Uplift Active Aerial Fitness Blog

Learning to climb is rough when you're new to aerial silks. If you find yourself struggling to get your body up the silk, you can check out this blog for the few often overlooked mistakes you may be making while climbing and how to fix them! 

Whether you’re just beginning to acquire your own personal gear, or if you’re running an aerial studio, and on this blog, we'll be delving into some key tips to care for and maintain your aerial equipment to ensure that you'll be safe while flying!

Straddle ups are a foundational move for building a Lyra flow. Check out the 3 moves that you can practice to supercharge this move and you’ll be soaring with your straddle ups like never before. 

Inversions are a key component of most aerial yoga practices, but for many newbies they can be downright intimidating. On this blog, we've gathered the most common mistakes to avoid so you can take your inversion game to the next level.

Many of us come to aerial yoga because of its joyful and playful expression. However, we may also soon discover that the fabric is deceptively soft and more uncomfortable in certain aerial yoga poses, like inversions. This blog focuses on the discomforts that you will encounter while practicing aerial yoga, and how you can address it.

Happy World Mental Health Day! To celebrate, we share some tips on how to start a conversation about mental wellness, and how you can use your aerial practice to ease and soften mental health struggles.

We all suffer from fear to some degree and at some point in our careers. Even if you are not an aerialist, you probably have a list of fears. And on this blog, we will e sharing a few mind hacks that will help you turn nerves into something positive that can become a beneficial tool for your aerial journey.

How do you cultivate a community spirit in aerial yoga classes? Check out our easy but effective tips and techniques that will help you gain the trust of your students, build their self-confidence and most importantly, form lasting friendships in your classes.

Aerial arts are a relatively new art form, but its skills and knowledge are passed just like all the performing arts: from person to person over time. This blog focuses on what you can expect in the process of finding someone with the right expertise and skill set to help you grow as an aerialist.

Life is full of ironies. In the midst of the global pandemic, many of us may somehow be finding ourselves even busier than we were before. This blog highlights the importance of taking a break to be your best self and your very best aerialist. 

As aerial yogis and aerial artists, we all want to do our very best in performing our craft. How exactly do we set these personal standards and what do they look like? This blog delves into a few ideas for setting a gold standard for your aerial practice.