What is Aerial Yoga?
Aerial yoga is a type of yoga in which students use a fabric hammock to practice yoga poses. Students use the silk as a prop, in order to get better support, a deeper stretch and the opportunity to safely enter inversions and other poses they might not ordinarily try in a yoga class.
Our studio offers a variety of beginner, intermediate and advanced level aerial yoga classes that can accommodate up to 14 students. Learn more and sign up below.
Aerial Yoga Essentials – Beginner
Are you new to aerial yoga? Join this beginner-level aerial yoga class and learn the fundamental skills required to establish a safe and balanced aerial yoga practice. Familiarize yourself with the aerial yoga hammock and gradually become more comfortable using it, as you move slowly through a carefully crafted series of supported poses. Use the silk as a prop to perform simple seated, standing and inverted aerial yoga poses, and modify as often as needed by maintaining contact with the floor. Spend the last few minutes of class resting in an extended savasana, cocooned in your aerial yoga silk.
Requirements: No experience is required to attend this class. Aerial Yoga Essentials is a prerequisite for attending any other aerial yoga classes at our studio, unless you’ve received prior approval from an instructor.
NOTE: Aerial Yoga Essentials on Mondays @ 5:30 PM and Wednesdays @ 7:30 PM also feature a crystal bowls sound bath. Crystal bowls help harness sound and vibration to create a space of peace and love. When our body is in dis-ease, we are literally out of tune or vibrating off key. Disharmony can manifest mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Through the use of sound healing, we can shift the vibration of the diseased or disharmonious area to bring it back into harmony and essentially balance and heal it.
Aerial Yoga Mixed Levels
Ready to step it up a notch? Take all the skills you’ve learned in your beginner aerial yoga classes and start building on them. Flow through a series of familiar and slightly more challenging aerial yoga poses that are tailored to meet you at your level. As you stretch and strengthen, your instructor will offer both modifications and advancements to each pose, so you may honor your body and/or challenge yourself, as you see fit. Class will gradually build up, culminating in a peak aerial yoga pose, and ending with an extended savasana inside your aerial yoga hammock.
Requirements: Aerial Yoga Essentials or prior approval from an instructor is required to attend this class.
Aerial Yoga Flow & Restore
This unique aerial yoga class blends movement and stillness to bring balance to both your body and mind. Explore a series of gentle aerial yoga flows, combined with some longer held restorative poses, sprinkled throughout class. Enjoy a variety of ways to stretch and unwind with the help of your aerial yoga silk. Leave feeling incredibly relaxed and comfortable in your skin.
Requirements: Aerial Yoga Essentials or prior approval from an instructor is required to attend this class.
Aerial Yoga Functional Flow
Jump, hang, swing and remind your body of the way it was designed to move in this playful, strength-based aerial yoga class. Discover the benefits of focusing on the way your muscles and joints interact and align, as you complete full-body movements and engage your deep stability muscles for better overall health and injury prevention. Aerial Yoga Functional Flow classes consist of a general warm-up, a series of familiar aerial yoga poses and fun functional movement sequences. Class ends with a well-deserved savasana inside your aerial yoga hammock.
Requirements: Aerial Yoga Essentials or prior approval from an instructor is required to attend this class.
Aerial Get Fit
Lift up and firm up in this energizing class! Designed to support your regular aerial practice, this training program will take your strength and mobility to the next level. Each session guides you through a series of bodyweight exercises that use the aerial silk and are intended to target muscle weakness in the most challenging areas. Bring your positive attitude and get ready to get fit!
Requirements: Aerial Yoga Essentials or prior approval from an instructor is required to attend this class.
Aerial Yoga Functional Flexibility
Feeling stiff as a board? Does bending over feel more like a struggle than a stretch? Join Functional Flexibility to safely and effectively increase your range of motion! In this class, we’ll explore basic anatomy, proper alignment, and various techniques to improve your flexibility using both the floor and the silk. Whether you’re aiming to touch your toes, improve your posture, deepen your practice, or simply feel more limber overall, this class is perfect for you.
Requirements: All levels, from beginners to experienced, are welcome.
Aerial Yoga Flips & Tricks
Want to learn slightly more advanced aerial yoga skills, but not quite ready for Aerial Yoga Deconstructed or High Flyers Club? Join us for an intermediate level class focused on fun transitions, strength-based poses and flowing sequences that progress into some of our less complicated tricks. We will start with familiar aerial yoga poses, transition into slightly more complex variations, and build up to a peak pose, with plenty of time to break things down into manageable chunks. Class will end with a well-deserved rest in your aerial yoga hammock.
Requirements: THIS IS NOT A BEGINNER LEVEL CLASS. At least 5 Aerial Yoga Mixed Levels classes or prior approval from an instructor is required to attend this class. Students must have an intermediate level of fitness and a good sense of comfort and safety working with the aerial yoga silk.
Aerial Yoga Deconstructed
Take your practice to new heights! This intermediate workshop-style class will introduce students to more challenging aerial yoga poses and transitions. Over the course of two or more classes, we will break down a longer sequence, as we work our way up to a peak pose. Warm-up and strengthening will be geared towards the peak pose. End class with a well-deserved rest in your aerial yoga silk.
Requirements: THIS IS NOT A BEGINNER LEVEL CLASS. At least 5 Aerial Yoga Mixed Levels classes or prior approval from an instructor is required to attend this class. Students must have a high level of fitness and a strong sense of comfort and safety working with the aerial yoga silk.
High Flyers Club
High Flyers Club takes your aerial practice to entirely new heights. In this advanced-level aerial class, we will leave the comfort of the ground behind and venture outside of the realm of aerial yoga. You will learn how to navigate through all kinds of intricate wraps, challenging twists and tricky transitions in a variety of new, seemingly impossible poses. Flow through an ever-changing parade of drills and skills that will build your upper body and core strength, improve your coordination, and develop your kinesthetic awareness.
Requirements: THIS IS NOT A BEGINNER LEVEL CLASS. You must have mastered Aerial Yoga Mixed Levels be comfortable in Aerial Yoga Deconstructed. Must also be comfortable in with inverting, doing basic wraps, as well as getting in and out of Goddess Pose in multiple different ways OR have received prior instructor approval, in order to take this class.
Open Studio Time
Wish you could get a little extra practice with the aerial yoga poses and sequences you learned in class? Come in for Open Studio Time! This self-guided class offers experienced practitioners the opportunity to review, troubleshoot, and master skills at their own pace. Independent practice often yields significant gains and provides a chance to focus inward without distractions. A studio silk will be provided at no charge if you don’t already rent or own one. Staff will rig your apparatus, and then you’re on your own to explore!
NOTE: Please review the Open Studio Time policy below carefully. Non-compliance with any part of it may result in disciplinary actions, including the loss of Open Studio Time privileges.
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- Prior approval from an instructor is required to attend Open Studio Time.
- Students must demonstrate a high level of fitness, feel confident and safe with their apparatus, and be comfortable working independently.
- The instructor or staff member on duty has full authority during Open Studio Time, and all their directives must be followed. Failure to comply with staff instructions will result in the loss of Open Studio Time privileges.
- Students are not permitted to rig their own equipment. If adjustments are needed, please request assistance from the instructor on duty.
- Experimenting with unfamiliar equipment or modifying studio equipment or rigging is strictly prohibited. Tampering with studio property will result in immediate removal from Open Studio and may lead to a permanent loss of Open Studio privileges.
- Students are not permitted to teach other students. Teaching new skills to any student, regardless of their ability or experience, is strictly prohibited during Open Studio Time.
- Open Studio Time is for reviewing skills learned in class, not for attempting skills seen on social media. If you do not remember how to perform a skill, do not attempt it during Open Studio Time.
- Be respectful of others in this shared space. If you’d like to take videos, please obtain permission from any students who might appear in the footage. Live-streaming is strictly prohibited.
NOTE: Unless you are on the 30-Day Unlimited New Student Special or using a single class or a class package, you must rent or buy a silk to participate in our group aerial yoga classes. If you are dropping into a single class or a class pack, we will provide you with a studio silk at no extra charge (studio silks are washed regularly, but not between every user). If you prefer to use a freshly-laundered silk, you may rent one at the studio for $10.
If you are sick with any type or severity of symptom, please do not come to class and call or email us to let us know you are unable to make it. If you have had COVID-19 and would like to return to your practice at the studio, please follow the latest CDC guidelines regarding length of isolation and precautions: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/isolation.html.