WHAT IS GRAVITY YOGA?

Gravity Yoga is a targeted mobility training that involves long hold-hold stretches. Poses are practiced completely relaxed, passively, so gravity does most of the work-hence the name. The practice is meant to supplement, not replace, other forms of yoga or exercise.

Main focus is mobility. It is slow, deliberate, more challenging mentally than physically. Strong targeted mobility training.

Gravity Yoga and stretching helps to improve flexibility and mobility regardless of age. But flexibility will not happen without targeted practice. Our daily activities and some exercises, busy life working long hours are making us tighter and stiffer, reducing our mobility, and  causing muscle and joint pain. 

As we age, we lose range of mobility. Flexibility gains will stay with us longer than strength gains. Keep your mobility and youth longer by training in mobility.

3 PRINCIPLES OF GRAVITY YOGA

WET NOODLE - The intention is to relax into the stretch as much as possible. In some poses, that means total release. In other poses, it means to use as little muscular energy as possible to stay in the position.

4:8 BREATHING - By slowing the rate of breathing and by extending the length of the exhale, it stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, turns off the stretch reflex, and creates a simple point of focus during the long challenging postures.

MEET OR BEAT YOUR HOLD TIME - Your body will always trend toward inertia, so the stopwatch is a way to measure, match and eventually exceed your previous results. For flexibility results, the amount of time under passive tension is the key factor, so stretch times cannot be random or intuitive.