Friday
Rigging and safety
Basics of aerial practice — how the silk is hung, how it fails, and how you do not.
Aerial yoga in Tampa
The hammock is a prop. A very good one.
Eight silks in a Ybor City loft, not a circus tent. Spinal decompression, supported inversions, and a core that has to actually work. All levels. Socks off.
Aerial yoga benefits
Same loft, eight hammocks. The fabric does work a mat cannot — decompress, invert, and make the core show up.
The spine unloads
The hammock takes your weight. Vertebrae get a stretch they do not get on a mat, which is why people who sit all day usually leave taller than they arrived.
Inversions, with a backstop
You go upside down a few feet off the floor. The silk holds you. No handstand tryout, no crashing into the person next to you.
Core, the whole hour
Every wrap, every transition, every hold. The fabric does not cheat for you. That is the work, and also why you feel it the next morning.
Strength without the grind
Pulling, wrapping, and balancing in the silk builds upper body and grip without stacking more compression on the joints.
Hips and shoulders open
Supported splits, chest openers, and long holds you would not stay in on the floor. The hammock lets you linger without muscling it.
Play that still counts as class
It looks like flying. It is still yoga. Eight silks, all levels, no circus resume. Curious is enough.
Wear fitted clothes that will not ride up. Leave jewelry at home. Arrive 15 minutes early on your first aerial day so we can fit you to a hammock.
Thursdays · 7:30 PM
Aerial Sound Bath
You get in the hammock. You do not have to invert, wrap, or perform. Luis plays crystal singing bowls while the silk holds you. Eight hammocks. No aerial experience.
Reserve a hammock on MindbodyAerial Sound Bath benefits
The nervous system stands down
Crystal bowls plus a hammock that is actually holding you. Heart rate drops. Shoulders drop. You do not have to try to relax.
The spine floats
On a mat, rest is still compression. In the silk, your weight comes off the discs. That is the difference you feel when you stand up.
A busy mind has somewhere to go
The sound gives the brain a job so it stops writing tomorrow’s list. You leave quieter than you arrived, without a meditation lecture.
Tension lets go because it can
Long, supported holds you would fidget out of on the floor. Hips, neck, and jaw get the same permission the spine does.
No performance required
You do not invert, wrap, or keep up. Climb in, close your eyes, stay. Rest is the class.
You leave actually restored
Not the polite kind. The kind where Thursday night stops feeling like Thursday night. Eight hammocks. Come float.
This class
- When
- Thursday 7:30 PM
- Teacher
- Luis
- Where
- Eight silks
- Need
- None. Float.
Aerial pricing in Tampa
Mat classes and aerial are priced separately. The 14-day yoga intro includes aerial — grab the aerial intro pack to get started.
Would you like to be an aerial yoga teacher?
September 25–27, 2026, 12:00–5:00 PM each day, at the loft. Taught by Jess Miller of Gyp Sea Air — ten years in the silk. Tuition $800 ($650 early bird). You need a yoga teacher training certificate to enroll. Yoga Alliance continuing education credits.
Saturday
Restorative aerial
Poses and sequencing for a restorative hammock class. People come for this more than the inversions.
Sunday
The rest of the class
Remaining poses, transitions, and a 60-minute class you can actually teach on Monday.
Benefits of becoming an aerial teacher
Studios actually need this
Mat teachers are common. Teachers who can safely hang eight people in silk are not. You leave with a skill a loft can put on the schedule.
You learn the wraps, not just the poses
How to get someone in, how to get them out, what to do when a wrist is angry. Cueing from the floor is a different job than doing the pose yourself.
Safer inversions for more bodies
Plenty of students will never kick up a handstand. They will go upside down in a hammock if you know how to hold them. That is a class you can fill.
Shoulders, neck, and what not to do
Aerial has a short list of ways to hurt people. Training is mostly that list, plus the sequences that stay this side of it.
A second room in your teaching
You can run mat and hammock. Private sessions, sound bath, intro packs — the silk is a reason people book who would skip another vinyasa.
You already know the loft
Same eight hammocks, same Ybor room. Jess Miller of Gyp Sea Air teaches the September weekend here — not a hotel ballroom with rented silks.