Break Free: Yoga Tools to Reduce Anger, Fear and Sadness

Course Leader: Michelle Dortignac
Language: English

Date: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Hours: 10:00am-1:00pm (10:00-13:00) Eastern USA time zone (UTC -4)
Location: Online (Livestream Course)
Education Investment: $90 ($20 refunded to those who participate in the livestream)
Workshop Recording: INCLUDED
Extras: Supporting Materials (pdf) + 1 Guided Class from our archives (on demand video)
Send questions to: [email protected]

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Long Term Benefits

The information you will learn in this course will serve you throughout your entire life, no matter what life events you experience. And even though we will practice aerial yoga during this course, knowledge on how to balance emotions comes directly from classic Hatha yoga. Therefore, the information can also be applied when practicing yoga postures without a hammock, at any flexibility and strength level.

Course Overview

This course will focus on three of our most common unpleasant emotions – anger, fear, and sadness. You will:

  • learn what those emotions are from a yoga energy perspective, and
  • what aerial yoga positions and techniques you can do to bring your emotions back to a neutral state.
  • Practice three basic class sequences, meant to balance each of the three emotions we will study, and
  • learn how to blend the various parts of the three distinct classes into a balance suited for your own needs.

What You Will Gain From This Course (Benefits & Goals)

Emotions are an integral part of the human experience, and by the time we become adults, we have learned that we will experience many different emotions over the span of a day, as we interact with, and react to our environment. Pleasant, or unpleasant, emotions are ephemeral and don’t last.

But, what if they stick around? What if they last long enough to foster negative thoughts and opinions which then color our outlook on life, affecting the choices we make on how to live and actions to take?

In those instances, the mind has become trapped.

This course will teach you techniques to counterbalance negative emotions that are sticking around too long, so that you can break free into a fresh, new outlook.

“I love Unnata deeply. And, I have learned so much about myself and improved my teaching in all things, not just aerial [yoga].”

Megan T., Sacramento, CA, USA

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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 “supported” 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 genre. She is an E-RYT 500 certified Yoga instructor of 25+ years, while during a large portion of those years also being a professional aerial acrobatics performer. 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 the Unnata Aerial Yoga Teacher Training program is world renowned for its high standards, high-quality training. Participants receive large amounts of personalized instruction, and graduates receive a great amount of continuing support.