Invision Fitness in Encino is just one gym offering aerial fitness classes such as aerial yoga, aerial tissue (or aerial silk) and aerial hoop. The latter is the most challenging, so many opt for ...

From aerial dancers, to flying trapeze artists, a contortionist to a hand-balancing gymnast, each choreographed act drops jaws.

Justin Coates, aerial hoop coach, helps a student in a hoop class at Cirque School L.A. in Hollywood. (Photo by David Sprague) Have you ever dreamed of running away to join the circus? You may not ...

Ninth-grade student Abby Richert makes dangling in midair look easy.The 15-year-old, who's a self-described aerialist, contortionist, hand balancer, foot archer, dancer and unicyclist, has her sights ...