Your body is not your enemy part 3 If you’re just tuning in, let me summarize what you’ve missed: Regular girl tries aerial and falls in love. She trains her little heart out without having any clue what she’s actually doing. She makes her way to circus school where she promptly breaks herself. Whoops. via …
Your body is not your enemy part 2 (Miss part 1? Here it is!) My arrival in Vermont was the crest of my Dunning-Kruger curve. I thought I knew it all! I was at the peak of Mt. Stupid, and I fell. Hard. Now that I had the opportunity to work with coaches who knew …
Your body is not your enemy Part 1 These days, I’m a person that people come to with their questions. Questions about a trick or skill, questions about how to help a student, and mostly questions about how their bodies work. A friend recently said “Lauren probably has the answer to any training-related question you …
Loafing Around So. Are you a loafer? via GIPHY Not like a person who eats a lot of bread (not that there’s anything wrong with that!), I’m talking ab loaf here. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, bread loaf or ab loaf is when your abs pop up or protrude or …
Core Strength: What does it actually mean? Everyone talks about it. Everyone knows it’s important. Everyone wants it. But what does “Core Strength” even mean? Is it rippling abs? A 6-pack? Do you get it by doing approximately 1 million crunches? Or holding a plank for 5 minutes? via GIPHY And hey, what IS your …
Circus hurts…but should it?! It’s one of the first things that you hear when you get into circus: “circus hurts.” It’s true, to an extent. We do all sorts of weird shit in circus that’s bound to bruise or abrade us – whether it’s getting your intestines squeezed out of you by some fabric wrap, …
