INTRODUCTION

By Jason Nemer, creator of “The Tao of AcroYoga: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Movement“

I’ve had the dignity and pleasure of uncovering and distilling the follow of AcroYoga since 2003. As AcroYoga passes its twentieth birthday, I’m proud to say it has turn into a world motion with tens of millions of practitioners on each continent. The publication of my first ebook, Transfer, Join, Play: The Artwork and Science of AcroYoga, was an enormous accomplishment in my lifelong mission to develop the worldwide AcroYoga group to at least one billion practitioners. With 2000 licensed lecturers in over 60 counties, we’re off to an excellent begin. I see a world the place folks that don’t share phrases in frequent can discover pleasure in lifting each other up. I select to stay in a world the place we play video games with one another as a result of it grows the oldest human forex, belief.

Since I began writing that first ebook in 2019, I’ve been steadily creating superior yoga sequences, acrobatic flying transitions, and different philosophical gems from learning historic practices that I’ve not shared till now. The Tao of AcroYoga presents these new practices, accompanied by philosophies drawn from my life expertise and research of the Tao Te Ching This ebook will increase your capability to stability, nourish, and develop your self, your relationships, and your communities. The Tao of AeroYoga is a coaching handbook that provides numerous pathways right into a deeper expertise of the current second. Right here, within the current, there are extra alternatives for pleasure, connection, and heightened stares of consciousness ready for you.

AcroYoga’s physicality could be very apparent. AcroYoga is a merging of acrobatics, therapeutics, and yoga that provides simple health advantages. Past its bodily advantages, it additionally supplies a big selection of life classes that embody components of want, concern, belief, accomplishment, battle, and teamwork. By way of all my expertise instructing and creating this follow, it’s abundantly clear to me–its true worth lies in deepening our humanity by way of the unmistakable energy of reference to others. This permits us to be current with each other’s items and challenges. The gems we are able to all unearth are interior stability and a grounded self-knowing, the need and abilities to nourish others, and the capability to develop group by way of play.

There are a lot of pearls of knowledge that any particular person can learn and revel in on this ebook with none prior expertise or understanding of AcroYoga. That stated, because the sequel to Transfer, Join, Play, I wrote chis ebook to increase upon the teachings and instruments coated there. This ebook is analogous in that it’s progressive, sensible, and inspirational. After a long time of learning motion and therapeutic arts, I’m so excited to share how these historic practices have modified my life and hope they supply profit co your life by increasing your information and talent of AcroYoga. The foundational practices outlined in Transfer, Join, Play will put together you to benefit from the intermediate and superior practices derailed right here. Limitless growth awaits as you soak up the rules and mix the practices of AcroYoga in your individual manner, with companions, and with the worldwide AcroYoga group.

This ebook is organized by three particular motion traditions char type the roots of AcroYoga: acrobatics, therapeutics, and yoga. It additionally attracts closely on the knowledge of Taoism and the associated motion practices of Qigong, infused with the inspiration of circus arcs for the extroverts and performers on the market.

Part I, Steadiness, focuses on practices involved primarily with the self: hatha yoga, Qigong, and calisthenics. Part II, Nourish, focuses on practices char join us to ochers by way of the therapeutic arcs of therapeutic flying and Thai therapeutic massage. It is stuffed with therapeutic ideas and philosophies from conventional Chinese language and Indian ayurvedic medication. Part III, Develop, expands the lens even additional to incorporate fostering group by way of historic circus arts lineages. There are three ranges of flying transitions, an acrobatic sequence known as flight faculty, and progressions to standing acrobatics to maintain the joys seekers progressing towards their dream abilities. The paranormal practices that inform this ebook have given me numerous instruments to turn into a grasp of movement, to make buddies with folks from many alternative walks of life, and to be, on common, an especially wholesome, pleased human.

There are a lot of self-help books full of data to study, soak up, after which activate in your life. Whereas this ebook can help you in these methods, these pages will pose questions that lead you to not know, to unlearn, and empty your self from outdated, stale knowledge that’s not related. Letting go of our attachment of needing to know is central to Taoist teachings. If some new concepts on this ebook don’t make sense at first or if you end up scratching your head every now and then, that’s good–which means it’s working! I invite you to suppose much less and really feel extra. Let go of who you’ve been to permit your self to turn into a extra current, grounded, empowered, and versatile model of you. All of it begins with a really brief ebook written in China a protracted, very long time in the past.