Are you a fitness maniac ? Do yoga practice at home ? or occasionally visit yoga or a fitness studio ? Then there is a high chances of you heard about aerial yoga - A Yoga that doesn't needs an acrobatic moves to gain benefit of this type of yoga, also called as an antigravity yoga. Want to know more about aerial yoga before you start working out on the same ? Let's take a deep dive;
Aerial yoga is the same yoga poses that you do using a silk hammock which is suspended from top ceiling as a support to you through flows. The purpose behind using these hammocks is to increase strength and flexibility while allowing you to work out with more challenging poses without adding a pressure on your spine, head, neck or shoulders.
An aerial yoga practitioner can master the art of handstand with the assistance of a hammock. And yes this is what hammock acts as a great support for inversions as it creates no pressure on the head, neck and rest of the spine.
Aerial yoga increases upper body and core strength as holding onto the silk hammock for the assistance engages one’s arms, shoulders and abs. It also helps in improving back, shoulder and neck pain along with improving the joint mobility by opening up tight areas.
Due to the inversions you do with the hammock can also increase blood flow to the back, as you open up your chest and put your heart above your head.
Regular practitioner of aerial yoga states that working out over the hammock helps them improve their complete fitness and flexibility level, as it deepens their poses.