Any child can take part in upside down regardless of their level of physical confidence.  It is aimed at under 5's. and teachers, parents and carers are also encouraged to participate to make the programme even more successful.

Just contact us if you'd like your child to attend a course or would like to introduce the course at your early years centre, play group or school.

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Drawing on experience of blance acrobatics, contemporary dance, aerial work, harness and suspensions, the programme encourages children to enjoy organised movement with:

touch: integral to a child's development, the programe uses touch to create a safe territory from which the children can allow their curiosity to explore the world and develop their capacity for learning.

imitation: a useful tool for children to learn social rules and integrations plus practical actions and patterns

imagination: via transforming ordinary objects into something else, children use fantasy to accomodate the world to their own desires

choice: from broadening children's knowledge, through actively encouraging them to experience a wide variety of stimuli, comes the child's ability to choose

ground: through a number of games and exercises children explore the ground as an inviting place and territory of new discoveries.  The programme also focuses on children's natural flexibility and strength.

suspension: brings a sate of non-gravity similar to water and can awaken deeply rooted memories and a sense of freedom.  The suspension work is exhilarating, brings co-ordination, capacity to place the body in space without clumsiness and positive energy that fertilises the capacity to learn.  Together with the ground work, it brings a fantastic sense of internal and external well-being.

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