Young Flyers is our youth movement division at Elevate to Fly CIC

| Established 2018 |

Home to Orbit Kids, Ascend: The Only Way Is Up!, and Aerial Autism.

We’re building creative, inclusive spaces where young people can grow in confidence, coordination, and community through aerial arts, dance, and self-expression.

EMAIL US: YoungFlyersUK@gmail.com

🌈 Young Flyers Programmes

1. Orbit Kids (Ages 7–12) – Creative aerial movement and circus-based fun designed to build confidence, coordination, and teamwork in a playful environment.

2. Ascend – The Only Way Is Up! (Ages 13–17) – A youth empowerment programme blending aerial arts, dance, and mentoring to promote confidence, resilience, and self-expression.

3. Aerial Autism (Ages 7–17) – A gentle, sensory-friendly movement class for autistic and neurodivergent young people, focusing on balance, calm, and confidence.

Schedule:

✨ Monday | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Aerial Autism with Kya &

✨ Monday | 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM | Orbit Kids with Kya

✨ Thursday | 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM | Ascend – The Only Way Is Up! Barre Class: Vertical Barre & Flying Pole with Crystal

✨ Friday | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Orbit Kids & Ascend – Aerial Hoop (Mixed Ability) with Kya

Current & Future Classes

At present, our Young Flyers division runs four weekly classes across three programmes — Orbit Kids, Ascend, and Aerial Autism.

With additional funding, we aim to double our weekly sessions from four to eight, increasing access for local families, schools, and community groups.

This expansion will allow us to:
• Offer more free or subsidised places for children from low-income households
• Extend Aerial Autism to include additional weekday sessions
• Introduce new beginner and mixed-level youth aerial classes
• Create leadership and mentoring sessions for older teens through Ascend

Our long-term goal is to ensure that every child and young person who wishes to participate can find a place in our community, regardless of financial or social barriers.

🌈 Orbit Kids: Young Flyers in Motion

For Ages 7–12 | After-School & Mobile Movement Program

Welcome to Orbit Kids — a joyful, body-positive space where young girls explore movement, imagination, and emotional confidence through aerial arts, creative play, and expressive dance.

Designed for ages 7–12 — the powerful in-between years — Orbit Kids helps girls build body trust, creative voice, and connection to one another. Around age 9, many girls begin to feel the pull of comparison and competition. At Orbit, we do the opposite — we strengthen the sisterhood.

Led by empowering instructors Crystal Gibson, Kya Sanders and Alice Hilary — creative, compassionate teachers with backgrounds in dance, movement, education and youth mentoring — Ascend is about becoming the strongest version of yourself, inside and out. More on teachers bio below.

We create an environment where:

• Girls trust their bodies in flight

• Speak through movement

• Play with imagination

• And feel the joy of being supported and seen by other girls

Through hoop work, breathwork, storytelling, and group games, each session builds strength in body, creativity in mind, and compassion in heart.

Because when girls grow up together, lifting each other as they rise —
they remember who they are for life.

Monday | 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM | Orbit Kids with Kya

Friday | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Orbit Kids & Ascend – Aerial Hoop (Mixed Ability) with Kya

💫 Ascend — The Only Way Is Up

After-School & Mobile Movement Programme (ages 13-17pm)

Ascend is a youth wellbeing and creative movement programme inspired by contemporary circus arts. The class introduces participants aged 13–17 to vertical movement disciplines, building confidence, strength, and coordination in a fully supervised environment.

Delivered through structured sessions that blend fitness, creative movement, and teamwork, Ascend promotes resilience, positive body image, and mental wellbeing. It draws visual inspiration from Cirque du Soleil’s aerial and vertical performance arts, reimagined as accessible, non-competitive, and youth-appropriate movement training.

Each one-hour session balances structure and freedom: students begin with relaxed social time before warm-ups that explore geometry and flow — linking art, maths, and movement to build spatial awareness and body intelligence.
The heart of each class focuses on flow-based aerial and dance sequences, encouraging creativity, musicality, and confidence. Progress is recorded in Ascend Journals, fostering reflection, goal-setting, and perseverance.

Throughout the year, participants create short showcase routines celebrating teamwork, artistry, and courage in a non-competitive atmosphere. Older students mentor younger ones, developing empathy and leadership within the community.

Led by Crystal Gibson, Kya Sanders, and Alice Hilary — experienced instructors with backgrounds in dance, aerial movement, and youth mentoring — Ascend empowers teens to build strength in body and resilience in mind.

🕓 Thursday | 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM | Barre Class: Vertical Barre & Flying Pole with Crystal
🕓 Friday | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Mixed Orbit Kids & Ascend Aerial Hoop (All Levels) with Kya

With future funding, Ascend will expand mentoring and assistant-teacher pathways, enabling graduates to progress into leadership and creative direction roles.

🌟 Strength is beautiful.
🌟 Confidence is built, not born.
🌟 Community is everything.
🌟 Flight is a mindset.

Aerial Autism (autism spectrum programme for young people under 18)

Aerial Autism is a weekly, free-to-access programme that has operated at Fly Girls Fitness under our Young Flyers Program for over six years, designed specifically for autistic and neurodivergent children and adults. Using low-hanging aerial hammocks, gentle light, and calming sound, each session creates a safe, sensory-based environment where participants can explore movement, balance, and body awareness at their own pace.

Classes are run in small groups (typically three to four participants per teacher) to maintain a calm atmosphere and ensure individual support. The space is consistent each week, dimly lit with soft neon colour, mats, mirrors, and sensory tools, so participants always know what to expect. Music is low and adaptive; those who prefer louder sounds are encouraged to use headphones, helping them stay comfortable and in control of their sensory input.

Each child is encouraged to engage in their own way, some quietly swinging or balancing for the first time, others developing full aerial sequences over time. Achievements range from simply sitting in a hammock to mastering upright or inverted positions, helping participants improve coordination, confidence, and focus. For many, this class becomes a place of freedom and self-expression, where they can move without judgment and simply be themselves.

Parents and carers often report that the programme provides not only progress and hope but also much-needed respite care and emotional relief, especially for those raising children with high energy levels or limited access to safe play spaces.

📍 Elevate to Fly (Formally Fly Girls Fitness): Unit 3, Chesterton Drive, Galley Common, Nuneaton CV109QR
🚐 Mobile Sessions Available – We bring Orbit & Ascend - The only way is UP! to schools, youth hubs, and community spaces
📞 Text 07957 740956 to reserve a place or book Young Flyers for your group
🌀 Part of the Elevate to Fly Movement Family — made just for the next wave of creative, confident girls