Acroyoga and Partner Acrobatics
What is Acroyoga or Partner Acrobatics?
Acroyoga is a relatively new practice founded in 2003 in California by Jason Nemer and Jenny Sauer-Klein. Acroyoga blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the kindness of Thai massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. The practice aims to bring about connection, trust and safe play. Acroyoga is great fun and unlike most other forms of yoga, the practice is performed mainly in pairs or in groups.
The practice involves three active roles. The spotter, who serves as an interpreter between the base and flyer and aids the stability and success of a skill or flying sequence, The base, who is the pillar for which skills are conducted, and finally, the flyer, who is either the performer or the receiver of the flying sequence.
The two main energies in Acroyoga are the Solar which reflects the acrobatic side and the Lunar which embodies the more therapeutic and healing aspect. The acrobatic side takes strength, balance and determination while the therapeutic is side encourages opening, releasing and listening.
Acroyoga is an exhilarating and open ended practice. It leads towards hard to achieve asana positions such as scorpion, headstands and handstands. It deepens backbends, lengthens hamstrings and opens hips, as well as an endless array of flying positions that no-one has thought of a name for yet.
What is Partner Acrobatics?
Partner Acrobatics is an acrobatic art that combines elements of adagio and hand balancing. Adagio consists of partner lifts, usually performed by a man and a woman, where the male lifts his female partner in many different poses and positions. Many forms of adagio also incorporate throws and tosses; the male usually throws the female into somersaults, layouts, and other acrobatic maneuvers. Whenever a person lifts another up in different artistic poses, or performs tosses where the bottom mounter catches the top mounter again, it is considered adagio.
As in Acrobatics, the performer on the ground doing the lifting and supporting in an acrobalance formation is often called the base, while a performer being lifted or tossed can be referred to as the flyer (or flier). In Partner Acrobatics it is required a high degree of care, coordination, proprioceptive awareness, and mutual trust from the performers in order to avoid injuries.
Hand balancing is the performance of acrobatic body shape changing movements, or stationary poses, or both, while balanced on and supported entirely by one's hands or arms. It is performed by acro dancers, circus performers, gymnasts, and sports acrobats. Hand balancing may be performed by partners or individuals. In partner hand balancing, a strong bottom mounter supports the top mounter in handstands, planches and other acrobatic poses.
Partner Acrobatics is the combination of the two athletic art forms: adagio lifts combined with strong-man hand balancing and partner acrobatics, such as double planches and partner handstands.
Acroyoga is a relatively new practice founded in 2003 in California by Jason Nemer and Jenny Sauer-Klein. Acroyoga blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the kindness of Thai massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. The practice aims to bring about connection, trust and safe play. Acroyoga is great fun and unlike most other forms of yoga, the practice is performed mainly in pairs or in groups.
The practice involves three active roles. The spotter, who serves as an interpreter between the base and flyer and aids the stability and success of a skill or flying sequence, The base, who is the pillar for which skills are conducted, and finally, the flyer, who is either the performer or the receiver of the flying sequence.
The two main energies in Acroyoga are the Solar which reflects the acrobatic side and the Lunar which embodies the more therapeutic and healing aspect. The acrobatic side takes strength, balance and determination while the therapeutic is side encourages opening, releasing and listening.
Acroyoga is an exhilarating and open ended practice. It leads towards hard to achieve asana positions such as scorpion, headstands and handstands. It deepens backbends, lengthens hamstrings and opens hips, as well as an endless array of flying positions that no-one has thought of a name for yet.
What is Partner Acrobatics?
Partner Acrobatics is an acrobatic art that combines elements of adagio and hand balancing. Adagio consists of partner lifts, usually performed by a man and a woman, where the male lifts his female partner in many different poses and positions. Many forms of adagio also incorporate throws and tosses; the male usually throws the female into somersaults, layouts, and other acrobatic maneuvers. Whenever a person lifts another up in different artistic poses, or performs tosses where the bottom mounter catches the top mounter again, it is considered adagio.
As in Acrobatics, the performer on the ground doing the lifting and supporting in an acrobalance formation is often called the base, while a performer being lifted or tossed can be referred to as the flyer (or flier). In Partner Acrobatics it is required a high degree of care, coordination, proprioceptive awareness, and mutual trust from the performers in order to avoid injuries.
Hand balancing is the performance of acrobatic body shape changing movements, or stationary poses, or both, while balanced on and supported entirely by one's hands or arms. It is performed by acro dancers, circus performers, gymnasts, and sports acrobats. Hand balancing may be performed by partners or individuals. In partner hand balancing, a strong bottom mounter supports the top mounter in handstands, planches and other acrobatic poses.
Partner Acrobatics is the combination of the two athletic art forms: adagio lifts combined with strong-man hand balancing and partner acrobatics, such as double planches and partner handstands.