Hi, I am Marc and I am often found hanging out in the air as I teach a relatively new, wonderful and unique form of Aerial Yoga known by some as Yoga Trapeze and what I call Hang Out Yoga. I began my yoga journey in 2012 when I started to practice regularly a style of yoga known as Iyengar, which has a big focus on alignment and actively holding poses for prolonged periods of time to understand them better. Having that as my foundation I then started to explore other types of yoga and finally discovered Aerial Yoga in 2013.
In early 2017, I became the apprentice of Richard Holroyd founder of Aerial Yoga London in Whitechapel and now known as Teaching Aerial Yoga. That Summer I travelled to San Deigo to qualify as a Yoga Trapeze Instructor training under the guidance of Yoga Body Founder Lucas Rockwood. In the same year I deepened my knowledge of Aerial Yoga undertaking training with Gravotonics lead instructor Karen Finck. At the end of 2017, I devised the Hang Out Yoga with the aim to further evolve and develop the understanding of this type of Aerial Yoga. I have also completed a 200-Hr mat based yoga training with The Life Cente’s educational arm YOGACAMPUS submitting a 5,000 essay on the Benefits of Aerial Yoga as my final written assignment.
Yoga for me has been the silver lining I got out of having several injuries sustained to my body over the years. I stepped on to the mat because I suffered from chronic issues caused by an old clavicle (collarbone) break and then flew into the air because of tearing a ligament in my wrist. Not only did I find that the pulling and grabbing in Aerial Yoga helped strengthen my posterior chain, upper body strength and also rehabilitate my wrist injury allowing me to go back on the mat; I also found it really helped relieve tension and issues caused by my clavicle injury and bad shoulder by rebalancing my body strength for the better and more equally. Therefore, if it was not for these injuries I am unsure if I would have discovered this path and I am grateful for now being able to help my students discover this practice and its benefits like I did.