Lindsay Nova

Lindsay Nova often calls herself “a one woman spiritual circus”.

Lindsay Nova has studied dance, yoga, and movement from coast to coast. She is a creative fitness educator and performance artist, inspiring and empowering others to take charge of their lives and live their own dreams. From a young age, Lindsay had a feeling she would do something different with her life. Every day she treats as a new day to live with more compassion and gratitude for being here on Earth exploring the gift of being ALIVE!

She grew up in Florida, where she studied modern and aerial dance intensively. Then, she moved to Ohio to pursue her BFA in dance and has lived in the region ever since, enjoying the seasons and laid-back vibe of the Midwest. Aerial dance slid to the background for several years, but she picked up the hula hoop along the way. It was inside the circle that she found the playful nature of dance once again, and has since spun many happy smiles for herself and others to enjoy since then.

Some of her notable performances in contemporary dance includes working with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange on their LGBT community project, Near/Far/In/Out in 2003. Additionally, she has produced several site-specific multi-media dance projects to reflect her views about living in harmony with the Earth as a moving organism, including work in Costa Rica from 2008. In recent years, she has had the pleasure of dancing and performing with TUPACO Dance, Hixon Dance, Kristina Isabelle’s High Jinks Productions, The Amazing Giants, and Anna and the Annadroids, in works ranging from entertainment, to site-specific, and “quirky robot girl” performance art in Columbus, Ohio and beyond.

In addition to her dance career, Lindsay is a 200 hour certified yoga instructor. Her yoga journey has shed many lights through physical and spiritual realms. Lindsay truly believes in the healing power of yoga returning us to a state of wholeness through a regular practice. Yoga gives us a framework upon which to live our lives without any excess baggage. It allows the practitioner to sift through the clutter of the mind to find the natural purity which is already there. It does not matter what one looks like as they practice- what matters is who you are as you go through the process. For someone who has danced her whole life, this was something Lindsay struggled with for a long time. But with time and inquiry into the depths of yoga, a deep sense of contentment and commitment have followed- and she loves sharing those depths with others in her classes.

She has studied yoga with Michelle Stobart of Inhale Yoga, Richa Eland, Edward Clark of Tripsichore Yoga, and Dr. Tresa Randall, who studied directly with TKV Desikachar. She is highly trained in Vinyasa with a thorough understanding of anatomy. Additionally, she is influenced by Ashtanga and Anusara methods in her practice. She most recently was drawn to teach hot yoga at Yoga Alive after 5 years of teaching in Athens and Columbus. She believes in the benefits of a heated practice in combination with an asana sequence designed to challenge any level. She enjoys incorporating the Yamas and Niyamas, as well as themes of compassion and heart expansion, into all of her classes.

Lindsay has been fascinated by nomadic culture even since reading Kerouac’s On the Road in high school. She found the modern day music festival to be the perfect way to explore this type of counter-culture that experiments in temporary community. In these environments she has always tested the waters of yoga and dance, and dedicated herself to living out her dreams even after the festival has ended. She believes in the power of people coming together to celebrate just being alive through the festival experience.  She sincerely believes in the transformative power that festivals can create for positive change to those who are open to it. Since this culture has now been so ingrained into her identity, she has enjoyed performing and teaching at numerous festivals throughout the country such as Rootwire, Electric Forest, and All Good, to name a few. In this way, she is giving back to the community that helped nurture her.

Lindsay’s foray into festival culture has enabled her to be a multidimensional performance artist. Her style is an amalgamation of various circus arts she has studied over more recent years blended with her lifelong technical artistic background.  Currently she specializes in aerial hoop/lyra, aerial silks, hoop dance, single, double, and triple fire hoops, fire fans, fire staff, fire eating, and stilt walking.

Her current plans include the expansion of her circus arts company, Hyperspace, with plans to produce an evening length show bringing modern cirque-influenced dance to stages in Ohio, at festivals, and beyond.

Lindsay also runs her online hoop store, Nova Hoops on Etsy, where she hand crafts hula hoops to be sold worldwide.