Silks, Sling, & Lyra
Skills, Conditioning, Flexibility, Creativity
At Casa Chango in Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Spend a WEEK in PARADISE with new friends, the beach, delicious, fresh, local food, and learn loads of new Aerial Skills!
This retreat is for aerial students who are just beginning their journey into aerial arts. Classes will be focused on foundational skills, technique, strength building, flexibility and creativity. We will work with 4 apparatuses to get a well-rounded dive into aerial arts. Each apparatus teaches us different skills that help us excel at anything we do in the air. We will also practice our skills and sequences with different kinds of music and themes in order to explore our creativity within and around the skills.
This retreat will have 2 daily classes – The morning class will focus on movement efficiency, technique, and skills progressions, with each day building on the skills taught on the previous day. Afternoon classes will be focused on implementing the skills creatively and working with music.
When you aren’t training, you’ll be eating amazing, healthy food, lounging at the pool, swimming in the ocean, reading in hammocks, and enjoying being in nature. Get ready to move, play, breathe, feel, stretch, and express. At Casa Chango you are invited to shine and be yourself!
We recommend that each student arrives with at least 2-3 months of aerial classes, but total beginners are also welcome.
Kerri is an aerialist, dancer, choreographer, and coach. She has been performing and teaching acrobatics, dance, and aerial arts for over 23 years. Her life’s work, as an artist and teacher, has been to develop and deepen her study of the body—physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Kerri’s technical expertise comes from working with students of all ages, shapes, sizes, and challenges. She loves to figure out the best route for each individual, celebrating successes big and small. She has developed techniques using active flexibility, strength, and physics to work with physical movement and goals. Kerri’s knowledge of anatomy, physics, injury prevention, and realistic goal setting makes her teaching extremely effective. It is Kerri’s life’s purpose to support people in finding joy in their lives and make choices that serve them and allow space to wake up all that is possible.
Find Kerri’s performance videos here and Circus Fit free online tutorial videos here.
Here she is 🙂
Check in after 12pm on day of arrival - Retreat starts with lunch at 1pm
8-9:30 am: Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
10am-1pm: Aerial Skills and Technique
1pm: Lunch
1-3:30pm: Pool-time, siesta, relaxing
3:30pm: Afternoon Treat
5-6:30pm: Flexibility, creativity, aerial conditioning, injury prevention
7pm Dinner
8-10pm Evening activities
Check out by 10am on departure day - Retreat ends after breakfast on day of departure at 10am - If you depart after 10am, you may hang out by the pool while you wait for your taxi
Sweet Retreats are held at the Casa Chango Finca del Artes Retreat Center nestled in nature along the river just 1 mile from the beach. In addition to clean and safe accommodations, there is a swimming pool, an ocean view community eating area, a huge open air circus gym for aerial & acrobatics training, lots of hammocks for relaxing, and plenty of nooks to explore. It is awesome!
All cabañas are built with eco friendly materials that keep the rooms cool all day and night. The rooms are simple, clean, and tastefully decorated with fans and a veranda. The private rooms have a private or shared bathroom, and one room has the option for air conditioning. There are beautiful views throughout the property, and the sunset can be seen over the ocean all year round.
Our accommodation options include:
Private room with private bathroom, king size bed & veranda (optional air conditioner)
Private ground floor room with a queen or king size bed, shared bathroom & shared veranda
Private loft room with a king size bed, shared bathroom & veranda
Shared dorm room (mixed gender) up to 4 people with shared bathroom & veranda
For room details, pricing & availability, select “Buy Tickets”
Casa Chango is located just 10 minutes outside of Puerto Escondido beaches and markets. Daily trips to local beaches are available in addition to a quick hike down to our private river spot for a warm soak in the clear, clean water.
We will take you to Puerto Escondido where you can find bars, restaurants, discos, nightlife, and plenty of shops and markets to buy Mexican trinkets, beach garb, and anything else you might need. Puerto Escondido is a safe and welcoming town. For information about the weather in Puerto Escondido, click here.
Ground transportation to/from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to our accommodations is included if you arrive on May 18 and depart on May 25
Accommodations for the duration of the retreat
Daily meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert & snacks
2 Daily classes (4-6 hours total/day)
Applied Anatomy Workshop
Aerial photoshoot
Evening activities
Excursions to local beaches, baby turtle release, and night market
24 hour use of Swimming Pool, Jacuzzi, and Community Spaces
High Speed Starlink Wifi Internet
Kerri’s teaching is accessible, creative, and empowering. This retreat was one of the most inspiring experiences of my life. I can’t wait to go back. Taking what I’ve learned here and applying it in my home studio has inspired me to level up my aerial game; advancing my technique, my understanding of theory, and my creativity and intentionality. I cannot say enough good things about how enriching and powerful this experience in Mexico is, including the people I met along the way.
Kieran Stilson, 2022
Kerri is hands-down the best aerials instructor I’ve ever had. She has an unparalleled knowledge of the human body and how to create a safe, sustainable aerials practice. Whether you are just getting started, or having been practicing for years, Kerri helps take your practice to the next level and teaches wrap theory in a way that makes learning new moves at any studio more feasible. All her classes are energetic and fun, often featuring easy cardio dance routines that double as specific muscle warmups. After working with Kerri in one residency, I was so hooked I came back for a second. She is a one-in-a-million teacher, who really lives eats and breathes her craft, and it shows!
Sophie Sandweiss, 2022
Kerri is a lovely human being and a true master of her craft. I have never learned aerial silks in such a technical, digestible, applicable yet artistic, creative and vulnerable way.
Jessica Leong, 2022
Kerri imbues her classes with a really sweet combination of focused work, zany playfulness, and an earthy and body-positive sensuality. I walked away from my time as Kerri’s student more capable, skilled, and excited not just about aerial, but about the journey to reaching my goals. Kerri is skilled and optimistic, is genuinely there for you, and 100% rooting for you to “get that thing” and if you’re not there yet, can show you what needs to be done to get you to progress. She knows the value of the hard or ugly work, but she knows how to do it in a way that is fun and full of compassion for yourself and your journey.
Elizabeth Ferretti – April 2019
Cancellation Policy:
No Refunds. No exceptions. Deposits are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
Cancel more than 60 days before 1st day of retreat: 60% of your payment (not including deposit) can transfer toward a future Sweet Retreat.
Cancel 30-60 days before the 1st day of retreat: 40% of your payment (not including deposit) can transfer toward a future Sweet Retreat.
Cancel up to 30 days before the 1st day of the retreat: 20% of your payment (not including deposit) can transfer toward a future Sweet Retreat.
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