The Creator of the Method

The Origins

AeroYoga® is a holistic personal development method created over 20 years ago by Rafael Martinez (a graduate of the Natha Yoga school of the Fédération Française des Ecoles de Yoga), which draws inspiration from both traditional Natha Yoga and Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine), as well as more recent wellness techniques such as Pilates, the Alexander method, Conceptual Fitness, dance and the visual arts.

Rafael Martinez is also a graduate of the Beaux Arts in Valencia and Paris. Rafael Martinez has over 30 years' experience. He has also developed two other methods, AeroFitness® and AeroPilates®, which are closely related to Aeroyoga®.

AeroYoga® exercises are performed in the hammock, equipped with stirrups of three different lengths, enabling you to practice yoga postures in total or partial weightlessness. AeroYoga® is accessible to all, and has been developed in collaboration with yoga and Pilates teachers, physiotherapists, osteopaths, psychologists, artists, coaches and others.

Breathing is the foundation in the AeroYoga® method, because conscious breathing enables us to achieve greater concentration and to be anchored in the present. At the same time, it offers the experience of feeling partially weightless, depending on the exercise and level.

AeroYoga® is innovative in that it is suitable for everyone, and offers three different levels of difficulty. Depending on the exercise, you maintain contact with the ground, while using your body weight and suspension to go further in the stretching exercises. All this combines fitness and pleasure.

From the Origins to Aeroyoga

Since ancient times, one of man's dreams has been precisely to free himself from the bonds of his body's weight.

Yoga in the air (aerial yoga) as such has its origins in India, and its philosophical basis has the same origins as those of yoga.

The fakirs, for example, who were extreme yogis and masters of spiritual experimentation through the body and breath, were already using ropes, fabrics made from plant fibers to suspend their whole body or specific parts, such as arms or legs.

Hundreds of years ago, venerable masters were already working on the concept of weightlessness (and even levitation). More recently, in the 20th century, master Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (known as: Iyengar Yoga) also practiced yoga in the air, with the help of swings, fabrics and harnesses.

Aeroyoga® by Rafael Martínez, on the other hand, is the first registered aerial yoga method inspired by Natha Yoga (ancestral yoga) and Ayurveda (older medicine still applied and studied in India today) as well as more modern techniques such as pilates, the Alexander method, conceptual fitness, dance and the visual arts.

Hence the originality of Aeroyoga® (conceptual fitness), a genuine coaching program for personal, mental and physical growth.