Our circus skills instructor, registered yoga teacher

and certified aerial yoga teacher.

8th generations, born and raised in the circus,

Darlene started performing in the circus at the age of four.

At seven, she began training and performing circus aerial acts.

Darlene has performed with numerous shows throughout

the world, Circus Vargas, LA Circus, Shrine Circuses to name a few.

Later she moved on to work as a stunt-woman

in television, feature films, and commercials.

Besides her circus and aerial skills, she has worked with some

of Hollywood's finest stunt-men and directors including Tim Burton, Michael Mann, Ang Lee, Ron Howard, to name a few. Darlene helped train the young and adult actors for the aerial wire work stunts in The Cat in the Hat and was one of the circus advisers to Big Fish. Darlene completed 67 episodes as Pamela Anderson's stunt double and trained Reese Witherspoon for her circus performance in Water for Elephants. She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and also served on the Academy's very first Stunt Peer Group Executive Committee.

She is a former board member of the Stuntwomen's Foundation (charity) and is one of the founding members of V10 Women Stunt Professionals, an elite organization of professional stunt women.