Aerialists, pole athletes and circus artists
Apparatus-specific flexibility from someone who performed it: shoulder lines for silks, back-bending for pole and contortion, hip range for straddles — programmed around your training week.
Flexibility & contortion
Flexibility and contortion coaching
Private flexibility coaching from a professional contortionist — active range, back-bending, splits and shoulders, built safely.
About this session
What flexibility & contortion coaching actually does
Eighteen years of coaching movement, starting in gymnastics, then circus, aerial, pole and contortion. I coach flexibility the way I train it myself: active control first, passive range second, and the strength to own every degree you gain.
Sessions run in person or on Zoom. A weekly group Contortion Foundations class also runs — see the booking calendar for current times and location.
What happens in a session
Three parts, every time.
- 1
Where you are
Honest assessment of active and passive range, and what is limiting each.
- 2
Build
Strength-through-range work so flexibility is usable, not just impressive.
- 3
Own it
A programme you can run between sessions, with progressions.
Good for
- Splits and hip range
- Back-bending
- Shoulder flexibility for aerial and pole
- Bridge and handstand prep
- Dancers and performers
Included
- Personalised programme
- Online or in person
- Video review between sessions
Who this helps
Who books flexibility & contortion coaching — and why
Adults starting flexibility from scratch
Most of my flexibility clients are not performers. They're adults who sat for twenty years and want their body back. The method is identical — assess, release, strengthen through range — just starting from where you are.
Dancers chasing specific lines
A stuck arabesque or a flat middle split usually has one limiting structure. Finding and fixing that beats stretching everything harder.
In the session
Techniques I actually use
Active flexibility method
Strength through range, from a coach who trained contortion professionally — range you own, not range you visit.
Back-bend and shoulder specialisation
Bridges, walkovers, splits and overhead lines, progressed safely.
Online or in person
Zoom sessions with camera coaching, or in person across Melbourne.
Video review
Send training clips between sessions and get technical feedback.
Questions
Before you book
Do you teach beginners?
Yes. Most people who come to me are not performers — they simply want to move better and have found stretching on their own does not work.
Is there a group class?
Contortion Foundations runs weekly (90 minutes, $40) — current times and location are in the booking calendar.
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