Int/Adv Aerial Silks Retreat
Sequencing, Skills, Vertical Theory, Creativity
Casa Chango Mexico, Puerto Escondido
w master teacher Kerri Kresinski
December 14-21, 2024
BIPOC & LGBTQ Scholarship Available
Spend a WEEK in PARADISE with new friends, the beach, delicious, fresh, local food, and learn loads and loads of new aerial skills!
Aerial Silks Retreat is for aerial students at the intermediate to advanced level of aerial silks training. Daily classes will be focused on skills and sequencing using the understanding of vertical theory, double and single ‘pole’ technique/skills, and creativity. We will focus on creative and dynamic sequencing and how we can ‘choose our own adventure’ to create new varieties of sequences as well as cleaning up technique. We will also practice our skills and sequences with different kinds of music and themes in order to explore our creativity within and around the skills.
This Aerial Silks Retreat Mexico will have 2 daily classes – Morning class will be aerial skills with focus on movement efficiency, technique, theory, and progressions. Each day we will build on the skills taught on the previous day. Afternoon classes will be focused on implementing the skills into sequences both creatively and technically and working with music.
Some examples of skills we will focus on include wheeldowns, C shaping, spinning, drops and revolutions, split pole puzzles and shapes, and ways to create dynamic movement. The skills portion of class is meant to help students solidify their understanding of technique and skills and give them tools to continue improving after the retreat. There will be a strong focus on understanding wrap theory in order to connect skills and create unique sequences.
The rest of our time can be spent eating amazing, healthy food, swimming in the warm ocean, reading in hammocks, and breathing the tropical air.
Prerequisites:
Aerial silks students at the intermediate to advanced level are welcome on this Aerial Silks Retreat Mexico. Students should have a strong understanding of the basic wraps and climbs, and a desire to understand sequencing and the nuances of skills in a deeper way. Students should be able to execute the following skills:
- Clean bent arm invert
- Easy ability to climb the fabric
- Ability to stay on the fabric for at least 3 minutes
- Hip Key
- Understanding of a few wraps
- Basic star drops (rolling to the side) and saltos (rolling to the front)
- Ability stay in the air moving/doing skills for 3 minutes without a rest
We hope you also have the desire to move, play, breathe, feel, stretch, and express. This is where you are invited to shine and be yourself!
Please feel free to email us at SweetRetreatsMexico@gmail.com with any questions about our prerequisites.
BIPOC & LGBTQ Scholarship Available
Daily Schedule Sample: Everything is optional!
- 7:30-9:30 am: Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
- 10am-1pm: Warm up & Aerial Silks Skills, Sequences, & Spinning
- 1pm: Lunch
- 2-5pm: Pool-time, siesta, relaxing
- 3:30pm: Afternoon Treat
- 4-5pm: Open Gym/SkillShare
- 5-6:30pm: Flexibility & creative performance skills
- 7pm Dinner
- 8-10pm Evening activities
We will take you to our favorite beaches for swimming, surfing, snorkeling, and releasing baby turtles into the sea. There will be evening adventures to a bioluminescent lagoon and local night market.
Classes include:
Aerial Silks Skills & Technique
Stretching/Flexibility
Sequencing/ Choreography
Performance Skills
Silks Theory
Injury Prevention
About your Coach
Kerri is an aerialist, dancer, choreographer, and coach. She has been performing and teaching acrobatics, dance, and aerial arts for over 20 years. Her life’s work, as an artist and teacher, has been to develop and deepen her study of the body—physically, emotionally and spiritually. She has learned that anything is possible with patience, discipline and a positive attitude. She is truly a unique performer, engaging, thrilling, and moving audiences with her skills, style, and heart.
Kerri has always been the most passionate about movement. She started my dance lessons when she was 3 years old and over the next 25 years studied theater, acting, music, circus acrobatics and aerial arts. Her professional career as a multi-disciplinary performer brought her to shows and festivals all over the world. She feels that the body is the gateway to the higher powers for healing, transformation and expression.
Technique and physical strength didn’t come naturally to Kerri’s body, but her insatiable appetite for understanding the body helped her to figure it out. She has developed techniques using active flexibility, strength, and physics to work with physical movement and goals.
Kerri’s technical expertise comes from working with students of all ages, shapes, sizes, and challenges. She loves to figure out the best route for each individual, celebrating successes big and small. She has learned that anything is possible with patience, discipline, self-awareness, and a positive attitude.. Kerri’s knowledge of anatomy, physics, injury prevention, creative problem solving, and realistic goal setting makes her one of the most masterful coaches of her time.
Kerri teaches her students how to own their practice. Focusing on fundamental elements of technique, anatomy, and the physics of movement, her students learn how to train. Kerri goes beyond teaching skills and sequences. She teaches how to identify, alter, and create your own skills and sequences, and best of all how to fully embody the movement of each skill in the most satisfying way for the doer and the viewer. Technique, balance, stability, mobility, movement pathways, creativity, 360 degree movement, musicality, originality, intentional movement, elements of surprise and awe, and a deep connection to humanity is what you will get if you work with Kerri. She is truly one of a kind.
It is Kerri’s life’s purpose to support people in finding joy in their lives and make choices that serve them physically, emotionally, mentally, and energetically, to reduce stress and allow space to wake up all that is possible in this life. When we climb into our bodies with curiosity and joy, we cultivate self awareness that can open us up to creating a life that is better than we could have ever imagined.
You can find Kerri’s performance videos here and Circus Fit free online tutorial videos here. Find Kerri on Instagram @SweetCircusKerri.
Kerri’s teaching is accessible, creative, and empowering. This retreat was one of the most inspiring experiences of my life. I can’t wait to go back. Taking what I’ve learned here and applying it in my home studio has inspired me to level up my aerial game; advancing my technique, my understanding of theory, and my creativity and intentionality. I cannot say enough good things about how enriching and powerful this experience in Mexico is, including the people I met along the way.
Kieran Stilson, 2022
Kerri is hands-down the best aerials instructor I’ve ever had. She has an unparalleled knowledge of the human body and how to create a safe, sustainable aerials practice. Whether you are just getting started, or having been practicing for years, Kerri helps take your practice to the next level and teaches wrap theory in a way that makes learning new moves at any studio more feasible. All her classes are energetic and fun, often featuring easy cardio dance routines that double as specific muscle warmups. After working with Kerri in one residency, I was so hooked I came back for a second. She is a one-in-a-million teacher, who really lives eats and breathes her craft, and it shows!
Sophie Sandweiss, 2022
Kerri is a lovely human being and a true master of her craft. I have never learned aerial silks in such a technical, digestible, applicable yet artistic, creative and vulnerable way.
Jessica Leong, 2022
Kerri imbues her classes with a really sweet combination of focused work, zany playfulness, and an earthy and body-positive sensuality. I walked away from my time as Kerri’s student more capable, skilled, and excited not just about aerial, but about the journey to reaching my goals. Kerri is skilled and optimistic, is genuinely there for you, and 100% rooting for you to “get that thing” and if you’re not there yet, can show you what needs to be done to get you to progress. She knows the value of the hard or ugly work, but she knows how to do it in a way that is fun and full of compassion for yourself and your journey.
Elizabeth Ferretti – April 2019
What’s included:
- Ground transportation to/from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to our accommodations*
- Arrive on Dec 14. Depart on Dec 21.
- Accommodations for the duration of the retreat
- Daily meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner, & desserts and treats!
- 3 daily classes
- Applied anatomy workshop
- Aerial photoshoot (with up to 15 photos)
- Trips to a local beaches and markets
- Baby turtle release excursion
- Trip to our local night market
- 24 hour use of swimming pool and community space
- Evening Jacuzzi soaks
- Starlink Wifi Internet
Retreat Pricing in USD
| Room | Early Bird Price until Sept 1 | Full Price |
| Shared Dorm (mixed gender) | $2000 | $2300 |
| Shared Private Room (2 friends sharing a room) 1 king size bed or 2 individual beds | $2200 | $2500 |
| Private Room w Shared Bathroom | $2500 | $2800 |
| Private Room w Private Bathroom | $2800 | $3100 |
| Private Room w Private Bathroom & Air Conditioner | $3100 | $3400 |
$500 Deposit is required to secure your spot.
Early bird prices end 3 months before the first day of the retreat.
Full tuition is due by one month before the first day of the retreat.
Rates refer to cost of one person’s tuition.
Couples must sign up together.
Significant others and friends who are not taking classes are welcome at a special price.
Dorms are mixed gender.
Click here for room descriptions.
BIPOC & LGBTQ Scholarship Available
Sweet Retreats has encouraged me to be a better version of myself both physically in the circus arts and also personally in my interactions with friends and the community. The instructors at Sweet Retreats are not only world class performers, they are also some of the most caring, beautiful, and authentic individuals. I’m so fortunate to have discovered this paradise of athletic endeavors, delicious food, unending laughter, and all within the gorgeous surrounding.
Liz Marotte, Oakland, CA
Links for more information:
- Accommodations – room descriptions
- Meals and Food
- How to get here. Info and advice on booking your travel
- Weather in Puerto Escondido
- Testimonials
- Excursions
Discounts
- Sign up early to get the Early Bird Discount
- Sign up with a friend and get a $100 referral discount. (You get $100 discount for each person you refer to any of our focused retreats.)
- Sign up on our mailing list to find out about more discounts.
Questions? Email us at SweetRetreatsMexico@gmail.com.
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