Our mission at AIReal Yoga®

Built on the foundations of Hatha Yoga and Cirque performance, AIReal is an elevated practice of unique experiences, profound connections, and passionate community. Our principles are simple: your practice should be expansive, instructive, and fun. Our mission is to ensure that each journey into your hammock opens up new inquiries of self-exploration and personal growth.

Resting in Savasana in a hammock outdoors among orange trees.
A practitioner arches back in a suspended pose, reaching overhead along the hammock.
A practitioner presses her palms into the mat with one leg extended overhead in the hammock.
A performer suspended horizontally outdoors extends both arms.

How AIReal Yoga® began

After her first child was born, Carmen Curtis lowered the hammock she had used as a professional aerial performer. Close to the floor, the fabric could steady a standing balance or support a restful pose. That change shaped how she teaches with the hammock today.

Meet Carmen Curtis, founder of AIReal Yoga®, or experience the practice in a free class.

There is a sacred magic
that occurs in the hammock:

Still the mind. Balance the body.
Calm the nervous system.

Find healing and peace.
Restoration and support.

Develop compassion.
Connect with others.

Surrender to movement
and expression.

Defy gravity.

Let go and let the hammock
hold and support you.

You are safe, you are light,
you are loved.

An inverted practitioner brings the soles of her feet together between the fabric.
Yoga Alliance
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)

The AIReal Yoga™ teaching method, satisfies my nurturing side by building trust with my students and assisting them to attain poses they might not otherwise achieve without the support of the hammock, and it satisfies the yoga teacher in me because it truly is yoga, REAL yoga.

AIReal Teacher

I finally finished the training, it was quite a volume of incredibly helpful tips, tricks, expertise, knowledge and wisdom.

AIReal Member

Being trained in something not quite yet mainstream. People are curious. By talking to me about AIReal, we create a bond.

AIReal Member