Empowering. Freeing. That's how instructors describe the experience of working with aerial silks. But they say people who have never stepped up to a mat and taken hold of the fabric — which is not, in ...

This playful practice can take your flow to new heights.

MUNCIE, Ind. — Lindsay Fuller will tell you starting a small business is terrifying. She should know; she’s done it three times. “I always wanted to have something for myself, something I could be ...

Over the years there have been a lot of exercise trends come and go, many of them involving forms of dance But this latest addition to working out literally takes exercise to new heights. The art of ...

Northern Lights Aerial Studio, in downtown Duluth, is about to celebrate its first birthday. Beginners' classes are open to everyone — even newspaper columnists. Instructor Alexa Wavrin, right, helps ...

Crissy Langhammer knows how it feels to lean into the tension. As an aerial silks instructor, there is a physical tension being up on a silk or rope: Your body isn’t used to being up in the air, ...

As a professional dancer, Cheryl “Che” Ackerman travelled the world, dancing at times with Lisa Lisa and Chaka Kahn. But her career came to a screeching halt when she suffered a neck injury at age 30.