It’s officially happening! You have booked your first aerial photoshoot. Woohoo! Whether you are working with a professional photographer and performance grade lighting or your husband’s iPhone and an Amazon Ring Light, your success (and awesome pics) will be ensured if you follow a...

Summer is upon us (two weeks but who’s counting?) and the weather here in LA is getting warmer and warmer! Thank goodness for air conditioning, are we right?  Despite this, it can still be difficult to cool a large space (like most aerial studios!) and it’s...

It’s been a busy few weeks for us here at Womack and Bowman with Rachel giving birth to her beautiful daughter Genevieve Mary on June 12th. The (long) and difficult labor, feelings of confusion  (“Am I doing this right?”) and sleepless nights pale in...

WHAT IS YOUR AERIAL STYLE? Style is learned, adopted, manipulated, and developed over time. Sometimes on accident, sometimes on purpose, and often times both. Your style as an aerialist is a combination of the quality of your movement, technique, music choices, subject matter, trick combinations and transitions. Your style is what...

Have you ever caught a glimpse of yourself inverting on the silks in the studio mirror or reviewed a training video and thought “Aaargh!, why are my knees not straight? They totally felt like they were straight!” If so, you may have been experiencing the dreaded and oh-so-common...

On an early morning plane flight to Detroit, Michigan last Saturday on her way to a family event after a late night of performing, a busy week of training and house moving, Rachel started thinking about the challenges of time management. As aerialists, instructors...

A couple weekends back, we were in Oakland, California performing at The Crucible for the venues annual ‘Fire and Light’ Soiree. This performance was different then most as we literally performed our duo silks act surrounded by a ring of fire! Seriously! The Crucible...

One of our Master the Silks students recently posted this on the programs private Facebook page: It is a common question that we receive fairly often and we thought this as good a time as any to share our thoughts. Holes can appear/develop on...

So you want to take an advanced level aerial class? Master that twisty Hip Key drop that Karen learnt last month? Perhaps you secretly dream of performing at your studios next student showcase? But there is something stopping you. Preventing you from signing up, climbing up, stepping...

The Cross-Back, sometimes known as the ‘X’ Back into Straddle on the Aerial Silks is a foundational move and ‘right-of-passage’ for any beginning aerial student eager to progress to the Intermediate/Advanced level. Today, we are super excited to bring you another ‘mini-training’ video tutorial...