Aerial Active

Why let the kids have all the fun? Aerial Active is the new way to get fit, challenge yourself and get active at the same time!

Balance

Aerial Yoga is a fusion of many beautiful and beneficial physical disciplines of the aerial arts, ballet, dance, yoga, flexibility, strength, core work, conditioning and balance training.

Build Core Strength

Developing a fit and strong body is imperative for our overall health and well-being. From a strong core comes a strong body.

Gravity

Using gravity to our advantage facilitates deeper stretches, full back extensions and more exhilarating cardio and strength exercises.

Mindfulness

In addition to receiving a total body workout you are likely to experience greater peace of mind, body and soul.

Adult Circus Classes

$28 per class • Get discounts with our Class Passes

Step right up and join our All-Round Circus Skills for Adults!
A fun and enjoyable way to exercise and learn new skills. An all-round approach covering basic levels on all our amazing and fun equipment. Step out of your comfort zone and improve your hand eye co-ordination with Juggling, Spinning Poi, Plate spinning, Diablo, and Devil Sticks. Maybe work on your balance with the Tightrope, Slackline or learn to walk on the Barrel or Balance Globe.
But wait! This is just the beginning, the class then moves onto some Aerial activities with Silks, Hoops, Trapeze, and cloud swing! Covering many Circus Skills including Aerial pole and German wheel. Most classes are filled with giggles and cheers of achievements and not forgetting that all important Instagram shot on a unicycle!
Always wanted to run away with the Circus? Let us help you!

 

Aerial Yoga

$28 per class • Get discounts with our Class Passes

The latest trend in the fitness craze: a fusion of dance, yoga, flexibility, core, conditioning and balance, while realigning your body and decompressing your spine. Aerial Yoga is a wonderfully relaxing exercise technique. Many of the positions will be familiar if you’ve practised traditional yoga in the past, however we add a new dimension to the stretches when using the silks. This type of exercise is great for any age, and particularly helpful for those with spinal compression issues as the inversion helps to separate the vertebrae.

Aerial Silks & Fitness

$28 per class • Get discounts with our Class Passes

A fantastic form of art and exercise combined into one. Learn the circus-inspired wraps and tricks, while getting fit and flexible. Training on Aerial Silks is an extreme core workout. You’ll be using muscled you didn’t know you had, and using them hard! In this class, students learn methods to climb the silks, apply various locks to hold themselves in place, create incredible poses in the air, and once advanced enough can even learn to perform drops. It’s important with this type of strength class that you keep up your training – there’s an old saying in circus, that one day off is two days lost. There’s another important saying as well… if it doesn’t hurt, it ain’t circus!

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What is Aerial Yoga?

Aerial Yoga (also known as Anti-Gravity Yoga or Inversion Therapy) is the practice of traditional Hatha yoga using a soft fabric hammock which supports up to 453kgs. The hammock is a prop intended to assist alignment, deepen body position awareness and provide the immediate benefit of spinal decompression. By having the weight of the body partially or fully supported by the hammock, we can explore and create space in our bodies as intended in traditional Yoga practices but with reduced compression of the joints and spine. It also assists proper posture and alignment through relaxation, therefore finding a more balanced and unencumbered expression of each pose.

Aerial Yoga is a fusion of many beautiful and beneficial physical disciplines of the aerial arts, ballet, dance, yoga, flexibility, strength, core work, conditioning and balance training. Many Aerial Yoga postures are designed to help the student better understand the purpose of traditional Yoga postures and some are meant to help students achieve advanced traditional Yoga postures which often take years to learn.

How It Works

Developing a fit and strong body is imperative for our overall health and well-being. Using gravity to our advantage facilitates deeper stretches, full back extensions and more exhilarating cardio and strength exercises. Aerial Yoga incorporates four main training techniques; yoga, aerial arts, strength training and cardio; a professionally trained instructor will lead you through a unique progression of poses using a secured fabric yoga hammock. Progression training makes the practice appropriate for all levels of fitness and flexibility. Whether you are eight, eighty or anywhere in-between, there is no need to feel intimidated, or worried you won’t be physically challenged.

You will be in a comfortable and caring environment with an instructor who wants to help you succeed in reaching your individual fitness goals. No prior yoga or aerial experience is required. This class is tailored to every age, shape, size and fitness level.

Body Benefits

Over time, our bodies suffer from the constant compression effects of gravity. Through Aerial Yoga the fascia unwinds, the mind quiets, core-strength is built, posture is challenged and improved, flexibility, muscle tone and cardiovascular fitness increases, it can even assist in restoring a more youthful appearance, increase brain activity and clearer thinking.

Aerial Yoga poses release oxygen and nutrients to the brain that penetrate through the skin and scalp. It is a natural cleanser that enhances skin elasticity, hair growth and joint mobility while gently decompressing the spinal vertebrae. Safe inversion therapy using a yoga hammock has been deemed one of the most beneficial practices for the body because it gently uses gravity to counteract the daily compression being upright has on our bodies.

In addition to receiving a total body workout, experiencing greater peace of mind, body and soul, it is a class which emphasises having fun and enjoying our bodies while learning new skills.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I wear?
Comfortable clothing that will allow a range of movement, such as leggings and a comfortable top. Don’t wear jewellery or socks and shoes.
How do I prepare for class?
Please arrive well hydrated, and eat a light meal 1-2 hours prior to class. Having nutrients in your system will give you the energy your body needs to work out safely.
Is it difficult?
We accommodate all levels of difficulty in a progression format. The poses and movements start out fairly easy, and progress to more difficult movements. Your instructor will provide poses and movements appropriate for all levels.
What happens in a typical class?
While practicing Aerial Yoga, students alternate between hammocks and mats to facilitate awareness of the body in all planes. Classes slowly progress from using the hammocks to hold a little bit of body weight to using the hammocks to hold 100% of the body’s weight. The slow progression encourages new students and carefully introduces what can be a very intense new workout.

Aerial Yoga supports your traditional Yoga practice in a number of ways. It challenges Yoga postures such as inversions and deep backbends with less effort and strain. Deep muscle releases achieved in the air allow students to explore deeper stretches than in their traditional Yoga postures on the floor.

Common Yoga related injuries caused by overstretching and compression on the lower back are addressed through Asanas that strengthen shoulders without compromising flexibility and which strengthen core abdominal muscles without compression of the spine.

Who is Aerial Yoga unsafe for?
People with glaucoma, a heart condition, pregnancy, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, high blood pressure, neck or spinal injury or if you suffer from vertigo.

Join a class today

Take charge of your fitness and join a fun new group training experience – your core strength will thank you!