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Aerial Pilates

Aerial Pilates combines the power and mobility gained from a Pilates practice with the playful challenges of the Aerial hammocks. The hammocks can provide support and assistance, challenge balance and equilibrium, help to create space by relieving tension and turn you on your head to hang like a bat.

Beginner lessons start with practicing exercises on the mat with the assistance of the hammock. Giving students the opportunity to develop strength and familiarity. More advanced classes involve full body suspension, full inversion (hanging upside down) and lots of playtime.

Aerial Yoga

Aerial Yoga integrates the supportive nature of the hammocks with asana practice. The hammocks provide support in standing work, backbends, chest openers and inversions allowing us to move deeply into an asana and thus giving us access to postures that are often too challenging or daunting. The function of the hammock is also to provide intense compression upon the joints thereby facilitating deep myofascial and muscular release and massage. This release helps the breakdown of scar tissue and increase circulation in the joints. Aerial Yoga also allows students to experience inversions (being upside down) on a whole new level. With the support of the fabric students can hang upside down with almost no tension thus providing deep spinal decompression and increased circulation.

Privates

Private Pilates and Aerial work is available upon request. Privates can be greatly beneficial for students new to Pilates and/or aerial work. It is also highly recommended for people with injuries. Please look into Jill's bio page to learn more about her history, education and experience in working with people whose bodies are healing.

theatre games

During this class we come together to play theatre games used by actors to train and integrate their bodies and minds in preparation for performance. 
Play is an essential aspect of the human and animal world. As well as being valuable and fun for its own sake, play has many additional benefits. Theatre games help cultivate mental acuity, flexibility, concentration and energy levels, connection and social interaction, self-confidence, imagination, physical and mental agility and spontaneity, voice and communication, cooperation, trust, memory, and - oh - did we mention fun?

Benefits of Aerial work

. Decompression of the spinal joints

. Release and stretch of spinal/postural muscle

. Compression upon the joints by the fabric releases fascial and muscular tension

. Increases flexibility

. Suspension training strengthens core muscles

. Challenges the central nervous system and proprioception

. Aids the lymphatic system improving the bodies detoxification abilities

. Improves mental focus and concentration

. Pushing and pulling nature of the work strengthens and stabilizes the shoulder joints and develops arm, wrist and hand strength and flexibility

. Lifts mood and reduces stress

. Improves balance

. Improves circulation

. Great for the skin

. Aids digestion

. Is playful, fun and will bring a smile to your face!!!