Aerial Acro Play Retreat
Aerial Skills, AcroYoga, Flexibility, Creativity, Play
Beach & Surfing too!
At Casa Chango in Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Instructor: Kerri Kresinski
Feb 22-28, 2025
BIPOC Scholarship Available. Apply here by Nov 15.
Spend a WEEK in PARADISE with new friends, the beach, delicious, fresh, local food, and learn loads of new skills!
This retreat is all about PLAY! We will start each day with a movement warm up that gets us connected in our bodies in a fun and dynamic way. The rest of the day will be filled with learning beginning aerial skills, AcroYoga, stretching, and creative exercises. This retreat is open to aerial/acro students at the beginning of their journey into aerial and circus arts.
Classes will be focused on foundational skills, technique, building strength, flexibility and creativity. Aerial classes include aerial silks, sling, and hoop. 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 skills progressions, with each day building on the skills taught on the previous day. Aerial Yoga classes will also be included.
Afternoon classes will be focused on creativity, working with music, and AcroYoga.
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!
Beginners Welcome!
We recommend that each student arrives with at least 2-3 months of aerial classes. Total beginners are also welcome. Students will have the best experience if they arrive generally healthy and fit.
Daily Schedule Sample: Everything is optional!
- 8-9:30 am: Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
- 10:30am-12:30pm: Warm up & Aerial Skills
- 1pm: Lunch
- 1-3:30pm: Pool-time, siesta, relaxing
- 3:30pm: Afternoon Treat
- 4:30-6pm: Flexibility, creativity, AcroYoga
- 7pm Dinner
- 8-10pm Evening activities
Other activities include:
- 2 Beach Trips
- 1 Surf Lesson
- Ice Bath
- Pool & Jacuzzi is always avaialable.
- Baby Turtle Release
- Bioluminescent Lagoon Trip
- Mexican Night Market
- Morning Aerial/Acro Photo Shoot
- Option for a night time photo shoot with fancy lights as well.
Space is limited, so sign up now!
Your Teacher: Kerri Kresinski
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. Find Kerri on Instagram @SweetCircusKerri.
Retreat Pricing (in USD):
| Room | Early Bird Price until Nov 15, 2025 | Full Price |
| Shared Dorm (gender mixed) | $2000 | $2300 |
| Shared Private Room (2 friends sharing a room) 1 king size bed or 2 individual beds | $2200 | $2500 |
| Private Room with Shared Bathroom | $2500 | $2800 |
| Private Room with Private Bathroom | $2800 | $3100 |
| Private Room with Private Bathroom and Air Conditioning | $3100 | $3400 |
Early bird price is good through Nov 15, 2025.
Full tuition is due by Jan 15, 2025.
Rates refer to cost of one person’s tuition.
Couples must sign up together.
Rates refer to cost of one person’s tuition.
Couples/SO’s are welcome at an additional price.
What’s included:
- Ground transportation to/from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to our accommodations*
- Arrive on Feb 22. Depart on Feb 28.
- Accommodations for the duration of the retreat
- Daily meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert & snacks
- 2 Daily classes
- Aerial photoshoot
- Ice Bath
- Evening activities
- Trips to local beaches, baby turtle release, and night market
- 1 Surf Lesson
- 24 hour use of Swimming Pool, Jacuzzi, and Community Spaces
- High Speed Starlink Wifi Internet
- Evening Jacuzzi soaks
What People Are Saying:
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
Sweet Retreats has encouraged me to be a better version of myself both physically in the circus arts and also personally in my interactions with friends and the community. The instructors at Sweet Retreats are not only world class performers, they are also some of the most caring, beautiful, and authentic individuals. I’m so fortunate to have discovered this paradise of athletic endeavors, delicious food, unending laughter, and all within the gorgeous surrounding.
Liz Marotte, Oakland, CA
Questions? Email us at SweetRetreatsMexico@gmail.com.
Links for more information:
- Accommodations – room descriptions
- Meals and Food*
- How to get here. Info and advice on booking your travel to Puerto Escondido.**
- Weather in Puerto Escondido
- Testimonials
- Excursions
Discounts
- Sign up early to get the Early Bird Discount
- Refer a friend to any of our upcoming programs and get a $100 referral discount. You get $100 discount for each person you refer. Referrals must be for first timers at Sweet Retreats.
- Sign up on our mailing list to find out about more discounts.
ECO RETREAT CENTER
Casa Chango is an Eco Retreat Center. We do our best to live in harmony with the natural world. We are off grid, and use 100% solar power. We have dry composting toilets and use the humanure and food waste to create soil to feed the amazing plants and trees all around the property. We ask all of our staff and guests to come with the mindset of learning about and respecting nature. The gray water from our sinks and showers filter out to water the plants. Therefore we ask you to bring natural shampoos, conditioners, and toothpaste to your retreat. All of our buildings were designed and built to be cool and comfortable, and we hope you enjoy your stay with us.
Casa Chango is an animal friendly place. There are several friendly animals on site including dogs and cats. They will not enter your rooms, but they will be on property and in common areas during your retreat. Animal lovers will be in their happy place.
Native insects live in this area of Mexico. We fumigate regularly to keep insects away and out of your rooms. We also acknowledge that the insects are an important part of keeping nature in balance. Most of the community spaces at Casa Chango, including the gym, dining area, pool, lounge are open air which means there are no walls. You can expect to see a variety of native insects, birds, and lizards during your visit. We hope you enjoy the experience of living more connected to nature.
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