Local and personal
Elemental 5 serves families in Salida, Poncha Springs, and Chaffee County with coaching that is personal, steady, and deeply invested.
Salida, Colorado
AboutElemental5
Elemental 5 is a Movement Arts Center in Salida, Colorado, training fitness, acrobatics, circus, and character through serious play, with martial arts coming in the new facility.
We do not only train tricks. We train qualities.
Who We Are
A movement arts center for whole kids.
Movement arts
We train through fitness, acrobatics, and circus, with a dedicated martial arts pathway planned as part of the new facility.
Warm standards
Classes are fun, but they are not random. Students learn progressions, practice respect, and earn confidence through real effort.
Room to grow
Every student is met as a person. Some need courage. Some need focus. Some need a place where energy becomes a strength.
E5 was built to train the whole student: body, mind, confidence, character, and joy in movement.
What We Train
Real skills give growth a place to practice.
Fitness
Students build usable strength, body control, balance, and awareness of how they move.
Acrobatics
Students train parkour, tumbling, trampoline, tricking, and dynamic movement with adaptability and flow.
Martial Arts · Coming Soon
A dedicated pathway for courage, discipline, commitment, and purposeful intensity is planned as part of the new facility.
Circus
Movement becomes a place to explore aerial, balance, object manipulation, theater, creativity, and performance.
Integration
Students learn to connect strength, skill, discipline, creativity, focus, and character.
Why We Train
Movement gives character a place to practice.
Many youth activities keep kids busy. At E5, we want movement to do something deeper. A student feels effort, frustration, repetition, progress, and pride in real time. Then they learn they can stay with it.
That is why we train. Not to produce perfect performers, but to help students become stronger, steadier, braver, more respectful versions of themselves.
When students build strength, they learn they can support themselves with patience and consistency.
When they adapt, they learn one mistake is not the end of the attempt.
When they commit, they learn courage is something they can practice one attempt at a time.
When they create, they learn their ideas belong in the room.
When they focus, they learn how to regulate, reset, and return to themselves.
The Five Elements of E5
A simple framework for complete training.
The Five Elements are our practical teaching language. Each element names a movement discipline first, then a set of character qualities students can understand, practice, and carry with them.
Earth
Fitness
Strength, stability, and foundation. Students build the physical base that supports every other pathway.
Water
Acrobatics
Flow, adaptability, and skill through parkour, tumbling, trampoline, tricking, and dynamic movement.
Fire
Martial Arts · Coming Soon
A dedicated pathway for courage, discipline, commitment, and purposeful intensity is planned as part of the new facility.
Air
Circus
Creativity, expression, and performance through aerial, balance, object manipulation, theater, and circus arts.
Void
Integration
Awareness, mastery, and character. Strength, skill, discipline, creativity, and focus come together.
Serious Play
Play and discipline are not opposites.
Kids learn best when the room feels alive. At E5, play is focused, physical, challenging, and full of discovery. Discipline gives play shape. Play keeps discipline joyful.
Safe risk
Students stretch comfort zones inside clear coaching boundaries.
Real effort
Fun does not mean easy. It means students want to keep trying.
Shared energy
The group learns to celebrate effort, progress, courage, and respect together.
What Students Carry With Them
The work follows them home.
A stronger body
They move with more control, coordination, balance, and trust in what their body can do.
More resilience
They practice patience, adaptability, listening, and the ability to reset after frustration.
A braver self
They learn that courage is not a personality type. It is a skill they can build.
A creative voice
They get to solve problems, make choices, perform, and bring their own style and joy into movement.
A steadier mind
They build focus, emotional regulation, humility, and confidence through repeated practice.
A place to belong
They are known by coaches, encouraged by peers, and challenged in a space built on respect.
Start Here
Find the class that fits your student.
Whether your child is brand new, wildly energetic, cautious, focused, creative, or already flipping off the couch, there is a thoughtful path into Elemental 5.