- Bryan Flanders, initially misdiagnosed with terminal cancer, pivoted to circus arts.
- He left his public policy career to teach yoga and acroyoga in Utah.
- Flanders opened the Salt Lake City Circus Arts Center, embracing a new passion.
SALT LAKE CITY — Bryan Flanders thought he was going to die. He ended up teaching circus arts instead.
His story begins with a small bump on his shoulder that grew bigger and more painful. He went to a doctor who he said diagnosed it as terminal cancer.
“It was a type of cancer that the life expectancy was anywhere from about one to five years, and there just wasn’t any treatment for it at the time,” his wife, Chantel recalled. At the time, they had been married for two years.
“I mean they (his doctors) said that essentially that in the next couple years large chunks of your body would be cut off and until you would be done,” Bryan Flanders said…