Unusual Emma

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Nice tip, thanks! I'll give it a shot... We also do a sleepy straddle climb with split silks which has a full hip lock in the middle of it, which is much easier, so I can see how a half way house would help.

They bloody are, too! 😆💪💪💪

Shingles vaccine linked to 20 per cent drop in dementia The shingles vaccine could be an effective intervention for dementia, with a large "natural experiment" in Wales finding a substantial drop in dementia risk for those who received the vaccine.

🧪 Wow! This is potentially huge. Link to the original papers in the article

www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

My straddle climbs are finally climbing! 💪 #aerialsilks #aerialaddict #aerialarts

The Ashwaganda is also the only thing that has ever reduced the amount that I clench my jaw in my sleep.

If I stick to that I seem to get about 7-8 solid hours most nights, and if I do wake up in the middle of the night I usually get back to sleep within half an hour, rather than being awake for hours.

Things that have helped - leaving my phone downstairs (though we regularly watch TV in bed just before sleep), eating a snack or drinking a glass of milk fairly late (I often wake up in the night hungry, a latish snack seems to stop that), a mug of ashwaganda tea at 8-9pm.

Things that did not help - cutting out caffeine after 3pm.

Screen time in bed linked to worse sleep, study finds The research found a correlation between looking at a screen in bed and reporting insomnia and sleep loss.

I find sleep hard, but have been making good progress on it recently.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Awesome! The more of us that hang out here, the more will be willing to make the move...

Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk At least 20 officers forced their way into property and police said some present were planning direct action in London

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Quakers?!? Blimey....

Well, the video works. No option to add music, but I can do that before uploading if I want to (and if I can be bothered). Preview is landscape, but the full video does show if you click through. I've seen some other posts with portrait video previews, though, so maybe that's a setting?

Thank you! Still trying to figure out how things work here, but it's great to know there are some Aerialists about! ❤️🔥

It's been 3 years since I started Aerial and insta has been my online home all that time. But for reasons I'm now wondering if bluesky might be able to take its place? Let's see what a quick video from today's slings class looks like...

#aerialaddict #aerialsling #aerialhammock #aerialarts