Aerial Silks & Hoop Retreat
April 4-11, 2026
Casa Chango Mexico, Puerto Escondido
Spend a WEEK in PARADISE with new friends, the beach, delicious, fresh, local food, and learn loads and loads of new aerial skills!
Enjoy 2 classes each day. The morning class includes technical training on aerial silks and aerial hoop with a focus on skills, sequencing, transitions and spinning to advance your training.
The afternoon classes will focus on creative development, flexibility, handstands, and cross training/injury prevention. The rest of your time will be spent eating delicious food, swimming in the pool, lounging in hammocks, and enjoying being in nature. There will be time to explore local markets and beaches as well as the local night life.
Daily Schedule Sample:
- 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Tea, Coffee and Breakfast
- 10:00 a.m. – Group Warm Up
- 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. – Aerial Class
- 1:00 p.m. – Lunch
- 2:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m. – Free time (pool, hot tub, hammocks)
- 3:30 p.m. – Afternoon snack and beverage
- 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. – Creative Development, Flexibility, Injury Prevention, Handstands
- 7:00 p.m. – Dinner
- 8:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. – Free time and evening activities
We will take you to our favorite beaches for swimming, surfing, snorkeling, and releasing baby turtles into the sea. Optional evening adventures include a bioluminescent lagoon & local night market.
Read more about our excursions here.
Bring your significant other or BFF at a special rate!
Aerial nerds can indulge in all of your hoop desires while friends and family can enjoy the retreat environment, delicious, healthy food, surfing, swimming, relaxing, and get into their bodies.
Prerequisites:
Aerial Silks classes will be taught at the Intermediate/Advanced level. Aerial Hoop classes will be taught at the Intermediate level.
Each student should be able to execute the following:
Silks:
- Climbs – Russian and French/Standard
- Straddle invert (doesn’t have to be perfect)
- Catchers lock
- Foot wraps
- Hip key
- Basic drops
- Ability stay in the air moving/doing skills for 3 minutes without a rest
Hoop/Lyra:
- Straddle invert (doesn’t have to be perfect)
- Knee hang
- Ability stay in the air moving/doing skills for 2 minutes without a rest
Attending the aerial hoop retreat has reignited the flame that had been missing for so long and has given me new goals to work towards and skills to progress. This trip was definitely among the top choices I have made in my life.
Jessica Smielecki – Sebastopol, CA
Retreat pricing in USD:
| Your choice of accommodations: | Early Bird Price | Full Price |
| Shared Dorm (mixed gender) | $2300 | $2600 |
| Shared Room w Shared Bathroom (2 friends/couple sharing a room) | $2400 | $2700 |
| Shared Room w Private Bathroom (2 friends/couple sharing a room) | $2500 | $2800 |
| Private Room w Shared Bathroom | $2800 | $3100 |
| Private Room w Private Bathroom | $3100 | $3400 |
| Private Room w Private Bathroom & Air Conditioner | $3400 | $3700 |
$500 Deposit is required to secure your spot.
To get the Early Bird Price, you must pay in full by November 1, 2025.
Full tuition is due by March 1, 2026.
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.
What’s included:
- Ground transportation from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to Casa Chango if participants arrive to PXM on the specific arrival/departure dates listed.
- Arrive on April 4. Depart on April 11.
- Private or shared accommodations at Casa Chango eco-chic resort. Click here to take a look at your options.
- Daily cleaning service.
- 3 nourishing meals a day in our beautiful open-air kitchen. Click here to learn more about meals.
- Breakfast: 7:30-9:30am
- Lunch: 1-1:45pm
- Afternoon treat & ice coffee: 3:30pm
- Dinner & Dessert: 7-7:45pm
- Communal space for personal food storage in our kitchen.
- Use of all community areas:
- Swimming pool & hot tub
- Lounge with couches, books & a movie projector
- Kitchen & dining area
- Amazing 2000 square foot open-air Circus Gym
- Dance studio
- Hammocks for lounging
- Private hiking trail down to the Colotepec River
- 2 Daily Classes
- Aerial photo shoot (w access to up to 10 photos)
- Trips to local beaches and night market
- High Speed Internet
- Access to our network of Spanish teachers who provide private or group classes on-site.
- Access to our on-site massage space and network of body-work practitioners for hire who come on-site.
Links for more information:
- Casa Chango accommodations – room descriptions
- Meals and Food*
- How to get here**. Info and advice on booking your travel
- Weather in Puerto Escondido
- Testimonials
- Excursions
Discounts:
- Book and pay early and save $300!
ECO RETREAT CENTER
Casa Chango is an Eco Retreat Center. We do our best to live in harmony with the natural world. We are off grid, and use 100% solar power. We have dry composting toilets and use the humanure and food waste to create soil to feed the amazing plants and trees all around the property. We ask all of our staff and guests to come with the mindset of learning about and respecting nature. The gray water from our sinks and showers filter out to water the plants. Therefore we ask you to bring natural shampoos, conditioners, and toothpaste to your retreat. All of our buildings were designed and built to be cool and comfortable, and we hope you enjoy your stay with us.
Casa Chango is an animal friendly place. There are several friendly animals on site including dogs and cats. They will not enter your rooms, but they will be on property and in common areas during your retreat. Animal lovers will be in their happy place.
Native insects live in this area of Mexico. We fumigate regularly to keep insects away and out of your rooms. We also acknowledge that the insects are an important part of keeping nature in balance. Most of the community spaces at Casa Chango, including the gym, dining area, pool, lounge are open air which means there are no walls. You can expect to see a variety of native insects, birds, and lizards during your visit. We hope you enjoy the experience of living more connected to nature.
Questions? Email us at SweetRetreatsMexico@gmail.com
*Food service begins with a snack and dinner on arrival day, and ends with breakfast on departure day. All meals are provided. The food is amazing! ** 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.