Adults Aerial Classes

Aerials are for everybody! Aerials are an amazing way to get fit, flexible and strong. At Silk & Circus we celebrate everyone who wants to try aerial arts. Whether you’re 4 or 64, a total beginner or returning aerialist, our friendly coaches will meet you where you’re at and help you progress safely and joyfully. We teach silks, lyra, trapeze and hammock for kids and adults across all levels.

Why try aerials with us?

  • Build strength and endurance in a fun, full-body way

  • Improve flexibility, balance and body awareness

  • Boost confidence and mental focus through skill-based progression

  • Join a supportive, positive community that cheers every success

What to expect in your first class

  • A warm, guided introduction to equipment and safety

  • Progressions tailored to your level and goals

  • Lots of encouragement and clear, friendly coaching

  • A welcoming space where everyone belongs

Come fly with us — book a class, bring a friend, or drop in to say hello. We can’t wait to see you in the air!

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WHAT WE OFFER

  • Aerial Foundation

    NO experience needed! This is where you start you aerial journey. In this 4 weeks course you will learn the fundamentals of Aerial Silks and explore unique ways of moving in the air, in addition to conditioning exercises to increasing upper body and core strength. Aerials is a full body workout using only your own body weight! Students will be able to learn at their own pace. Unless you have prior experience this course is required to move on to other classes.

  • Aerial Silks | All Levels

    This class is the next step after you have completed a few 4-week course and feel confident in the air. During this 60min class you will continue learning and building on the fundamentals and progressively learn more advanced skills.

    All Levels welcome, experience beginners to intermediate students!

  • Aerial Hoop/Lyra | All Levels

    If you prefer Lyra over Silks, then this class is just for you! We focus only on bar apparatus and introduce the creative side of Lyra by working on mini routines and flow. Aerial Hoop or Lyra, is a creative and fun full body workout. This all level class will help build strength and increase flexibility. This class is perfect cross training for regular gym workouts or Aerial Silks students, but no experience is necessary to attend your first class. Each student progresses at a different level and classes are tailored to each student.

  • Open Practice

    This is a 1.5hrs session where you can practice skills and sequences you have learned in class. 3 months of Aerial Arts experience required to attend open practice sessions. We have Lyras, Hammocks, Trapezes, Ropes and Silks you are welcome to use and practice on. An instructor will be there for supervision, however this is not a class and they will most likely be doing their own training too!

  • Aerial Hammock

    Hammock or Aerial Sling , is one piece of fabric folded in half with the two tails connected to the ceiling at the same point. In this 60min class, you will learn skills necessary to go upside down, to stand in the the hammock and wrap yourself in many different ways. As you become more comfortable, you will learn drops, slides, sequence and spinning. This class is suitable for all levels from beginners to more experience students as the class will be tailored to the individual.

  • Private Lessons

    Our private lessons focus on your specific Aerial needs and goals. In this class you will build strength, increase your technique, execution and confidence with the encouragement of an experienced coach. We offer one-on-one and two-on-one lessons of either 60min or 45min.

WHAT ARE AERIALS?

  • A woman performing aerial silk art, hanging upside down, holding colorful fabric with a backdrop.

    Aerial Silks

    Aerial silks (also known as aerial contortion, aerial ribbons, aerial tissues, fabric, ribbon, or tissu) is a type of performance in which one or more artists perform aerial acrobatics while hanging from a specialist fabric. The fabric is hung as two pieces. Performers climb the suspended fabric and use the fabric to wrap, suspend, drop, swing, and spiral their bodies into and out of various positions.

  • A woman in black clothing performing an aerial act on a green aerial hoop suspended from the ceiling against a white backdrop.

    Lyra

    The aerial hoop (also known as the lyra, aerial ring or cerceau/cerceaux) is an elegant circular steel apparatus (resembling a hula hoop) suspended from the ceiling, on which a performer can spin, swing, transition, and pose, demonstrating skills of great flexibility, strength, and grace. It can be used static, preferable for beginners and used while spinning.

  • A female aerialist hanging upside down from ropes and a trapeze, performing a pose against a white background.

    Trapeze

    A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by soft ropes. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances. Trapeze acts may be static, spinning (rigged from a single point), swinging or flying, and may be performed solo, double, triple or as a group act. It is often compared to being a mixed of Aerial Silks and Lyra due to the similarity of some of the moves performed on ropes and on the bar.

  • A woman practicing aerial silk yoga, hanging in a suspended position with blue silk fabric, smiling.

    Aerial Hammock

    Aerial hammock (Sling) is a long piece of fabric folded in half, hanging from the ceiling, forming a swing where a performer can do a number of poses and drops. The performer can use techniques similar to trapeze and If you climbs on it, you can also perform tricks similar to Aerial silks. Aerial Sling can be static or spinning. Aerial Hammock is also great for improving flexibility and strength as it requires less upper body strength to start with.