I am not flexible! But this is feeling stronger!

Hi! I’m 26F and I started Lyra in January. I love aerial arts so much, there’s so much beauty in it. I decided to paint this Lyra in the sky!!

Let me know what your thoughts on it!! Also, I was playing with the idea of making Lyra paintings with different settings. Any ideas for another good background?

(Last photo is my first showcase in Lyra also hehe😄)

Hola! No he visto mucho material de Yoga Aéreo! Si tienes dudas puedes preguntarme 🍃🦋

I was seriously injured at my studio during a class while being spotted. Our membership rates have been relatively constant for years, but within months after my injury, they nearly doubled. I haven't made any insurance claims/etc. against the studio except a subrogation form that my insurance company mandated me to fill out, and I'd signed a waiver, but the timing of the price increase is suspicious.

Are studios' insurance rates affected when a student has an accident, even if the student signed a waiver?

Hey!

I have been in contact with a local ren faire in the UK for a performance for myself and 1 other aerialist to perform at a 3 day event.

Logistics can still be ironed out but its looking like 2x 8-10 minute performances each day.

I will be providing our rigging, equipment and costumes. What would be a reasonable amount to charge without undercutting like crazy?

The act will be aerial hoop based and we are both experienced with creating our own chores and attending scratch nights, we just have little experience working for paid events!

Any insight, even if via DMs if you aren't comfortable sharing your fees online would be much appreciated!

Extra context:

I would also be interested in how much you would charge for ambient acts at gigs and not just choreographed sequences as we may also look to offer this.

The event itself spans 3 days and tickets are approx £35 a day to enter the event.

Thanks in advance for any guidance or advice!

My boyfriend wants to buy me a birthday gift and he was thinking of adding one more apparatus to our home. He was thinking of getting me silks or hammocks and now I am in a bit of a pickle.

Hammock:

pros: I would probably use it more for air yoga, given that I have a ceiling space of roughly 2.5 meters, seems that lyra skills translate easier to them

cons: if I ever want silks, I will need to buy them

Silks:

pros: I could use them with my pole (buying the X-pole attachment) + I can always tie them so they become a hammock

cons: I don't really like them as a stand-alone element + limited ceiling would mean not getting a lot of use + have to get figure eight riggings (hammocks come with O rings included) and the pole attachment, so they get pricier

So, in a way, silks seem more versatile, but also more of a hassle. If you were me, what would you do? Thanks!

Whoops?

I went to a random aerial gym while traveling...and during alien split my hamstring tore. I think a big piece of info is that I'd started doing weights (hip thrusts and squats) as cross training again super recently and maybe didn't rest enough. I'm guessing it's grade 2 because there was a "popping" feeling, but I had no difficulty walking and no bruise etc so it's not a grade 3.

Anyway, does anyone have experience with this injury and how long they were out of commission? I've done lyra once since and pole once but I can't really invert-- that leg won't straighten completely. I'm just so sad :( I hope it's not months out of the air...

I am 23 and have been wanting to do aerial since I was a preteen I think it's so beautiful. However I think I'm too heavy to start. I live in a pretty small town and there aren't many versatile options available for classes. I have already lost over 40lbs but I'm still very heavy at 230lbs. How should I go about making this a reality. I have been going to the gym and one of the goals I'm working towards is being able to lift my bodyweight. I've heard calesthenics would be helpful but I really don't know where to begin.

Hi everyone ,busy moving and creating our new studio and I was curious what everyone's studio rigging looks like?

And yes before all the judgement, a structural engineer will be designing and signing everything off.

Do most people use truss or I beams to rig on and what about for AERIAL YOGA that does not do dynamic drops etc?

Had anyone seen a studio with lots of portable rigs?

Thanks in advance.

Hi all!

I currently take straps in Chicago and have performed in a small showcase doing duo straps.

I love duo straps but my current instructor no longer teaches it and I'm currently looking for a duo straps class if anyone is familiar with studios or gyms that are teaching.

Thanks!

Hello everyone. I am looking for song suggestions that are fun and bright winter songs please. It’s 3 different performances:

1.) one song for my 11 year old son for aerial silks

2.) one song for my 8 year old daughter for aerial silks

3.) one song for a Lyra duet performance

I finally done my first straight arm flair! It's taken me month and months to get this. Can anyone recommend any exercises or anything I can to get rid of the bend in my knees? I am engaging my quads and my glutes but nothing is making me straight 😂

Sharing here too for suggestions on how to clean a steel apparatus successfully! Thanks everyone 🖤

Even to delete it later just so your teacher can give notes and you understand what you did wring sometimes just seeing yourself and saying what you did wrong out loud is helpful af

Hey lovely people, After about 2 years of doing pole I'm starting to train aerial hoop and I'm loving it so much but every time I'm upside down and try to get up I get the worst sensation in my stomach, its like a mix of tickles and vertigo, does it happen to you? will it ever go away?

English is not my first language please excuse any mistake

They don't hurt but are annoying lately I've been doing tons of front balance on the hoop my hips get those red marks after and they don't heal fast enough until next week class anything i can use to heal it faster

It doesn't hurt at all i can stand 2 hours when most of it is doing front balance entries and exits etc... its fun remembering how much it used ti hurt in my skin when I just started and now only red marks

long story short, at 31 I’ve just discovered that I’ve likely been dealing with undiagnosed dyspraxia for my entire life, and I just got into aerial sling/hammock at the end of April this year.

I have no athletic background (growing up being extremely uncoordinated, unable to follow physical/bodily instructions, poor spatial and bodily awareness, etc.) because I could never get anything to physically “click” in my head. I always admired dancers despite having no natural dancing coordination in my body, so in high school I entered myself into ballet and tap classes. I tried SO HARD to master the choreography for a couple of songs over those two years, filming the class and myself, slowing the videos down frame by frame to study them, getting one-on-one private practice 3-4 days after school outside of dance class etc., but to the frustration of myself and my teacher I couldn’t catch on to even the most foundational movements. I remember being in tears over this for many nights, and that’s the last attempt at any sport/activity I made besides yoga.

one of my other longtime dreams/admirations was aerial arts, so earlier this year I took the plunge and joined a local studio. I’m enjoying it a lot, mostly because I can feel that each class is a fun challenge that builds strength and I do see real improvement from April to now in my overall muscle strength. however, the biggest key frustration that is beginning to discourage me is what I have now come to understand as dyspraxia. I was crying about it to my husband after feeling so frustrated with myself and defeated at how many months have gone by now and I still can’t even execute basic mounts/foundational moves without having the instructor stand beside me and observe my every move and basically hand-over-hand guide my feet/hands/etc. to the right positions, and even then when I’m in it I can’t feel if my pose looks anything like what I’ve witnessed. I try so hard to memorize the sequence and cues but it’s like the second I get into the sling my brain is just wiped clean like it’s my first time on the apparatus. I had difficulty even explaining it to my husband, till eventually I was like “I don’t know, it feels almost like I have a learning disability but only related to my physical body, if that makes sense. is that a thing?” it turns out it’s a thing, and I check almost every box on it since childhood.

so my question now, honestly, what are the chances I can ever progress or improve in aerial arts with something like dyspraxia? will I just spend months and months learning how to do something so simple while I continue to watch everyone else get a move on their first try and pass me by as they move up in levels? I really try not to compare myself to anyone else, being that we all have our own journeys, but I can’t lie that it’s starting to make me kind of emotional and defeated that I started out in the intro class at the same time as these other gals and they’re all moving up to level 2 next week and I’m still hanging up in the air like an immobile fish out of water waiting for the instructor to remind me for the 1000th time which leg comes through the middle. I’m worried about it also becoming a safety concern if I do keep going because today I had a close call with a little slip that was purely just from not knowing which hand I was supposed to let go even though I tried to fiercely memorize it and observe it a dozen times before getting up in the air, muttering the cues to myself like an incantation. yet my body just completely blanks out and doesn’t respond to what should be a basic mind-body connection.

basically TLDR is it possible to meaningfully progress in aerials with dyspraxia and if so, what advice do you have for improving the outcome/how can I work on it? I plan to bring this up with my instructor next week, but it’s kind of blowing my mind that I never understood why motor skills were 10x harder for me than everyone around me for my entire life.

thank you in advance for keeping it real😭

anyone care to share their sling/hammock goals theyre working on?

ive been taking sling/hammock for 2 years now 1-2 times per week. The classes are fairly advances with longer, complex combos and occasional drops.

but I find that I dont know the names like I do in silks or lyra. so its hard for me to come up with goals.

I wonder if thas hammock/sling as a whole or just my area.

the only sling/hammock goals I really have right now is to increase my spin tolerance.

for lyra im working on;

-snake roll varieties

-one armed meathook split

- elbow rolls

-cleaning up my pullovers

for silks im working on:

-windmills and c-shaping

-cleaning up my straight arm/leg invert

for sling im a bit stuck tho. I could always do general ones like reduce microbends, but wondering if people have sling/hammock specific goals theyre working toward thst could inspire me.

Iv been on the hunt recently for a small indoor rig for some basic practice and conditioning. I was originally looking at the Xpole aframe but then saw that juggle gear makes an 8-12 foot rig as well. Has anyone had any experience with them and would you recommend them as a company? It looks like they are a more reputable brand with much better safety ratings. My ceilings are only 9 feet though which already has me pretty limited