Sara Kaiser is an instructor and movement educator whose work brings neuroscience, psychology, learning theories, and trauma-informed instruction to the dynamic world of aerial arts. She is the founder of Wakeful Ascent Aerial Arts, where she develops continuing education and teacher training programs that integrate pedagogy, leadership, empowerment, and technical mastery.
 

Through years of teaching, interdisciplinary study, and building Bishop, California’s first aerial community +developing Aerial Silks Online, Sara has become known for her technical insight and ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear, usable frameworks for instructors.

Rather than emphasizing tricks or aesthetics alone, her work addresses the often unseen factors that shape learning environments: cognitive load, nervous system states, memory formation, and relational dynamics in the room.
 

Sara’s teaching supports both students and instructors by offering language and structure for skill acquisition, safety, and agency, softening the forces of urgency, performance pressure, and fear that often appear in the aerial classroom. 

Whether she is guiding a beginner through their first hammock knot (a love language) or working with experienced teachers on facilitating a supportive learning environment, her focus remains the same:
 

to share the joy and empowerment of aerial arts.