I, a 300-lb Woman, Tried Aerial Yoga This Is What Went Down (Spoiler: Not Me!)
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As a native New Yorker, I can tell you that New Yorkers give everything we re exposed to a bit of a side-eye before we trust it. That idea certainly applies to my relationship with aerial yoga. For me, someone who s practiced other linages of yoga for over 10 years, I always saw aerial yoga as something that just wasn t meant for me.
I weigh more than 300 pounds, so seeing a lightweight piece of fabric dangling from the ceiling does not look safe to me in any way. Even after years of googling, I ve found that most aerial yoga studios list their weight capacity as 250 pounds. The weight capacity issue along with my personal fear of heights led me to believe that I d always watch others take flight. That is, until I saw that Power Plus Wellness was hosting a curvy aerial yoga class. Organized by Jessie Diaz and Madeline Jones (whom I ve worked with in the past), Power Plus Wellness is a communi