Maya D.

Aerial Instructor

Brass Butterflies

Maya is a registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) and has her aerial teaching certification from Nimble Arts. Her background as a yoga teacher informs her approach to aerial training: focusing on body awareness, mobility, functional movement, and acceptance. Maya currently teaches Hoop and Silks classes up to the Advanced level and also offers private lessons in Trapeze and Corde Lisse (by special request), as well as private conditioning and training programs for strength and flexibility. She cherishes working with youth students, as she loves helping them achieve new heights (literally) and find confidence in their body which can support their interpersonal development outside of the circus studio. Recently, she’s been expanding her practice to teach broader circus skills such as clowning, fire spinning, hula hoop, and other object manipulation skills. She spends her free time geeking out on anatomy and finding new ways to target training strength and flexibility for aerial skills. When she’s not in the studio you can find her cuddled up at home with her FOUR cats (yes she knows that is too many cats).