Talk:Aerial yoga

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Aerial Yoga is yoga practice with an aerial yoga swing/hammock. It is not about Yoga Alliance or any brand. Antigravity, Airo, Aireal, Fly High, Aeroyoga are all part of the aerial yoga practices. Saying one of them is the practice is like say that yoga practice is Manduka because that is the brand of the mat someone is using. Some aerial yoga swing brands might have their own teaching methodologies but the bases are the same. Also, it is difficult to determine when this practice was born. The most similar practice from traditional yoga is from Iyengar and the kuruntas. Teachers in differetn parts of the world have been exploring aerial yoga without even knowing about the brands or the people who called themself the first ones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:448A:506C:2070:792F:A044:3A11:CA56 (talk) 05:56, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Anti gravity

Anti gravity is a form of aireal yoga. Not the type of yoga. Look at the yoga alliance’s page on the subject. Anti gravity isn’t accredited. Aireal yoga is, and anti gravity is a form of it. Wikioditor (talk) 03:26, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Wp promo page

This entire page is obvious WP:PROMO and not permitted here. You are also engaged in an edit war and well past WP:3RR. Qzd (talk)

Anti gravity is a brand name. Not the type of yoga. See yoga allliances website. Left in ref. Wikioditor (talk) 03:34, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

No references for originator claim

There are no sources here that back up Carmen as the creator, and the first citation claims creation of aerial yoga in 2005 by someone else. Strangerpete (talk) 02:27, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

The claim was added by an SPA user named CarmenCurtis, with no evidence added at that time. I've removed the claim. Chiswick Chap (talk) 04:46, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, embarrassingly I didn't check the log and assumed it had been in place a while; should have just reverted it myself! Strangerpete (talk) 12:44, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Accredidation

The first recorded use of the Aerial Hammock was by antigravity entertainment in 1991. Christopher Harrison didn't go public with AntiGravity as a Yoga Technique until 2007, but he is accredited with the creation of the hammock long before then. He, along with Antigravity, is widely understood to be the founding force, and building blocks for the movement now known as "aerial yoga". Furthermore, the patent for the Aerial Hammock is owned by Christopher Harrison, as it is the "Harrison Hammock", and was the first silk hammock available for purchase and training. Similarly, Antigravity isn't mentioned anywhere on this page, but the photo used as an example of the technique is a photo of Christopher Harrison in the AntiGravity Lab in the early 2000s. There seems to be a lot of missing information regarding the history and influence within the practice. While recognizing that AntiGravity isn't the technique of Aerial Yoga itself - they are not synonymous, as one is a brand and one is a concept - the lack of inclusion of the AntiGravity brand seems to be a major oversight. ~2025-38528-20 (talk) 22:15, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

We need to be very careful about such claims. I've added a mention of the company. However, 2007 is the earliest date that Harrison can be associated with aerial yoga in any form; since the AntiGravity website itself says he adapted the hammock for yoga, we can't say that the yoga version of the hammock existed before 2007. There is no doubt that his company existed from 1990 but it didn't do yoga at that time. All of this would benefit from reliable independent sources. I'm not sure what "accredited" might mean as there was no accreditation of aerial yoga until much later; and the original patented hammock doesn't appear to be quite the same as the yoga hammock. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:42, 5 December 2025 (UTC)