Aerial Yoga FAQ

It involves performing traditional yoga postures with the help of a specific fabric, also called a “hammock”.

The fabric can be use close to the ground for warming up of easy practice, or higher to do standing poses and inversions.

This hammock is installed by a professional to guarantee optimal safety.

Fly yoga or aerial yoga may seem like a new discipline, resulting from a new fashion, but it is not : yogis have always found ways to hang to stretch their spine. Iyengar master himself uses rope systems to hold his students in an inverted position against walls.

Fly yoga or aerial yoga is great because it relieves the joints and makes it very easy to perform postures that are usually only performed by experienced yogis (inversions for example).

It's the perfect tool to relieve back pain, because during head-down postures it allows spinal decompression and stretching of the back.
Aerial yoga is also a discipline that encourages letting go, self-confidence and re-appropriation of the body.

And more than this ... It's a particularly fun discipline that offers the possibility of freeing the body and the mind.

Of course ! Alexandra, your teacher, has done many certifications in both aerial yoga and yoga. Plus she has completed specialized trainings in back problems and injuries. She'll make sure you practice safely. All the material, structure, hooks, fabrics are certified and checked daily.

Aerial Yoga can be practiced at all ages, and without having any prerequisites. No need to have practiced yoga previously, this discipline is suitable for beginners. It's even recommanded for people with back problems or arthrosis.

However, it requires a good physical condition, and has contraindications for people with:  glaucoma, venous thrombosis, inner ear or blood circulation problems.

The class includes, as in our regular yoga classes, a phase of work a warm up, sequences of postures using the hammock as a support close to the ground, a short sequence of standing postures and inversions, possibly learning a posture "aerial", then a phase of meditation and guided relaxation, lying in the fabric or on the ground.

It's a 1h to 1h15 class, with a maximum of 8 participants to guarantee the safety and the good learning of all.

You can try our Aerial yoga workshop for beginners, a 1:30 hours special class where you'll learn safely all the basis about aerial yoga, then practice and stretch, do your first "head down" and -the best part- enjoy a relaxing time lying comfortably in the hammock.

If you feel not in good condition enough, then you can try our gentle Yin yoga and Sound bath combo : A 1h30 workshop to relax, disconnect and reset your nervous system.

Check the details on our Workshops page !