Living Yoga

Last week I took an AntiGravity Yoga class at Crunch for the first time.  Wow!  (No pun intended.)   I always joke around on my podcast exclaiming, “I’m flying!” in the some of postures, but this AntiGravity class taught me how to really fly!  Here is the class description on their website:

“Wings” is the AntiGravity Yoga movement sequence which is exclusive to Crunch. This one hour workout was designed especially with Crunch members in mind. It’s challenging, it’s fun, it’s affective. The AntiGravity Hammock acts as a soft trapeze, supporting you as you master simple suspension techniques leading to advanced inverted poses. AntiGravity yoga is unique; it is unbelievable for relieving compressed joints and aligning the body from head to toe.”

With the use of a hammock securely hanging from the ceiling, participants do everything from back bends, leg stretches, flips, and many variations of inversions in one hour.  I was literally hanging like Spiderman in the beginning of class and resting comfortably in my hammock for savasana at the end of class.  Things that I thought were scary and looked impossible at the beginning of class were fun and exhilarating about twenty minutes in.

If I can fly, you definitely can too!  For more info on AntiGravity Yoga visit http://www.antigravityyoga.com/

Thanks to nymag.com for the photo.