Program

Our Partner Acrobatics teacher training program offers an opportunity to intensively train for four weeks, whilst learning the skills and tools to teach successful acro classes and workshops. We encourage and support our students in developing their own teaching style, based on the latest principals of neuroscience and motor learning and our own extensive teaching experience.

Moreover plenty of time will be dedicated to improve your personal acrobatic practice. Some time will be dedicated to prepare public performances and work on the aesthetics of your acro moves.

In our Partner Acrobatics teacher training we cover many different acrobatic disciplines: standing acrobatics, handstand training, washing machines, trio tricks, Icarian games, to name a few.

This physical intensity is balanced out with our prehab program and therapeutic sessions, which aim to heal and restore the body.

If you are unable to join for the full 4 weeks, we offer the opportunity to join for the first 2 weeks this year, and the last 2 weeks next year. Contact us for more information and requirements.

 

Teachers

Prerequisites

To get most out of your acrobatics teacher training and to maintain a similar level for the group, we require you have some acrobatic skills. We need you to honestly and accurately self-asses whether the following skills are accessible/of ease to you (while working with someone of similar skill level) as a base OR flyer. At the time of application you must be able to accomplish the skills without a spotter helping (they can be there for safety).

• Hold a handstand at the wall for at least a minute.
• Star (shoulderstand on feet)
• Free shoulderstand in hands (flyer holding bases arms)
• Tic Tocs (sidestar transitions)
• Thighstand (any variation)
• Foot to Hand (any variation)
• 2 man high (hands on calves)
• Experience with pops or icarian
• Experience with whips

On your application you will be asked to rate your comfort level in the following…. while they are not prerequisites, the more experience you come with, the more you will gain out of the training!

• L-BASING (base lying down)
• Corkscrew
• Reverse star
• Free star (no hands)
• Hand to hand (any variation)
• STANDING
• Flag (either variation)
• Foot to hand
• Hand to hand

Send us 1 video

• 1-2 minute acrobatic sequence of your choice.

The video should represent where you are at skill-wise, however, it doesn’t need to be all of the craziest things you can do—basic and clean! The video also doesn’t need to be of high production quality, a quick one on your cell phone is fine:)

Location

Cortijo Caseria Del Mercado is a small organic farm high in the Alpujarras mountains of Andalucia, southern Spain.

In addition to the huge array of fruit and vegetables grown on site the farm has cats, dogs, chicken and a peacock breeding sanctuary and the farm produces its own organic olive oil.

Not only is the cortijo a working farm; it has been adapted as a retreat centre with traditional Spanish accommodation, a natural mineral water swimming pool, a yoga shala and both an outdoor and indoor training space. Therefore the cortijo is the ideal venue for our Partner Acrobatics Teacher Training!

The local area is fantastic hiking country with spectacular mountain views and isolated “White villages” (paint).

More info on the venue can be found here.

Accommodation

The accommodation is included as part of the course price.

The venues farm buildings offer various basic but comfortable accommodations with a communal and family feel .

Shared accommodation is included in the course fee, numbers permitting. For an additional fee single accommodation may be available, please contact us for availability.

For those camping: please bring all your own camp gear, we don’t provide tents but we have lots of extra blankets.

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Food

3 organic (and local when possible) meals daily are included in the training fee. The food is mostly vegetarian and we provide a ‘meat option’ every few days. We cater for vegan, gluten free and various intolerances, which you can include in your application.

There is a large communal kitchen and 3 smaller kitchens where students can prepare their own snacks etc. Seasonal fruits and vegetables are available from the farm and they are amazing!

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How to get there

The cortijo is high in the mountains close to a tiny village called Castaras. The closest town is Orgiva.

We will provide pick up from both Malaga Airport at 3pm and Granada Bus station at 4pm on the 1st and arriving back to both locations on the 28th at noon.

The closest airport Granada is about 1.5 hours away from our venue.  Malaga is 2 hours away.

If you can’t make our pick up time you can take a bus to Orgiva from Granada – check www.alsa.es timetable.

GPS cordinates: 36° 55.543, -3° 16.388

On google maps.

Internet

A stable wifi connection is available at the Cortijo.

Recommendations

We do recommend that you invest in a good travel insurance then if the unexpected happens you will be well looked after financially.

Space is limited and we expect to fill up.

Applications here!

Schedule

A day with us looks like this. (Sample schedule subject to changes)

8:00 – 9:00	Prehab
9:00 – 9:30	Breakfast
10:30 – 11:30	Warm up and Handstand
11:30 – 13:00	Acro
13:15 – 13:45	Lunch
13:45 – 15:30	Chill Time, Siesta, Jam
15:30 – 16:30	Warm up and Basics
16:30 – 18:00	Acro
18:00 – 18:30	Physical Condition / Jam
19:00 – 19:30	Dinner
20:15 – 21:30	Theory / Terapeutic / Massage