Fly High Yoga: Alleviating Back Pain with Aerial Alignment Therapy
- Pritha Maheswari
- Jul 8
- 4 min read
If you’ve ever experienced back pain from sitting at a desk all day, standing on your feet for hours, or simply from poor posture, you’re not alone. Millions of people around the world suffer from chronic back discomfort, but what if we told you there’s a powerful, uplifting solution hanging just above your head?
For anyone searching for the best yoga studio in Zoetermeer, Mahé Yoga offers a transformative practice—Fly High Yoga—aerial yoga informed by Iyengar alignment, powered by the trademarked FlyHighYoga® Belt. This inventive form of aerial yoga combines fun with effective spinal therapy.
In this blog, we’ll explore what Fly High Yoga is, how it helps with back pain, and why it’s perfect for anyone who spends a lot of time standing or sitting down. Plus, we’ll share why practicing at Mahé Yoga with our experienced yoga teachers makes all the difference.
🪂 What Is Fly High Yoga?
Fly High Yoga is a style of aerial yoga that uses a sturdy yoga belt, suspended from the ceiling, to support and elevate your body during yoga poses. This practice blends traditional yoga postures with elements of suspension training, allowing you to explore movement in a completely new way.
Unlike some other aerial practices that may be more performance-based, Fly High Yoga focuses on alignment, spinal health, and mindful movement. It’s a playful, yet safe and effective way to lengthen the spine, decompress the vertebrae, and build deep core strength all while floating above the floor.
Originating in 2012 in Ubud, Bali under founder José Luis Jiménez, Fly High Yoga is rooted in Iyengar yoga traditions, using a sleek hammock-style belt to support and deepen traditional asanas. The FlyHighYoga® Belt, a parachute-fabric sling with wooden blocks, allows a modular, gravity-enhanced approach to yoga, ideal for both ground-based and aerial poses.
🌿 Why Is Fly High Yoga Good for Your Back?
A major benefit of this practice is spinal decompression. By hanging vertically or inverted, the belt gently elongates the spine, increasing intervertebral space, helping alignment, and reducing back pain. Senior physiotherapist Pascal Steenbakkers explains that using the belt just 10 minutes daily “reduces disc pressure… helps them to rehydrate the disc over time”.
Here’s how Fly High Yoga supports your back health:
1. Effective Inversion Therapy
Unlike bulky inversion tables, the belt offers a fluid, gravity-assisted stretch that cleanses nerves and tissues while increasing circulation .
2. Better Spinal Alignment
Working with gravity, the belt ensures precise posture. The supportive sling aids practitioners in achieving “ideal alignment” safely and playfully .
3. Core Strength & Mobility
Maintaining stability in the belt engages deep core and back muscles, enhancing strength, balance, and flexibility.
4. Increased Range of Motion & Flexibility
Supported stretching and twists are amplified, perfect for releasing tightness from prolonged sitting or standing .
5. Stress Relief & Restoration
The practice naturally encourages relaxation, mindfulness, and easing physical stress, beneficial for back pain triggered by emotional tension
👩💻 Yoga for People Who Sit or Stand All Day
If your job has you sitting at a computer for hours or standing behind a counter all day, your back takes the brunt of it. Over time, this leads to stiffness, fatigue, poor circulation, and often pain.
Here’s why Fly High Yoga is a game-changer for people like you:
Desk workers: Reverses spinal compression and hunching caused by long periods of sitting
Retail or healthcare professionals: Relieves tightness in the lower back and legs caused by standing for extended periods
Parents and caregivers: Offers full-body support and rejuvenation after physical and emotional strain
Athletes or gym-goers: Great for mobility, recovery, and preventing injury through mindful stretching
💡 Why Mahé Yoga in Zoetermeer is the Ideal Choice
Searching for Fly High Yoga with experienced yoga teachers? Here’s why Mahé Yoga is the best yoga studio in Zoetermeer:
Expert guidance: Our instructors are trained in alignment-based aerial yoga and certified in belt safety.
Safety-first approach: We provide clear instruction on belt setup, inversions, and supported transitions, drawing from FlyHighYoga’s recommended practices.
Accessible for all: No prior yoga or aerial experience? No problem; FlyHighYoga is designed to let beginners quickly find proper alignment and begin inversions safely.
Holistic wellbeing: Together with alignment work, we roll in breath, mindfulness, and rest for full-spectrum healing.
✅ Facts About the FlyHighYoga Belt
Made from durable parachute fabric; each belt safely supports 150 kg and dynamic loads.
Includes adjustable ropes and wooden blocks for secure setups under ceilings up to 2.7 m.
Built to last, with a lifetime guarantee on mechanical failure
Easy to install at home, in-studio, outdoors, from beams to trees
🧘♀️ Is Fly High Yoga Right for You?
If you’ve been dealing with:
Lower back pain
Neck and shoulder tension
Postural issues
Stiffness from sitting or standing too long
Stress and mental fatigue
…then Fly High Yoga might be exactly what you need.
📍 Visit Mahé Yoga, The Best Yoga Studio in Zoetermeer
Elevate your back health, posture, and wellbeing with Fly High Yoga at Mahé Yoga. Practice with our experienced yoga teachers and accredited belt technique, and discover why we’re the best yoga studio in Zoetermeer for yoga for your back, yoga for back pain, and yoga tailored for those who stand or sit all day.
✨ Book your class today and float into relief. ✨
Join us on Fly High Yoga every Tuesday at 19.00 - 20.00.
📍 Dorpsstraat 115s, Zoetermeer
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