Dancers in space soar to new aerial heights

Detroit Flyhouse -- a place to learn and practice aerial yoga -- is taking off.

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DETROIT -- With her sharp features and toned, slender body, it would be easy to assume that Detroit Flyhouse co-founder, Micha Adams, is a dancer. The assumption would be correct, but not in the conventional sense.

Together with friend and business partner, Steve Ramasocky, Adams teaches an acrobatic form of movement called "aerial yoga." The practice involves the use of colorful 40-foot-long tricot curtains suspended from the rafters of the pair's sunny Eastern Market studio. Adams, Ramasocky and their students employ the curtains to hoist themselves into the air and perform various maneuvers that give the appearance of dancing in space.

Fluid and dramatic, the ballet-like discipline was initially popularized in the West by the acrobats of the Cirque du Soleil. Though there are outlets that teach aerial yoga on both coasts, it's still a relatively rare practice in the U.S. But thanks to the influence of Adams, Ramasocky, and their devoted following, its popularity is growing rapidly in Metro Detroit.

"It's like the business found us," says Adams, 39, who estimates current enrollment at the Detroit Flyhouse to be around 70 students.

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