hi this is Lucas with yoga body and the yoga trapeze and I wanted to unbox a
yoga trapeze you can see what's inside all the different parts and then I'll
show you how to hang one up as well so the yoga trapeze comes in this carrying
bag it's just a very simple drawstring bag and when you open up the bag one of
the first things that you'll find is that we have black ropes included now
these black ropes have a protector on the end this metal protector and the
ropes are designed for hanging your yoga trapeze and you'll notice that the ropes
are doubled up and we do this for extra strength these ropes are incredibly
strong but we double them up even more the knots that are on the rope are there
for adjusting the height or the level of your trap use just one thing to keep in
mind with the ropes themselves is when you turn them up you want to make sure
that you have at least 10 centimeters on the end of your rope and so make sure
there's enough space on the end of your rope and then you can tighten up that
knot the knots are they come loose and you can tighten them up and as we use
the rope what we'll do is we'll go over a beam we'll go over a hook if you're
using our ceiling hooks you go through the ceiling hook if you're using our
door mount bar you go over the door mount bar if you're using a tree you go
over the tree branch and hanging you can connect here now sometimes people want
to make the black ropes longer and they will do that by putting the rope through
itself and hanging from a beam or a pole that's just fine as well again this rope
is incredibly strong and of course you can use your own ropes to just make sure
you buy them from a hardware store and make sure that there are weight tested
the next thing that we find inside the trapeze bag is your DVD so all of our
yoga tree strap pieces come with a DVD to get you started you can learn some of
the basic postures basic traction and inversion poses and so you have a DVD
and also along with the DVD you get a very simple pose chart as visual
reference that you can use when you're practicing next up is the trapeze itself
and this is a very very simple device but I'll walk you through the different
parts what we have is an Maine slang and then we have two handles
and every trapeze comes with the exact same setup so these are my two handles
and they go on either side there's a carabiner on the top like a rock
climbing carabiner and same thing on this one we have a rock climbing
carabiner and there's handles these go on either side of my trapeze when it's
hanging and in the middle is what we call the Maine sling and the Maine sling
is a hammock shaped swing that sits in the middle it's smaller than a hammock
but again has the black carabiners on top and this is how it hooks in so main
parts of your trapeze before we move on to set up we have the Maine sling we
have two sets of handles three handles on either side we have your two ropes
for hanging again we recommend you use these but you can always get rope high
quality weight tested inexpensive rope from any hardware store if you need to
do any kind of creative rigging or if your ceiling is extremely extremely high
no problem at all and the last but not least you have your
pose chart and you have your DVD for getting started now let's take a quick
break and I'll show you how to set up the yoga trapeze so here we are getting
ready to hang the trapeze itself as you can see here I have a ceiling bar this
is actually in Yoga body Studios here in Barcelona at your home this might be our
door mount bar you might also have our ceiling mount hooks this might also just
be a tree branch or an exposed beam maybe it's a patio maybe it's a railing
and a patio there's all kinds of different things but essentially you
need something to hang your ropes over or through we have a whole bunch of
different setup options you can check our site but this is the most common
option over some kind of pole or bar or tree branch or exposed beam so I'm going
to show you this setup now I have taken my black ropes which we prepared before
and I have drapes them over the bar here now we have two different options we can
do the double rope which is where I click in here and I'm clicking through
both the rope thimble that metal part on the bottom and then the last knot and I
could hang this way but I'm really really high
here because these ceiling mounts are very high off the ground so what I'm
going to do is option number two which is very common and it's important for
you to see is I'm going to take that rope thimble and I'm gonna feed it
through the last knot and I'm gonna slide it down so the Rope hugs the bar
on the top what that does is it gives me quite a bit more height now some people
worry oh maybe the single rope is not strong enough
it's absolutely strong enough it's already doubled up and even one rope is
strong enough by itself so don't worry we have the Rope thimble here I'm gonna
take the carabiner on the main sling and I'm gonna click into that rope thimble
now in terms of the trapeze itself there is an inside and outside it only matters
aesthetically you'll see the Yoga body label that's the outside of the trapeze
sling but if it were the other way it's no problem at all it is actually
reversible but technically where the label is that's the outside on this
particular trapeze it's this greenish color that goes on the outside I'm gonna
open up my trapeze like a hammock to make sure it's not twisted or bunched up
and then I'm gonna do the same thing on the other side I'm gonna feed that rope
thimble through the last knot slide it down and I'm gonna click in and now what
I have is a nice hammock shape here in terms of the distance between the top
two ropes the easiest way to do it is when you're standing on the ground if
you bring your arms out at your side and bend your arms right where they point up
that's about as wide as you want it it's roughly 80 to 90 centimeters depending
on the person usually a little bit less is where people feel comfortable but you
can figure out what works for you it's not a big deal to adjust afterwards next
I'm going to add in the handles there's one set that goes on either side
let me grab the handles and I'll show you how that works so here I have each
of the handle sets now there's three handles on either side and the only
thing you want to do before you hook them on is to organize them and what I
mean by organize them is you should have the small handle the longest handle and
then the medium handle in the same on both sides it doesn't really matter what
order they are but it does matter that they're both the same on both sides what
I mean by that is the way these are organized right now we go shortest
handle longest handle medium handle same thing on this one
weirdest longest medium and in that way we just know we'll be symmetrical
there's no right or wrong way you can diet do it either way but if they're
both the same it'll just be a little bit easier for practice now I go on the side
the outside of the Maine sling and I hook in my handles I just click into
that rope thimble again and then I'm on the other side and I click through the
rope symbol again one thing to keep in mind is when you put your hands in you
want to be able to open the trapeze out to the side and you want your handles
your carabiner for the handles to be outside the carabiner for the Maine
slang and again the simplest way to check it is you open up the trapeze like
this you can open up your entire rig from here we're all set to go one thing
that I will point out is there's black clips on the Maine sling and also on the
handles what the black clips are designed to do is to help you adjust the
fabric there's quite a bit of fabric and it can get in the way so when we go and
we sit down in the trapeze a lot of times we'll use the black clip to
actually make the seats smaller and to hug just our bum in other poses we'll
make the seat very large and we'll use the pote we use the trapeze more like a
cocoon or a hammock the black clips you find on the handles you want to slide
down until they create a nice triangle shape for the handle itself now the
reason we don't have these fixed is because there are poses where we're
gonna slide the handle up we're gonna move the rubber handle to the side and
use the fabric not the hard rubber so it does have a purpose it's not just there
to irritate you but when you're first getting started the good default
position is to create a nice small triangle for your handles and you'll
find a clip on each of the handles so this is the classic yoga trapeze setup
now there are different ways to rig maybe you have an exposed beam maybe
have a tree branch maybe you're hanging from our door mount
bar or our ceiling hooks it doesn't really matter however your mounting
you're gonna have this same setup with the ropes coming down clicking in with
your carabiners and aligning your handles on the side just like we've
shown here I hope that's helpful if you have any questions or comments please
post them down below we're always happy to help
you