Hard skills need soft skills 🪽

Hey Reader,

OK I'm here to talk about SKILLS: aerial skills AND all the other skills we use and need to function and feel fulfilled as aerialists...

But first, a little housekeeping... if you missed my earlier email, I'm excited to announce that doors to my online coaching programme Flourish are now OPEN to the public for the fall/autumn cycle! You can read more about it here

And if you want to hear nothing more about it you can:

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HARD AF skills needs soft AF skills 🪽 what does THAT mean?

I once read the term emotion work in a feminist essay; giving weight to the invisible but massive emotional labour that underpins marriage.

(Not a bad analogy. I've definitely felt married to my aerial practice at times 😏)

We spend a lot of time tending our meathooks, drilling our beats, building our spin tolerance... but maybe not so much on, for example, the old frustration tolerance for when sh*t happens.

Which it will...because life:

this post is still getting a lot of love on IG, so IKYK

A lot of the time we're just winging it: our practice = 'that thing when we're training'. But it isn't necessarily resilient...

But what if we had a toolkit to consciously grow a practice that has solid roots and supple branches? That can weather the storm AND keep adapting to meet our needs? That allows us to be versatile, adaptable, gives space to ALL our interests, nurtures all of ourselves over time...?

I've re-designed my online coaching programme Flourish because it's my experience as coach that folks learn skills better, can access creativity when they have a solid support structure - a solid practice - to grow from.

And I want to teach folks how to build a practice ALONGSIDE coaching the aerial skills inside it!

This is how Flourish works as a programme over three months:

GROUP CLASSES (x 6 /off apparatus) to: audit your practice, identify weakspots, strategies for time and expectation management, metrics for success and consistency and prompts to develop creative capacity and movement quality.

NERDY RESOURCES - lifetime access to a masterclass library of >12 deep dive masterclasses and workshops on a range of topics from dynamic and rolling technique, tackling nemesis skills, transitions and sequencing, broadening vocab... with a WhatsApp study group focusing on a new topic every week to keep you accountable to watching the recordings!

1:1 COACHING (3 x 1 hour sessions) - for skill acquisition work (rope or sling) tailored to your own goals OR creative mentorship (any apparatus) - detailed focus on a creative process or movement.

With TWO OPTIONS for participation: a GROUP-only strand (minus 1:1 coaching) OR the FULL 1:1 strand for coaching and/or mentorship

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Jess made the planning, execution and achieving of new skills seem effortless. She helped me get further in touch with my body awareness & technique and was so encouraging and warm along the way. I also feel more knowledgeable about dynamic movements and how my body should feel when executing them. My form has improved and I feel stronger and safer in my body.
- Colleen

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Jess is a detailed and conscientious teacher who pays attention to your specific needs... She is able help you with a productive lesson even when you have low energy / mood days. The is very knowledgeable on the relationship between the body movement and the aerial apparatus and pays a lot of attention to detail... she is very skilled at helping her student overcome roadblocks in skill training
- Bunmi

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I've worked with Jess for the past 2 years on my rope practice and she has been THE most kind, knowledgeable, and patient instructor. She always seems to know the right corrections, the right cues, and the right progressions/regressions for things. I wholeheartedly recommend her.

- Mina

"Consistency and accountability worked really well for me. I've gained the building blocks for the skills I want to learn and more importantly i've built the habit of putting the conditioning and drills into my everyday practice" - Emma

Flourish - all the details and sign up options here 🍓

Warmest wishes from West Wales,
Jess

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Hi! I'm Jess @awyrol

Hard skills need soft skills 🪽

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