Best Aerial Yoga Classes in Milwaukee, WI

Like all forms of yoga, Alignment Based Yoga combines physical postures, breath-work and meditation. This practice specializes in making postures accessible to all through the use of clear instruction and progression, props as learning tools and modifications to classic yoga poses. The props (such as blocks, chairs, belts and bolsters) provide support and help students balance, stretch, strengthen and attain alignment in each pose. The attention to detail and cultivation of awareness is meant to not only maintain physical safety in the practice, but to develop the mental benefits of a complete meditation in action. No two classes are ever the same. The emphasis is on learning, not just doing, so students can fully absorb the process and gain a more in-depth understanding of yoga, and themselves!

You do not need to be flexible, strong, fit or young to practice yoga. Yoga begins from where you are now. Through gradual, intelligent practice over time, yoga will promote flexibility, strength and balance. But these are only the physical benefits. The practice of yoga helps us develop mental focus and poise, as well as emotional peace and serenity. These benefits are available to everyone at every age. People come to CCY with differing levels of experience, but there is room for everyone. We are ALL learning.

No, Alignment Based Yoga classes are a safe place to begin practicing regardless of your fitness level. The yoga postures are modified to meet the individual needs of each student. Since we work with strengthening postural muscles responsible for healthy anatomical alignment, new students can quickly experience increased energy and general well-being. The emphasis on precise postural alignment provides opportunities and challenges for students of all fitness levels and all are welcome.

Yoga is a philosophy, not a religion. Though it does have a spiritual component, it is practiced by individuals of widely differing beliefs and any and all people are welcome at CCY. Yoga simply asks you to have an experience: to believe in the possibility that we can transform ourselves; that there is always more to learn; that there is a better way to approach life than old habits that may hold us back. At the heart of yoga is the openness to see we have not yet tapped into our highest potential as human beings, and the practice seeks to put us in touch with our spiritual core, our innermost nature, that which, or who, we truly are.