Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Hours: 10:00am-12:00pm (noon) Eastern USA time zone (UTC -4)
Instructor: Michelle Dortignac
Location: Online Interactive Livestream Workshop
Education Investment: $50
Workshop Recording: INCLUDED
Send questions to: [email protected]
Can’t make the workshop? Don’t fret! Enroll anyway, and you’ll receive the workshop recording.
Reinforce the “yoga” in your aerial yoga!
Workshop Overview
Surya Namaskar, otherwise known as Sun Salutations, is a well-recognized part of modern yoga classes. Graceful and dance-like, the movements flow in time with the breath’s rhythm. Frequently used at the beginning of a yoga class as an important warm up for our main muscles and joints, Surya Namaskar centers the mind and prepares the body for the stretching and strengthening of the yoga postures (asanas) that follow.
What You Will Get Out of This Workshop (Benefits & Goals)
In this workshop, you’ll learn the purpose and effect of the different parts of a Sun Salutation, and how we can integrate use of the yoga hammock into the Sun Salutation to enhance our experience. Learn eight different Sun Salutation sequences, placing the hammock at different points along the body, and using its support in different ways, to achieve a variety of effects.
Incorporate Surya Namaskar at the beginning of your aerial yoga classes, and you’ll enhance all the benefits and the fun!
Brief History of Surya Namaskar
As with anything that derives from a mostly oral tradition, there is some debate on the roots of Surya Namaskar, and the dates of when it arose. It’s connection to yoga asana classes is most commonly attributed to Krishnamacharya only as early as the 1930’s, not even 100 years ago! Considering none of the positions that make up Surya Namaskar are described in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the ancient guidebook for hatha yoga, it would seem the practice is more of a modern adaptation. Even so, movement sequences like the sun salutation were used in various contexts (perhaps more spiritual, as opposed to physical fitness) as far back as the 12th century BCE. Therein lies the debate – a lot depends on if you see yoga as more of a physical fitness practice, or a spiritual practice.
Whether or not your yoga practice is to develop physical fitness, or spiritual connection, we can use the yoga hammock to enhance your experience of Surya Namaskar.
“I have done a few aerial yoga trainings, but none have given me the technique and approach to yoga that I was looking for, until I found Unnata.”
Alejandra F., Mallorca, Spain
Enroll In This Workshop
Can’t make the workshop? Don’t fret! Enroll anyway, and you’ll receive the workshop recording.
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. 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 entire genre of aerial yoga. She is an E-RYT 500 certified Yoga instructor of over 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.
