Many people would bend over backwards to avoid performing stunts in front of an audience. But Ariana Ferber-Carter — a professional contortionist and circus coach — is far more flexible, and her ...

The New York Times today profiles a contortion class at the Sankalpah Yoga Studio in Manhattan, taught by accomplished acrobatic performer Jonathan Nosan. "Students spend a good part of the 75 minutes ...

When you think of contortionists, images of circus performers (perhaps a la Cirque du Soleil) likely come to mind. The bending, twisting, and stretching seem impossible — and never fail to mesmerize.

You might not guess it to watch me type, but once upon a time, I was pretty flexible. This is in large part due to a class I took (more years ago than I care to admit) at the San Francisco School of ...

Ricardo Sosa, a native of Cuba, has been a contortionist for most of his life. At 52 years old, he is world renowned in his profession, but even with his fame, he has kept the humility of a graceful ...

If you don’t know who Rachel Fit is, you haven’t been paying much attention to social media lately. Rachel has been gaining the likes of regular social media lovers as well as celebrities all due to ...

Stephanie Cadd bends her body in ways unfathomable to the average human being while stretching on the gym floor at Fitness 1440 in Forest Grove. Occasionally people will stare, maybe even take a photo ...

It’s tempting to say that Otgo Waller’s life has taken some bizarre twists. But that’d be too easy. So let’s offer, instead, that Waller always has been flexible about dealing with curves that life ...

Meet the amazing contortionist who is so supple she can fold herself into a tiny carry-on-suitacse. Leilani Franco, an ex-Britain's Got Talent contestant, often amazes onlookers by effortlessly ...

Plenty of people struggle to touch their fingertips to their toes, but that's literally child's play for Allison Schieler, a 25-year-old from Queens, New York. Allison (aka @bomchicka_wawa on ...

Austrian gymnast Stefanie Millinger shared a video of her contorting in a middle seat while on a flight to Poland. Millinger has been a professional contortionist for six years. She was a finalist of ...