AcroYoga Essentials

Creative Flows - AcroYoga Community Class & Jam ✨

We can‘t wait to see you all for our favorite outdoor class @ Wipkingerpark 🤗

Learn 2 creative L-basing flows (1 easy, 1 advanced) with Tanja & Lisa on Wednesday 17th of August at 6pm. Afterwards Community Jam until it gets dark ☺️

This class is on donation & there is no need to sign up or bring a partner. It is open-level but best suited for those that already have a bit of experience with AcroYoga ✨ intermediate AcroYogis will certainly be challenged as well ;)

See you there 🙌🏼

AcroYoga with us in July ☀️

Get a kick-start 💪🏼
Every Monday, 20-21.30
AcroYoga Basics at

July 5 - Bird & Back Bird
July 12 - Thrones & Star
July 19 - Sidestars & Shoulderstands
July 26 - Reverse Star & Tic Toc

Suitable for beginners & for those wanting to revisit the basics 🤗 sign up on Eversports through

Get inspired ✨
Every Wednesday, 18.30-open end
Creative Flows
Outdoor @ Wipkingerpark (with dry weather)

A guided jam with a new flow every week 🥳

Get the most out of July before we’ll go on summer break in August ☀️ we are looking forward to flying with you!

Strong women lift each other up! 💪🏼

We are doing it again this year! Join us on Monday, June 14 for an AcroYoga Women Jam after the Women‘s March, 20.30 @ Bäckeranlage ☺️🙌🏼

Class at is canceled. Join us outside ☀️

Looking forward to seeing many of you there 👯‍♀️💛

Classes are starting again next week 🤗 join us for...

GET BACK TO ACROYOGA
Wednesdays, 18.30-19.30
@ Wipkingerpark
(when weather is warm & dry)

We will start with foundations (essentials 😉) and then build up to learning fun & exciting flows and washing machines.

Spots are limited to 12 people & they are selling out fast 🙈 make sure to sign up (link on our website) before attending the classes. As always the classes are on donation 🙏🏼

We can’t wait to train with you again 🤗 see you soon & don’t forget to bring your mask!

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(Inner) gaze ✨

Where does your gaze go when you are upside down? Do you look into the direction you are about to flow? Do you look back to the position you are coming from? Or does it after all go inwards? 😊

Observe yourself during the practice and see what following your gaze with your mind can teach you.

Where does your focus go, your awareness, your eyes and your thoughts? Why not treat AcroYoga like a meditation - observing and learning? 🤓

Remember that where your focus, your awareness, your inner gaze goes, this is where energy flows 💛

Embracing the unknown ✨

When learning a new AcroYoga skill, it’s very likely that you won’t get all the moves and transitions right from the start. Especially when the flyer is turned upside down and in all possible directions, it’s easy to loose the overview 🤯

Whenever you are in a situation like this, whern you are like “what’s going on here?” try to enjoy this for a moment instead of getting frustrated ☺️ why? Because once you understand & get all the moves, you can never go back to this state of not knowing. The best part is ghe moment when you reach the state of knowing, when it suddenly clicks & your mind and body understands where it needs to go ✨

Embracing the unknown is part of your learning process - don’t rush through it and try to soak up everything you can learn in this phase 🤗 about the poses, yourself, and about those around you.

Do you embrace the unknown?

📸 pictures taken at the beautiful in November last year

Keep up the good vibes ✨
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We miss you guys so much 🤗 hoping that you are doing well. How are you keeping up the good Acro vibes during the pandemic? We recommend to:
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⭐️ Create a list of Acro skills you want to aim for once you are back at training!
⭐️ Re-watch your favorite flows & redo them in your mind
⭐️ Catch up with your Acro buddies
⭐️ Keep your body in shape with cardio, stretching & strengthening
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We are looking forward to hearing from you how you are keeping up with your practice ☺️ hopefully see you soon again at beautiful Más Energy Center or outdoors!
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Greetings 💛 Tanja, Flo, Albert & Lisa
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Connection at first touch ✨
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Have you ever noticed that there sometimes are people you practice AcroYoga with where it just flows naturally right from the start? You connect your hands and immediately dissolve into one entity and communicate seemlesly. There’s no discussion needed, no trust to be built up, it’s all there right away. We like to call this “connection at first touch” ✨
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Just like love at first sight, this doesn’t happen too often 🙈 most pairs or groups of practitioners need to get to know each other first, build up trust, need to understand the other persons style and querks ☺️
but slowly over time the connection between them is getting strong and stronger to the point where you feel that verbal communication becomes less and less & you start to communicate non-verbally - as if your hearts have started to connect as well 💛
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When you reach this point and listen carefully, you will start to actually feel the other persons emotions while practicing - fear, joy, curiosity, confusion, pride. Look out for this as well when doing AcroYoga if you want expand this practice - because we truly believe that AcroYoga is not just a physical practice but it can teach us so much about ourselves and others as well ✨
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Acro Vocabulary ✨
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Can you remember all the names of the poses you like to flow through? ☺️ Do you know how the individual transitions or flows are called?
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A lot of people seem to think that knowing your vocabulary right in AcroYoga is overrated. But we don’t think so ❌ Especially, when things get a bit messy up in the air, it is comforting to know that you can just shout the next pose and your co-practitioner will understand where to go or what to expect 🤗
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Moreover, knowing the names of different poses and being able to recognize them will help you immensely when breaking down fancy flows seen in videos in order to learn them by yourself. Think of it this way: Learning Acro vocabulary is like learning a new language with your body 🤩
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Let's start the new week by getting upside down 😊 who is in?

Tomorrow (Monday), 6-7PM --> Focus: Pincha / Forearmstand 🔥

Sign up now to join the live-stream:
https://www.eversports.ch/e/class/TA0nqyJ9cm1

Can't make it tomorrow but would still like to do the class? You can find the recording afterward on https://www.mas-energycenter.com/videothek (search for Teacher: Lisa).

Looking forward to seeing some of you tomorrow 🤗

-Lisa

Videothek | on Demand Yoga| más Energy Center Zürich On Demand Videos: Livestream Aufzeichnungen für eine Woche anschauen oder Serien mieten/kaufen für eine bestimmte zeit oder ein Lebenlang.

A good Acroyogi* ✨
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What is a good Acroyogi*? Someone who can hold their shape like a rock? Someone very flexible like a circus artist 🤸‍♀️ and strong like an Olympic weightlifter? 💪🏼
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Nahh 🙈. We think a good Acroyogi* is somebody who can base or fly absolutely ✨ANYONE✨ and is able to meet other practitioners at their respective level. No need to push beginners into difficult poses but being able to play with them in a realm that might be challenging but never overwhelming and completely off limits.
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A good Acroyogi* encourages beginners and makes them feel comfortable. With advanced practitioners a good Acroyogi* can be creative as well as adventurous but never risky.
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What do you think? Are you a good Acroyogi*? ☺️🙌🏼
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Guidance ✨
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Do you know these moments when an advanced practitioner comes and plays with you? ☺️ Someone showing up with a plan and hell lot of confidence? You on the other hand are unsure about the plan, its risks and mostly your own abilities 🤷🏼‍♀️.
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True magic happens when this someone - without showing off or overestimating themselves but with calm determination and secure trust in what they are doing - sets things in motion, opens doors to new mental landscapes 🧚🏼
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Such people trust themselves which allows them to trust you to the point that things start flowing smoothly and - to your own surprise - you start trusting yourself too 🥰. The calm confidence of this person seems to naturally tip over to you, guiding you, transforming you ✨
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And sometimes maybe in a whole other aspect of life you will later find that someone to be you, gifting the same wonder to somebody else 🤗, inspired by those that took you by the hand before.
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We think of that imaginary line of people taking each other by the hand 👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾, guiding each other to do and be more each time we are acting as that guiding someone - passing on the knowledge and wisdom that we have learned in the past. That’s when we think back gratefully to the people that taught and guided us in turn. An endless chain of gratefulness and guidance 💛
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Last inversions class of 2020 🙌🏼
Topic: HANDSTANDS 🤸‍♀️✨

Sign up now for tomorrow (Monday) 6-7PM: https://www.eversports.ch/e/class/r9LrlGzsmb

Hoping to see you tomorrow online for some handstand fun ☺️🙏🏼

- Lisa

Merry Christmas ✨
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We wish you all happy holidays! Let’s hope that we will be able to do the things we love - practicing & teaching AcroYoga - with our favorite bases, flyers & spotters again in 2021. We miss you all very much & hope to see you soon again 💛
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Sending you a big big virtual hug 🤗 - your AcroYoga Essentials Team.
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The only constant in life is change ✨
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Our world is turned upside down - and we need to adapt constantly. New measures are in place in Switzerland starting tomorrow - everything closes after 7pm, including yoga studio - & this time we need your help on our decision about how to adapt to this change. There are two options:
1️⃣ - Continue with the inversions classes from 18.30-19.30 but only online (no studio presence possible)
2️⃣ - Move the inversions class to 18.00-19.00 and still have the possibility to attend in person.
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Please let us know in the comments what you would prefer 🙏🏼 thanks so much for your help 💛
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Inversions class is happening tomorrow (Monday) 18.30-19.30 at mas energy center or ONLINE.

Join in the studio: https://www.eversports.ch/e/class/yoNzdkogJe
Join online: https://www.eversports.ch/e/class/NBDsHwJ8x8

Focus tomorrow will be different **headstands** 😊
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/4938801979465085

I am looking forward to getting upside down with you 💛
-Lisa

Body memory ✨
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Do you know this feeling when your feet just know what to do, your hands just know where to hold and you are just swirling around. The moment you try to deconstruct what exactly you are doing and start to use your brain, it stops working 🙈
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Sometimes we just need to let things flow, feel our way from move to move and trust that our body knows what to do. Many times, we wouldn’t consciously know where to put our weight, which leg to bend, how to roll in or how to move, but our body memory does 💪🏼
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Also after weeks of not practicing AcroYoga in a situation like the current one, we can count on our body memory to know more than we do and guide us back into the practice. Isn’t it amazing to have knowledge safely stored in your body without you having to consciously think about it? 🤓 Isn’t it comforting to know that in your own body, in your muscle memory you have an ally? 🥰
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Bodies in communication ✨
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Your body language is the most direct and most honest way of communication. It’s incorruptible. And that’s one thing that makes AcroYoga such an interesting practice. Your body tells us immediately if you are relaxed or tense, in pain or feeling comfortable – no matter what you say. You can tell us “I’m feeling great up here!” but your body might speak a different language.
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Since the body is in full focus (and action) in AcroYoga, existential feelings like fear, tension or comfort come to the surface often and are difficult to hide. With time you learn how to work with these feelings.
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Noticing them in a flyer or base you are practicing with teaches you so much about reading bodies, reacting to them and making people comfortable, and so much of this happens on a non-verbal layer 💛
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