Nadia: Marianne told me about it and I was instantly curious. I have always been fascinated by acrobatics, and I was already familiar with yoga. I got an opportunity to try it during our TBF football tournament in summer 2017. Since then, we’ve been training regularly.

Marianne: Mar­i­anne: I loved ac­ro­bat­ics and the cir­cus as a child – I was al­ways tum­bling about the place. A few years ago, I at­tend­ed an Acroyo­ga les­son while on hol­i­day in Spain. I was hooked straightaway and be­gan at­tend­ing class­es and jams in Zurich.

Nadia: Acroyo­ga is a part­ner­ship sport and re­quires intense cooperation. To achieve the necessary balance, you need to be in sync, and you need an in­ner calm. When prac­tis­ing new el­e­ments, you also need to have a lot of trust and a cer­tain tol­er­ance for frus­tra­tion. Acroyo­ga teach­es you again and again that you can only achieve your goal to­geth­er and that you can’t al­ways blame oth­er peo­ple for er­rors.

Marianne: The only pre­req­ui­sites are mo­ti­va­tion and a healthy dose of trust – every­thing else you can learn. I al­ways hear col­leagues say­ing, ‘I can’t do it be­cause I’m not flex­i­ble or strong enough’. And I say, ‘It’s pre­cise­ly be­cause you don’t do Acroyo­ga that you’re not flex­i­ble or strong enough.’

Nadia: It’s a play­ful, ca­su­al type of sport where you al­ways meet new peo­ple. The Acroyo­ga com­mu­ni­ty or­gan­is­es it­self via Face­book and What­sApp. Most­ly you just meet some­where spon­ta­neous­ly and train to­geth­er. Acroyogis can be found regularly in public parks, especially in summer.

Marianne: The great thing about Acroyoga is that there are fun poses and sequences at every level. We often work with ‘spotters’, meaning that two people practice a new form while a third ‘spots’ or ‘secures’ them. So you can try new things with no danger at all and suddenly you’re in the swing of it and having so much fun …