This one-day suspension intensive is an introduction/invitation to my happy-go-monkey approach to self-suspensions. The content is centered around my insistence on functionality and love for creativity, movement, and physical challenge in self-suspensions. 

Whether or not you tie in this style, this class is a great space to learn about weight distribution, composition, and transitions in self-suspensions, build your upline management skills and confidence, and find new inspiration.

The ties/patterns taught in this workshop are offers/ideas (open to adaptation), chosen because they are efficient and sensible to self-tie, functional and simplistic rather than elaborate, and versatile in many kinds of suspensions.

We will also focus on safety matters such as smooth upline management, planning exit routes, and spotting for each other when self-tying. 

Focusing on transitions is not mandatory but the content offers tools to explore movement in the air, including some tricks for smoother inversions. Suspensions are key to this workshop but you may choose to stay close to the floor, according to skill level and preference.

Skill requirements

• basic understanding and body awareness regarding nerve injuries and other risks related to

• rope bondage and suspensions; mindfulness around any existing injuries

• you tie solid single- and double-column ties, and a set of frictions (which can vary depending on your style of tying)

• you have learned and practiced suspendable patterns on yourself or others

• you have been taught at least one way to lock an upline on a single-point