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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Protected: The Siren
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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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Protected: She Got Me in a Chokehold
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The Human Experience
We hold people to certain standards in society, often wrapping our worth into how much we conform and comply with those pillars of perfection. We make decisions based on what other people may think instead of what we really feel is right. We do things because we are supposed to and not because we really […]
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The Honey Pot
They say that the sacral chakra is the place in the body that is the source of our sexuality, our sensuality, and our creativity. Others say that this is the place where trauma resides. Like much of life, I have come to realize that two things can be true at the same time. I held […]
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Reliving Old Lessons
Have you ever been both proud of yourself and disappointed in yourself at the same time? It’s a weird space to be in, but one that I have found myself before. These past couple of classes have tested me in a way that I have yet to come up against before, which isn’t necessarily a […]
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Blindfolded
I have spent a large portion of my life trying to escape my body. I did it through dissociation as a child and then drugs as an adult, only to realize that the answers that I have been seeking are held with that same body I have been so desperately trying to avoid. We all […]
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