Results For Category: "Circus"

Building a Strong Foundation for Your Straddle Inversions

To build off one of our earlier Instagram posts, I want to provide more information for building a strong foundation for your…

How To Build Your Own Functional Strength Workout

So here we are. For a while now, we’ve been having an extended conversation about circus arts training and ideas surrounding how…

Developing Power for Circus Arts

As circus artists, we probably don’t think of power as something we need, but there are actually a lot of power moves…

Flexibility: More than meets the eye

Flexibility. There’s more to it than meets the eye.  Especially when flexibility doesn’t seem to come easily for you. Sure, some folks seem…

Stupid Micro-bend!

We’ve all been there, right? You’re doing a split or straddling up and you either have to bend your knees or there’s…

Vaginas and Circus 2.0

Almost 2 years ago I wrote about Vaginas and Circus, and I’ve learned more about training your pelvic floor since then, so I felt it was time to revisit and add some thoughts….

On Leaving Flying

I probably never told you about the time that I said ‘Nope‘ to a world renowned flying trapeze catcher. Well, unless of…

Hot Weather Circus: Guidelines for staying hydrated and safe

This summer in Boston has been hot. (Much like last summer, actually. Ain’t global warming grand?). Now, I haven’t really been checking…

Please Stop With The Shoulders Back and Down

I know this is a much more directive blog post title than I normally do. My goal is to always post in…

A “How-to” for Cleaner Aerial Inversions

Getting off the Ground and into the Air! Making the leap–without the leap–from inverting on the ground to inverting in the air…