Instructor Profile

2025 Instructor lineup
Carissa

Carissa is an aerial and hula hoop instructor from northern Illinois. She has started her own business, Circus Inspired Fitness. She provides safe and creative classes and performances.

Aerial has given her childhood dreams a chance to soar into her adult life. She loves to share the freedom in self expression and strength that aerial has given her with others. Seeing others grow and glow as they explore their own unique aerial journey brings her the most joy.

Aerial Conditioning
A morning aerial conditioning class that focuses on awakening the neuromuscular connection for a strong and focused morning. This class will have progressions for all levels to be appropriately challenged.This class will focus on using ground and in air movements that those participating will be able to take back home with them and use in their own practices.
Entries into cross backs on silks
This workshop will focus on the many different entries that there are into a crossback and the skills we can connect into after.Prerequisites for this class are to be able to enter double footlocks.
Foot Hula Hooping
This in this hula hooping workshop we will be focusing on the feet. Those participating will learn the foundations on how to foot hula hoop on the ground as well as standing. This will lead us into how to switch what foot the hula hoop is on and lead into progressions of combos.