April 12, 2020 News Update

Hello RKP Members.
Happy Easter, Happy Pesach! As we celebrate these special occasions at home, we continue to navigate this unchartered territory with innovate ways of being together, thanks to many of the digital tools available to us online. We have also come up with some unique activities to keep you busy staying fit, healthy and entertained. Here are some projects you and your entire family can take part:

  1. Wednesday, April 15 @ 5:30pm - Helping Hand Forum (HHF): We are setting up a Facebook Forum for our students. Here we can all video meet and discuss how we can all help each other in coping with 'stay@home' challenges. Our initial meeting shall be on Wednesday, April 15 @ 5:30pm. Please keep an eye on the newly created RKP-HHF Group
  2. Saturday, April 18:World Circus Celebration: Since this date was originally scheduled for Fédération Mondiale du Cirque, our circus community has adopted this day for circus artists all around the world to share their images online. We shall be presenting a variety of pictures and videos of our students, and thus, invite our students to submit finished edited photos, slideshow or videos of no longer than 15 seconds. You may submit as many as you want. We shall publish these at our RKP FACEBOOK, OCAA FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM continuously until April 18, when we culminate this with a BIG BANG! How to Submit: Just upload your file in our Google Drive Folder. Give us a short nudge via email or FB Messenger to let us know you submitted your media. Check intermittently our social media outlets
  3. Tuesday, April 21: Fitness Challenge: We are going to conduct Push Up, Hand Stand and Elbow Stand Challenges. Join the fun. Winner gets a free class (as soon as we open). For more information and to Sign-up Online
  4. Thursday, April 30: Show Night: Let's get ready!!!! It's SHOWTIME! Present any skill you want to showcase. It can be a dance, acrobatic or gymnastic routine and exercise regimen, a book reading segment, an elocution staging, a cooking showdown, and even a family performance. Acts shall be no more than 2 minutes. Sign-up Online. We really hope you will participate so we get together and keep abreast with each other.

We are also so excited to announce that MINBODY ONLINE has introduced its new video segment and you can view all our educational videos in one platform. Check out many exercise videos here for your in-home fitness program. We are continuously uploading and setting up videos, so keep visiting this link .

Lastly, check out promotional items we are now offering which will take effect when we resume our classes.

For those interested, Luca and I have daily online conditioning and flexibility classes that you can avail of. The exercises vary day to day to make our sessions interesting and entertaining and covers, basic warm-up, general and dance cardio, basic and progressive flexibility exercises, resistance band exercises and pull-up barre exercises. These classes and video access are FREE with options for donations.

We want to give special thanks to our students who have continued their apprentice contract despite this current situation. Several of them are attending our daily online classes, and we are so happy to see the progress they have made over the weeks.

If you are interested in attending our online classes, please reserve online . You may need to initially get set-up with our Mindbody Scheduler and get connected with us via Facebook Messenger.
How to get you connected and prepared for online class.
  1. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel so we can reach the threshold to be eligible for Live Streaming and move our platform to YouTube
  2. Download Zoom
  3. Follow Us on Facebook. If you do not have one, please create one just so you can access our group.
  4. RK Facebook
  5. RKP Facebook
  6. Follow Us on RKP Instagram for secondary live stream platform
  7. Check RKP Mindbody for the schedule of online classes. Reserve online. This is free.
  8. You will receive a message on our online Facebook Messenger group.
If you have any questions in connection with our online classes, please first link yourself to all our social media outlets above and may text us (714) 330-7484 or email us: info@rubykaren.com

Please share any social media by tagging us and adding our basic hashtags: #rubykarenprojec t #rkponlineclasses #orangecountyaerialarts .   We look forward to seeing you online. Thank you for your trust, loyalty and support to keep us all safe and healthy during this world crisis.

Ruby Karen Project – Orange County Aerial Arts