Yoga has touched several lives all over the globe. Acro yoga is a practice that has been discovered quite recently. As its name suggests it’s a unique blend of acrobatics and yoga. It realizes how yoga and acrobatics complement each other and exploits this aspect to create a special form of partner yoga.

It has two major schools – Acro yoga Inc. which was created by Jason Nemer and Jenny Klein in California and Acro yoga Montreal, which was started in 2001 by Jessie Goldberg and Eugene Poku. The former utilizes the wisdom of Acrobatics, Yoga as well as various healing arts including Thai massaging. The latter on the other hand combines acrobatics and yoga with various dance performances.

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Acro yoga Inc. has three major components. These are Solar Acrobatic Practices, Lunar Healing Arts Practices and Yogic Practices.

Solar Acrobatic practices include teaching the disciple acrobatic moves that inculcate trust and soul empowerment. Partner acrobatics is a practice that is based as much on trust as it is on practice and skill. The various holds, headstands, handstands and lifts require trusting your partner completely with your most precious possession, your body. Thus acrobatic practices helps you trust others and make them trust you better too.

These practices also strengthen the spirit of teamwork. They serve as building blocks for your body’s strength. Routine exercises such as Push ups, down dog push ups, abdominal exercises and partner conditioning drills help strengthen your muscles and prepare you for further more rigorous routines. This practice has three major aims – the base or teaching you rudimentary acrobatics, the flyer or teaching you to trust dance moves that allow you to fly and the spotter that helps you achieve the above safely.