Confidence, movement, and belonging — built week by week.

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.

What Sets Us Apart

Regulation comes before performance

Most kids’ movement programmes focus on skills or achievement.
Young Flyers focuses on emotional safety, confidence, and nervous-system regulation first — movement follows naturally.

Movement as confidence-building, not comparison

There’s:

  • no ranking

  • no competition

  • no “keeping up” culture
    Children are encouraged to try, explore, and feel proud — not perfect.

Neurodivergent-aware without being segregated

Young Flyers is:

  • welcoming to neurodivergent and neurotypical children

  • without labelling, pressure, or “special classes only” language
    Children learn together, at their own pace.

You intentionally keep groups small, which means:

  • children are known by name

  • progress is noticed

  • anxiety is reduced
    This is rare in youth sport.

Trauma-informed & community-rooted

  • Your work is shaped by:

    • real families

    • real barriers (cost, transport, anxiety, exclusion)

    • lived experience
      This isn’t a franchise model — it’s community-grown.

Long-term pathways, not drop-in classes

Young Flyers isn’t a one-off activity:

  • Orbit Kids → Ascend Teens → wider wellbeing & leadership pathways. Children grow with you.