Acro Teacher Training and Leadership Retreat
Summer 2025 • Sunny Location TBD
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Fall 2025 • Location TBD
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Lux believes that ongoing education is crucial to all practitioners, even more so for teachers. Since 2012, he has been offering a training to teachers whose passion is gaining knowledge and increasing aptitude.
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Participants will study the acro mechanics for L-base, Standing Acro, and Icarian as well as:
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How to evaluate, diagnose, and offer students the greatest change in their practice without overwhelming them
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Philosophies of communication, movement, and teaching
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Classroom dynamics including group management and building progressions
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Community dynamics including the role of leadership outside of the classroom
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Safe practices & injury prevention
This training focuses on techniques that will serve your students long-term. This is the essence of teaching: serve your students. Come learn how to teach with greater efficacy.
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There will be required reading and discussion of ethics of teaching and personal conduct as a teacher and community leader. Participants will be required to adhere to a code of conduct and a commitment to foster a culture of safe and progressive learning.
Summer 2025
Sunny Location TBA
Fall 2025
Location TBA
Meet the Team
Lux
Lux has been a student of circus since 2002. He credits the start of his career to Chuck Johnson at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts in Seattle (SANCA). He has since studied in over a dozen countries with teachers from around the globe.
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In the early 2000's, Lux joined Primary Element, a Seattle-based Acro & Fire troupe. The trio performed together for many years, and in 2005, performed for Cirque Du Soleil at the celebration of Varekai’s 500th performance. Though he is now retired from the stage, Lux performed for many years in duo & trio acts.
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Lux began teaching Acro to recreational practitioners and professional acrobats in 2005. Over the past decade, his approach to teaching and creating acro content has earned him a loyal following across the globe.
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Today, Lux is best known as a teacher, content writer, and leader in the global acro community. In addition to teaching bi-monthly intermediate and advanced series in Seattle, Lux regularly leads workshops and teacher trainings around the country.
Katrina Repman
Assistant/Manager
Katrina first tried acro in 2012 and was instantly delighted by the activity. At the time, she worked as a yoga and meditation instructor whose videos have garnered millions of views. Katrina is now the director of Empowered Acro and a founding member of her community’s nonprofit: the Austin Acro Advocates. Passionate about improving communication techniques on and off the mat, she works as a marriage and family therapist.
Katrina views acro as a source of physical puzzles as well as an avenue for bringing thoughtfulness into social dynamics. She appreciates the insights Lux brings to the mechanical, diagnostic, and social elements of the practice and is glad to be on the facilitation team for this event.
Alex Giordano
Support
Alex has an extensive movement practice that consists of many different modalities such as partner acrobatics, rock climbing, slacklining, and mixed martial arts. He has a career in engineering and brings that methodical mindset to the rest of his life. Through these experiences Alex has put huge focus on safety, spotting, communication, and building skills progressively. As a coach, he seeks to find the right progression or words that will be the most influecial for the student. In that coaching he looks to refine the foundations to create ease in harder skills later on. Alex's love for the practice, communication, progressive teaching, and emphasis on safety will take you to new heights!
Diane Kemker
Chef & Craft Services Provider
Diane is our chef and craft services provider. She has also been doing acro for about 10 years (!), is a long-time student of Lux's, and is a part of the larger Swing City Burning Man camp, where she organized its first kitchen and food plan. She mostly practices at OMB, the beach in Santa Monica, and has been part of Lux's teacher training for several years. She is an experienced cook and baker, who can accommodate any dietary preferences healthily and deliciously, and looks forward to contributing to Lux's teacher training by providing truly memorable food (and lots of it!).
Alex Mannos
Chef & Craft Services Provider
Grounded in the principle that “energy moves regardless of us,” Alex Mannos is dedicated to using yoga for the mindful movement of energy, creating a pathway for clearing away the stagnant and replacing it with dynamic energy for healing in the body and in the mind.
Through reflection of her own life experiences, Alex has discovered the truth found in the simplicity of breathing deeper to create a space for healing. She believes that when we heal, we evolve. This philosophy is at the foundation of her practice and serves as a guide to her work. Alex maintains that we are on earth to connect with others and to grow through our awareness and reflection; she is here to share with others and create opportunities for these connections through her yoga practice.
Finding my yoga practice connected me to a place within me that I hadn't realized I was disconnected from. It created the foundation for me to expand my awareness and take accountability for my healing, allowing me to work through emotional and physical trauma, as well as the every life stressors. I would love to share this gift with you and help you to discover how to live life from an authentic place.
Jon Rea & Michelle Dawson
Icarian Instructors
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Continuing Education
