The Warm ups

Just three days in to the physical work now and my muscles are begginning to feel it.. of course, we have to take care to warm up and stretch down well before and after each physical session. This can be up to four or five times per day.

I start before most of the crew get here with an hour or so of astanga yoga which helps to iron out the creases from the day before. We then meet up at 10:00am and it's time for a group warm up. Something I really love about this process is that we take it in turns to lead the warm up, inevitabley we all have different phsiques and different approaches to training different disciplines. To share in each others styles, not only gives a window into each others world but wakes up different parts of different muscles, and of course, it's loads of fun!

Whether it is a disciplined set of exercises from circus schools or martial arts teachers, or a more free, fun approach, we have to do what we can to prepare and keep our bodies in form for the demands we put on them!

Whether it's an aerobic dance off from Shelly aka Sheila from the deep south of the good ol' U.S. of A; or getting in tune with our spiritual depths with Kino's Yoga and Thai Chi, through all the range of more traditional circus exercises that our crew have aquired from there studies worldwide!