The AntiGravity ®Aerial Yoga and Restorative Yoga are particularly popular with spas such as those at the Four Seasons in Bahrain, Bali, Sayan and the Maldives. It’s available in over 400 facilities, including 20 high-end spas, in 50 countries. It’s approved by numerous safety and fitness organisations and includes seven programmes ranging from suspension fitness and pilates to those for children. Two decades on, AntiGravity® Fitness has, for want of a better saying, really taken off. He realised that by using its support, he could also go deeper into a pose and the possibilities were endless. By putting the hammock at the same height as a ballet barre, he started adapting different moves from other disciplines such as pilates, aerial arts, gymnastics and dance. It also had health and fitness benefits as an exercise device. The silk fabric of the Harrison AntiGravity® Hammock, acted like a soft trapeze to suspend the body during yoga and help with alignment. To help eliminate compression on the spine even further, Harrison began experimenting with a hammock he’d originally created for stage performances which has been used by artists such as Britney Spears and Mariah Carey. The one way to decompress in our society is through practising yoga.” I discovered the best way to deal with compression injuries is decompression. “As a gymnast and a dancer who’d performed in Cats, I’d pushed my body so hard it was so beat up by 33. “I gained a meditation practice and discovered that things started to flow easier because I could let go of the frantic energy of living in New York City,” he says. It helped him to become more mindful and present in his life and movement. Harrison began practising yoga after visiting India in the mid-90s. His mission is to spread health and happiness through movement and spas are very much on his radar – in fact, the spa-like discipline of yoga is really where it all started. The restorative form of yoga has become famous for its zero-compression inversions using a silk hammock and has gained a huge following from celebrities like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow to martial arts athletes and professional skiers. Harrison is also the creator of AntiGravity® Aerial Yoga, one of the seven techniques which sit under the umbrella of AntiGravity® Fitness. Since then, he’s designed over 400 aerial productions in settings as diverse as Broadway, Olympic stadiums and the inauguration of President Obama. Christopher Harrison, founder of AntiGravity®Ĭhristopher Harrison is a man whose feet rarely touch the ground.Ī world-class gymnast and Broadway dancer, he founded the entertainment brand AntiGravity® in New York in 1991.
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