Defining fitness While fit-ness can be defined in many individual ways, a more modern understanding of fitness looks at this concept across an interconnected web of elements that are relevant to your life and/or training. Some things to consider as…
Circus Pagan is the intersection of neo-Pagan and circus arts. Why am I doing this? Over the years, as I have described the feeling I get when practicing my art, people repeatedly tell me it sounds like a zen experience.…
Many of us started pole dancing purely out of passion. As the love for pole dancing grew and the pole dance industry started to develop, many pole dancers wanted to make a career out of it. There are many ways…
Yep, that’s correct. There will be TWO PoleCons in 2025! PoleCon 2025 will be held at Live! Hotel and Casino Maryland from May 29-June 1, 2025 PoleCon: West 2025 will be held at Hyatt Regency Denver at Convention Center from…
❓Why is posture important? Or perhaps more accurately; “how we can use looking at static posture to help us understand how our body is moving or not moving from a wholistic perspective.” Think of static posture as the body’s alignment…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More than a thousand pole dancers, including people of all genders, all ages, backgrounds, and body shapes gather for the 12th annual International Pole Convention—or simply “PoleCon”—at the Maryland Live! Hotel and Casino June 15-18! Open to…
In our last blog we talked about what to look for in a pole student as a new student. Link Now that you’ve decided to try a studio—What makes you stay there? The following 3 things can be hard to…
The hardest thing to do in pole is to walk through the door of a studio for the first time. It can be scary, daunting? and outright confusing. If you’re lucky enough to have multiple studio options available to you,…
What is an isometric movement? Let’s look at a bicep curl. In a bicep curl, you are bending and straightening your elbow. There are three types of muscle contractions that happen in the bicep curl: Concentric: the bicep muscle (on…
Loss of overhead motion of the shoulder that you perceive as “pinching on the top of the shoulder.” Your shoulder motion comes from several joints - not just the ball & socket of the shoulder (aka the glenohumeral joint). There…