Aerial Yoga: Strength, Freedom, and Flow in the Air
- Meredith Silks
- Aug 14, 2025
- 2 min read
Aerial yoga is more than a workout. It is an invitation to move, breathe, and see the world from a new perspective. Stepping into the hammock, you feel the fabric catch your weight, the floor slip away, and a gentle sway that draws you into the present moment. The silks become both anchor and wings, supporting you as you explore shapes and sensations that open the body and quiet the mind.
What is Aerial Yoga?
Aerial yoga combines traditional yoga postures with the support of a hammock or aerial silks. The hammock acts as a prop, helping you deepen stretches, hold poses longer, and find balance with less strain on your joints. Inversions become accessible, strength-building poses feel lighter, and movements that might seem intimidating on the ground become playful explorations in the air.
Benefits of Aerial Yoga
The benefits of aerial yoga touch every part of your being. Physically, it strengthens your core, improves posture, and increases flexibility. The gentle traction of inversions creates space in the spine, helping to release built-up tension. Mentally, aerial yoga encourages mindfulness, focus, and a deep sense of relaxation. The rhythmic sway of the hammock has a calming effect, helping to reduce stress and quiet the mind.
Many students find aerial yoga boosts confidence, too. Moving in the air invites you to try new things, explore your limits, and trust in your own strength. Each class becomes a small adventure, a reminder of what your body and mind can achieve together.
A Practice for Everyone
Aerial yoga is adaptable to all levels. Beginners appreciate the support of the hammock as they learn new shapes, while experienced movers enjoy the added challenge of more complex transitions and sequences. The hammock can hold you in gentle restorative poses, assist you in balancing postures, or provide the stability you need for strength-based work.
At House of Honey, aerial yoga classes are small and personal, allowing each student to receive individual attention. The studio’s design, set among lush gardens, creates a feeling of being held by both nature and the silks themselves.
The Experience of Flight
Perhaps the most unique part of aerial yoga is the feeling of flight. In the air, gravity becomes a partner rather than a limitation. You spin, sway, and explore movement in all directions. There is a sense of freedom that can be both exhilarating and deeply grounding.
Floating in cocoon pose at the end of class, wrapped in the hammock, the world becomes quiet. Breath slows, the body softens, and you are reminded that movement and stillness are not opposites but part of the same rhythm.
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