Ever felt like running away and joining the circus? Well at the New York Trapeze school you can pick up a few big top skills without having to resort to the whole running away thing. Founded by Jonathon Conant in 1999, this specialised academy in upstate New York offers classes for everyone from hardened thrill-seekers and adventurous athletes who want to try something new, to exercise-phobes who just fancy the challenge. If you’re looking to conquer specific fears or just to have fun, this is the place for you. Instructors are well trained and attentive, helping you take your first tentative steps on the trapeze – to find the courage to step of that platform and fly – or to hone existing skills and enhance your technique.
The school also offers classes in aerial silks, where you are suspended from two lengths of fabric like something from Cirque du Soleil. Whatever you pick, it will be amazing, soaring and spinning, at one with the air.