What is Aerial Hoop?
Aerial hoop, also known as lyra or cerceau, is a metal apparatus resembling a hula hoop that is suspended from the ceiling and used to perform aerial acrobatics. Aerial hoop classes allow practitioners to float and create beautiful shapes in their hoop, while building strength, flexibility and confidence. Our aerial hoops are rigged on a single swivel point, which allows them to both swing and spin.
Our studio offers a variety of beginner, intermediate and advanced level aerial hoop classes that can accommodate up to 6 students. Learn more and sign up below.
Aerial Hoop Essentials – Beginner (Required)
Learn the essentials of aerial hoop safety, such as points of contact and weight placement, as well as how to build the needed strength, flexibility, and body awareness to safely mount, dismount and invert. In Aerial Hoop Essentials, you will learn and gain competency in a variety of foundational moves and simple combinations. This class is perfect for those new to aerial hoop, those wishing to practice the fundamentals or those returning to their practice after time away.
Requirements: No prior aerial hoop experience needed and all levels are welcome.
Aerial Hoop Mixed Levels
Work on building your strength, flexibility and body awareness through the practice of aerial hoop sequences. Your instructor will offer both modifications and advancements, as needed, to meet you at your level, so that you may honor your body, as well as challenge yourself at your growing edges.
Requirements: This class is open to all levels of students, who have mastered inverting and dismounting the aerial hoop safely and independently.
Aerial Hoop Flow Foundations
Want to enhance your hoop skills and start to bring more fluidity to your movements? Join Jill to learn the fundamentals of aerial hoop flow! Explore elements of grace and hoop control, musicality, transitions, pathways between familiar poses, pose variations, and other components of movement expression, while learning a choreographed routine set to music. This class is perfect for those with Arial Hoop Essentials skills, who are not quite ready for our more advanced Aerial Hoop Flow class.
Requirements: You must be able to mount and dismount the aerial hoop safely and independently. Competency with basic aerial hoop moves is required.
Open Studio Time
Wish you could get a little extra practice with the aerial hoop poses and sequences you learned in class? Come in for Open Studio Time! This self-guided class offers experienced practitioners the opportunity to review, troubleshoot, and master skills at their own pace. Independent practice often yields significant gains and provides a chance to focus inward without distractions. A studio hoop will be provided at no charge if you don’t already own one. Staff will rig your apparatus, and then you’re on your own to explore!
NOTE: Please review the Open Studio Time policy below carefully. Non-compliance with any part of it may result in disciplinary actions, including the loss of Open Studio Time privileges.
***CLICK TO READ*** Open Studio Time Policy
- Prior approval from an instructor is required to attend Open Studio Time.
- Students must demonstrate a high level of fitness, feel confident and safe with their apparatus, and be comfortable working independently.
- The instructor or staff member on duty has full authority during Open Studio Time, and all their directives must be followed. Failure to comply with staff instructions will result in the loss of Open Studio Time privileges.
- Students are not permitted to rig their own equipment. If adjustments are needed, please request assistance from the instructor on duty.
- Experimenting with unfamiliar equipment or modifying studio equipment or rigging is strictly prohibited. Tampering with studio property will result in immediate removal from Open Studio and may lead to a permanent loss of Open Studio privileges.
- Students are not permitted to teach other students. Teaching new skills to any student, regardless of their ability or experience, is strictly prohibited during Open Studio Time.
- Open Studio Time is for reviewing skills learned in class, not for attempting skills seen on social media. If you do not remember how to perform a skill, do not attempt it during Open Studio Time.
- Be respectful of others in this shared space. If you’d like to take videos, please obtain permission from any students who might appear in the footage. Live-streaming is strictly prohibited.
NOTE: If you are sick with any type or severity of symptom, please do not come to class and call or email us to let us know you are unable to make it. If you have had COVID-19 and would like to return to your practice at the studio, please follow the latest CDC guidelines regarding length of isolation and precautions: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/isolation.html.
