Unhinged
Aerial Fabric, Hoop, & Flexibility Retreat
Mexico
w master teachers Brit Crumpton and Jessica John
May 5-12, 2023
Space is limited. Sign up now.
a WEEK in PARADISE with new friends, the beach, delicious, fresh, local food, and great training.
Unhinged Fabric•Hoop•Flex Aerial Retreat with Jessica John (@circusmobility) and Brit Crumpton (@aerial_firebird)
You learned the rules. The right way to mount the hoop. The wrong way to climb the fabric. The right way to engage your shoulders. The wrong way to lift the leg.
Now, get ready to break them. What if you wrap over instead of under? Will you like it with an arch instead of a curl? What are your limits?
Are you ready to geek out about movement and find out what makes you different? Unhinged is a retreat for aerialists ready to reclaim their time and lean into their desires to throw a middle finger to being told what to do.
Through new skills, sequences, & creative techniques, you’ll fill your artistic cup & speed up that journey toward your personal goals. You’ll veer into uncharted territory, follow your curiosities, and share supportive space. This retreat is for aerialists who are ready to explore the power of being confidently, radically Unhinged. The purpose of this retreat is to explore the creative and technical possibilities of movement on aerial fabric and aerial hoop.
It’s going to get weird and we can’t wait.
Unhinged Fabric•Hoop•Flex Aerial Retreat will have 3 daily training sessions.
Morning classes include: aerial silks and aerial hoop. Expect a multitude of flippy shebangs, floppy noodles and ding dang doodles. Guided adventures through swooshy, spinalicous puzzles and head scratching melty mazes.
Afternoon classes: alternating hoop/fabric and flexibility. Channel your inner shrimpy powers or just roll around on the floor with us singing songs about cute pets.
Creative classes: gloriously weird creative methods will be shared with an effort towards an all out, end of day dance party.
The rest of our time can be spent eating amazing, healthy food, swimming in the warm river and ocean, reading in hammocks, and breathing the tropical air.
Intermediate/Advanced Levels WELCOME!
You should have an understanding of and be able to execute the following skills:
Suck on your own toes
Perfect Lion Rolls
at least 15 different ways into Belay
Name every boney landmark in the body
Recite Shakespeare while in a bridge
Please reach out to Brit and Jessica directly if you have questions or need clarity on these prerequisites. They are very open to working with people who are actively working toward skills, even if they aren’t nailing them yet. You can contact them at aerialfirebird@gmail.com and jessica@circusmobility.com.
Space is limited. Sign up now.
Sample of daily schedule
(choose as many or few classes/activities as you like)
8-9:30am Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
9am-12:30 Alternating fabric and hoop
1pm Lunch
2-3pm Pool-time, siesta, relaxing
3pm afternoon snack and ice coffee
3-4:15pm Alternating fabric and hoop
4:15-5:30pm Flexibility
7pm Dinner
8:15-9:15 Creative
We will take you to our favorite beach for swimming, surfing, snorkeling, and releasing baby turtles into the sea.
Together we will research:
Aerial Fabric (silks)
Aerial Hoop
Flexibility
Creative Exploration
Space is limited, so sign up now!
A CIA analyst turned circus artist, Jessica John is passionate about cultivating feminist aerial community and curious AF when it comes to movement. Based out of Oregon, she is the founder of Circus Mobility, coaching aerial and pole dancers with big technical, performance, and teaching goals. Jessica believes that foundational strength and mobility are the underpinnings of full movement expression. She is a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Trainer, and the director of award-winning feminist circus company Alter Circus. Jessica’s artistic work uses virtuosity and empathy to challenge gender as a social construct and rejects narrative structures as a primary humanizing device. She has performed extensively across North America, specializing in aerial fabric, rope, and dance trapeze.
Connect with Jessica here:
IG: @circusmobility
FB: Circus Mobility
Website: www.circusmobility.com
Brit is a movement artist fostering mental and physical empowerment through formative and inspired aerial coaching. The path she’s chosen in this life has always been about manipulating her body in artistic ways. For 19 years she trained and competed nationally in classical ballet and contemporary dance. In a rebellious turn of events around 2006, she traded her pointe shoes for circus props and gallivanted all over the country slinging fire on the streets for money. Those adventures cannon-balled her into the world of circus, and so began the wild love affair she has with aerial arts today.
She’s currently living in Hawaii where she coaches and mentors students 1-1 across the globe. As a way to connect with a wider range of artists geographically, Brit spends time cooking up virtual intermediate/advanced level aerial hoop workshops and virtual learning opportunities for the hoop community. She continues to fall in love with the process of being a student herself by seeking high level coaches and mentors in the industry to further develop her work. She’s studied extensively in aerial and flexibility with numerous coaches and has completed a plethora of anatomy, aerial movement, dance and coaching specific training programs from industry leading professionals.
Her approach as a coach is largely focused on deep diving into how individual humans execute movement in an effort to increase the scope of possibility for all bodies in the air. In addition to Brit’s infatuation with efficient training and creative development, she is unwavering in her quest for longevity in this art form. She’s passionate about chasing knowledge and uncomfortable situations where personal growth is imminent. Brit’s often looking for ways to share her work with the community on a deeper level and is actively contributing as a coach in The Parish, a virtual space for aerialists of all levels and disciplines—founded by Circus Mobility.
Connect with Brit here:
IG: @aerial_firebird
FB: Brit Crumpton Aerial Coaching
Website: www.aerialfirebird.com
Email: aerialfirebird@gmail.com
Rates for Unhinged Fabric•Hoop•Flex Aerial Retreat
Click here for room descriptions.
Rates are listed in USD. A $500 deposit is required to save your spot. Payment is due in full by April 1, 2023. To get the early bird discounted price, you must pay in full by January 15, 2023.
| Room | Early Bird Price until Jan 15, 2023 | Full Price |
| Dorm (up to 4 people – mixed gender) | $2200 | $2500 |
| Private room w shared bathroom | $2600 | $2900 |
| Private room w private bathroom | $2900 | $3200 |
Rates refer to cost of one person’s tuition.
Couples/SO’s are welcome at an additional price.
Prices for Unhinged Fabric•Hoop•Flex Aerial Retreat include:
- Ground transportation to/from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to our accommodations*
- Accommodations for the duration of the retreat
- Daily meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner, & snacks/smoothies!
- 2 Daily classes (3-4 hours total/day)
- Photo shoot
- End of retreat showcase performance
- Evening Activities
- Trip to baby turtle release!
- 24 hour use of Swimming Pool, wi-fi, and Community Space
- Homemade chocolates, popsicles, and other treats
- COVID safety compliance
Space is limited. Sign up now.
Links for more information:
- Accommodations – room descriptions
- Meals and Food
- How to get here. Info and advice on booking your travel
- COVID Policy
- Weather in Puerto Escondido
- Testimonials
- Excursions
Discounts
- Sign up early to get the Early Bird Discount
- Refer a friend and get a $100 referral discount.*
- Sign up on our mailing list to find out about more discounts.
Questions? Email us at SweetRetreatsDR@gmail.com.
*Food service begins with dinner on May 5 , and ends with breakfast on May 12. The food is amazing!
** Arrive on May 5. Depart on May 12. Your taxi to/from the PXM airport is included if you arrive/depart on designated days. Click here for info about getting to Puerto Escondido.
**Referrals must be first time retreaters and not already have had communication or a relationship with Sweet Retreats.
Note about COVID 19
It is our first priority to make this retreat safe, fun and sustainable, and create a safe get-a-way for people to feel healthy and active during this time.
We have been running our programs throughout the entire pandemic, and we have established a safe and effective policy for safety without sacrificing fun.
Read more about out COVID Policy here.
Your responsibility before traveling to Casa Chango
- We ask everyone to quarantine as carefully as possible for 1 week before your trip to Mexico. This is to lessen the chances of bringing COVID or any other illness on the airplane and to our community in Mexico and at Sweet Retreats.
- Each participant is required to bring at least 1 home antigen test set (each set has 2 tests) to retreat. These help us identify whether or not a participant has covid if they show any symptoms of covid or if someone else tests positive. You can find at home antigen tests at most drug stores in the US or order then online.
- All participants are encouraged to get a COVID VACCINE before coming to this retreat.
- We may require each person to get a PCR test the day before traveling to Casa Chango.
Upon arrival
- During COVID times, our guests and teachers will be a pod and have limited interaction with the local community. We will take nature excursions, beach, river, and outings to local markets.
- Each participant is required to bring at least 2 home antigen tests to the retreat. These help us identify whether or not a participant has covid if they show any symptoms of covid or if someone else tests positive. You can find at home antigen tests at most drug stores in the US or order then online.
- Participants might be able to attend the retreat unmasked depending on the current state of global and local health.
- If a retreater begins to experience symptoms of COVID before or during the retreat, they will be required to get tested immediately and isolate from the group. If this occurs, extra financial investment may incur at the resident’s expense for isolation housing, medical, and/or transportation expenses. Sweet Retreats is not financially responsible for paying for alternative housing or medical expenses. We recommend research on travel and health insurance to help cover costs if that becomes necessary. Sweet Retreats staff will do everything in our power to take care of any sick participant.
- Once the retreat is over, all retreat services will end and participants will be on their own. If anyone tests positive and cannot travel back to their home country, they can book accommodations locally. We will provide them with our contacts for doctors and food services, but we will not be able to continue caring for the individual We encourage all participants to be prepared with funds, research, and a back up plan just in case they get delayed and/or sick after the retreat is over.
- These rules will update according to scientific evidence at any given time. Any participant who breaks this agreement during the retreat will be asked to leave with no refund.
Note: You may be required to get a COVID test before returning to your home country. We will schedule those tests for you, but participants must pay for their test ($40-$100 US). It is your responsibility to research your home country’s test requirements and request the appropriate test.
If a participant tests positive on their covid test at the end of the retreat, it is their responsibility to find housing once the retreat is over. Sweet Retreats cannot accommodate any retreater once the retreat has ended.