AcroYoga Intensive Weekend w/ Kimberly Akuna
Saturday, July 20th – Sunday, July 21st, 2019
Join AcroYoga Instructor Kimberly Akuna at this summer’s acroyoga intensive weekend! Whether you are brand new to the practice or an experienced practitioner, she will take you to the next level. Build a solid foundation, get a taste of the different disciplines of acroyoga, learn acroyoga-specific drills to get stronger, more flexible and better – faster! There will be time to explore, discover new things and take photos. AND, we’ll be exploring different shapes and group poses and machines.
Schedule
Saturday
8:30-9:00am Registration
9-10:30am Session 1
10:45-12:15pm Session 2
Lunch
2-3:30pm Session 3
3:45-4:15pm Session 4
Sunday
9-10:30am Session 5
10:45-12:15pm Session 6
12:15-1pm Questions/Photos
Investment
Three ways to pay, unlimited ways to have fun!
$225 per individual (great way to meet people!)
$350 for two (that’s $175 per person!)
$450 for three (only $150 per person!)
Participants must pay TOGETHER in order to receive the discount.
Limited private lessons available upon request.
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER:
For individual:
paypal.me/KimberlyAkuna/225
For pair:
paypal.me/KimberlyAkuna/350
For trio:
paypal.me/KimberlyAkuna/450
Don’t forget to include in the comments your full name(s), email address(es), and cell phone number(s)!
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/450491525509001/
About the Instructor
Kimberly Akuna, ERYT-500, AYM L2, YACEP is a certified acroyoga and yoga instructor. She has more than 2,000 hours of training and taught thousands of students around the world. Based out of Saint Louis, Missouri, she travels around the USA and Europe teaching both disciplines. While at home, she is the creator and director of the Mind & Body Program for Missouri’s largest hospital system, Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Her teaching-style is down-to-earth, approachable and direct. Her classes are centered around safety and inclusiveness. She believes strongly that body-positive and empowering language enable her students to be more comfortable and have more fun.
Join AcroYoga Instructor Kimberly Akuna at this summer’s acroyoga intensive weekend! Whether you are brand new to the practice or an experienced practitioner, she will take you to the next level. Build a solid foundation, get a taste of the different disciplines of acroyoga, learn acroyoga-specific drills to get stronger, more flexible and better – faster! There will be time to explore, discover new things and take photos. AND, we’ll be exploring different shapes and group poses and machines.
Schedule
Saturday
8:30-9:00am Registration
9-10:30am Session 1
10:45-12:15pm Session 2
Lunch
2-3:30pm Session 3
3:45-4:15pm Session 4
Sunday
9-10:30am Session 5
10:45-12:15pm Session 6
12:15-1pm Questions/Photos
Investment
Three ways to pay, unlimited ways to have fun!
$225 per individual (great way to meet people!)
$350 for two (that’s $175 per person!)
$450 for three (only $150 per person!)
Participants must pay TOGETHER in order to receive the discount.
Limited private lessons available upon request.
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER:
For individual:
paypal.me/KimberlyAkuna/225
For pair:
paypal.me/KimberlyAkuna/350
For trio:
paypal.me/KimberlyAkuna/450
Don’t forget to include in the comments your full name(s), email address(es), and cell phone number(s)!
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/450491525509001/
About the Instructor
Kimberly Akuna, ERYT-500, AYM L2, YACEP is a certified acroyoga and yoga instructor. She has more than 2,000 hours of training and taught thousands of students around the world. Based out of Saint Louis, Missouri, she travels around the USA and Europe teaching both disciplines. While at home, she is the creator and director of the Mind & Body Program for Missouri’s largest hospital system, Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Her teaching-style is down-to-earth, approachable and direct. Her classes are centered around safety and inclusiveness. She believes strongly that body-positive and empowering language enable her students to be more comfortable and have more fun.
Stripped Down: Building Yourself Up with Burlesque!
Sunday, June 30th at 1 PM – 2:30 PM
EVERY BODY IS A BURLESQUE BODY! Part discussion part dancing, this body positivity course is designed to build your confidence and allow for open discussion in a comforting and supportive space. Miss Love Lee is a local burlesque performer, radio DJ, and founder of local burlesque troupe, The Kinky Cabaret. Hear how burlesque changed her life and led her on the path to self expression and self acceptance. Learn techniques to improve your self image, and a few moves to embrace your sensuality! Mimosas will be provided!
$20 ($5 off with Burlesque for Beginners enrollment)
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/375307506444229/
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
EVERY BODY IS A BURLESQUE BODY! Part discussion part dancing, this body positivity course is designed to build your confidence and allow for open discussion in a comforting and supportive space. Miss Love Lee is a local burlesque performer, radio DJ, and founder of local burlesque troupe, The Kinky Cabaret. Hear how burlesque changed her life and led her on the path to self expression and self acceptance. Learn techniques to improve your self image, and a few moves to embrace your sensuality! Mimosas will be provided!
$20 ($5 off with Burlesque for Beginners enrollment)
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/375307506444229/
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Burlesque for Beginners: An Intro to Burlesque!
Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 11:00 AM –Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 12:00 PM
Do you want to try burlesque, but don’t know where to start? Maybe you are just looking to learn something new that will increase your confidence? This 6-week course will introduce you to the basics of the art form of burlesque! Whether you are looking to perform on stage or build self-esteem, you will learn a lot about yourself through burlesque. Over the six weeks, we will go through costuming and stage makeup, building a character and style, classic burlesque reveals and peels, pasties - how to make them and use them, and even learn a short choreographed dance!
Cost: $130
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2374971616161405/
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Do you want to try burlesque, but don’t know where to start? Maybe you are just looking to learn something new that will increase your confidence? This 6-week course will introduce you to the basics of the art form of burlesque! Whether you are looking to perform on stage or build self-esteem, you will learn a lot about yourself through burlesque. Over the six weeks, we will go through costuming and stage makeup, building a character and style, classic burlesque reveals and peels, pasties - how to make them and use them, and even learn a short choreographed dance!
Cost: $130
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2374971616161405/
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Past Workshops
Aaron Koz Workshops - Straps, Acro & Press Handstands
June 12-13th
Intro to Aerial Straps Class/Intensive (Two days)
Part 1: Wednesday, June 12th 7-9pm
Part 2: Thursday, June 13th 7-9pm
Learn fundamental techniques for safe and effective training of aerial straps that will improve your power and control across all apparatuses. Students warm up using a set of exercises designed to pre-habilitate and strengthen the shoulders, then cover fundamental static positions on straps (meathook, inverted straddle, nutcracker, croc, support, flag, and side balance). The end of the workshop will focus on 2 and 1-arm spinning using the dynamic technique of flares to invert to different positions. Straps are fun!
This workshop will be beneficial for aerial artists who want to improve their spinning technique, meathooks/reverse-meathooks, roll-ups, and other skills on any apparatus. No straps experience required.
Students will not be conditioned to death. They WILL learn a series of progressive conditioning and skill drills to walk away with to make gains for weeks (for planches/inversions/dynamic movement) after the intensive.
Prerequisites: 2 arm inversions of any kind (straddle-up, tuck-up, pike-up), 1-arm hangs with engaged shoulder for 10-20 seconds (or 2-arm for 30), and 20-30 second wall handstand or 45-second plank.
Cost: $150 for the 4 Hour Intensive
Slots: 4 Min, 10 Max
Introduction to Dynamic Trio Acro (Throw Your Friends)
Wednesday, June 12th, 5-6:30pm
Come learn a introductory progression of trio acrobatic swings, banquine, and maybe even a pass the flyer sequence. Bases will learn proper swinging technique and spotting all the way up to swinging a flyer to standing on forearms shoulder-stand. Fliers will learn form for swings and will progress from swings to the floor all the way to swinging to shoulder stand and potentially further. Trios will work banquine basics.
Pre-requisites: Be able to fly or base L-basing shoulder-stand/candlestick, ability to hold your own bodyweight hanging.
Cost: $60
Slots: 6 Min, 15 Max
Press Handstand (Quest for the Press)
Thursday, June 13th, 5-6:30pm
Want a handstand press (straddle, pike, side, or split)? This workshop will cover the theory and practice needed to progress over time and gain a press handstand. Participants will be given tools needed to approach their challenge to press handstands on their own, whether the limitation is compression, flexibility, or strength. No handstand needed as balancing and pressing are two separate skill sets.
No matter your skill level participants will be given the tools and programming to overcome barriers to their unlocking their press handstand.
Prerequisites: Full body weight bearing on hands, no wrist/elbow/shoulder/spinal injuries. Endurance of 1 minute in plank or handstand.
Cost: $60
Slots: 6 min, 15 Max
(Aerial) Flips n Sh*t (Semi-Private)
Thursday, June 13th 2-3:30pm
This workshop will cover a variety of fun, dynamic, and adrenaline producing skills on a variety of apparatus (straps, rope, trapeze….) partially dependent on participant interest. A grab bag of party tricks with scaled and spotted progressions for catch and release movements, beats, and more. Get ready to eat mat, make gains, and be safely afraid.
Prerequisites: Must have 3 minute flight time, be comfortable inverting several times in a row from a climb, and be comfortable building and moving through triangle wrap, s-wrap and z-wraps.
Cost: $60
Slots: 3 Min, 5 Max
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Aaron Koz is a traveling movement and circus coach and co-author of The Aerial Spinning Reference Guide. He completed his undergrad in neuroscience, and is a certified Born to Fly provider (available for online mentorship and strength programming. Moving from Washington, D.C. to NYC, he started at Circus Warehouse’s intensive program, and since has studied under elite coaches in SF, Montreal, and Mexico. He draws from his background in neuroscience to augment his work as a coach and personal trainer and collaborates heavily with physical therapists to help augment and structure his teaching offerings. He has performed and taught internationally in places like Ireland (Irish Aerial Dance Festival) and Saudi Arabia.
-Aaron currently works part-time as Physical Therapy Technician for ACRO Physical Therapy with Angie Prescott, DPT, CSCS (co-author of The Aerial Spinning Reference Guide), and teaches regular classes/lessons in the DC area. He recently completed Alex Allan’s Dynamic Rope Teacher Training and Yoga405’s Rocket Yoga 50 hour teacher training.
