Last week the Bulletproofbodies Team were back in London for the Acro Yoga Solar Immersion.
Our expert Instructors were Jaqui and Pascal.
The video above was the prerequisites for the course.
Would you be fit enough to do Acro Yoga?
But Firstly, what is Acro Yoga?
Acroyoga is a Yoga practice that combines the dynamic wisdom of acrobatics, the awareness, breath and balance of yoga and the healing, loving nature of Thai massage. Working with one or more partners these three disciplines are fused into spectacular sequences of inversions, flows and balances.
It’s a community practice, which, at it’s simplest, means that you are working with other people. In this way we can practice developing trust, connection and openness which can then be taken into the community as a whole. In AcroYoga, the smallest community is 3 people covering the 3 main roles of base, flyer and spotter.
The base is essentially the one on the bottom supporting the weight of the flyer. The spotter’s primary role is to ensure the safety of the base and flyer and can act as coach and assistant to help the pair through tricky transitions.
The two main energies in AcroYoga are the Solar which reflects the more fiery acrobatic side and the Lunar which embodies the more therapeutic and healing aspect. The acrobatic side takes strength, balance and determination while the therapeutic is side encourages opening, releasing and listening.
AcroYoga is an exhilarating and open ended practice. It leads towards hard to achieve asana positions such as scorpion, headstands and handstands. It deepens backbends, lengthens hamstrings and opens hips, as well as an endless array of flying positions that no-one has thought of a name for yet.
Solar Immersion Workshop
Solar Acrobatic Immersions are designed to train us in the art of training acrobatics safely, using progressive skill building and effective spotting methods.
We learned to co-create a safe environment and deepen our capacity to trust ourselves and others.
Paving the way for more collaborative and advanced acrobatics regardless of what level you were previously.
We developed strength, increased confidence, training smarter techniques and developed habits that will support our achievement for a lifetime of Acro Yoga.
Trust in your spotter is paramount if you want to start doing moves that could lead to an injury.
What better way to do this then the classic fall back and we will catch you!
If you have not tried Acro Yoga yet, what are you waiting for?
Check out their website on the link below:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUxIyCJrOtQ
