Gravity Yoga is a targeted mobility Training Method that involves long-hold stretches. Poses are practiced completely relaxed, passively, so gravity does most of the work.
Gravity Yoga focuses on opening up the hips, hamstrings and back, where eventually the whole body will open up over time as everything is connected.
When you come to Gravity Yoga classes expect strong classes, challenging poses. The method is slow, with long hold postures taught in an effective and progressive way, for each student to feel and deepen the stretch.
The classes are structured in a way that students can modify each pose to their physical needs, the aim is to find the stretch and relax as much as possible into each posture.
In Gravity Yoga we combine long hold postures with 4:8 Breathing, an essential breathing technique that activate the Parasympathetic N.S. and switch off the Stretch and Reflex response in the muscles (that naturally happens every time we stretch our body) allowing the body to relax, open up deeper in a faster and more effective way, leaving a long lasting effect in the body and feeling a calmer mind.
Props & Tools
- Blocks
- Strap
- Cushion/Bolster/Pad/Pillow
- Massage Ball (optional)
Gravity Yoga is
- 100% focus on mobility
- Slow, deliberate, and uncomfortable
- More challenging mentally the physically
- Targeted mobility training
- Not energy medicine, meridian, chakras
- Not a meditation class
- Not physiotherapy or rehab
- Not a restorative class
Contraindications for Practice
- No practice on painkiller
- No practice if pregnant
- Not without Doctor’s approval (if health issues)
- Joint replacements
- Severe scoliosis
- Illness and disease
- Surgeries
- No practice (or extra careful) if hypermobility syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Request Your Gravity Yoga Classes
Please download the Student Info Terms & Agreement document, sign it and bring it to the class or send it via email to sonia@beinyoga.co.uk