Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Hours: 10:00am-12:30pm Eastern USA time zone (UTC -4)
Location: Online Interactive Livestream Course
Education Investment: $65
Course Recording: INCLUDED
Extras: Supporting Materials (pdf) + 1 Guided Class from our archives (on demand video) + option to receive completion certificate
Send questions to: [email protected]
Can’t make the livestream? Don’t fret! Enroll anyway, and you’ll receive the course recording.
“Unlock” Your Potential!
Workshop Overview
The Sanskrit word “bandha” is frequently translated as “lock” due to how bandhas affect the energy body when applied. Even though the word is rarely used in beginner yoga classes, students of any experience level can learn these specific ways to use our deep abdominal and core muscles, and use them to support practice and progress towards yoga. Learn what physical action(s) create a bandha, why bandhas are important to a yoga practice, how to use aerial yoga to access them, and when to use them.
Students describe this course as “revealing, informative, educational.”
Long-lasting Benefits From This Workshop
Traditionally, bandhas are used for energetic purposes – to retain energy and to increase vitality. In addition, they have positive physical benefits such as: improving posture, developing core strength, and assisting digestion.
What Is Hatha Yoga, Anyway?
Most people attend yoga classes to improve their physical fitness without realizing the original purpose for the yoga postures. The intense focus on deep breathing while practicing yoga postures was originally meant to balance our autonomic nervous system, which helps our minds be uncolored by thoughts arising out of stress, anxiety, fear, anger, sadness, or any array of emotions that push us into (and sometimes get us stuck in) the fight-flight-freeze instinct. Balancing our autonomic nervous system improves our overall health (both mind and body), which brings us closer to inner peace.
No matter what the goal of your yoga practice, we can use the yoga hammock to support and enhance your experience.
Catherine M., MN, USA
Enroll In Unlocking Yoga Locks (Yoga Bandhas)
Unnata® Aerial Yoga is the original aerial yoga method created by a yogi, for students (and teachers) who love yoga. The Unnata method weaves use of the hammock into a traditional Hatha Yoga class to enhance and refine a traditional floor yoga practice. Considered more of a “hammock assisted” yoga class than an “aerial” yoga class, students unwind old physical patterns, reset their body’s true alignment, and learn deeper body awareness in multi-dimensional space. Unnata Yoga classes ground as much as elevate, and balance both earth and air.
Unnata is real Yoga, elevated.
Michelle Dortignac, founder of Unnata® Aerial Yoga, is credited with developing the aerial yoga approach to hatha yoga. She is an E-RYT 500 certified Yoga instructor of over 27 years, while during a large portion of those years also performing aerial acrobatics professionally. Her most influential Yoga teachers include Dharma Mittra, Alan Finger, Cyndi Lee, Susan Braham and Nishit Patel.
Since its inception in 2006, Unnata Aerial Yoga led the growth of popularity and the continued development of aerial yoga. Today, Unnata Yoga online courses and workshops focus on helping aerial yoga students and teachers learn how to use the yoga hammock as a tool to reinforce traditional yoga techniques proven to improve one’s physical and mental health.
