My photographer friend returned to Phire practice on Friday, which inspired us to get back on the aerial silks and do lots of acroyoga. He has posted lots of his photos from that evening here and here.

Here is one from a new trick we are learning (you can tell, we actually have a spotter):


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My friend has already processed the film from the photos he took at yesterday's Phire practice. He summarized them into 3 different blog posts: one roll from the first part of the evening, including a cute photo of me and E., my acroyoga partner, talking, one from the fire practice outside, and a third from after he came back into the building, ( Read more... )

Monday: A walk in the morning, followed by taking the train home from Narvik (seven hours). The first half of the trip I had a delightful conversation with a Scottish woman on her way to Kiruna. Got home just before 18:00 and spent several hours shoveling the snow that had accumulated while we were out of town (lord_kjar was in Göteborg helping C. pack up ( Read more... )

This morning started with meeting a friend at the gym to do the "day one" workout my physical trainer has given me--complete with pushups and lots of shoulder exercises. Then, in the early afternoon, I got a message from another friend asking if I would like to meet her at the gym to do some aerial silks training this evening. Of course I would! ( Read more... )

I joined Phire today for their practice session. While most of the people present were doing stuff with juggling, and practice with swinging around sticks (which, during a performance or outdoor practice session would be burning), some of us played with the aerial silks. I have thought they looked fun since first I saw them, but never had an ( Read more... )