acro
Acro Tumbling 
/ with Henrik and Ali (2025)
Perfect your gymnastic-style tumbling technique by focusing on body tension and awareness, while building up your tumbling vocabulary through a structured progression of skills and exercises. This workshop is for all levels, from basic to more experienced.
Handstands
/ with Henrik and Ali (2025)
Improve your handstands by working on longer holds, various entries and exits, body alignment, and efficiency in balancing, incorporating different leg positions. Now it’s not straight after lunch!
Partner Acro
/ with Henrik and Ali (2025)
In this workshop, participants will work in duos and groups to build foundational skills in partner acrobatics and hand-to-hand techniques, focusing on safe and efficient progressions. No partner required.
Prereqs: No specific acro prereqs but must be comfortable working closely with other people and giving/ receiving weight.
Acrodance Flow (Week 1)
/ with Alberto Díaz (2025)
Acro-dance is a flow of movement between different acrobatic styles and dance in its broadest sense.
This workshop will focus on providing foundational concepts to develop fluid movement, teaching acrobatic elements that can be used on hard floor, and basic combinations of elements.
Handstands (Week 1)
/ with Patrician Cowan (2025)
Handstands are for everyone—and that’s exactly what my class will show you. A perfect yin to the aerial yang, handstands help counterbalance that pull of aerial work and offer a fresh, creative way to incorporate inversion shapes and play into your aerial practice.
Over the five-day course, we’ll progressively cover the fundamentals of hand balancing, starting with helping you to develop a solid straight-line alignment as the foundation for building shapes, transitions, and more advanced handstand skills. Each day, I’ll share two of the most effective foundational drills I’ve discovered throughout my own handstand journey—exercises you can take with you to support and strengthen your ongoing handstand practice. In addition, each class will focus on a specific handstand shape, starting with the classic straight-line circus-style handstand and progressing into tuck, straddle, and multi-shape variations, including work toward the ever coveted press to handstand skill.
My classes are thoughtfully structured with suitable modifications to ensure that any skill or movement offered is accessible and achievable for everyone, so no previous experience is needed!
About Patricia:
Patricia is a passionate sports physiotherapist and certified yoga instructor from Belfast with a diverse background in gymnastics, dance, and aerial. Patricia began her handstand journey back in 2018 after graduating in Manchester and has hosted regular handstand and arm balancing workshops for the Manchester Aerial and Acrobatic Convention (MACC) and other Manchester based festivals.
With her strong educational foundation in physiotherapy, Patricia is passionate about helping her students explore innovative, functional, and enjoyable ways to safely transition into inversions.