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 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 and be comfortable 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 practice the aerial yoga or aerial hoop poses you see on Instagram? Want to troubleshoot and master an aerial yoga or aerial hoop sequence that’s been eluding you? Come on in for our open studio time! Open studio time is an option for our more experienced practitioners who want their own hang time to enjoy using the studio space for their own practice. Self-guided practice often yields the most significant gains and is a wonderful way to turn your attention inward without distractions. A studio hoop or silk will be provided at no charge, if you do not already rent or own one. Staff will rig your apparatus and then you are on your own to explore!
Requirements: Prior approval from an instructor is required to attend Open Studio Time. Students must have a high level of fitness, feel a strong sense of comfort and safety with their apparatus, and be comfortable with working independently.
NOTE: Unless you are on the 30-Day Unlimited New Student Special or taking a single class, you must rent or buy a silk to participate in our group aerial yoga classes. If you are dropping into a single class, 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.