Class Descriptions and Pre-Requesites
*Beginner* *Open* *Intermediate* *Advanced* *Therapeutics/Lunar*
Saturday, Session 1, 10:00-11:25
AY FIT-AMY AND EDDIE
Solar, Beginner
AYFit is a full body workout that cultivates strength, agility, trust, communication and teamwork. It builds smart, strong bodies through partner acrobatic training techniques, either for personal fitness or as an excellent foundation for AcroYoga.
Pre-reqs: 6 months experience
POINTE YOUR TOES!-LOTSIE AND MENDEL
Solar, Open
This class will be mostly collaborative with a focus on choreography and the creative process. We will start with a few basic calibrations and simple transitions to understand flow, improvisation techniques and games to refine the idea of giving and receiving weight. You will then have time to work within your groups to create a flow and have the opportunity to perform for the class. There will be an emphasis on aesthetics and performance quality so that we begin to understand acroyoga performance as an art form rather than just a bunch of tricks strung together. It's not about mastering the tricks or having a big "aha" moment. It's about self expression, creativity, teamwork and a holistic approach to performance. All levels welcome.
Pre-reqs: Some experience with acroyoga, dance and/or improv basics encouraged.
HIGH FLYING POPPING MACHINES-DANYA AND HOBS
Solar, Intermediate
Why step when you can pop and float instead?! Connect exciting pops and transitions into Popping Machines!
Pre-reqs: 10 second Tuck Sit, 30 sec handstand at a wall, 20 sec Free Star & Reverse Star
REACHING FOR THE STARS-ARI AND RYAN
Solar, Advanced
Standing acrobatics requires strength, stability, and looking up. Stars fly high and when we learn the proper progressions we can reach the sky. Our progressions will lead us from the floor L-Basing side star to properly learn foot placement (which will be hand placement), basing high bird on hands and finally transition to high side star. If we have GREAT SUCCESS, we will show a different mount or 2 ;)
Pre-reqs: Side Star in L Basing
TRUST, MOVE, PLAY-LINDA AND MARY
Lunar, Open
Join this loving AcroYoga circle to create a tribe that honors inclusive play as a vehicle for healing in the world. In circles, pairs, trios and more, we explore trust and connection through breath, movement, games, partner acrobatics and stretches, partner flying and Thai massage. One heart, one love, one world!
Pre-reqs: Must be breathing! Must be willing to smile, give and receive support, and have a good time!
Saturday, Session 2, 11:35-1:00
LEGS IN THE AIR-LINDA AND LAURA
Solar, Beginner
Learn foundational skills in major staple AcroYoga poses and refine them with proper technique. Fortify your Basing, Flying and Spotting to create smooth transitional flows with ease. ‘LEGS in the AIR’ will get you to experience some brilliant ‘STAR’ qualities while keeping you challenged, safely elevated; while finding strength, balance, flexibility, and cooperation. Learn moves that become yours to practice anywhere willing participants may be.
No partner required. Come on your own, with a partner; bring friends… the more the merrier.
Be surprised with what you can accomplish. Take away concrete skills to grow your practice with joy and light-heartedness.
Pre-reqs: Openness, courage, receptivity and laughter.
Bringing a yoga mat is advisable for those with tight hamstrings.
SLACROBATICS - LOTSIE AND STEPHEN
Solar, Open
Yogaslackers style flows!
Pre-reqs: Foot to Shin, Shin to Foot, Reverse Star (encouraged)
BASE IS NOT ALWAYS BOSS-CHRIS AND BRIAN
Solar, Intermediate
Base is not always boss, flyers can lead the party as well. Cultivate listening in your partnership as you work through stronger moves. Empower one another to move with confidence.
Pre-reqs: Free Shoulder Stand, Back Bird, L-sit , Star.
HAND TO HAND DYNAMO
Solar, Advanced
L-basing pops are a fun and effective way to build base sensitivity, flyer proprioception, and to calibrate partnerships for successful standing hand to hand. Once we have calibrated, we will begin building a flow that transitions between L-basing and standing and also begins to build strength and technique necessary to inlocate.
Pre-reqs: One minute handstand hold against a wall. Minimum of 5 second L-basing extended hand to hand. Comfortable two-high.
PARTY OF 3-KATIE AND JEAN-JACQUES
Lunar, Open
Beginning with tandem Thai Massage - two givers and one receiver - step into an increased awareness of sensitivity and healing touch. We’ll expand the rhythm of working together into tandem flying therapeutics, enhancing the experience of traction, backbends, and twist. Cultivate your awareness of clear communication and intuitive touch as we work in tandem.
Pre-reqs: Base folded leaf steadily with your eyes closed
Saturday, Session 3, 2:45-4:05
ACROPEUTICS: FLY TO FEEL GOOD-SARAH
Solar, Beginner
Your fav acro flying poses done in a therapeutic way! We'll release the tight muscles that get cranky from playing and leave you feeling refreshed.
Pre-reqs: Comfort flying and basing Star, Side star, Figh Flying Whale, Back Flying, Handstand with support.
FLOAT, FLY AND GRAVITY DEFY-DANYA AND HOBS
Solar, Open
Explore the magic of floating as we work towards, in and with hand to hand. Hand holding will never feel the same again!
Pre-reqs: 5 second Tuck Sit, 20 sec handstand at a wall, Free Star & Reverse Star
STANDING TALL-JEREMY AND AARON T.
Solar, Intermediate
The Standing Tall Workshop will empower both flyers and bases who have a fear of heights. This class will introduce a variety of poses that ARE NOT foot 2 hand or hand 2 hand. We put together a standing flow that makes standing acrobatics more accessible.
Pre-reqs: Two-high.
BE A MUSE-ANGELA AND YONI
Solar, Advanced
Exploring different standing circus tricks
Pre-reqs: Very comfortable with 2-high, foot to hand with a lying base and balancing inversions.
BELOW THE EQUATOR-SUSIE AND NOSA
Lunar, Open
Treat your self to some relaxing therapeutics after a long day of acrobatics. In this session Nosie Yogi will lead you through some restorative Thai Massage focusing on the hips, legs, thighs, glutes, he IT band and feet. If you love bliss this one is for you.
Pre-reqs: None
Saturday, Session 4, 4:15-5:35
ACRO SOUL MAGIC-LORI AND JEFF
Solar, Beginner
Create New Patterns of Play and Connection
In AcroYoga, we can get wrapped up in the technical details of foot placement, body posture, and weight distribution. We may forget that we are people interacting with other people, and we may forget to breathe and listen, tuning in to ourselves and to our partners. This lack of presence disrupts our synchronization, and we come crashing down.
What happens when we shift our attitude to release the emphasis on outcome? As bases and flyers, we need to attune and respond intuitively. Become a stronger Acroyogi by developing your capacity to synchronize with your partner, empowering Acroyoga's relational, collaborative nature.
“Magic is the willingness to cooperate with everything.” (Caroline Casey). Through guided movement, grounding breath work, and creative process, we will explore magical ways to find stability in flight.
No partner required.
Pre-reqs: Experience going out of synch with your partner and falling or dropping someone.
TRAINWRECK -ADAM AND KATHRYN
Solar, Open
Why do you train? To Trainwreck with Grace! This style of AcroPlay is intuitive, spontaneous and frequently chaotic. Now that you've learned the forms, forget them. This is an environment to explore weight-sharing and transitions beyond the boundaries of standardized techniques and flows. With a strong emphasis on non-verbal communication, students will exercise their kinesthetic receptivity and responsiveness to freestyle flows. We will focus on principles of movement rather than techniques as a foundation to co-create an entirely new movement vocabulary.
Pre-reqs: A solid foundation with "L" basing and/or flying. Participants will be encouraged to work with similar-size partners and trade roles as flyer and base.
H2H NINJABATICS-KATIE AND JEAN-JACQUES
Solar, Intermediate
For intermediate acroyogis interested in learning - or refining - their hand to hand skills. We'll break down the techniques of hand to hand, reverse hand to hand and baby hand to hand, both as static poses and through washing machines. Been doing H2H for awhile? Awesome, this is perfect for you. Been scared - but interested - in learning H2H? Awesome, this is perfect for you too!
Pre-reqs: L-base or fly: low & high foot to hand. Handstand at the wall for 30 seconds
LOOK MA NO HANDS!-DANYA AND HOBS
Solar, Advanced
Find comfort in precarious places while we explore the world of both base and flyer hands free transitions.
Pre-reqs: Side Star, Straddle Bat Tick Tocks, Star
MY OHH MY THAI THAI THAI-ARI AND TARA
Lunar, Intemediate
Using the feet, ankles, knees, elbows, whole body etc in various thai moves can allow for both more ease for the giver and deeper pressure for the receiver. Join us for the joys of getting your whole body involved when giving and receiving Thai Massage.
Pre-reqs: Basic Thai Massage Experience - familiar with pouring weight, and thai and yoga body mechanics
Sunday, Session 1, 10:00-11:30
GAME OF THRONES-NOSA AND SUSIE
Solar, Beginner
Brace yourself ACRO is coming! In this session Nosie Yogi will lead you through progressions building up to their original washing machine! Not for the faint of heart this session will make you work!
Pre-reqs: Bicep stand, reverse straddle throne, shoulder stands
REVERSE YOUR STAR BIRD-AMY AND EDDIE
Solar, Open
Come and experience a flow that takes front bird links it through reverse side stars, regular tuck sits, and connects with a croc or two and can be repeated!
Pre-reqs: stars, shoulder stands, tuck sits, crocs, and good spotting/coaching skills
ACRO 36O POPS-ELIZABETH AND RYAN
Solar, Intermediate
Ryan and Elizabeth are here to fulfill your popping dreams! First learn the basics of popping - receiving and “throwing” your flyer, staying tight and body aware as a flyer, and synchronizing partner movements to allow for graceful lift offs and landings. Then we will build each new pop sequentially to see how foundational skills can support new advanced ones. Popping transitions and flows taught include plank-to-plank pop, plank to back fly, back fly to h2h and then the full 360 pop!
Pre-reqs: Star, h2h, whale to throne pop
PARTNER DANCE LIFTS AND ADAGIO STANDING FLOW-LEX
Solar, Advanced
This is standing partner acrobatics flow that focuses mostly on slow moving standing partner standing acrobatics. It utilizes partner dance acrobatics and Adagio partner acrobatics.
Pre-reqs: Enough strength to lift a flier above shoulders.
THERAPEUTICS-CAROLYN AND ELIZABETH
TBD
Sunday, Session 2, 11:45-1:15
STEPPING IT UP-YAEL AND COLIN
Solar, Beginner
We love foot to hand and will show you that it's not all about strength. Learn the tricks and tools to practice safely and have you progressing much faster and more importantly, safer. Bases will find more stability, strength, and sensitivity in F2H presses while keeping wrists and shoulders protected with posture. Flyers learn alignment cues and solo training techniques specific to F2H and will have feeling confident. Round all of this out with some specific therapeutics for shoulders and wrists and you will leave loving foot to hand too!
Pre-reqs: None
WELCOME TO TRELF TOWN-IZZY AND LAUREN
Solar, Open
Come hang out with the AcroYogis who do it all. If you fall somewhere between a tree (base) and an elf (flyer), then Welcome to Trelf Town where we have all the fun. Middlers, ladies and gents who go both ways, have a home here to play with someone their own size. We'll be working through with poses and transitions, where similar sizes will be to your advantage.
Pre-reqs: Comfortable basing AND flying bird, shoulder stand (or candle stick) and star
AMALGAMATION OF MANY WASHING MACHINES-LEX
Solar, Intermediate
“Amalgamation Of Many Washing Machines” consists of many different washing machines and seamlessly gluing them all together. We will work on transitioning in and out of these.
Pre-reqs: Knowledge of many washing machines or the ability to learn them quickly. Please review the following videos for an example of the content:
Video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vuT8DKRSEQ
Video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKsrWG7Ukhg
FOUNDATIONS OF ICARIAN ACROBATICS-CHRISTINE AND AARON L.
Solar, Advanced
Icarian acrobatics is the ancient discipline of juggling a partner on your hands and feet. Flyers are thrown from one pose to another or from one base to another. Training will be given not only on basing and flying techniques but on advanced spotting that makes even high level skills very safe.
Pre-reqs: 22 Skills Test for bases and flyers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4dvHCaWCVo
THAI ME UP-ADAM AND LAURA
Lunar, Intermediate
Acrobatics decompression therapy to soothe and release the low back, hips and shoulders. We’ll practice a dynamic Thai sequence to move energy and promote a healthy range of mobility. These techniques draw upon osteopathic principles of biomechanics, mobilizing the joints through a spiral-like movement of the fascia (connective tissue fibers). We’ll have fun learning new skills and encourage creativity, discovering what feels best for you as the giver and your receiver. This organic exploration of movement will feel nourishing to your body and your nervous system.
Pre-reqs: To have some experience giving Thai Massage. Healthy hips and knees.
Sunday, Session 3, 1:15-2:45
Closing circle and Lunch
All Levels
Sunday, Session 4, 4:00-8:00
Central Park Jam, Sheeps Meadow.
All Level
Solar, Beginner