Light on Yoga also offers aerial yoga classes. Aerial yoga is beneficial for students who spend a long time sitting, or who have back pain. It has particular benefits for strengthening and stretching ...

Even for the most avid yogi, doing a handstand or crow pose is inherently different when you are hanging more than a foot above the floor from a series of fabric slings. As the yoga craze has taken ...

Fifteen minutes into my trial aerial silks lesson at Bumbershoot Aerial Arts, I am close to tears. Despite clear instructions from two compassionate teachers, I cannot get the hang of the first move: ...

I’m tucked into my turquoise-colored silk cocoon, hanging two feet above ground and watching huge, white snowflakes fall outside the window above me. In other words, I’m in complete bliss. I’ve just ...

AIR Aerial Fitness uses hanging silk hammocks for a cross between a boot camp class and a lesson in acrobatics What is it: A full-body workout that utilizes hanging silk hammocks in a combination of ...

An aerial yoga class helped WH lifestyle director Lindsay Geller, a self-proclaimed perfectionist, let go and trust the process. I’m not nervous until I’m standing behind the U-shaped aerial yoga ...

Somerville’s AirCraft Aerial Arts offers “Taster” classes every few weeks to give aerial newbies (like myself) the chance to try out three of its main apparatuses: hanging silks, trapezes, and rings.

Yoga is a popular fitness practice that can be done in many different forms, even while being suspended from the ceiling in a silk hammock. During an aerial yoga class, participants still focus on ...