In this signature open level pole dance workshop, avec or sans heels, comprised of my favourite spinning spiralling shapes, we'll open our ritual practice with some intentional breathwork and warm-up integrating some of my favourite conditioning exercises to build lines.

In the rose garden, we'll sow the seeds of mindful movement, with some psychosomatic (mind-body) transits into inverts, inside leg hangs, laybacks, titanic or Bird or Paradise or ballerina (with progressions and regressions for eagle & capezio) each to their own ability, watering ourselves carefully as we go along, and pruning our lines as we bloom. Finally, efflorescent, we'll explore pole de bras, the kinetic expansion and contraction of arms, often in concert with our legs, taking time to enjoy what feels good as we wilt for fall.

As #bratSummer draws to an end, and demure #SadGirlFall rolls in, we hold space not only to bloom, but also to wilt, consolidate our growth and renew. It's an opportunity to explore the devastating beauty the full range of expressive movement holds in deliberate general coincidence with November’s Beaver Full Moon.

The still and film curated on this page are from my pandemic archive recordings of blooming flowers from a National Geographic timelapse projected onto voile curtains in Nairobi, during my evening practice.

I hope to see you soon, sending all my love.

Bisous!

A.T.