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It's challenging, it's fun, it's effective. AntiGravity® Aerial Yoga is a unique fusion technique, revolutionary in relieving compressed joints and aligning the body from head to toe. The AntiGravity® Hammock acts as a soft trapeze and as a support while you master simple inversions and finally progress to more advanced poses.
AntiGravity® Yoga is a fitness regimen designed by Christopher Harrison to increase one's overall health and physical agility while having fun and creating beauty. AntiGravity® is an acrobatic performance company whose daily workout utilizes the AntiGravity® Hammock. The technique was originally created for athletes and gymnasts and has since been modified and perfected for the everyday athlete. Incorporating components from dance, Pilates and calisthenics, AntiGravity® has created a complete workout that is certain to get you in shape while realigning you from the compression of gravity. AntiGravity® Yoga works to manipulate physics while staying lighthearted.
Christopher was initially drawn to yoga in the early 1990s while traveling in India. As world-class competitive gymnast, then later as a professional dancer, his body had experienced its share of abuse and was ready for healing. In his quest he discovered just how much of that healing was connected to his state of mind and positive attitude. Yoga revealed itself as the portal for that growth.
It is now 15 years later and he is indisputably considered the quintessential authority in aerial yoga. The AntiGravity® Yoga technique originally emerged from his experiences in the physical world - his yoga practice combined with the artistry he created as a choreographer for his aerial performance team, AntiGravity. AntiGravity® Aerial Yoga was born as a fusion technique. It became the necessary tool for Mr. Harrison to continue healing his body in order to continue to create his art.
The AntiGravity Hammock is a structural fabric that is connected from two overhead points. It acts like a swing or soft trapeze. The AntiGravity® Hammock is utilized to change one's dynamic relationship to the ground, allowing the participant to better understand their body and its relationship to physics.
The technique of working on fabric as a performance apparatus is fairly new in the aerial arts, emerging in the mid 1990's. As far as we know, we were the first company to use the apparatus looped as a hammock or swing rather than like a rope. This was actually because our original company members were not circus performers, but athletes and dancers. It was much safer to have a seat at the bottom of the hanging fabric. Our performers found that working this apparatus gave them a great core and upper-body workout --- it shredded their abs. We also found that there were other hidden benefits from hanging upside down. We would relax in inversions only to discover it would revitalize our entire body. Aerialists who work on this apparatus tend to be a very positive and upbeat group and for many they have performance careers that continue well into their forties. In essence, AntiGravity® Yoga is a technique that developed organically and naturally as a logical result from our work .
Christopher Harrison, Creator, Founder and Artistic Director of AntiGravity® Inc., he is an international competitive gymnastics specialist/elite coach and Broadway Aerial Choreographer/dancer who created the acclaimed aerial performance team AntiGravity as an expression of his love for acrobatics.
Christopher Harrison
AntiGravity® Yoga Creator


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“Cocooning or Cocoon Pose”

We are proud to announce the launch of AntiGravity's first AntiGravity Yoga Instruction DVD volume 1! Creation has been a birthing process and this baby came out with beautiful wings! The DVD is part of the AntiGravity Hammock purchase --- another long awaited moment! Happy Day!
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What is AntiGravity® Aerial Yoga?
Turn your world upside down with your own AntiGravity® Hammock! Hang out with us and you will grow up to an inch and a half! Invoke flight dreams as you lead yourself to greater health. This revolutionary product, invented by Broadway Aerial Choreographer Christopher Harrison has been developed with over 12 years of research. There are 6000 AntiGravity® Yoga practitioners daily around the world, safely practicing this technique. Over half a million people have taken an AntiGravity Yoga class