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7 Reasons to Practice AcroYoga
AcroYoga integrates acrobatics, yoga, and Thai massage techniques, all in one flowing and loving sequence. The focus on community, health, partnership, and trust here supercedes that of many other styles of yoga.
Want to know how you will benefit from sharing in this creative and playful form of asana? Here are seven reasons to practice AcroYoga with your yogi partners and peers.
Practice the following meditations to help you confidently embody your role in the posture.
Base: Plant your roots, stay strong yet flexible, and see yourself as a pillar of support, knowing you have all the abundance you need from above and below.
Flyer: Visualize yourself as light as a feather, spread your wings, and fly free, enveloped in a loving and supportive embrace.
However, AcroYoga utilizes your whole body in varying planes of motions and points of balance.By the sheer dynamic nature of these movements, you have no choice but to depend on one solid center of gravity—by simultaneously engaging mula and uddiyana bandha.
No doubt, your ability to float and not feel like “deadweight” comes from staying connected from deep within your core.
It helps build relationships.
Finding unity within partnership promotes deep self-love, an increased empathy for others, and a shared respect for one another's boundaries. Intuitive communication experienced as "knowing" leads to mutually enhancing relationships.
It lets you confront conflict head-on.
Whenever tension arises within a relationship, we usually circumvent it and hope it will go away. Whatever we ignore tends to fester and take on a life of its own, however, leading to needlessly explosive arguments.
AcroYoga shows you that through opposing forces (i.e. push vs pull) you can achieve power through counterbalance, which allows for differing opinions as well as peaceful resolution.
You will fine-tune your ability to skillfully adapt to change as it arises, while maintaining serenity and not losing your cool, which is what causes you to bail too quickly. You will walk that fine line between perseverance and non-attachment.
If you tend to take flight in your personal life (i.e. whimsical, impulsive, and indecisive), AcroYoga may initially appeal to your free spirit. However, the responsibility and extreme partner work here compels you to make decisions to keep yourself and your partner safe while exploring new territories together.
In addition to having the helping hand (or leg) of your partner or partners, which keeps you from panicking, you will learn that a skillful landing matters just as much as a powerful liftoff, and through this process find peace amidst your fears.
You must allow yourself to give and receive in equal proportions.