The Idea
The idea is a simple one, to mix all our favourite things and come up with the perfect summer deal: acro, the great outdoors, hiking, kayaking and exploring!
We love to travel and we love to train but when we travel we slow down our training progress or missing training partners and when we attend workshops we feel like we’re not really travelling or connecting with our location. AcroVentures takes the workshop on the road. Explore beautiful nature together with a group of old and future acro-friends, connect with the core of a place while enjoying acro workshops mixed with alternating outdoor activities.
Since neither travellers nor acro people tend to have lots of money we try to make it as cheap as possible so that everyone who shares our vision is able to join us – this is why we love our tents!
AcroVentures are built on a sense of community. For us it is all about the connections you make on a trip like this, where like-minded people come together to share their passion for acro, outdoor life, exploring and friendship and have the time or their lives.
Take your acro workshop on the road and really connect to a place while improving your acro-skills. The love for acro that we alls share will be a part of everything we do on the trip. Acro on the mountain top, bonfire jams - everything is possible because you travel with an acro-crowd!
AcroVentures have a progressive feel of movement through changing locations. Discover where you actually are: unlike conventions and retreats, exploring the area is a big part of the trip. Through these shared experiences we create deep connections to each other and to our host country.
We keep costs low because we want everyone to be able to join us. Being a sharing community allows us to keep the spirit of adventure while still enjoying some luxuries. AcroVentures are camping trips but we have a professional chef with us and share helper tasks. This way everybody contributes to make this trip possible.
AcroVentures is a group of old and future friends who want an adventure, as well as progressing with their acro-skills. We set the stage for a group’s spontaneity while covering all the logistic bases. Traditional group travel isn’t really our thing and neither is the classic yoga retreat. We want to feel the freedom of life that comes with travelling. We don’t just bring you somewhere to do acro, moving through our host country and interacting with the local culture and exploring the nature around us are essential parts of any AcroVenture.
Travelling with us will be experienced acro teachers and to top it off a professional photographer. The AcroVentures glamour features are a cook who travels with us and a big tent that we can train and hang out in on rainy days. Your contribution to the AcroVenture is your own camping equipment, a foundation of acro skills to build on, and enthusiasm to share your personality and talents with the community.
We set the stage, organise the camp, maintain
training and acro inspiration – then
the adventure is yours!
The Team
Our Story
Jared and Lilli met in 2014 on a beach in India doing acro. One year later, again on that magical beach, they talked about how travelling and doing acro can be really hard if you are a solo traveller and how awesome it would be to be able to travel together with an acro crowd. Lilli had the idea to create trips that would allow people to travel the world acro-style connecting different acro events and communities. Jared loved it and again and again they talked about this amazing “Endless European Acro-Summer”, travelling and training at the same time. A couple of months later Jared called and said: “Let’s do it!”
Lilli Hantke
Co-founder and organisational mastermind
Lilli is the spark that lit the AcroVentures flame - a warm hearted, outspoken and fun loving traveller with a passion for bringing people together. When Lilli left her job as a careers counsellor for international students she just wanted a break, lots of sun and time for acro. Since four years she is now living a more balanced lifestyle that combines everything she loves: outdoor living, travelling, creating magic through connecting people, bonfires – and of course acro. A boyscout at heart, she is happiest in the mountains or in the water with the sun on her face, which is why she spends the winters in Northern Thailand. During our trips Lilli is our organisational mastermind, as well as esteemed ambassador for the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Jared van Earle
Co-founder
Jared is our Jack-of-all-trades: from sparking the idea over planning routes, up to building our website, his talents show in every aspect of our trips. Many of them he acquired in the last 4 years, during which he left his job in graphic design, to see a little of the world. As a master of combining work and pleasure, he is the official photographer at several acro conventions and also teaches Thai Massage and acro.
He is now attending circus school in Spain.
Tinkara Oblak
Organisational Pixie & Instagram
Tinkara came along as a participant last year and is now coming back this summer to help us on our trips.
She is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to Slovenia and is the face behind our Instagram account.
Daniela Dušková
Photography & videography Intermediate Trip
Daniela is one of AcroVenture's first participants and we are thrilled that she is now coming back as our trip photographer. She is specialised in portrait, yoga, landscape and macro photography. Photography is her passion, as well as acroyoga and luckily she is able to combine these activities when travelling to various acro events around the world. She believes that through pictures she can share joy and happiness. Apart from being an awesome photographer she is also teaching acro in her hometown Prague.
Christophe Dubois
Chef on both trips this summer
Having studied Restaurant Management in Canada and worked as a professional chef, Chris is now back at university becoming a social worker. At the same time he is teaching immigrants and people with social difficulties how to cook in a community centre in Montreal.
Because he loves acro, travelling and feeding people he is joining us in Slovenia in August. His food, he says, reflects his emotions and personality. He goes freestyle most of the time while diving into different cultures for inspiration and always looking for fresh, local produce. Good food, to him, lets people come together and share a good time and he firmly believes that through sharing food we share our love for each other.
Our Teachers
Judith Groot
Leading the main workshops this summer
Judith's passion for movement started very early. As a toddler she did ballet and kept on dancing until she was in her twenties. Initially being scared of upside downs in any form, she now feels she needs to do at least one handstand a day. To her acro is more than just a set of moves. Through acro she practices patience, kindness and playfulness. She loves how it makes her discover and explore more about herself and her connection with others. Since 2012 she teaches yoga and has done trainings around the world in Vinyasa, Anusara, Prana Flow and Yoga Therapy. She is also a certified Thai Masseur. In 2016 and 2017 she did an acrobatics teacher training with Det Rijven and Jim Klinkhamer.
Leander van de Visse
Leading the main workshops this summer
15 years ago Leander saw a yoga demonstration by an old man. He was so impressed that he decided to start practicing, as well. This sparked an interest in spirituality and natural medicine and he wanted to live in nature for a while. He moved to the Peruvian jungle and found a job in a national park. He loved it so much there that he ended up staying for several years, exploring the jungle and hanging out with the monkeys.
Back in Amsterdam he studied at the Iokai Shiatsu School and later went to India to study Ashtanga Yoga. He now works as a massage therapist. Having lived with the monkeys he felt right at home when he discovered the acro community. He was lucky enough to find Judith in the park without a base and he’s been throwing her around ever since.
Eva Brovinsky
Co-organiser & teacher on our trips
Eva is co-organiser for AcroVentures Slovenia. She is a seeker of all sports and activities that take her into the great outdoors. Her mantra is less gear, more freedom of movement. As a certified Vinyasa Yoga and Acro Montreal teacher she is forever patient and compassionate and emphasizes cooperation with effective technique to build confidence and a solid foundation for your personal practices. She will be guiding our hikes and offer her input on improving overall body awareness and movement. As a Yogaslackers teacher she will for sure bring along her slackline and teach you some tricks.
Timothy Weyrer
Warm-up and handstand technique
In early 2015 Timothy discovered acro as a nice offset to his office job in software development. He quickly realized that acro is far more than just a workout. It involves trust, commitment, joy, progressive training, cooperation, communication. All this in just one practice - incredible!!
Timothy became addicted to handstand training in late 2017. He realised that it helped him to navigate more difficult tricks and moves in acro, since it gave him more stability, strength and confidence in his practice. Sharing his handstand journey with the participants is what he is looking forward to on these trips.
Timothy enjoys travelling, meeting new people and sharing his passion for acro. Whenever possible acro is part of his travels by attending conventions or jams all over the world.
Get in Touch, Get Involved
Got a question? We’ll give you a straight answer.
The AcroVentures idea comes from the acro-community and we want to grow from within the community so if you feel inspired to get involved in AcroVentures, we want to hear from you!
Drop us a line below if you have a trip idea, want to recommend teachers or local guides, tell us about an amazing destination, or anything else that you think might be worth sharing with us.
Or tell us where you would like to go! We are always open for great ideas and places to explore!