Holiday Train-cation Workshops with PJ Perry
At Casa Chango Mexico
Puerto Escondido
These workshops are an optional add on to our Holiday Train-cation Retreat.
Sign up here for the Holiday Train-cation. You can come for 1, 2 or 3 weeks.
Straps Conditioning for All Apparatuses
Build the strength you need for any aerial apparatus using straps as a powerful conditioning tool.
Dec 21-23 10am-12pm
Dec 28-30 10am-12pm
Cost is $300 USD add on to your Holiday Train-cation.
Over three days, we’ll develop a well-rounded strength program tailored to where you are now and where you want to go. We’ll work on inversion progressions—from building a strong straight-arm inversion to working toward one-arm inversions—as well as meathooks, flags, and inverted pulling strength for skills like scorpion/varakai and dynamic tempos.
Expect to work hard, have fun, and leave with a clear conditioning plan you can continue at home.
You don’t have to be a straps artist to benefit from straps. Using them as a supplement to your primary apparatus is an incredibly effective way to build aerial-specific strength.
Basically: eat your aerial vegetables.
How to sign up:
Fill out this registration form for the Holiday Train-cation Retreat
In the Optional Items section, add the workshops you wish to participate in.
Handstands for Aerialists
Cross-training is essential for happy, healthy aerial shoulders and necks—but it should also be fun!
Dec 21-23 4:30-6pm
Cost is $225 USD add on to your Holiday Train-cation.
Handstand training is a fantastic complement to aerial work, strengthening the opposing muscles that don’t always get enough attention in the air while building an entirely new and challenging skill.
In this workshop, we’ll use handstands as both prehab and play, developing strength, stability, body awareness, and upside-down skills that can support your aerial practice for years to come.
Because sure, you could just do more push-ups… or you could turn your frown upside down.
How to sign up:
Fill out this registration form for the Holiday Train-cation Retreat
In the Optional Items section, add the workshops you wish to participate in.
Space is limited, so sign up now!
About your Coach
PJ Perry is a corde lisse specialist from Bellingham, Washington, who has been in the air since 2008. Her works have included solo, duo, and larger group pieces that have taken her around the globe. In addition to being involved in recurring local shows and special events like Moisture Festival, she has completed contracts with Circus Monti in Switzerland, Friedrichsbau Varieté in Germany, Venardos Circus in the states, and Acrobatic Conundrum here in Seattle. Festival work has even taken her to the outer edges of the universe with performances at the Western Australia Circus Festival, Russian Circus Princess Festival in Saratov, Russia and The Golden Horse Festival in Bulgaria. Her current performance projects focus on solo rope and duo synchronized rope with her partner, Eve Diamond in their project, Girls Gone Rope. PJ continues to work year round with the illustrious Bellingham Circus Guild, which is also her teaching home base where she works with local students as well as students all over the world via online coaching.
Click here to see PJ on Instagram. Click here to see her website. Click here to see her patreon.
“I am so impressed with PJ’s knowledge of kinesiology and how to apply this to her aerial and handstand teaching. While I have only had the pleasure of learning virtually from PJ through her Patreon membership, I have fine tuned and progressed my aerial rope practice immensely solely from her classes! I always do and will continue to recommend her for any aerialist needing technique and dynamic movement guidance.”
Kim Freedman
Retreats with PJ at Casa Chango are one of the highlights of my year! The retreat center is incredible; such an idyllic location, incredible food, and a perfect outdoor training space that feels very safe and is SO beautiful. The retreat center aside, it is invaluable for me to get a full week of in-person training time and learning from PJ. She has such an incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise, and I go home at the end of each week feeling so inspired with so much new information and material to work on for months and months! If you are unsure if the cost is worth it I can tell you that it 10000% is!!
Liz Gehret 2025
“Working with PJ has been incredibly helpful in my training and growth on rope–her capacity to integrate detailed pedagogical information, provide simple and supportive diagnostics, and share her expertise from multiple disciplines in approachable, digestible ways has allowed me to grow tremendously.”
Drew Sevel
“If you’re a member of PJ’s patreon you already know what a wizard she is at online coaching (and if you’re not a member— get on that) so being able to learn from her in person is truly exceptional. She is so great at breaking complex technique down into easily digestible pieces, and has the unique ability to really challenge you to the edge of your limits with a kindness and ease. Attending her retreats always supercharge me; leaving me feeling more confident, capable, and creative within my own rope practice upon returning home.”
Kaitlyn Andrews
“I’ve been to 3 aerial retreats now with PJ, and each one has helped me level up my aerial practice far more than I could have imagined (in addition to being super fun!). PJ is so smart, thoughtful, and deliberate about the way she teaches, from her talks on kinesiology to the progressions she presents for skills and choreo. Although I see her regularly through Patreon offerings, working with her in person and having continuity over several days in a row is always special. ”
Randi Morrison
“PJ is a fantastic coach. Her understanding of body awareness and mechanics lends beautifully to her instruction as she aims to meet her students where they’re at skill wise and build from there. Her insight and guidance has helped me tremendously in a number of ways ranging from warm up techniques to activate the appropriate muscle group to technique specific conditioning to help me achieve my goals. PJ’s support cues and insight have helped me in making progress with beats and roll-ups, things I had previously thought were simply out of my reach. She is phenomenal and a treasure to the circus community!”
Sarah Claussen
No Refunds.
Deposits are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
Cancel more than 60 days before 1st day of retreat: 50% of your tuition paid can transfer toward a future Sweet Retreat within 18 months of cancellation.
Cancel 30-60 days before the 1st day of retreat: 25% of your tuition paid can transfer toward a future Sweet Retreat within 18 months of cancellation.
Cancellations up to 30 days before the 1st day of the retreat will not be credited or refunded for any reason.
At the time of payment for your retreat, we strongly advise purchasing a travel insurance policy. Make sure your policy covers the full cost of the retreat fee, as well as unexpected cancellation, trip delay, losses and other risks. Also, consider protection for canceled or delayed flights, lost luggage, medical needs while traveling. Please bring the policy with you in case of emergency. Click here for IM Global Insurance. Click here for WanderWell Insurance.
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