Category: AcroYoga

AcroYoga in East Grinstead

AcroYoga Inversions & Acrobatics with Jaqui

When: Date to be confirmed for early 2011 10:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Where: Yoga Akasha, East Grinstead RH19 1AW

Price: £45 early bird £50 within two weeks of the scheduled workshop

With the support of a partner we will embody support, receptivity and trust. Students will solidify spotting techniques in basic inversions as the foundation for acrobatics. The progressions lead to basic partner acrobatics cultivating strength and flexibility while working as a team. A playful, safe, supportive environment will empower the whole room to be upside down and connect to the divine! Recommended for students with an intermediate yoga practice.

The second part of our two day offering.

A day of massage and flying therapeutics with Jaqui & Jesse

Aghhhhhhh,. Man that feels good

When: November 14th, 2010 11:00 AM – 6:30 PM

Where: Yoga Akasha, East Grinstead RH19 1AW

Price: £45 before 07/11/2010 £50 after 07/11/2010

Therapeutic flying and Thai massage are the practices that hones an AcroYogis ability to be sensitive and receptive. Students will learn and practice honest, clear, compassionate communication to build the foundation of partnership. We will draw upon the natural forces of gravity and “metta” loving kindness to encourage the body to let go of fear and tension. The flow of basing and flying, giving and receiving, honoring and accepting, inhaling and exhaling will take both yogis into a new place of union and bliss. Some yoga experience
recommended, no partner needed.

This part of two day autumn offering.

AcroYoga in Eastbourne

Now there is a now way to 'hang out'!

An AcroYoga indulgence weekend with Jaqui and Tobias

When: 26th & 26th September 2010

Where: The Yoga Life Studio Eastbourne

Price: £100

Devoted to healing Saturday, September 25th, 10-1pm & 2.30-5.30pm

This will be an all day bodywork extravaganza. We will introduce you to the art of healing touch and work with ‘Metta’ loving kindness. It will be a real treat for our achey and tired bodies. You will practice the principles of mutual support, giving and receiving. We will introduce you to a blend of Thai massage sequences and therapeutic flying flows blended with massage. This one day offering is aimed as an introduction to the yummy side of AcroYoga. No experience or no partner necessary do come with an open mind & a willingness to have fun!

Embodying the physical form Sunday, September 26th, 10-1pm & 2.30-5.30pm

A day to tap into your source of strength, flexibility and creative will. We will explore the qualities of embodying the acrobatic, beginning with conditioning & strength exercises followed by a strong vinyasa practice before working on various inversions to turn your world upside down (headstand, forearm balance and handstands). You will be working progressively in pairs and in small groups towards partner balancing, group pyramids and trios involving a base, flyer and spotter with a focus toward basic flying transitions. No partner necessary by a willingness to explore your fearless inner child required.

About Jaqui and Tobias

Both are fearless acrobatic junkies with teaching experience across Europe and recently across North America. Their teaching style is compassionate ‘boot camp’ yoga. They are able to blend clear instruction with humour and playfulness. Using a ‘kick ass’ music playlist they are both creative spontaneous and receptive to the different needs of students. Both are passionate practitioners and community builders.

Participants can attend Saturday as a one off event. However, to attend the Sunday offering we require you to either attend all day Saturday or have some experience of AcroYoga and or have an intermediate yoga asana practice and are comfortable with inversions (assisted headstands/handstands against a wall).

For bookings or more information please contact the studio on

AcroYoga tourists in Norway

A Norwegian Adventure

Always the potential to be a tourist attraction

What a beautiful country is Norway! After spending ten days with a most generous host Thomas Horgen, a budding AcroYoga enthusiast and professional climber, both Tobias and I could not have been in better hands. What did we get up to? In between weekend workshops in Oslo and Trondheim, we managed to head up into the mountains to practice our yoga, rock climb in the big outdoors, taught teenage children AcroYoga, swam but in my case paddle in freezing clear river water and all under the canopy of glorious sunshine!!

It felt like holiday! Absolutely fabulous or ‘fantastiske’ in Norwegian. It was a great opportunity to be out in the glorious county a lovely change from metropolitan urbanite living, ‘Man I am so blessed!!’

AcroYoga Level 2 Teacher Training

OMG a low hand to hand

All in a days training!

Having just recently completed my AcroYoga Level 2 Teacher Training at Frog Lotus Yoga in North Adams Massachusetts.  I have yet to process the sheer volume of learning that I had experienced in a period of just under three weeks.  One thing is for certain, the student mind and the state of constant learning is something I am valuing more and more.   I was one of 15 invited AcroYoga teachers from around the globe.  I was so honoured to be invited and be among such esteemed and accomplished teachers from all manner of yoga traditions.  The collective sense of community and desire to share skills and experience was truly awesome.  We were like a tapestry of shining stars set against a beautiful clear deep blue sky all supporting each other to provide a skyline of abundant brilliance.  See what we got up to here.

A letter from America

A letter from America

The sky is the limit

When you guys were here in California recently, me and my friend took two of your Acroyoga workshops (the one in West LA and the other in Long Beach). We were hooked right away at our first lesson, which was good because we had really high hopes of being able to incorporate some Acroyoga into a dance piece that I was invited to do at one of the largest bellydance festivals in Southern California.

After the two workshops we took (Art of Spotting and the one on Thai Massage) with you guys, Tari and I worked diligently twice a week for 5-6 weeks to learn more basics of Acroyoga with the help of the video and manual. It was fun and really hard at the same time. We laughed a lot. I farted on Tari a couple times which made us laugh more! We over did it once and I fell which I cried really hard over; luckily I didn’t get injured but it was a very emotional moment that brought us closer together and made me remember how important it is to have a spotter (which we did after that).

More importantly, we are in love with the practice and are committed to doing it for a lifetime! We really appreciate the skills you taught, how you taught it, and just for being so inspiring!

If you want, please view this video to see the fruits of our labor. The first part is my dance solo, followed by 5+ minutes of Acroyoga (much of it taken from the video with slight aesthetic modifications to make it look more dance-y). The last part with the juggling balls was taken from the first workshop we took with you guys (see what an impact you had on us!)

Love

Gigi

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