This email at a glance:
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🌼 STORY TIME • how I curate my inbox to avoid overwhelm (hint: it's about the lists obvs...)
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🌼 ONLINE 1:1 COACHING • Spring spots open to the waitlist - get on this list in 1 click for deets
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🌼 SLING RETREAT 25-27 SEPT • Opens soon for early bird reg - get on this list in 1 click for info
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🌼 FREE RESOURCE • Do you or your students find pop throughs confusing AF? Here's a quick reference cheatsheet for pop throughs and slack drags (those magical dynamic hand-slide transitions)
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Here's a little story about me, this email, my inbox and yours. But first, let's cut to the chase - if you feel inundated by the sheer volume of words and content flying at you while the world is on fire, it's OK to go ahead and Unsubscribe from all my emails right now. I get it. Truly.

Why do I even send emails? tl;dr because social media is unreliable and west Wales is farrrr away​
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As most of you know, I'm Welsh and live in a fairly remote part of West Wales. Someone recently described it to me as 'insanely beautiful but insanely... far'. He was not wrong. I love it in ways I can't even articulate. But it means there are only a handful of aerialists, and even fewer experienced vertical specialists.

So I started coaching online because it was a way to connect with folks working at the level of nerdy detail that interests me most as a coach (and earn an actual living obvs).
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Sounds easy enough, right? Ha. Not for me. I'm an academic and an aerialist, not a marketing specialist or psychologist. I'm a coach not a business person. I'm an introvert. I don't like 'bothering' people with emails. But social media is capricious and does not actually like small businesses overtly selling what we do. And so... here we are.
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All this by way of saying that now I'm both a consumer and an online coach, I understand these emails from Both Sides in a way I did not before.
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I now curate my own inbox like an angry cat.

🔴 The Unsubscribe button/link is obviously the Big Goodbye. No more comms EVER (unless you actively sign up again). I do use this a lot. If only all bad relationships came with this button. (In the same way I wish Ctrl+Z worked IRL). If you use Apple Mail, they usually offer you this too

and that does the same thing (bye bye 4evrrrrrr). No nuance here.

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🟢 The Waitlist or Interest list button/link is for the Nuance. A zero commitment way of getting the info about a very specific (usually time limited) Thing. You get a few emails over a set time frame, because apparently we need time to be romanced and persuaded right up until the deadline 🤷‍♀️. Waitlists are also the place for the Early Birds and the Discounts. But these lists (should) also include...

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🟡 The Opt Out button... because, it turns out that when you get more info on that Thing, you realise you don't want it and therefore you don't need any more emails about it. BUT you might be interested in something ELSE this person is doing, now or in future, so you don't want to totally End it All Forever. This, too, is a good button.
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And ofc, it's no sweat just hitting Delete if I'm not in the mood to make more decisions...

This email you're reading right now goes out to my entire mailing list (currently there are ~ 600 of you, you know that feels kind of beautifully intimidating? But it's still very small by mailing list standards).
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I don't write many of these. I try only to use them to:
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🎥📚 send out free aerial resources (or musings) you might find useful
🗓️ let you know about upcoming events (like irl workshops or online masterclasses)
👀 give you the links to sign up for the early bird lists (online coaching or retreats)
📣 let you know about public launches
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There might be the occasional blog, but on the whole I don't want to add any more words to the oversaturated world.
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Me, I try to have an email inbox full of only the things or people that truly speak to me, including a handful of exquisitely written email newsletters, my top three favourites being Rachel Strickland's Woo Corner, Oliver Burkeman's The Imperfectionist and Andrew Simonet.
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If you got this far in the story, thank you. Until I started to write these emails, I don't think I appreciated how much work went into those things I was deleting with alacrity from my inbox. But also... if curating your inbox is one way we can reclaim some agency in an info-overloaded world, it's so important to do it...

Online 1:1 Coaching​
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I'm currently keeping things very LOW KEY 1:1 coaching wise BUT I do have space for THREE new students available for spring cycle online 1:1s (rope and/or sling), from now til the end of May. I'm releasing these only to the waitlist, and applications close midnight Thursday 12 March. So get on the list asap.
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​You might like to work with me IF:
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🌻 you like detail and clear skill progressions for rope and/or sling​
🌻 you're curious about movement, pathways, connections that underlie skills
🌻 you like a gentle, non-intimidating nerd as a coach (if you want your butt kicked, that's not me)
🌻 you want more than 'just' the lesson - after our lesson you get reference videos, timestamped recordings and other relevant resources to guide your own training
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Sling Retreat - West Wales 25-27 Sept

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If you love sling and want to deep dive into dynamics (with me obvs) and spinning (with the incredible spin sensei Tamati Samson from Blue Moon Circus in Brighton) AND you want to visit beautiful West Wales at the dreamy tail end of summer and train at Small World Theatre, then you want to be on this list. Applications will open soon for early bird pricing!
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Pop Throughs and Slack Drags

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Annnd finally.. . I had a wonderful time teaching at London Aerial Arts Festival last month. Thanks to everyone I met there, who made it such a joy, especially Lucy for bringing homemade chocolate-peanut dates to keep me going 🫶
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While i was preparing for my 'demystifying pop throughs and slack drags' workshop at LAAF, I thought it might be useful to create a handy cheat sheet.
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Because when I first started exploring this family of skills, I found the whole thing confusing AF. So confusing, in fact, that I used to have a matrix of all the different rope/hand/leg placements and combinations written down on a scrappy bit of card.
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Now I've done (only very slightly) smarter in Canva - here's the live link or you can download the file below:
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​Pop Throughs and Slack Drags Cheat Sheet.pdf​
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(If you can't quite visualise what skills group I'm even talking about, here's a little reel)
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Let me know if you have questions (you can always just hit reply to this email)