Following the journey of a pole instructor, studio owner, and accident prone aerialist!
It’s March 8 so women all over are celebrating International Women’s Day. And I woke up ANGRY at society because women are still hiding all they are facing to make everyone else comfortable. Let me be clear, I have never been pregnant. In the past two years I’ve had to come to terms with the…
Owning a Pole & Aerial studio means appreciating and HATING the internet. I love it because it helps me educate about my business and connect with students outside of class times. I HATE it because students are also connecting with other business in the industry that don’t give a crap about their saftey and instead…
It was the opening number of the Christmas Show, 2016. The theme was “Broadway” and I was sitting at the top of a pole during “Cell Block Tango.” Instructor Paige climbed under me and put her foot in my crotch to hummingbird and the pole tilted her direction. Then Instructor Meegan handspring and I grabbed…
Tonight from 6-8pm at Appleton Beer Factory is the fundraiser for Laura. And I’m asking each and every one of you to take a little time to stop in. Why? Because we may be a fitness studio, we may be a circus school, but we are a community. We say all the time that once…
Today is the 8 year anniversary of Aerial Dance Pole Exercise. That is crazy. I woke up thinking how much that wasn’t the plan when it started (it was supposed to be a hobby business I did for a few years) and how grateful I am that the plan changed. I still can’t believe many…
We are crazy excited to announce that we are opening a second location!!!! Aerial Dance Green Bay is currently under construction. Our GRAND OPENING with be Thursday, September 6th with an Open House. We expect to start running classes in July. LOTS more information will come about our second location in the next few months…
Last night the women of Aerial Dance performed at Bazaar After Dark on Wisconsin Ave. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! We had a number of Aerial Members perform short sequences alongside four Instructors on 3 apparatus. Even cooler, we had dozens of members come out to cheer us on!!!! It was so amazing to see our little…
There was an article and video yesterday showing a 13-year old girl being forced into a stretch by her cheer coach. There was obvious pain and no understanding of the long term damage that was being done by the coach when forcibly assisting in their stretching. The girl will have long term damage from this.…
Since I spent so much of the weekend doing saftey checks, I have saftey on my mind. And I thought some of you may be interested in the redundancy put in place to keep you safe. You see the crash mats and super visible things we use, but do you know that the attachment points…
A large portion of my Sunday morning was spent at the studio changing the attachment points for the hammocks from double point to single point so we could launch our new hammock program. And I have to say, wow is our aerial structure awesome. I knew when I worked with mechanical and structural engineers to…