We welcome everyone at our studio whether you've tried pole before or not. Just book on to a beginner pole class. No fitness experience necessary!
Join us for a variety of classes suitable for everyone. Our pole classes have a maximum of one student to a pole so we can provide you with better quality teaching and offer you dedicated support and help.
Pole dance it’s a combination of athletic and artistic skill that is incomparable to any other form of dance or sport. The most unique thing about it is that you can make it your own and express yourself using all the different styles pole has to offer.
Pole dancing it’s also a full-body workout. It is resistance training and cardio in one, it improves your flexibility and it’s fun at the same time! You don't need to have any fitness experience to start.
Athena T
At Inhale Pole Dance Studio we will always encourage you to learn from a variety of instructors. But why? That doesn't make great business sense surely? We firmly believe in creating happy and well-rounded polers, and learning from a variety of people is an important part of that. We're only human, whilst we have experience and qualifications, we don't have all the answers for everyone.
Instructor and co-owner Emma shares some of her thoughts on why putting your pole journey first is so important...
When I first started to get into pole, for some reason, I felt like I needed permission to do things ‘real’ polers do. I wasn’t sure if I could buy clothes and shoes from Pole Junkie, or attend competitions, or go to workshops, or go to different studios. I don’t know if I’m completely alone in that mindset, and writing this now it sounds very strange. But it was all new, and I didn’t know ‘the rules’, and I felt like that for a while. Five years later, and I kind of wish that there was someone to stop me from buying so many outfits and shoes and spending so much money on pole altogether…
But I’ve learnt and grown a lot in that time, particularly thanks to breaking away from that mindset and trying to say ‘yes’ to every opportunity that’s come my way, especially ‘yes’ to learning from a variety of instructors. Obviously it’s incredibly important to support small businesses, now more than ever, but you should never feel guilty about exploring new studios and instructors. There is a plethora of styles, as well as knowledge, out there and you may be doing yourself a disservice by not looking into them.
Every instructor you come across will have a different story. Different strengths, different weaknesses and different experiences. I can’t tell you the number of times an instructor has shown me something in a different way or given a different cue that’s made something I’ve been trying for a long time just all of a sudden click into place. But it doesn’t stop there.
Friends and students often say to me ‘I wish I was as flowy as you’, and I remind them that it’s something I spent a lot of time working on. When I entered my first comp, the studio that I went to at the time was more focused on tricks as opposed to the dancing side of pole. And by looking at the judging criteria it made me realise that I had basically no experience with flow or floorwork or how to connect moves together. So I went to a studio that offered flow and floorwork classes to improve on those areas. Again, there are no ‘rules’, if you want to take a month off tricks classes and do a month of dancing classes, do it! If you never ever want to take tricks classes and only ever want to do dancing classes do it! You don’t have to invert or do tricks to be a pole dancer.
So if like me five years ago you’ve ever felt like you’ve needed permission to try a new instructor, buy Pleasers, or book tickets for an event here it is. Book the lesson, buy two pairs of Pleasers and book the tickets!
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