HEALTH & BEAUTY Aerial classes and walks of wonder

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BRINGING YOU ALL THE GOOD STUFF FOR THE MIND, BODY AND SOUL

FLYING HIGH

If you’re looking for a fun way to improve your fitness, aerial exercise might just be the ticket for you.

Located at Exeter Business Centre, Silk Steel Studio is owned and run by international aerial performer Siobhan Johnstone, who offers a series of classes and workshops including aerial silks, aerial hoops and stretch and strengthen classes.

Aerial Silks classes will teach you to wrap, climb, suspend, fall and transition seamlessly between two lengths of fabric. As well as being a full-body workout, the fabric theory will also challenge your body awareness and cognitive skills.

Aerial Hoop classes will guide you through acrobatic skills on the circular steel ring. Emphasis is placed on creating fluid sequences that move above, below and within the hoop, challenging both your strength and flexibility.

Stretch and strengthen classes are designed to complement your aerial training. A circuit-based bodyweight workout incorporating both ground-based and aerial exercises, followed by a structured stretching program to help increase range of motion and improve active flexibility. www.silkandsteelstudio.co.uk

Hanging in there with grace; inset: Acrobatic skills are developed in the hoop class

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Walking on the wild side

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WALKING WONDERS

Local professional musician Emma Welton is running special guided walks around Exeter – with a difference.

The gentle walks offer a way to hear the symphony of sounds that exist all around us, that perhaps we haven’t paid attention to or enjoyed before. They are for anyone who is open to a different kind of walk, and perhaps to experiencing a familiar place in a new way. They are short in distance (about a mile) and long in pauses.

“I have been listening as I go, seeking out sounds, allowing sounds to find me, exploring unlikely places, and just pausing for a while to hear what’s there,” says Emma.

Emma started up The Exeter Sound Walks when lockdown kicked in as a way of connecting us to our immediate surroundings.

“My sound walks are musical compositions: the choices I make shape a particular listening experience for somebody else.”

You can either do the walks on your own, in the company of a quiet friend by downloading the guided tour map from Emma’s website or you can join Emma to get the proper guided experience. www.emmawelton.net; for more ideas on health and wellbeing head to www.liveandmove.co.uk