What is Aerial Hoop?
Aerial hoop, also known as lyra or cerceau, is a metal hoop apparatus used for 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, allowing them to swing and spin, adding dynamic movement to the practice.
Aerial Hoop Classes for All Levels
We offer beginner, all-levels, and intermediate aerial hoop classes to help you progress at your own pace. Each class accommodates up to six students, providing an intimate setting for personalized attention and guidance.
Learn more and sign up for aerial hoop classes below!
Beginner Aerial Hoop Classes
Aerial Hoop Essentials – Beginner (Required)
Focus on aerial hoop safety basics, including proper points of contact, weight distribution, and techniques for mounting, dismounting, and inverting in our Aerial Hoop Essentials class. As you build strength, flexibility, and body awareness, you’ll start creating beautiful shapes while mastering basic aerial hoop moves, transitions, and combinations. This class is ideal for aerial hoop beginners, those looking to reinforce the fundamentals, or anyone returning to their aerial hoop practice after time away.
No prior aerial hoop experience needed and all levels are welcome.
NOTE: Aerial Hoop Essentials is a prerequisite for all other aerial hoop classes at our studio.
All Levels Hoop Classes
Aerial Hoop Mixed Levels
Experience the perfect blend of strength, grace, and creative movement in our Aerial Hoop Mixed Levels Class! This class builds on foundational aerial hoop skills, adding flowing sequences and dynamic transitions to expand your aerial aptitude. Whether you’re perfecting core moves or refining advanced techniques, our instructors provide personalized guidance and variations to meet you where you’re at in this all-levels class. Build endurance, increase flexibility, and unlock fluidity as you work with the aerial hoop to explore unique shapes, controlled spins, and innovative tricks in a supportive, energizing environment.
Prerequisites: Students must be able to mount and dismount the aerial hoop unassisted, and have completed at least 4 Aerial Hoop Essentials classes or have instructor approval.
Intermediate Aerial Hoop Classes
Aerial Hoop Flow Foundations
Looking to enhance your aerial hoop skills and add fluidity to your movements? Join us for Aerial Hoop Flow Foundations, where you’ll master the key fundamentals of continuous flow in the aerial hoop. Explore graceful hoop control, musicality, smooth transitions, pathways between poses, pose variations, and other elements of movement expression, all while learning a choreographed routine set to music. This class is perfect for those who have fully mastered the basics and are ready to connect the poses they already know into a seamless, flowing performance.
Prerequisites: Competency with basic aerial hoop moves is required. Must be able to invert and climb to the top of the hoop unassisted.
Aerial Hoop Deconstructed
Ready to push your limits and take your aerial hoop skills to the highest level? Aerial Hoop Deconstructed is our most advanced aerial hoop class, designed for experienced students with a strong foundation in strength, flexibility, and body awareness within the hoop.
In this challenging class, you’ll explore a wide variety of advanced aerial hoop techniques, including dynamic transitions, intricate combinations, spanset work, and unique shapes. You’ll learn to use every part of the hoop as you refine your technique, build power and control, and expand your movement vocabulary.
Whether you’re training for performance or deepening your personal practice, this class offers the structure and progression needed to elevate your aerial artistry.
Prerequisites: This is an advanced-level class. Students must have significant prior aerial hoop experience or receive instructor approval to attend.
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 session offers experienced aerial hoop practitioners the opportunity to review, troubleshoot, and master poses and transitions at their own pace. Independent practice in aerial hoop often leads to significant gains in strength, flexibility, and body awareness, while giving you a chance to focus inward without distractions.
A studio aerial hoop will be provided if you don’t already own one. Our staff will rig your apparatus, and then you’re free to explore your aerial practice!
Prerequisites:
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.
