Going Down
We crawl before we can walk. We climb before we can descend. We try very hard not to fall on our heads when we are inverted on the pole. It’s only happened once so far, and luckily I was low enough to the ground so it wasn’t too bad of a drop. It sounded terrible […]
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Going For It
Throw a camera on me and apparently I come alive. I don’t know what it is, but more than once I have found myself trying to work out a move on camera for the first time after being too scared and worn during practice to even make the attempt. Other times I try and fail […]
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86 Jenna
There were days when I had to give myself pep talks just to get out of bed. There were days when I had to force myself to write. There were days when I felt completely overwhelmed and just cried. There were days when I painted a smile on my face to get through the day. […]
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In the Upside Down
We start out our lives following one path and then at some point along the way we come to realize that it’s no longer working, or maybe it just doesn’t make us happy in the same way that it used to. Much like The Hanged One in the tarot teaches us, sometimes we need a […]
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Grips & Holds
I still feel so new at this and yet at the same time I feel like I have come so far. Eight weeks of Shapes 0 taught me four basic hand positons. I wrote about a couple of them in the first diary entry about this session. We have True Grip, AKA Dick Grip, which […]
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Pointe at the Pump House
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Making Shapes
This isn’t really about learning how to dance the pole. I mean, it is, but it is also so much more than that. We take our bodies for granted sometimes. We grind ourselves into the ground trying to accomplish all the various tasks that we have to get done throughout the day, all of those […]
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