Past Workshops
Handstands All Levels
with Samantha Halas
Saturday, July 6th @ 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Price: click below for info
Event Address: Prairie Circus Arts (195 Collegiate St.)
Capacity: 12 people
Age: 18+
This workshop is about BALANCE, learning how to find the center of your balance and increasing the strength, alignment and range of motion on top of that center point. We will focus on shoulder flexibility, toe point and middle splits to help with alignment in handstands and handstand presses. We will learn drills that increase awareness and teach us how to isolate and engage our muscles in ways that will make us lighter and facilitate lifting our body weight with ease.
For more advanced hand-balancers we will train for fluid movements and foundations for shifting to more complicated balances. We will analyze common mistakes as well as key insights for self-training that will help us avoid generating counter-productive habits. In this class we will use balancing as a magnificent way to become in tune with our body and evolve our relationship with the floor. With partners we will learn how to spot and help our friends in their progress while using this outside eye to improve our own understanding.
Contortion Technique for All Levels
with Samantha Halas
Saturday, July 6th @ 1:45 - 3:15 pm
Price: click below for info
Event Address: Prairie Circus Arts (195 Collegiate St.)
Capacity: 12 people
Age: 18+
Ever feel stuck making progress on your flexibility? In this class you will learn a series of exercises that isolate and target tight muscles. You will learn techniques and ways to push your range of motion safely with good alignment and attention to making nice lines. Using a mixture of active and passive flexibility, strengthening while we stretch we will get a good workout at the same time as fine tuning our command over our movements.
In this class we will learn techniques for strengthening your backbend and splits as well as ways to understand how to optimize your flexibility in all parts of your spine and hips.
Most people bend naturally in their lower back and neck but are weaker in these spots. Many people have a harder time with the upper back, shoulders, hips. We will examine ways to access these muscles by isolating these parts and stretching/ strengthening them one at a time. We will use proper warm up and cool down techniques to keep your joints healthy for bending. Our goal will be to create interesting shapes and movements with our bodies, pushing the limits of where we have been able to go before.
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*There are no prerequisites for this class, your instructor will cater the training to meet the needs of the class.
Hand balancing
for All Levels
with Samantha Halas
Wednesday, December 13th @ 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Price: $30 ($60 for both workshops)
Event Address: Prairie Circus Arts (195 Collegiate St.)
Contortion Technique
for All Levels
with Samantha Halas
Wednesday, December 13th @ 7:15-8:45 pm
Price: $40 ($60 for both workshops)
Event Address: Prairie Circus Arts (195 Collegiate St.)
Dynamic Aerial Silks Workshop
with Rio Ballerani
Saturday, September 16th @ 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Sunday, September 17th @ 10:00 - 11:30 am
Price: $85 for both workshops
Capacity: 12 people
Event Address: Prairie Circus Arts (195 Collegiate St.)
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Handstand Workshop with Leyna
Thursday, August 31th @ 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Price: $30
Event Address: Prairie Circus Arts (195 Collegiate St.)
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Aerial Silk Choreography Workshop with Leyna
Tuesday, August 29th @ 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Price: $30
Event Address: Prairie Circus Arts (195 Collegiate St.)