7 THINGS WE RECLAIM IN THIS SPACE
Appreciation for our bodies: Even from day 1 you’ll be surprised at what your body is capable of. Many of us come into pole assuming we won’t be able to do anything at all. We quickly see all the beautiful amazing things we can do and it just keeps getting better from there. We start to view our bodies with appreciation and gratitude rather than something that is not _____enough. That mindset shift is extraordinarily powerful on it’s own.
Trust in our bodies: For some of us, we will start to feel safe in our bodies for the first time in a long time (or ever). We are 100% team slow pole here. Instead of rushing into what’s next, we spend time building trust and strength in our physical bodies. Developing that trust is what helps us feel safe as we begin to explore and progress. I also firmly believe trusting our physical bodies helps us feel safe to start seeking a deeper connection to our emotional/energetic selves.
Our Intuition: Like I said above, when you start feeling safe in your physical body, it helps you lean into and trust your intuition. No one knows your body better than you do, but we’ve been second guessing ourselves our whole lives. We stop looking for answers outside of ourselves and trusting our intuition will take us where we need to be.
Our Voices: I don’t think we’ve touched on this one enough yet. Your voice matters here, your voice is valued here. This isn’t pole bootcamp. If something isn’t sitting quite right with you or doesn’t make sense or feels unsafe, please let your instructor know. We are here to meet you where you’re at. Additionally, there is so much power in the shared conversations during classes. You all have something precious to bring to the table and inspire each other (and us) more than you know.
Our Sexual Energy: Yep, everything you’ve been told to feel ashamed about is free to run wild here. Sexual energy is a powerful, beautiful thing to be nurtured and explored. Here we claim it for ourselves first and always. It’s no longer something that is dictated by social conditioning or the opinions of others.
Our Playfulness and Joy: This is a space to let go and explore. No expectations, no stressing over an imaginary finish line. We encourage all to approach this journey with playful curiosity-like when we were little and ran amok and it felt so good because we didn’t give a shit about how anything looked or what anyone thought.
A Loving Relationship With Our Authentic Selves: We all come to this space with various layers of ick (super technical term lol). Years of being told what we should act like, what we should look like, what we should do with our lives, etc. Here we can start to let that all go and just show up as we are at that given moment on that given day and love and celebrate the fuck out of it.
All of these things take time. It’s an ongoing, forever growing process. It’s a mindset and approach to life. There are no shortcuts. It takes devotion and work, but there is so much joy to be found in the process itself-don’t cheat yourself out of that.
