Catie Brier - Contortion & Flexibility Instructor

12 years of student progress…

It feels like just yesterday that I just started teaching contortion and flexibility classes at Circus Center in San Francisco. But at the same time, we’ve lived in an entire life (literally, Sammy’s entire life 🤣).

At this point, I’ve personally worked with thousands of students, which is so cool and also insane 😆

These photos are just a small glimpse of the progress made by students over the last 12 years 🦐 (and I also realized that I prioritized older before/afters when I was compiling the photos 😅)

So if YOU want to work with me, now is the perfect time, because The Catie Brier Method: Backbending starts in just one week!

I’ve taken everything I’ve learned over the last 12 years of coaching and put it into this four week ONLINE course, that is *genuinely* beneficial for all levels.

Comment TCBM and little robot Catie will send you the details 🤖

Stay shrimpy, friends 🦐

Back in the day…

This week I learned that there are lot of you who don’t know anything about my background, so I wanted to use that as an opportunity to talk about me!

Before becoming a contortion coach, I was a dancer, acrobat, and professional contortionist 🦐

Early in my contortion career, my back was injured by a coach (long story), which cut my career short.

But this injury put me on my current path! And I’ve spent the last 12 years learning and developing techniques to teach extreme flexibility in safe, sustainable ways 💯

My goal from the beginning of my teaching career was to figure out new, more effective methods of training contortion.

I didn’t want to force anyone’s body to do something it didn’t want to do. I wanted to learn how to help people get there safely and without pain.

And this is exactly what The Catie Brier Method: Backbending is all about! This upcoming 4-week course will give you the safest and most effective techniques for training back flexibility, plus SO 👏 MUCH 👏 INFORMATION 👏

I LOVE explaining the how’s and why’s of everything I teach, so you’re not just hoping for the best with no understanding of *why* you’re doing things.

Comment TCBM and robot Catie with send you the detail for the course!

Stay Shrimpy, friends 🦐

Contortion and flexibility training have different purposes.

(And if you’re new to my page, you NEED this info 💯)

Before getting into training contortion tricks, you must first start with training your flexibility.

But so many people want to gloss over that and jump right into the “fun” stuff… which is not the safest plan.

Swipe through the slides to learn why!

Stay Shrimpy, friends 🦐

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P.S. The upcoming 2-Day Flexibility Intensives in Berlin focus on the exact style of flexibility training that translates seamlessly into contortion tricks 💯 (as do all of my online programs!)

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2 years of Flexibility Intensives (Sound on for vibes 💯)

Next up: BERLIN! 🇩🇪

The next 2-Day Flexibility Intensive will be in May! And Berlin has been so popular that we’re doing TWO weekends 😃

No previous experience required.
You don’t need to be “flexible enough”.
If you want to work with me, I want to work with you!

24-hour Priority Registration will start *exclusively* for those on the Workshop Mailing List on March 2nd 🚨

Comment WORKSHOP and I’ll send you all the info you need for priority registration, dates, etc 💯

Stay Shrimpy, friends 🦐

All videos are from the Intensives in 2024-2025. They took place in Austria, France, Italy, Germany, and Denmark (plus we just got back from doing an Intensive in Amsterdam 😅)!

Thanks so much to everyone who has joined 🙏
Ya’ll have brought us so much joy! 🥰