Learning circus skills is great fun, which encourages people to engage in the activity. This makes it more likely that people will join in and it also means participants will find it more memorable and enjoyable.

Learning circus skills gives people valuable experiences that can have a positive impact throughout their lives. For example, having poise and concentration under pressure; doing something you never thought possible; mastering a skill through trial, error, and plenty of practice; creating something out of nothing and seeing it come to fruition; and working together in a co-operative way to bring about something big and special that you could never do by yourself.

Circus arts also have many educational benefits: developing patience and persistence, providing a model for co-operative learning, improving the abilities to focus and concentrate, and cross-lateral movements actually improve the nerve communication between the two sides of the brain.

Physically, circus skills require balance and control of the whole body, activating the vestibular system, waking up the brain and preparing it to take in new information.

Mentally, the students experience pattern, sequence, timing and rhythm through the use of coloured equipment and the rhythmic movement of their arms in manipulating the equipment through set patterns, stimulating both the logical-left and creative-right hemispheres of the brain, or hand-eye coordination.