In this episode my guest is Darlene Casanova, AntiGravity's Director of Training and Curriculum and one of my oldest friends. Darlene and I met in college more than forty years ago, she the star of the dance program, me a gymnast learning to move. We both went on to Broadway and international stages, and years later she became the first AntiGravity licensee in the country outside New York and the person who shaped the technique into a method the whole world could learn. She joins me from our newest studio, AntiGravity Lab NOLA in New Orleans.

We get into all of it. How we built the AntiGravity movement vocabulary together in a borrowed gym at night. How she took a method born from champion gymnasts and made it accessible to every body, of every age. Creating AntiGravity Just Kids from watching children play. What it really means to be the caretaker of a technique, so that a class in one country teaches the same thing as a class on the other side of the world. And why, after four decades, she still believes the work is about the process, not the product.

If you already know AntiGravity, welcome home. If you are new, welcome aboard.

Hidden in the force that pulls us down is the energy to lift us up. Fly high.

Find a class, a studio, or instructor training at antigravityfitness.com

About Darlene Casanova
Darlene Casanova is AntiGravity's Director of Training and Curriculum. A former Broadway performer and choreographer with a master's degree from NYU, she was the first AntiGravity licensee in the United States outside New York and co-created AntiGravity Just Kids. For years she has trained instructors around the world and safeguarded the technique so that AntiGravity is taught the same way everywhere it is practiced.

About Christopher Harrison
Christopher Harrison is a Broadway performer, producer, director, and choreographer whose career spans hundreds of theatrical productions, from original Broadway shows to the Olympic Games. A former world-class competitive gymnast, he founded AntiGravity Inc. in 1991, created the Harrison AntiGravity Hammock, and pioneered AntiGravity Yoga, the first complete program in suspension training.

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In this episode my guest is Linda Talcott Lee, the Emmy award-winning choreographer and Broadway performer her friends call Tally. Years ago Tally cast me in my dream role, Mike in A Chorus Line, the show that changed the trajectory of my life.

We get into all of it. How I visualized my way onto that stage long before I knew the word manifestation. How Michael Bennett created something that revived Broadway when New York was nearly bankrupt, and gave the professional dancer real respect for the first time. The question the show asks every night, "What will you do when you can't dance anymore, when you can no longer do the thing you love?" and how facing it shaped the way I built AntiGravity, and why, decades on, Tally is still dancing, still choreographing, and still proving that a life in movement does not have to end when the world says it should.

If you already know AntiGravity, welcome home. If you are new, welcome aboard.

Hidden in the force that pulls us down is the energy to lift us up. Fly high.

Find a class, a studio, or instructor training at antigravityfitness.com

About Linda Talcott Lee
Linda Talcott Lee is an Emmy award-winning choreographer and Broadway performer who has appeared in numerous Hollywood dance films and Broadway shows, working with Jerome Robbins and many of the theater's greats. A busy director and choreographer now based in the Twin Cities, she also teaches dance at the university level and continues to perform professionally.

About Christopher Harrison
Christopher Harrison is a Broadway performer, producer, director, and choreographer whose career spans hundreds of theatrical productions, from original Broadway shows to the Olympic Games. A former world-class competitive gymnast, he founded AntiGravity Inc. in 1991, created the Harrison AntiGravity Hammock, and pioneered AntiGravity Yoga, the first complete program in suspension training.

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In this episode my guest is Sayonara Motta, the woman who built AntiGravity across Italy. A competitive athlete from Brazil in rhythmic gymnastics and aerobics, she found the AntiGravity hammock at a point when years of training and stress had worn her body down, and it gave her a way back to movement without the impact.

Over more than fifteen years she has grown one of AntiGravity's strongest communities anywhere, building hundreds of studios and training thousands of instructors.

We talk about her path from athlete to leader, the transformation the hammock brought to her own body, why Italians embraced a practice that turns you upside down, and the loyalty and community that hold it all together. Her line for the whole conversation: your mission became my mission.

If you already know AntiGravity, welcome home. If you are new, welcome aboard.

Hidden in the force that pulls us down is the energy to lift us up. Fly high.

Find a class, a studio, or instructor training at antigravityfitness.com

About Sayonara Motta
Sayonara Motta is a master trainer, presenter, and AntiGravity's gold licensee in Italy. For more than twenty years she has built personalized training programs for major brands and organizations, including Nike, where she is part of the Nike Training Team and leads the creation, promotion, and rollout of its training programs. She has spent over fifteen years growing the AntiGravity community across Italy. More at sayonaramotta.com.

About Christopher Harrison
Christopher Harrison is the founder and artistic director of AntiGravity Inc., established in 1991. A former Broadway dancer and world-class competitive gymnast, he created the Harrison AntiGravity Hammock and pioneered AntiGravity Yoga, the first complete program in suspension training. As a producer, director, and choreographer, his work spans hundreds of productions, from original Broadway shows to the Olympic Games. He holds a BFA in dance from the University of Utah, where he minored in kinesiology and studied physiotherapy, and has trained in yoga in India and Pilates with Romana in New York.

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In this episode my guest is Tamer Begum, and our story goes back further than most. Tamer is my nephew. Long before AntiGravity Fitness existed, I hung a hammock in his living room in Salt Lake City and let him and his cousins play. The moves they came up with there became part of what we teach today. He grew up to become a master instructor and the person who carried AntiGravity across Asia, building communities in Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Taiwan. We talk about testing the first hammock as a kid, taking the technique onto a university campus, teaching children for years, raising his own son inside this practice, and the lesson he keeps coming back to: that community matters more than any program or product you could offer.

If you already know AntiGravity, welcome home. If you are new, welcome aboard.

Hidden in the force that pulls us down is the energy to lift us up. Fly high.

Find a class, a studio, or instructor training at antigravityfitness.com

About Tamer Begum
Tamer Begum is a master AntiGravity instructor and a marketing leader with over 15 years in the fitness and wellness industries. He helped bring AntiGravity to Asia, building studios and communities across Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Taiwan, and has worked with leading brands in fitness, wellness, and hospitality. His focus is brand building, product launches, and growing engaged communities in local and international markets.

About Christopher Harrison
Christopher Harrison is the founder and artistic director of AntiGravity Inc., established in 1991. A former Broadway dancer and world-class competitive gymnast, he created the Harrison AntiGravity Hammock and pioneered AntiGravity Yoga, the first complete program in suspension training. As a producer, director, and choreographer, his work spans hundreds of productions, from original Broadway shows to the Olympic Games. He holds a BFA in dance from the University of Utah, where he minored in kinesiology and studied physiotherapy, and has trained in yoga in India and Pilates with Romana in New York.

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Gravity has been shaping your body since the day you were born. Your posture, your breath, your recovery, the way you age. Most people never notice what it is doing until something hurts.

The AntiGravity Man Flycast is where we change that.

I'm Christopher Harrison, founder of AntiGravity. I built AntiGravity in New York City from a performance company into a movement system used in studios around the world, and along the way it taught me something bigger than fitness. It taught me how the body holds on, breaks down, recovers, and lifts back up.

This show is where I share what I have learned and where I keep learning out loud. Expect conversations on movement, recovery, performance, longevity, and what I call gravity literacy: working with the force that pulls on you instead of paying its tax in silence.

This episode is just me, but starting in episode 2 we will have some amazing guests. We will bring in performers, instructors, and thinkers from inside the AntiGravity world and far outside it, people who help widen the conversation around the body and how we live in it.

If you already know AntiGravity, welcome home. If you are new, welcome aboard.

Hidden in the force that pulls us down is the energy to lift us up. Fly high.

Find a class, a studio, or instructor training at
antigravityfitness.com

About Christopher Harrison

Christopher Harrison is the founder and artistic director of AntiGravity Inc., established in 1991. A former Broadway dancer and world-class competitive gymnast, he created the Harrison AntiGravity Hammock and pioneered AntiGravity Yoga, the first complete program in suspension training. As a producer, director, and choreographer, his work spans hundreds of productions, from original Broadway shows to the Olympic Games. He holds a BFA in dance from the University of Utah, where he minored in kinesiology and studied physiotherapy, and has trained in yoga in India and Pilates with Romana in New York.

#AntiGravityFitness #AntiGravityMan #MovementAsMedicine #Podcast #Longevity #WellnessPodcast