In the air

Tall trees, heavy boulders and anything else dirty and outside was just another a playground for Carey Jennette growing up in northern Michigan.

“I was a bizarre upside-down child,” she says. “I always had reckless abandon for my body and my safety.”

Now 31, the St. Petersburg-based bartender/hopeful entrepreneur aims to trade crazy for stability in a new business. She plans to open a circus arts and aerial silks studio and training facility for kids and adults, from beginners to aspiring professionals. Aerial silks and related exercises, where someone performs aerial acrobatics while hanging from fabric connected to a ceiling, is an up-and-coming purist, projects Jennette. Something like what CrossFit was a decade ago — before it took off. “It's the new yoga,” says Jennette. “Everyone wants to find some form of exercise they can get excited about doing.”