VAYU Aerial Yoga® & Ana Prada

Philosophy

Vayu Aerial Yoga® is an active restorative practice, that helps and allows people to connect and open their body in a gentle, organic way. 

The Vayu Swing is a support system and tool used to
mobilize and unglue the connective tissue. The swing is also used as a therapeutic tool creating space, alignment, and deep connection within the body.

Through specific articulation of movement we incorporate lengthening , stretching fascially and in opposition to create a connected strong , flexible and mobile body.

The Vayu practice takes the body to a much deeper level. Using the support of the swing we are able to challenge the body moving through various postures, as well as allowing the nervous system to relax, encouraging a letting go into complete surrender.

Inverting the body while suspended in the air not only provides many physical benefits such as spinal decompression, it also expands the mind by creating confidence, overcoming fear and allowing a change in the standard physical perception. 

We are able to explore this new-found freedom and awaken our inner child bringing a playful light energy to our hearts. It is truly the experience of a floating meditation.

ANA PRADA

DANCER, AERIALIST, CHOREOGRAPHER, TEACHER

Ana Prada  was born and raised in Colombia. She’s an aerial dancer and yoga practitioner since 1998. She studied contemporary dance in New York City, where she started to explore aerial apparatuses like dance trapeze and rope. She then moved to Montreal where she specialized in aerial silks and hoop. Ana has worked with companies and shows like La Esquina Desplazada, Triknia dance company, Colombia, Cirque du Soleil, “El despertar de la Serpiente” for the Expo 2008 in Spain, the show ‘Ulalena (Maui, Hawaii) working as an acrobat, dancer, and aerial coach.  She also has developed her own solo work, presented in different festivals and venues. 


She developed the Vayu Aerial Yoga® system through her movement journey and her studies,  Yoga (since 1998) , She’s a GYROKINESIS®, GYROTONIC® certified trainer and Pre-trainer, Dancer, Aerial Dancer and Craniosacral therapy practitioner. All of these movement methods, as well as her experience in the Air, as a Performer and Aerial dance teacher, for the last 22 years and her own movement and somatic research influence and are part of this work.

 

She has applied all of this knowledge to the Aerial Dance technique creating a project called "The Sustainable Body Project". 


She has shared her talents performing and teaching at many different studios in Montreal, Costa Rica, Brazil and also at several international workshops and festivals like ADF in Boulder, Colorado, EADF in UK (European Aerial Dance Festival) , Les Rencontres de Danse Aérienne - France, Air to Floor Aerial Dance festival in Santa Barbara and workshops in places such as Hawaii, British Virgin Islands, Greece, Miami, Brazil, Costa Rica and Colombia. 



In 2017 Ana was delighted to receive the Roser Grant –Artist in Residence from the dance department at the University of Colorado in Boulder, teaching and choreographing with her Aerial Approach to the Grad students of the program.


In her work, she is always interested in finding a deeper balance and real organic connection: “aerial roots” to be grounded wherever she goes. 


Now she lives in Montezuma, Costa Rica where she continues her research in Aerial Movement, practices Craniosacral therapy and teaches intensive workshops, teacher trainings and master classes. 


Ana Prada Website

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