Fly yoga: flight, training, relaxation

Everyone has heard about such a trend in yoga as fly yoga. It is also called hammock yoga and anti-gravity, but the main point is you soar through the air, relax and practice various asanas. How is fly yoga different from usual and what can be the results of the lessons? Read about it in our new article.

What is it?

Fly yoga, or "anti-gravity yoga," is a type of yoga founded by Broadway dancer and gymnast Christopher Harrison in the 1990s. Anti-gravity yoga is aimed at physical and spiritual improvement. When practising asanas and gymnastic exercises in the suspended state, the human body is pulled from the heels to the top. In the upside-down position, the self-healing mechanism is automatically started in the person. Workouts improve overall health and increase fitness. Also, a good mood and a good figure in regular training are assured.

What is the difference between ordinary and fly yoga?

The air and a special hammock, suspended by a meter above the floor level, allow the spine to stretch smoothly without tension, stretch the tendons and increase joint mobility.

The main forte of yoga in hammocks is the easy-to-perform inverted asanas that direct the blood to the brain and provide its cells with the necessary nutrition, thereby increasing concentration. Proponents of anti-gravity yoga claim that "suspended" people can perform those asanas, which in traditional classes is extremely difficult to do because of excessive stress in the body, especially in the back and neck.

In fly yoga, you can quickly see visible results. If you need more than one year of training in hatha yoga, then doing hammocks is much faster. A man adjusts his physical shape and outline of muscles, and the body becomes more flexible and plastic.

There is a myth that yoga does not help to lose weight, but it is not valid. If you exercise regularly, the effect of losing weight will not wait long for yourself. Moreover, it will not disappear in a short time as yoga normalizes metabolism.

The benefits of fly yoga

Fly yoga helps in the functional improvement of the body in such areas as:

• strengthening of the muscular frame and plasticity of the whole body (since most of the postures are suspended, all groups of muscles and joints are included in the work);
• energy recharging (after classes, irrespective of the degree of difficulty, there is a feeling of lightness and expansion, as relaxing exercises alternate with force, which leads to the effect of energy accumulation);
• relaxation and stability of the nervous system during classes (particular relaxing asanas with the impact of swinging stabilize the psyche, develop stress resistance and lift the mood);
• stretching the major muscle groups (the hammock distributes the load evenly and is easy to relax, allowing stretch-oriented poses to be given very quickly and naturally).

Contraindications

Like any other type of training, yoga has several contraindications:

• constant high pressure;
• chronic heart disease;
• eye diseases;
• disorders of the psyche;
• pathology of the spine;
• blood diseases;
• the presence of tumours;
• traumatic brain injury;
• recently underwent surgery;
• pregnancy.

Before training, trainers advise to have a little snack or not to eat at all. The main thing is not to overeat.