allows to reverse the effect of weightlessness by positioning oneself head down.without compressing the spine or joints. Thanks to the different inversion positions in the hammock, decompression works, not only to restore mobility and a good rehydration of the intervertebral discs, but also to relieve sciatic pain, lower back and cervical and to improve venous return. So it’s a great practice if you have back pain. The apprehension of finding oneself upside down in suspension is normal, but this fear is tamed as practice progresses.

INCREASED JOINT AMPLITUDES AND FLEXIBILITY

  Particularly aesthetic, the hammock is above all an assistance tool that helps you move more freely, with less effort to defy gravity. In this way, you increase your joint mobility and flexibility in a gentle and progressive way. The different sequences allow to regain a balance of the muscle chains and a realignment of the joints. You come out of the course lighter and with less tension than when you arrived. Your posture improves and your pain gradually disappears, as the sessions go on.

 Whatever your level and the complexity of the posture, the hammock allows to develop balance and proprioception (perception, conscious or not, of the position of different parts of the body). Imagine yourself with one leg in the hammock and the foot of the other leg on the floor. This type of posture leads to an instability that is quite possible to master, even if you are a beginner. In addition, different positions from Pilates and gymnastics fit very well into the fabric, which brings stimulation and an incredible variety of fun and unusual movements to explore.

IMPROVED BLOOD AND LYMPHATIC CIRCULATION

Good blood and lymphatic circulation is essential to bring essential substances to the body, but also to eliminate the bad ones. The practice of aerial yoga improves this blood and lymphatic flow, thanks to the contraction and relaxation of muscle groups, the pressure of the hammock against the skin and the different inversion positions.

 

RECONNECTING WITH THE PRESENT MOMENT

  This meeting with yourself develops body consciousness and improves the connection between body and spirit. Each movement is made conscious and relayed to the breathing. This bodily consciousness of “here and now” allows us to return to ourselves, to the essential. Once the mind is relaxed and alert, three wonderful sensations manifest themselves naturally: Calm, Clarity and Happiness.