The Before and After Mental State of Training
As I was leaving the gym today, after a training session that ended up great despite my initial doubts about it, I wanted to grasp all the feelings and the […]
Category Archives: contortion
The challenges of starting Contortion as an adult
Often people assume that whoever is flexible is either naturally gifted or has started training as a child. Well, I’m proud to belong to that category of people that actually […]
How your training must evolve with you
I remember touching this topic already a while ago. What do I mean by training evolving with you? Well let me explain. You know how in life EVERYTHING CHANGES, even […]
What I learned 5 years into contortion
Exactly 5 years ago in April 2012, I attended my first flexibility class and quickly started discovering the love of being supple, bendy, somehow in my mind “limitless”. I was 27 […]
Reasons Why Not To Quit
You’ve been stretching/training/following your passion diligently for the past 5 years or so. You went through it all: the first exciting discoveries, the learning experience, the downfalls, the good days […]
My trip to Mongolia (Part 1)
Finally, after more than 3 months, I’m ready to sit down and write about one of the rawest and most eye opening experience of my life: my trip to Mongolia. […]
Binge training and retrograde patterns
After the International Contortion Convention ended, I had planned to take a few days off and relax from the quite intense past months training for my act. Such a classic… […]
2016 ICC and a new friend
These past two weeks have been really interesting and intense, first I got to perform my act for Silent Savasana at the Brooklyn Bowl then I attended the International Contortion […]
Sofia Venanzetti 