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The book

The Book

Adapting Practice for Accessibility, Neurodiversity, and Physical Support

A practical guide to teaching aerial yoga so that more bodies can actually do it.

Publisher
Singing Dragon
ISBN
9781805011897
Eight Limbs of Aerial Yoga cover

What people are saying

“Jo has written the book the aerial community needed: one that treats accessibility as craft rather than compromise.”
Jivana Heyman founder of Accessible Yoga, author of Yoga Revolution Foreword
“Rigorous, warm, and genuinely useful. I will be handing this to every teacher I train.”
Placeholder Endorser director of a yoga school
“A rare book that takes both the tradition and the body in front of you seriously at the same time.”
Placeholder Reviewer author

The eight limbs

The structure the book follows, and why.

  1. Yama Ethical restraints

    How we meet others, and the hammock included.

  2. Niyama Observances

    How we meet ourselves in a practice that exposes us.

  3. Asana Posture

    Where aerial work most obviously lives, and least exclusively.

  4. Pranayama Breath

    Inversion changes the breath. That is information, not a problem.

  5. Pratyahara Withdrawal of the senses

    The hammock removes the floor, and with it a habit.

  6. Dharana Concentration

    Suspension asks for attention whether or not you offer it.

  7. Dhyana Meditation

    What becomes available once the body stops negotiating.

  8. Samadhi Absorption

    Not a destination. Occasionally a byproduct.