Aerial Summer Camp Mexico
Aerial Skills, Conditioning, & Flexibility Retreat
with Teachers Kerri Kresinski & special guests
2 weeks- July 18-Aug 2, 2020
July 18-25 – Int Silks & Lyra/Hoop
July 26-Aug 2 – Circus Fit Intensive & Aerial Dance
July 26-Aug 2 – Circus Fit Intensive & Aerial Dance
This retreat has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Please come see us soon.
Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Limited to 10 participants
Aerial Summer Camp Mexico Retreat- a week in beautiful, tropical Mexico with new friends, the beach, delicious, fresh food, and loads of aerial fun!
Aerial Summer Camp Mexico
Join us for 1-2 weeks
Week 1 – Intermediate Silks & Hoop/Lyra
A retreat for aerialists who wish to progress in their aerial ability through building strength, skills, and fluidity. Apparatuses include Silks, Sling & Lyra/Hoop. We will work on skills, technique, sequencing, performance skills, and stretching. The environment is friendly, encouraging, and super fun!
Week 2 – Circus Fit Intensive & Aerial Dance
Classes focus on aerial conditioning, aerial technique, aerial dance, handstands, & stretching. Apparatuses include aerial sling, silks, rope, hoop, and trapeze. We will also take an afternoon nature adventure. Everyone will thrive on this retreat! All levels are welcome. Learn to explore new ways of moving. Step into our paradise gym and feel alive! Read more about Circus Fit Intensive here.
Refill your vital energy and have FUN!
Sample of daily schedule
In addition to 2 daily classes, our time will be spent eating delicious, healthy food, swimming in the warm ocean, reading in hammocks, playing in the swimming pool, nature excursions, and local markets.
(choose as many or few classes/activities as you like)
8-10am Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
9:30am-12pm Aerial Workshop
1pm Lunch
1-5pm Pool-time, relaxing, nature adventures
5-6:30pm More Aerial, Stretching & Handstands
6:30-8pm Beach Play and Sunset
8pm Dinner
Evening Activities, Relaxing, etc.
Adventures may include beaches for swimming & surfing, river float, zip lines, bioluminescence lagoon, horse back riding to hot springs, releasing baby turtles into the sea, and our local night market.
Significant others & families welcome.
Ask about our significant other packages.
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 teachers, 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
About our Teachers Aerial Summer Camp Mexico
Kerri and Chloe have been teaching, training, and performing together as a duo for over 10 years. As time passes, their friendship has deepened, their working relationship has become more intuitive, and their collective wisdom of the body has expanded exponentially. They are truly a duo with infinite possibilities. One of the many things that makes this duo so special is that they love teaching, and find delight in watching their students grow and learn. In teaching, they stress the importance of good form, efficient training, refinement & artistry, and most important, FUN. You have to find the love for the training. No holding back in the circus! You can read more about Kerri and Chloe here. Click here to see videos of their performances (duo and solos).
Kerri Kresinski has background in technical dance, gymnastics, Chinese acrobatics, anatomy, yoga, contortion, and aerial arts, as well as certifications in bodywork, personal training, fitness science, sports nutrition, yoga, Ayurveda, and herbalism. She is excited to share this smorgasbord of movement with you.
Kerri has been performing and teaching acrobatics, yoga, dance, and aerial arts for over 15 years throughout the world. Her life’s work, as an artist and a leader, 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. Kerri expresses her passion and spirit through movement, and feels that the body is the gateway to the higher powers for healing, transformation and expression. She is truly a unique performer, engaging, thrilling, and moving audiences with her skills, style, and heart. She is a co-founder of Sweet Can Circus and the founder/director of Sweet Retreats. She loves to help people reach beyond their perceived limits and strive for new heights. “Believe in yourself, and live BIG.” Read more about Kerri here.Click here for her youtube page where you can find her performance videos and aerial instructional videos!
Chloe Marvel Light Axelrod is a powerhouse performance artist and teacher whose talents have carried her around the world. She has performed for a variety of acclaimed companies in world-class productions. Chloe is known for her dynamic performance style, full of high-level acrobatic and aerial skills combined with effortless grace and incredible form.
Chloe has been teaching circus since 2005 and trained with masters of acrobatics, contortion, and flying trapeze. She has years of experience and passion under her belt.
Chloe’s specialty is aerial hoop on which she has a solo act and a doubles act. With these acts, she synthesizes years of training, a love for spinning, strong, fierce passion for movement into a whirlwind of virtuosic expertise. Chloe teaches in the professional training program at the San Francisco Circus Center as well as recreational classes. Through teaching and performing she shares the magic of circus all over the world. Check out Chloe’s website as well and her hoop videos here.
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. I typically have given myself a hard time– about a number of things in life– including my journey with aerials. 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. I truly appreciate this woman and friend, and I now know that my time at Sweet Retreats was a workshop on many levels, and not just in the air.
– Elizabeth Ferretti, April 2019
Classes/ Activities include:
Aerial Skills
Aerial Dance Technique
Fundamentals of Defying Gravity
Flexibility & Conditioning
Floor work
Handstands
Choreography Theory
Authentic Movement
Functional Anatomy
Fun!
The energy was contagious and motivating. I’d recommend this trip to anyone who wants to sweat, swim and smile for an entire week.
– KATHERINE HUTCHINSON (OAKLAND, CA)
Sweet Retreats taught me how much more than a workout could be – an artistic expression, an outlet, even therapy.
– Emily Hughes – Virginia Beach, USA
Prices for Aerial Summer Camp Mexico
July 18-25, 2020 – Intermediate Silks & Hoop
July 26-Aug 2, 2020 – Circus Fit Intensive / Aerial Dance
Prices are listed per person in USD. A $500 deposit is required to save your spot.
Prices for 2 weeks
| Room | Early Bird Price until June 1, 2020 | Full Price |
| Dorm (up to 4 people) | $3200 | $3500 |
| Single Occupancy w shared bathroom | $3600 | $3900 |
| Single Occupancy w shared bathroom – PLUS | $4000 | $4300 |
| Single Occupancy w private bathroom | $4200 | $4500 |
Prices for week 1 or 2 only
| Room | Early Bird Price until June 1, 2020 | Full Price |
| Dorm (up to 4 people) | $1800 | $2100 |
| Single Occupancy w shared bathroom | $2000 | $2300 |
| Single Occupancy w shared bathroom – PLUS | $2200 | $2500 |
| Single Occupancy w private bathroom | $2300 | $2600 |
Your Retreat Package includes:
- Ground transportation to/from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to our accommodations**
- Accommodations for 7 nights
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in our Monkey House Kitchen
- Dinner out at our favorite local restaurant
- 2 Daily classes
- Use of Swimming Pool, wi-fi, Hammocks, and Fitness/Yoga/Circus Studio, boogie boards, snorkels and flippers.
- Afternoon adventures to local beaches, hot springs and/or rivers
- Trip to the night market
- 2 Photo Shoots – Beach & Aerial
- Tour of our organic garden w Farmer Stu
- Impromptu dance parties, pool parties, sunset cocktails (21+), and hanging out with new friends.
- Homemade chocolates, popsicles, and other treats
Also ziplines, horseback riding, hot springs, waterfalls, and more!!
Deals and Discounts
- Book early and save $300!
- Bring a friend and save $100 with our referral discount.*
- Bring your significant other. Ask about our SO policy.
Links for more information
- Accommodations
- Meals and Food
- How to get here. Info and advice on booking your travel
- Testimonials
- Excursions