Silks Lab

September 12 & 13

Ayr, Scotland

With Sarah Bebe Holmes

September 12 & 13, 2026

Ayr, Scotland

A weekend master class intensive

on the west coast of Scotland

This is your weekend getaway for just £220

If you want to create innovative and surprising aerial work...

Join Sarah Bebe Holmes in an immersive two-day Silks Lab Master Class Weekend designed for intermediate and advanced aerialists who want to deepen their technique, expand their movement vocabulary and get creative on the fabric.

This is your chance to get more than your usual weekly class but without having to take a full week off work either.

Unique choreography - technique for YOUR BODY

What’s in the Lab?

Expect two full days of creative, focused training covering:

  • Original choreography— learn fresh sequences and explore creative movement
  • Fabric theory— understandwhywraps work, so you can approach them with greater confidence and intention
  • Personalised technique coaching— individual feedback to help refine your movement and unlock new possibilities
  • Sequencing & transitions— connect skills into dynamic, expressive combinations
  • Creative exploration— play with movement, discover new pathways and leave with plenty of ideas to take back to your own practice

You’ll train alongside a welcoming aerial community, with plenty of opportunity to connect, share ideas and make new silks friends.

This weekend is aimed at intermediate/advanced aerialists.

You should be comfortable inverting multiple times throughout the day and have a solid foundation in aerial silks.

The Details

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September 2026


10:30am–4:00pm each day


Including a one-hour lunch break from 1:00–2:00pm

£220 for the full weekend

£14 for the Sauna add-on

Auld Kirk of Ayr Halls
Ayr, Scotland

DID YOU SAY… SAUNA ON THE BEACH?

Oh yes. You read that right.

After Saturday’s workshop, we’ll head just20 minutes from the studio to a little fishing village, nestled beside a castle and right on the coast, for a very Scottish kind of post-training ritual:

Sauna. Sea air. Good company. And, if you’re feeling brave… a dip in the sea.

We’vepre-booked the sauna experience exclusively for our weekend, so you can finish a full day of silks, unwind, and experience a little piece of local Ayrshire life with the group.

There are just8 spacesavailable for the sauna experience.

It’s only£14 to add the sauna onto your Silks Lab weekend, so if this sounds like your kind of Saturday night, we recommend booking early.

Curious?Check out Wild Ritual Saunaand see where we’re headed:

Wild Ritual Sauna

“Sarah was so nice to work with. Her own excitement about everything was very contagious and made me also always very excited for things! Also the way she explained made things always very clear and i really loved that she took her time for every single one of us to help/correct us!” - Lisa

Sarah Bebe Holmes

Sarah Bebe Holmes is a performer, director, educator, and Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Paper Doll Militia, an international circus theatre company. Originally from Maine, her career has taken her from the deserts of New Mexico to San Francisco's vibrant circus community before settling in Scotland, where she has been creating, teaching, and performing for over a decade.

An aerial artist since 2005, Sarah is known for combining high-level circus technique with powerful storytelling. She has taught and performed throughout the UK, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and India, and was recognised by The List as one of Scotland's Most Influential and Creative Women in 2018.

Sarah's teaching blends anatomy, movement theory, and creative practice to help aerialists move with greater intelligence, efficiency, and authenticity. Whether coaching technical precision or expressive performance, she encourages students to develop movement that is both deeply informed and uniquely their own.

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Cost: £220 - Full workshop weekend

£14 Sauna add-on

About Ayr & The Studio

How do I get there?

Trains

There are trains from Glasgow center every 30 minutes for most of the day.

Airports

Nearest airport is Glasgow 40 minutes away by car

Next nearest is Edinburgh 1 hour 25 minute by car

Is there anything to do in Ayr?

Ayr is a beautiful seaside town on the west coast of Scotland. It had its heyday back in the ’90s, including a pretty killer rave scene!

It’s had its hard knocks since then, but it’s very much on the upward climb. There’s a growing arts and culture scene, especially around pedestrianised Newmarket Street, with independent cafés, creative spaces and plenty of local character.

We wouldn’t exactly call Ayr’s nightlife buzzing (head to Glasgow for that), but there are some REALLY hip coffee spots and killer restaurants to discover.

Take a walk along the river, wander the extensive beachfront, or grab a spot by the sea and watch the sunset.

And what is the studio like?

The studio is a church hall right along the river, just a one-minute walk from the high street and about a 10-minute walk from the train station. There is also a car park onsite.

The space has wood floors and a beautiful new wooden ceiling, which does a fantastic job of holding in the heat. So, for those of you used to training in Scotland, you’ll be very pleased to hear that you will be WARM in the colder months. Yes, actual T-shirt training!

What is Sarah like as an instructor?
Hear it from the students

“Thank you for your presence during the teaching. Thank you for your energy and loving, energetic perseverance, even when the energy in the group became less. Thank you for your appreciation in dealing with the group and the individual people. Thank you for your openness and exploratory being, it was a good reminder for me that things are not black and white, but contain a whole facet of colors and that it always depends on one's own feelings. Thank you for the time, it was very enriching, inspiring and motivating”

Lina Schindler - Vienna

"Sarah and Rain provided spaces and opportunities for self-revealing, creative, and empowering movements. It dawned on me that it wasn’t a lack of dance or theater expertise that prevented me from being a good aerial performer.

Rather, I need to pull away layers (tendencies, unhelpful cultural or personal judgments) to reveal a wonderfully unique performer that already exists inside of me.

This new confidence in myself as an authentic aerialist and performer emerged within the safe and encouraging community under Sarah’s and Rain’s leadership."

-Katherine Lindeburg

“PDM is such a creative force, and the fact that Rain and Sarah are also such generous and talented educators is a gift. They create such a warm and welcoming space to learn, and they're talented teachers, able to break down concepts into bite-size, digestible pieces.”

- Arisa Kim - Los Angeles, CA