Week of Workshops
Handstands with Heidi
The Handstand Club is a supportive space for all levels, designed to boost your confidence and skills on your handstand journey.
Whips and Flow
Whips and Flow
Guided with care and precision, we will learn to time whips into a transitional flow. Come explore timing and power in safety.
Standing Acro
Standing Acro
A 5-hour workshop to strengthen and refine your standing acro—from L-base to 2-highs and hand-to-hand. Focus on alignment, connection, and smart progressions so your skills feel smooth, safe, and strong.
Hard Moves, Soft Balance
Hard Moves, Soft Balance
This class explores handsfree acro and creative flow, including slackro, hip-to-hip transitions, inversions, and mono balance progressions, with a focus on fear management and safe falling for intermediate practitioners.
Jankarian
Jankarian
The Jankcarian Express offers playful, unconventional Icarian pops to add creativity to your AcroYoga practice.
Whips and Icarians
Whips and Icarians
Link your favorite whips with icarians to create a delightful, swing and burst flow.
Tuck Tuck Boom
Tuck Tuck Boom
A playful standing sequence designed to build stronger tuck shapes, compression, asymmetric loading, and dynamic timing with your partner. You can train each element separately or connect them into a full flow for an added challenge.
Full Body Flow
Full Body Flow
Explore the edges of possibility in this breath-based acro flow crafted by Jill and Heidi. This class emphasizes reciprocity, full-body awareness, and technical precision as you move with your partner in a connected, mindful way.
Jam Space
Trio Swings
Trio Swings
A creative trio acro class exploring group swings and tosses with fresh variations and unexpected transitions. Expect familiar shapes reimagined as you play with timing, coordination, and dynamic group movement in new ways.
Hands Free Mania
Hands Free Mania
A handsfree acro and creative flow class exploring slackro, handsfree hip-to-hip transitions, inversions, and mono balance progressions. The focus is on developing confidence in handsfree skills, with a strong emphasis on managing fear and learning to fall safely.
The Five Principles
The Five Principles
Explore the YogaSlackers’ Five Principles of Acrobatics, a framework for more efficient, precise, and sustainable acro. We’ll break down each principle and apply it through simple exercises to improve your technique in poses, transitions, and flows.
Flowing Lifts
Flowing Lifts
Explore how weight sharing and momentum create effortless lifts and flight. Drawing inspiration from Kaeja elevations and contact improvisation, this class works with partnering loops, rotational lifts, and flowing entries and exits from the ground. Designed for similar-sized partners, with opportunities to explore both basing and flying roles.
Funky Washing Machines
Funky Washing Machines
Explore one of our favorite acro “machines” with creative twists and funky balance variations. This class supports different approaches, whether you want to flow fast, refine stability, or explore both. Reno and Sariah will demo and assist multiple versions, showing how one sequence can be adapted in many ways. Suitable for leveling up or down, […]
Road to Inlocate
Road to Inlocate
An exploration of the elusive Inlocate (a.k.a. Podceska), accessible for both hand-to-hand beginners and experienced practitioners. This class focuses on “learning how to learn” the skill, building the foundations needed for long-term progress. Expect plenty of repetitions and practical tools to continue developing it beyond the workshop.
Dance Dance Mania
Dance Dance Mania
A Lucha Libre–inspired partner lift class full of high-energy, theatrical movement. Explore dynamic lifts, throws, safe falls, and role reversals in a playful “fight” sequence built on collaboration and contrast. Expect drama, momentum, and a final dramatic finisher.
Handstand on Friends
Handstand on Friends
Refine your handstand form while learning how to adapt it to different surfaces, heights, and partners. We’ll explore creative and foundational standing partner acro skills, with handstands as the main focus. A playful class for building confidence, control, and adaptability in hand-to-hand work.
Icarian Foundations
Icarian Foundations
Explore the fundamentals of Icarian technique from the ground up. Newer students will learn their first pops safely, while those with prior experience can refine technique and build toward tempo work within this style.
Building Blocks
Building Blocks
A beginner-friendly class focused on foundational acro skills, building strength, ease, and fluidity from the ground up. Learn essential physical techniques alongside communication tools for working with a partner. Designed to help you build confidence, have fun, and establish strong acro fundamentals.
Authentic Relating
Jam Space
3 Bodies No Problem
3 Bodies No Problem
Explore L-base 3-person stacks and “Dutch stack” variations in a safe, progressive format for beginners to advanced practitioners. This class builds foundations for 3-high skills while bridging L-base and standing acro. Focus includes squats in chair/bird/throne, shoulderstand transitions, and entries to two-high (kneeling ok), with optional progressions for more experienced movers.
Cartwheel Pops
Cartwheel Pops
A flow-focused Icarian class beginning with side star tic-toc timing and progressing into cartwheel-style pops and variations. We’ll warm up Icarian fundamentals, develop clear timing, and build toward more complex airborne sequences with added dynamics and flow.
Reverse Star
Reverse Star
A focused clinic breaking down the R-Star entry, alongside alternative entrances and pathways into the pose. We’ll also explore ways to improve stability, control, and range of motion once in position.
Ballerina Strikes Again
Ballerina Strikes Again
A continuation of last year’s “sit and spin” exploration, this class introduces new variations and playful twists on the theme. Expect creative spins and entries, with possibilities shaped by flyer comfort and tolerance for skin friction. Extra clothing is recommended for comfort.
Power L-Basing Flow
Power L-Basing Flow
Explore a powerful and creative L-base flow blending different techniques within one sequence. We’ll experiment with hands-free elements, hand-to-hand connections, pops, and whips to build dynamic, flowing movement.
Foundations of Standing
Foundations of Standing
An introduction to standing acro for those curious about trying their first moves. You’ll explore basing, flying, and spotting, including two-high, standing counterbalances, and overhead shapes like cathedral and camel. The class focuses on efficient movement pathways that support safe, adaptable partnerships in standing acro.
Talent Show Set Up
Talent Show
Catwalks Demystified
Catwalks Demystified
Break down one of Slackro’s signature balancing skills and learn how to make every Catwalk feel smooth, steady, and controlled. Through progressions, drills, and partner feedback, you’ll build confidence in different variations from shin walks to hand and foot-based balances
Jankarian
Jankarian
A playful Icarian class exploring creative pops from unexpected positions. Expect “jank” in the best way this session blends Icarian fundamentals with unusual popping variations that may leave both participants and spectators laughing and delightfully confused. There’s plenty of space to level up for advanced practitioners while also reinforcing foundational skills for newer movers.
Creative 2 High Climbs
Creative 2 High Climbs
A creative take on two-high exploration with Jill & Heidi, building beyond standard progressions into more inventive climbing and movement pathways. Expect a playful, non-traditional approach to refining your practice.
Jam Space
Carousel
Carousel
A focused acro chat format that explores 1–2 topics in depth. Instead of broad discussion, we’ll dive deeper into specific questions, details, and refinements to support clearer understanding and progression.
Baby Steps
Baby Steps
A gentle introduction to acroyoga, designed for those taking their first steps in the practice. Explore balance with new partners while discovering foundational ways to use your feet and support one another.
Funky F2H
Funky F2H
Explore dynamic and unconventional entrances into foot-to-hand (F2H), along with creative transitions in and out of the shape. We’ll also build sequences that evolve toward mono balances for added challenge and flow.
Tempos to H2H
Tempos to H2H
Refine your standing hand-to-hand through timing, breath, and calibration. Jay and Heidi will guide tempo-based drills, solid spotting, and dynamic entrances into H2H, with clear progressions to build confidence and style in your entries.
Icarian Flow
Icarian Flow
Connecting pops is one of the best ways to build your icarian practice. This key skill will help in all aspects of your icarian journey, boosting your coordination, communication, focus and endurance!
2High
2High
A foundational introduction to low (L-base) hand-to-hand, both regular and reverse. This class builds from the ground up, starting with hand placement and grip then develops flyer shapes, base support, and the shared structure needed for a stable hold.
Asymmetric Madness
Asymmetric Madness
A playful exploration of asymmetrical shapes in acro, where symmetry and “perfect balance” take a back seat. Expect unusual positions, creative coordination challenges, and lots of playful confusion in the best way. You’ll leave wobbly, energized, and likely laughing at how many new movement patterns you discovered.
Acro Playground
Acro Playground
An all-levels acro “recess” focused on fun, play, and creativity. Explore line games, multiple-base flows, pass-the-flyer, acro improv, and group play. Movements can be scaled up or down, from safe foundational work to more advanced variations depending on your comfort and support available.