I have loved teaching and meeting amazing people from all walks of life since I was able to talk and walk. I have taught in all sorts of environments from various gyms, the office, at the University of Kansas, in Girl Scout troops and camps, to Corporate Leadership across the US, and Corporate Safety and Environment for Kellogg’s Corporation, Sunshine, and Henke Manufacturing. But in all the teaching that I have done, I have enjoyed teaching aerial fitness the most out of any. It has given me a chance to meet some amazing people, stay healthy and fit, apply my corporate training experience and engineering minded thinking, and my knowledge in fitness, body awareness, and movement safety, all while escaping into the wonderful and fun world of circus arts. What excites me most about teaching aerial is that I can work with just about anyone, even if they don’t have body awareness, strength, or flexibility, and help them gain a little bit more self awareness, finding the potential and opportunity deep within themselves, even if it is for just for one moment of their lives.
My interests in Fitness started in High school when I joined the Girls Wrestling team, until the program was cancelled because I was the only girl who hadn’t quit, and couldn’t practice against myself. My fitness career continued with body building in high school and continued through my first years of college. I was first certified as a Personal Trainer in 2007 through both the American Council on Exercise and National Association of Sports Medicine and became a Level Three Personal Trainer at 24 Hour Fitness through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. My fitness training history includes working at several gyms as a personal trainer, teaching boot camps, conditioning classes, and general flexibility classes, and privately supporting many new and old friends with their person fitness goals.
Though as a child I dreamed of performing on the flying trapeze, I didn’t know there was a possibility of learning any circus skill until in December of 2009, when I saw an advertisement for an Introduction Aerial Silks Class, here in the USA!, In KANSAS CITY! My childhood stereotype was dismantlement with excitement. I instantly knew it was something I would be participating in for the rest of my life. I have been training, teaching, and performing on various aerial apparatus ever since.
