My favorite thing about it is that there's really nothing going on in your head other than this like extreme awareness of everything that's going on through your senses and through your body.

I come from a yoga practice background and the two just were kind of complimented each other really well.

When you're on the mat, your practice is to that is still your mind to a single point of focus.

And it's really hard on the mat, but in the air, it just kind of comes intuitively.

You aren't even given an option to think about checking your email or doing anything else.

It's like the easiest sort of line to that presence that people are always working for.

I guess whenever I tell people that I'm an aerialists, their first response, oh, so like Cirque du Soleil, you hang on fabrics, right?

I'd always been interested in aerial.

I watched a lot of YouTube videos and just sort of admired it from afar.

Always just thought that if I had the opportunity to try aerial I know that I would fall in love with it.

So a lot of folks think that they have to be really strong or come from some sort of a dance background.

But there are a lot of people that are flying professionally that didn't come from sort of an acrobatic dance background.

Just by doing aerial and get stronger, so it never feels like your training.

But for me, spinning, is this really, really cathartic, and I love just working on that spin tolerance and trying to find control of my body.

It's like really satisfying like mind body practice that gets you in the zone and in that place of presence.

There's definitely a lot of nervousness, but I think I and others tend to thrive in that nervousness.

And then every audience is different.

Sometimes you're performing sort of a very introverted piece and maybe the audience is really, really quiet.

Then, of course, there's also like some of the really more extroverted performance.

So usually I'll just start with any piece of music.

And I'll just start with sort of an improv prompt.

I feel like there's no mistakes that you can make.

Usually that's the type of material that ends up working into a piece of choreography.

And then I think just like getting out of your element.

Taking time off to slow down.

So it seems very fruitful for trying to create.

When I see a performance that I enjoy, it just takes me out of my day to day life and it just transports me somewhere else.

I hope that if someone were to see me perform that they might be able to experience the same for a few minutes.