WARM DOWNS

Yoga Lunchtime Warm up/down – All levels

1.35 – 2.25pm – Week 1
Space A, Atrium – Tutor KJ Mortimer

KJ’s Yoga class is able to supply dual focus… warming the body for those starting their practice or warm down the body to those closing practice for the day. The class focuses on connection to your body, finding warmth, reach, balance and clear body awareness. KJ leads a series of flowing asanas to work with the range of movement, working on agility and co-ordination.
If you have a yoga or exercise mat please bring that with you.

Kinstretch® Lunch Warmup/down–All levels

1.35 – 2.25pm – Week 2
Space A, Atrium – Tutor Laura Pero

This class can be taken as a warm up/joint preparation (if you’re just joining us for the afternoon) or as a warm down/maintenance/recovery if that’s the end of your EADF day and you’re off to spend the afternoon on the beach!

Full body CARs (Controlled Articular Rotations)
Mobilising and activating each joint in isolation as a way to ignite and strengthen our functional movement capacities in preparation for any physical activity. CARs will build your understanding of your functional joint capacity and how, maintaining it daily, can serve your chosen skill practice.
By the end of this week CARs will become the ‘daily tooth brushing’ morning routine equivalent, for your joints and your fundamental movement health.

General Warmdown – All Levels

6pm – 7pm – Week 1
Space F, Stage – Tutor Rebecca Rennison

This general warmdown will work through the various parts of your body that are tired and sore after a long day of aerial!

Flexibility – All Levels

6pm – 7pm – Week 2
Space F, Stage – Tutor Jenny Tufts

Repair and prepare your hardworking aerial body! This class is open to all levels, and will focus on mobility exercises that build end-range strength and stabilise joints. Pulling from a mixture of pilates and contortion techniques, this class aims to leave you feeling balanced and armed with lots of new drills to integrate into your own floor-based movement practice.

Contact Dance – All Levels

4.15pm – 5.45pm – Week 1
Space A, Atrium– Tutor Magalie Lanriot

Magalie will guide you through a series of improvisational tasks working in pairs and in groups, finding techniques for flying, partnering and floor work with momentum and sensitivity and playing with the physics between bodies and gravity.

We’ll work with skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and supporting weight and expanding our range of spatial orientation, lifting, catching and falling to give a greater understanding of your gravity; sharing weight in motion and finding a flow through the physical contact.

Gyrotonic® based movement class – All Levels

4.15pm – 5.45pm – Week 2
Space A, Atrium– Tutor Lee Clayden

This movement class is based on the homework series for gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis practitioners, a fluid, exercise practice to help you reconnect the body by gently working the joints and muscles through rhythmic and undulating movements.

The exercises and corresponding breathing patterns are designed to stimulate the body’s internal organs and nervous system, open up energy pathways and allow the body to continuously flow without interruption.

It opens up the body, bringing awareness and mobility to enhance your physical practice and feels like self-massage, mmm nice……

Lee is a registered GYROTONIC® instructor.

Stretch and Massage – All Levels

6pm – 7pm – Week 1 & 2
Space A, Atrium – Tutor Magalie Lanriot

In this warm down session, you’ll be led through simple Tailendaise massage sequences (Shiatsu and Thai), to ease up any pain and soreness in the body and help prepare you for the next day.

Each day we will target a different area of the body involved in aerial work e.g. the rotator cuff, the core muscles, the forearms and the lower back/pelvis and work with a partner to encourage greater flexibility, find space in the body, and a practical understanding of how to use these techniques to enhance your training.

VAYU Aerial Yoga® Class – All Levels

6 – 7pm – Week 1 & 2
Space D, Chandelier 2 (free-standing rig) – Tutor Lee Clayden

VAYU Aerial Yoga®, is a practice that has been developed to create space mentally and physically, by opening up the body through various postures using the custom designed yoga swing.

By using the support of the swing to move through various postures we are able to challenge and create space within the body whilst allowing the nervous system to relax, encouraging a letting go into complete surrender.

Inverting the body while suspended in the air not only provides many physical benefits such as spinal decompression, it also expands the mind by creating confidence, overcoming fear and allowing new found freedom and bringing a playful light energy to our hearts.

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