Yoga swing color choices: Black, Silver, Midnight Blue, Purple, Turquoise.
Welcome to your yoga swing source for trustworthy sales, experienced instruction, and yoga swing bodywork. I’ve sold over 40 swings on Ebay, Amazon, and my website and have 100% positive feedback. My gratitude for how the swing has improved my health inspires me to continue selling at discounted prices and teach many people how to use it. Please take your time reading and researching. I choose to take it as a compliment that other web sellers are copying my web content for their own sites. Even if you don’t buy through this site, I hope you’ll sign up for my blog’s occasional emails. Please let me know how I can help.
Welcome to your yoga swing source for trustworthy sales, experienced instruction, and yoga swing bodywork. I’ve sold over 40 swings on Ebay, Amazon, and my website and have 100% positive feedback. My gratitude for how the swing has improved my health inspires me to continue selling at discounted prices and teach many people how to use it. Please take your time reading and researching. I choose to take it as a compliment that other web sellers are copying my web content for their own sites. Even if you don’t buy through this site, I hope you’ll sign up for my blog’s occasional emails. Please let me know how I can help.
Yoga Swing Features
- Highest quality parachute nylon swing
- Fairly made in Bali
- Functions as a hammock
- Below retail pricing
The Yoga Swing is a uniquely versatile, adjustable and comfortable exercise system that, given it's graceful lines, is aesthetically pleasing in the living room or on the lanai. Depending on your needs and intention, it is a relaxing restorative yoga prop as well as a progressive strengthening tool. An experience of complete support, weightlessness and ease, similar to floating, swimming or being cradled, is possible given the simple yet elegant design, conscientious craftsmanship and quality materials. The silky parachute fabric, stainless steel hooks and comfort grip handles enable you to explore any yoga posture, dance position, playfully therapeutic movement or stretch -- at any angle vertically, horizontally or fully inverted. Best of all, the Yoga Swing encourages a lot of creativity and fun both indoors and out for men, women, and kids, too.
Swing Specifications
- 1 parachute nylon swing/hammock with 6mm stainless steel S hooks and triple stitched seams, mostly two ply fabric, approx. 2.5 meters long
- Set of two parachute fabric handles/stirrups with three pairs of foam rubber grips grips at three lengths
- Nylon straps (6mm) for adjustable swing height
- Matching parachute nylon draw string carry sack
- Overall Weight of Swing, handles and adjustment ropes = about 3 pounds; 1.4 kg
- Maximum suspension weight = This depends upon installation. Swings have been tested up to 500 pounds
- Machine washable
- Variety of colors available
- Fairly made in Bali, Indonesia by Gravotonics, low volume and high quality.
- Note that similar swings for sale on the web sell for $199 and are made in China out of recycled fabric.
- 1 year guarantee
- Special orders and wholesale pricing available
Yoga Swing Potential
- Inversion therapy
- Relaxation and meditation practice
- Restful inverted position for reading, journaling, texting, surfing the web, playing with baby
- Hammock time
- Self bodywork and partner bodywork
- Acrosage: inverted partner massage
- Spinal/pelvic traction swing
- Muscle and joint rehab
- Core strengthening
- PC muscle strengthener and mula bandha enhancer
- Resistance strength training
- Home and travel gym for bodyweight training
- Playful workout for homebound parents and kids (not for bouncing or swinging back and forth)
- Partner yoga
- Aerial yoga
- Antigravity yoga
- Acroyoga training
- Acrobatic and gymnastic training
- Tantra swing for aerial intimacy
- Silk dancer training
- Replaces inversion table and inversion boots
Yoga Swing Benefits
- The brain rush of inversions and the deep bodywork accessible in the swing offer an unparalleled natural high. It feels really good.
- Get your body back or better than ever: the all over toning and anti-gravity effects of the swing help your body look and feel its best. You may still want to go to yoga or pilates class, but you won't have to.
- Improved brain functioning due to increased blood flow
- Improved blood circulation and lymphatic drainage
- Improved digestion and elimination
- Relaxation, relaxation, relaxation upside down or in the hammock
- Rehab your tired and poor joints and connective tissues, your huddled masses of muscles yearning to breathe free
- Unpack your back! Unfurl your spine. Spinal decompression for freedom from pain. Bonus: you can grow taller.
- The variable length handles give your arms and legs wings. Take flight!
- Improved body-mind coordination
- Skeletal alignment and postural correction
- Elevated mood and balanced hormones
- Beauty and grace that results from ease in a body
- Freedom to work out at home or take it outside, to the park, on vacation, the campground, the beach, etc. It's minimal weight and comfy hammock potential makes it the perfect backpack companion.
My Yoga Swing Story
The yoga swing has changed my body and my life for the better. I decided to retail it and teach yoga swing therapy so that other people could benefit as well. Even though I practice yoga and live an active, health conscious lifestyle, I still experienced chronic low back pain, sciatica and other unpleasantness stemming from an old injury and lack of awareness. I had tried an inversion swing for the first time back in 1999 when I moved to Maui and my back felt cleared out afterwards. Fast forward 10 years and I finally got serious about buying a swing. My first thought was to get the padded sling style that has been available for years. Internet searches kept pulling up this parachute fabric yoga swing with handles made in Bali. It looked a bit over the top, but I liked the idea of more lightweight portability. The initial investment was steep because I bought from Bali and the price was quite high. But it did not take long to prove to myself that this swing is totally worth it. I’ve tried the other kinds and they can’t touch the parachute swing’s versatility. By the time hubby (thanks Michael!) got the swing installed, my hips had been killing me for months. Even though I did yoga daily and received ongoing chiropractic and bodywork, I was still hurting big time...at the end of my rope so to speak. I started out hanging upside down in the diamond leg position with soles of feet together for a few minutes morning and night. The inverted position with hips supported helped to traction my spine and pelvis. My body’s response was somewhat less pain. After a couple months of regular use and increased duration, I had significantly less pain. My back used to “go out” a couple times a year, but after a year of swinging, I am low back pain free. Now I use the swing for maintenance and ongoing rehab. I figured out that the core of my low back/pelvis/hip issue was tight iliopsoas muscles that connect the lumbar spine to the legs via the pelvis. While hanging in the swing, I could palpate and massage the psoas, helping the muscles release and lengthen. It has become clear that not only did I need to stretch muscles, connective tissue, and joints, but I also needed to strengthen. The swing helps me develop supple connective tissue around the hips and sacrum. I use the swing to practice handstands, which builds strength and balance and rehabs my trick shoulder. I appreciate the access and ability to engage in an superior workout at home on my schedule. Since I live rural, taking classes or driving somewhere to workout is not feasible. My daily practice now depends on time available. I like 10 minutes as a minimum, and 45 minutes for an enjoyable, full body workout. I'll pop in for a few minutes whenever I can to discharge tension and relax.
Yoga Swing Installation
The first thing to decide is where to hang the swing. Consider these requirements:
- Swing must be hung high enough that when standing, the swing saddle hangs just above the bottom crease of your booty. At this height, when you invert, your head will easily clear the floor with room to spare.
- Swing should be hung from hooks just a couple inches wider than shoulder width apart.
- Give your swing 3 feet of clearance from walls if possible. But don’t worry if you need to hang in a double wide doorway – that is where my indoor swing hangs and I actually like the walls for resistance. Note: a regular doorway is too narrow.
Three things to buy depending on your needs:
- 2 climbing carabiners for ease of moving your swing around
- Eye bolts (tie in with ropes or clip in with carabiners)
- Additional strong rope depending on ceiling and branch height
Indoors: Install eye bolts in ceiling hidden support beams. Throw the swing ropes over exposed beams/rafters. Install eye bolts in the doorframe of a doorway. Click for a video showing installation in doorway.
Outdoors: Hang the swing from playground equipment bars with carabiners or a strong tree branch with rope. Install eye bolts to overhead structures on your porch/patio/deck/lanai/gazebo. Use a portable rack designed for swing use.
Other sites that offer installation tips: http://gravotonics.com/installation.html, http://omgym.com/setup/
Safety is the number one priority. It is normal to feel somewhat uneasy when you begin to practice inversions...the biggest fear is to fall on your head. I put a pillow under my head at first. It is safest to always have a pad underneath the swing while in use. Be assured that the more you practice, the more comfortable you will become being upside down.
Yoga Swing Use
It is worth repeating…Safety is the number one priority. Inspect support beams/limbs for structural integrity before every use. Inspect ropes and straps for integrity. Make sure fabric is intact without any uneven wear, fraying or loose stitching. Check handles. Check hooks. Do not leave swing outside exposed to weather. Do not bounce or swing back and forth. Do not wear zippers or anything sharp, or anything slippery, like nylon.
If you’ve never used an inversion swing or seen it used, first go online and search for videos and images. A private lesson or classes with an experienced teacher like me is ideal. The first time you use it, have someone standing by, in case assistance is required to get out of the swing, or if health problems are experienced. Wear comfortable, stretchy clothing. Plan to progress slowly, starting with light levels of inversion. The face turning red is normal. People new to inversions may experience pressure in their head, which lessens over time with practice. Once you’ve mastered the basic inversion, you can continue expanding your comfort zone with infinite postures and variations.
Basic Back Bend Inversion:
- With the swing hanging behind you, the horizontal swing fabric (saddle) should be an inch or so above the bottom edge of your booty. Stand on your tip toes or hold onto the highest handles and hop up so that the bottom edge of the saddle snugs across the lowest part of your booty (gluteal fold) and the upper edge of the saddle is at the upper edge of posterior pelvis (top of sacrum).
- It will take some practice to get into the inversion with the saddle fabric in the right place. If it bunches up or twists, simply come up, adjust the fabric, and try again.
- Hold on to the handles or to the vertical swing fabric and lean back. Bring your legs up and wider than the vertical swing fabric. Bend your knees and wrap your lower legs around the vertical swing fabric so that the soles of your feet come close together in front of the straps. The fabric saddle supports your pelvis completely and the fabric lies securely across your inner thighs.
- Let go of the handles and recline into a full 180 degree inversion. Your arms can hang and touch the floor, or cross your arms and hold opposite elbows. Relax and breathe.
- The most basic way to transition out is to come up the way you went in. Reach up your hands to hold onto vertical fabric or handles, gently and slowly lift your torso up as you separate your feet, unwrap your legs, and lower your legs.
- Pause once you’ve come upright and sit in the swing for a few breaths to acclimate to the full upright position. Rest for a few minutes before moving about.
Contraindications
- As with yoga, avoid practicing after eating.
- If there is ever pain, discontinue the movement and rest.
- Women sometimes avoid inversions during menstruation.
- Inversions are not recommended for folks with sinus congestion, untreated high blood pressure, heart disease, eye diseases (such as glaucoma), imminent migraine, pregnancy, or any other concern or condition that warrants a doctor’s care.
Shipping: Shipping within the United States: $12.00, via USPS parcel post. Allow up to 7 days to the west coast and up to 12 days to HI or AK. Swings available for pick up in Middle Tennessee. Send an email for a shipping quote outside the US.
Returns Policy: Please be certain that you want the swing as all swings deserve a loving home and returns are not accepted. I do want you satisfied though, so please contact me and we’ll come up with a solution.
Warranty: 1 year manufacturer warranty for materials and workmanship. All swings are thoroughly inspected and tested by the manufacturer. As of 2010, in the seven years that Gravotonics has been manufacturing these swings in Bali, they have never had one break and have never had one returned due to faulty workmanship or materials. www.gravotonics.com.
The Obligatory Disclaimer: User accepts all risk and/or liability. The retailer does not accept responsibility for any injuries or damages. You are advised to consult with your health care practitioner before using the swing, and also to seek the assistance of a professional contractor with installation. As indicated elsewhere, the swing does not come with use and installation instructions due to the variety of intended uses and facilities. Plan to research installation and use through my website and elsewhere on internet.
Big thanks and bright blessings!
Leela Robinson, LMT, RYT
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