WARM DOWNS

Kinstretch® Lunch Warmup/down–All levels

1.30 – 2.30pm – Week 1
Space A, Dance studio- Tutor Laura Pero

This class can be taken as a warm up/joint preparation (if you’re just joining us for the afternoon) or as a warm down/maintenance/recovery if that’s the end of your EADF day and you’re off to spend the afternoon on the beach!

Kinstretch® training can be done both after or before skill practice as a form of movement enhancement.

Full body CARs (Controlled Articular Rotations)
Mobilising and activating each joint in isolation as a way to ignite and strengthen our functional movement capacities in preparation for any physical activity. CARs will build your understanding of your functional joint capacity and how, maintaining it daily, can serve your chosen skill practice.
By the end of this week CARs will become the ‘daily tooth brushing’ morning routine equivalent, for your joints and your fundamental movement health.

Monday: Kinstretch® Training
Upper body internal activation, shoulder rotation capacity and linear strength

Tuesday: Kinstretch® Training
Lower body internal activation, hip rotation capacity and linear strength

Wednesday: Kinstretch® Training
Spine mobility & hypermobility management.

Thursday: Kinstretch® Training
Love your extremities: Scapular, elbow & wrist strength.

Friday: Kinstretch® Training
Gravitational foundations: Knees, ankle & toe strength. Yes they matter, even in the air.

Yoga Lunchtime Warm up/down – All levels

1.30 – 2.30pm – Week 2
Space A, Dance studio- Tutor KJ Mortimer

This class can be taken as a warm up/joint preparation (if you’re just joining us for the afternoon) or as a warm down/maintenance/recovery if that’s the end of your EADF day and you’re off to spend the afternoon on the beach!

KJ’s Yoga class is able to supply dual focus… warming the body for those starting their practice or warm down the body to those closing practice for the day. The class focuses on connection to your body, finding length, balance clear body awareness. KJ leads a series of flowing asanas to work with the range of movement, working on agility and co-ordination.

If you have a yoga or exercise mat please bring that with you.

Flexibility – All Levels

6 – 7pm – Week 1 & 2
Space A, Dance Studio – Tutor Laila  Umeko

Functional Stretch

This class is open to all levels with the aim of stretching, supporting and restoring your body after a full day of classes. Aerials doesn’t have to be about having the biggest oversplits or the bendiest back… we’ll be working on functional flexibility to keep your bodies healthy and in tiptop form for aerial classes tomorrow of course! Active & passive flexibility techniques will be used as well as some partnered massage (if you’re lucky!) Let’s bend

6 – 7pm – Week 1 & 2
Space A, Dance Studio – Tutor Chrissie Ardill

This class is open to all levels with the aim to give your body stretch, support and restore your body after a full day of classes. Using both active and passive flexibility techniques, with an emphasis on breath and awareness. Come get flexible!

Contact Dance – All Levels

6 – 7pm – Week 1
Space A, Dance Studio – Tutor Magalie Lanriot

Magalie will guide you through a series of improvisational tasks working in pairs and in groups, finding techniques for flying, partnering and floor work with momentum and sensitivity and playing with the physics between bodies and gravity.

We’ll work with skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and supporting weight and expanding our range of spatial orientation, lifting, catching and falling to give a greater understanding of your gravity; sharing weight in motion and finding a flow through the physical contact.

Stretch and Massage – All Levels

Week 1
4.15pm – 5.45pm
Space A, Dance Studio – Tutor Magalie Lanriot

Week 2
6pm – 7pm
Space A, Dance Studio – Tutor Magalie Lanriot

This class can also be taken as a warm down but is 90 minutes duration in week 1.

In this warm down session, you’ll be led through simple Tailendaise massage sequences (Shiatsu and Thai), to ease up any pain and soreness in the body and help prepare you for the next day.

Each day we will target a different area of the body involved in aerial work e.g. the rotator cuff, the core muscles, the forearms and the lower back/pelvis and work with a partner to encourage greater flexibility, find space in the body, and a practical understanding of how to use these techniques to enhance your training.

VAYU Aerial Yoga® Class – All Levels

6 – 7pm – Week 1 & 2
Space E, Chandelier 2 (free-standing rig) – Tutor Lee Clayden

VAYU Aerial Yoga®, is a practice that has been developed to create space mentally and physically, by opening up the body through various postures using the custom designed yoga swing.

By using the support of the swing to move through various postures we are able to challenge and create space within the body whilst allowing the nervous system to relax, encouraging a letting go into complete surrender.

Inverting the body while suspended in the air not only provides many physical benefits such as spinal decompression, it also expands the mind by creating confidence, overcoming fear and allowing new found freedom and bringing a playful light energy to our hearts.

Last Updated on March 14, 2024