THE AERIAL ADDICT

You have been going to aerial hoop classes regularly and you are HOOKED! However, the classes get too full too quickly, missing out on opportunities. Also, classes do not provide the creative space to let yourself be and find your own flow.

THE ONE LOOKING TO COMPETE

You are officially ready to compete in an aerial competition, but you have been procrastinating on all fronts. You have been too scared to sign-up, and you have not yet prepared a plan to achieve this goal. You need a structure and strong mentorship to get you there and you know it.

THE SHY DREAMER

You love going to hoop. You dream of glitter, stage, lights, and yourself flying beautifully. But you think you lack talent, stamina, or that you are not good enough to even think about it in real life. You need to reframe your mindset and help discover your creative power.

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WHAT MY STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY

I am no longer good enough to be a performer…

This is what I kept telling myself for the best part of a decade after I recovered from my extensive surgeries. Between the hugely visible scars on my thighs, my athletic performance down the toilet, the weight gain. the lack of coordination and the medical industry advising against training, I started to believe my career as an artist was over.

If that was not enough, my acrobatics and trapeze coaches who both performed for the Moscow State Circus and Cirque du Soleil felt the need to tell me that no established circuses will be wanting to employ me because I am physically a liability to their business as they want bodies that are not already “broken”.

My heart was crushed, and my soul wept.

Since I was eight years old my dream was to become a circus performer. Eight years and countless hours of training, three international tours, three grueling years of fighting to get back on stage after each surgery, and one injury later, I made the painful decision to call it a day and give up.

My entire identity was attached to becoming a Cirque du Soleil artist. So, it was all or nothing and it became nothing at all. And just like that, I changed careers and took a regular job.

Fast forward to 2008 when I decided to “fake it til’ you make it” by pushing myself out of my comfort zone and becoming a club dancer. In 2014 I took my first aerial hoop act since I stopped training trapeze. I was bad. My moves were basic, my strength was far to be what it is today, my rigging was more than questionable (thanks universe for still being alive) and on the day of the performance, I was so sore I had to ditch some final “peak” moves because I realised whilst on stage that I could not do them.

Do you know what happened?

People applauded, my client congratulated me, and my fellow colleagues were all immensely proud of me when I returned backstage. No one noticed about my missing moves.

I knew that for four days straight I worked my butt off to create this act, I honored the challenges this opportunity gave me and I felt alive while I was performing.

“I am officially an aerialist”, I told myself that night.

Cue a decade of performing around the world, between dancing, fire manipulation, burlesque, cabaret, and aerial, I can say that my career as an artist is making my younger self realise how much more I could actually do than just be a Cirque du Soleil performer.

It took me nearly a decade to realise that being an artist was way more than just an athletic or aesthetic body, and even Instagram often attempts at crushing my confidence even to this day. I still must work consistently on my mindset, telling myself that my artistic identity is no longer attached to who I wanted to become when I was a kid.