How Aerial Yoga Is Taught Worldwide | AntiGravity Man Flycast Ep. 5 ft Darlene Casanova

In this episode my guest is Darlene Casanova, AntiGravity's Director of Training and Curriculum and one of my oldest friends. Darlene and I met in college more than forty years ago, she the star of the dance program, me a gymnast learning to move. We both went on to Broadway and international stages, and years later she became the first AntiGravity licensee in the country outside New York and the person who shaped the technique into a method the whole world could learn. She joins me from our newest studio, AntiGravity Lab NOLA in New Orleans. We get into all of it. How we built the AntiGravity movement vocabulary together in a borrowed gym at night. How she took a method born from champion gymnasts and made it accessible to every body, of every age. Creating AntiGravity Just Kids from watching children play. What it really means to be the caretaker of a technique, so that a class in one country teaches the same thing as a class on the other side of the world. And why, after four decades, she still believes the work is about the process, not the product. If you already know AntiGravity, welcome home. If you are new, welcome aboard. Hidden in the force that pulls us down is the energy to lift us up. Fly high. Find a class, a studio, or instructor training at antigravityfitness.com About Darlene Casanova Darlene Casanova is AntiGravity's Director of Training and Curriculum. A former Broadway performer and choreographer with a master's degree from NYU, she was the first AntiGravity licensee in the United States outside New York and co-created AntiGravity Just Kids. For years she has trained instructors around the world and safeguarded the technique so that AntiGravity is taught the same way everywhere it is practiced. About Christopher Harrison Christopher Harrison is a Broadway performer, producer, director, and choreographer whose career spans hundreds of theatrical productions, from original Broadway shows to the Olympic Games. A former world-class competitive gymnast, he founded AntiGravity Inc. in 1991, created the Harrison AntiGravity Hammock, and pioneered AntiGravity Yoga, the first complete program in suspension training. #AntiGravityFitness #AntiGravityMan #AerialYoga #InstructorTraining #Podcast #Community