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🗓️ WORKSHOPS IRL:
23-24 February LAAF LONDON
29-31 May MAAC MANCHESTER
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🥁 SLING RETREAT
25-27 September WEST WALES​
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🐶 LIFE (P)UPDATE
​how Cai is doing, am i still an online coach? and other things you might be wondering...

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Workshops IRL

Happy new year and... a shout out to the 95% of self-employed humans I know in the UK who are currently in purgatory doing their tax return in the final week before the Jan 31 deadline. We've got this 💪 (I'm also doing my arts council completion report and film edit for Momentum Lab for the exact same deadline - a deadline which I inexplicably and voluntarily chose myself when I wrote the application 😳 Yes, really).
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Meanwhile here are TWO events in major cities actually outside of Wales that I'm teaching at IRL this year! (Spoiler alert if we do meet: i am 5 ft 1, not the 5 ft 9ish person that IG mysteriously makes almost everyone assume I am.)
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First up for last minute folks, bookings are filling up for my workshops at Flying Fantastic's London Aerial Arts Festival next month. I'm teaching 6 x pick and mix workshops from 23-24 February. It's £45 for one workshop or £105 for three.​
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​Three different juicy topics for rope (pop through/slack drag technique and choreo, S wrap saltos flips and cartwheels, flare technique for dynamics and spinning) and sling (foundational dynamics, advanced dynamics and C shaping).
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And secondly for those who like to forward plan, here's an early reminder that I'm ALSO back teaching at the wondrous MAAC in Manchester 29-31 May. You can check out the line up of coaches here and you can book tickets here.

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25-27 September • Sling Retreat! • Wales

This is not the Official Announcement™️ but a Save the Date to give you the heads up that I'm teaming up with one of my all time favourite humans, aerialists and coaches Tamati Samson for a sling deep dive retreat here at Small World Theatre, West Wales this September.
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It brings together our complementary knowledge on spinning (his absolute superpower) and dynamics (my obsession) into one juicy, jam-packed long weekend of loop. The space is booked, we just have to think of the fancy schmancy title to describe the smorgasbord of nerdy delights, technique and choreo we will be cooking up for you. But... EXPECT FLARES! Space is limited to 12 participants so if you're keen, hop onto the interest list to be the first to get the details...

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Life (and coaching) news

Last summer I explained that I was postponing the fall/autumn cycle of my 1:1 online coaching programme Flourish so that I could spend some more time with my dog Cai, who has a terminal diagnosis (secondary liver cancer after we nearly lost him to a splenic tumour in June).
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I also wanted to focus the rest of my time on my training/performance/creative practice ahead of my movement research project Momentum Lab which wrapped up last week. So this winter I carried on coaching a small number of very dear-to-me alums, which has been a joy (🫶 you know who you are).
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During this sojourn I had the space to realise that I needed... more of this. I'm only just scratching the surface of the work I want to create. And Cai's health - while currently doing super well, rinsing us for treats, refusing to go outside for wees or walks unless bribed with a bread crumb line of morsels then sprinting around like a puppy barking at the neighbours' cats on the other side of the fence; demanding that we play not one but TWO rounds of the cheese hunting game every night; you get the picture - is still really uncertain. We can expect to observe some decline any time from this spring. Obviously we're hoping that he's going to defy all veterinary expectations, but everything remains up in the air.
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​So during this phase of personal uncertainty and anticipatory grief (not to mention worsening global crises), I'm going to carry on coaching online, but quietly to a smaller number of folks and without a big launch. Because honestly, marketing takes more emotional energy from me than I have rn... ​
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My next coaching cycle starts 6 February. Online coaching spots are always opened to my alums first (expect an email soon!) but any spare places will be offered direct to my waitlist. I will be sending out the details, pricing and - if you're really keen - an application form to my waitlist soon. You can get on that list here:
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Remember - being on the list doesn't commit you to anything - you're just ahead of the curve info wise. And it helps me to see if there's any interest out there in what I might be offering online!
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That's all for now.
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Warmest wishes from West Wales,

Jess
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PS If you're going to be in LONDON in February, check out my workshops at LAAF​
PPS If you're going to be in MANCHESTER in May, check out the MAAC schedule!
PPPS If you want to visit WEST WALES in September, sign up for our sling retreat interest list in 1 click here​
PPPPPPPPPS Want ONLINE 1:1 coaching?! Join the waitlist or... just hit reply and we can have a good old fashioned email chat!