Heather Adams
Heather Adams has been coaching aerial acrobatics since 2015. She has extensive teacher training including courses from Nimble Arts, Born to Fly, Aaron Koz, and Delbert Hall Rigging Academy. She teaches all levels and all apparatus, but has a passion for first timers, fabric theory, and dynamic skills.
When not coaching, Heather works as a statistician for IU School of Nursing and as a biostatistics and actuarial consultant. She has a master’s degree in applied statistics and an ASA designation from the Society of Actuaries. She loves trying to make a difference in the world using math.
Photography credit Brian Stidham Photography
Kristin Robinson
Kristin began formal aerial training in 2015 on aerial silks and has since broadened her training to include sling, lollipop lyra and rope. During her time training, she discovered her passion for teaching and loves guiding others into the aerial world. She completed her teacher training with Suspended Animation in 2022.
Outside of aerial, Kristin works as a Designer and Project Manager, and enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids in Fishers, Indiana.
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Shelby Staples
Shelby took her first aerial class in 2021 but it didn’t take long for her to find her passion not only for doing aerial, but also coaching it. She loves teaching sling and trapeze and she has also trained extensively on silks, duo work and lollipop.
Whether you are an adult or a youth student she hopes she can help you find that same passion, the way her favorite coach did for her. Shelby loves teaching aerial theory and working on choreography with her students.
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Amanda Okolo
Amanda has been honing her skills as a pole and aerial movement artist for the past several years. She started pole dancing in 2013 and added circus apparatuses including aerial silks and lyra to her training in 2015. Amanda started training in contemporary dance as an adult and danced with Phoenix Rising Dance Company, a contemporary dance company based in Indianapolis, for two seasons.
Amanda has been teaching pole and aerial silks since 2018 and currently teaches pole at Chrome Fitness and low flow dance at Suspended Animation Aerials. Amanda also competes and performs around the country. Amanda is a founding member of BIPOC Circus Alliance, an organization whose goal is to champion and support people of color in circus arts. Amanda loves performing and choreographing on many different apparatuses.
Erilyn Briggs
Erilyn found aerial after graduating college and immediately loved it. Since 2022, Erilyn has found a passion in training aerial silks and sling and began coaching in 2026. She shares her love of spinning, wrap theory, and finding new transitions with her students. Erilyn completed Suspended Animation Aerials Teacher Training in 2025.
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Charlotte Winn
Charlotte took her first aerial class at 9 years old in 2018. Since then, she has fallen in love with aerial and now teaches youth silks and sling. She loves to coach trust fall on sling and has had Suspended Animation Aerials Teacher Training. Outside of aerial, she is very involved with her life as a current student. She loves participating in her school marching band, as a drum major, pep band, and active player on the girls tennis team. Outside of school, she spend extra hours volunteering at the Indianapolis Zoo.
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Jules Bunting
Jules has been juggling since 2009 and still has new 3 ball tricks to learn! They have taught several workshops and performed in many shows throughout the years.