City Weekly-Best Of Utah!

Studio Blue made City Weekly's Best Of! We are so excited to have received this award, its such an honor to be featured in a Best Of Utah issue. The photographer came out a couple weeks ago to get some pictures with us. She was really interested in what we do and was so excited to be able to shoot us. Our photo shoot was in front of our building on Washington blvd. We got a a lot of funny looks and tons of honks! With the weather warming up you can expect to see a lot more of us dancing out on the street!

Thanks City Weekly!

Time to party!

Hey girls,

Are you in need a girls night? Do you have a birthday coming up? Is your best friends getting married? Well.. I have the the best idea for you! Studio Blue offers "Private Parties". Hosted by yours truely! ME! What you get is an hour for you and your friends. Learn to a sexy pole dance or some super fun circus fitness! I have been hosting private parties for 2 years this month and I can promise you there is nothing else like it in Ogden. To learn more and how to schedule click the link below!

Parties

Studio Showcase

So we all know that I'm a little crazy.. what with hanging upside and falling on my head A LOT, but did you know there are tons of people who do this, and its just not me! Here is a showcase of our studio and some of our really talented students, most of the girls I have been teaching since day one. Go Studio Blue!!

Student and Studio Showcase

Rope Burn..

For valentines day my super sweet hubby bought me a new toy to play with! It's called a Cordee Lisee and it looks like this.

I'm still working on this move.

My progress has been rather slow. Reason being that no one in the state of Utah teaches this form of dance. So I'm pretty much training my self, its been a lot of trial and error and LOTS of broken skin and rope burn. I'm hoping to have a routine put together in the next couple of months. I'm learning from a book we found on-line but the problem is that it is in french and seeing how I don't speak french I'm learning off the pictures.

In the video I posted of our Promo video for Aerial Amore, I'm the cute girl on the rope who does the pretty cool looking drop in the beginning. What you don't see is that drop is the second one I did during the filming. The first drop wasn't so successful. It went something like me falling about 10 feet and landing on my back. Thank you for crash matts! Don't worry I'm okay and all limbs are still intact. However I did get a pretty nasty rope burn across my back, I'm anticipating a pretty mean looking scar. I sometimes stop and think to myself that I might kinda like pain.. I look at the things we do on a daily basis, not one of them feels good and most the time I leave class covered in bruises, rope burns, or blisters...

 So why do I keep going back? I'm going look past the pain factor and say maybe because it's something new and something that only a handful of us do. That sounds way better.. Yep I'm going to go with that.

Here are some more pictures to keep you entertained-

Aerial Amore!

We have our first promo video put together! It was so much fun working with all the girls last Saturday, and with Brandon from solar shock media! We filmed in two locations: first in front of our studio on Washington blvd, and second at a really neat park up on 24th street. We submitted the video for the Stadium of Fire talent search. So cross your fingers we make it! Here is the video!

Utah Aerial Perfomers- Aerial Amore

Empowerment!

Teaching pole and aerial arts I have witness some pretty amazing things. Not only have women improved there physical health by becoming active, but I have seen self-confidence increase 100%. Nothing is more empowering that accomplishing something new. I've watched women come in covered from head to toe, because they were so ashamed of their bodies that they didn't want anyone to see them. After only a few classes they realize that we are all women and we all have the same fears. They start to wear shorts and tank tops. I had a student once tell me "I haven't be comfortable enough to wear shorts in over 5 years" and here she was walking around the studio strutting her stuff. Something about Pole fitness and Aerial arts awakens your inner women and makes you feel sexy and strong again. Every women can benefit from that!

Here are some testimonials for you to read for yourself~

Self Confidence

Weight Loss

Progression!

I've been doing pole for quite some time. A year ago I went under a pretty drastic surgery which set me back quite a bit, I wasn't able to do any form of fitness for about 6 months. Once I returned to class my body was screaming at me, my mind knew what my body should do, but my body physically could not perform. I've taken the last six months to build that strength back up. I ready to move forward now and push my body further than ever. I feel like the only way to be completly happy is to never let your talent "peak" and to always try something new. So from today on I'm going to put it in writing so I can't go back, I will try something new each day! Lets hope for the best, and pray I don't fall too hard.. :-)

Dew Tour After Party

Our studio was privileged to be the sponsored entertainment for the Dew Tour after party at the scrapyard in Ogden. Casey Scott from Channel 2 News promoted the party and recommend our girls to have a part in it. We had ten girls total who spent Friday and Saturday nights upside down and performing to live bands. There were 3 different apparatus hung, 2 aerial silks, and 1 aerial lyra (hoop). We also provided 4 go-go dancers which yours truly took part in for most of the nights when I wasn't hanging from silks. It was great advertisement for our studio and the girls had a blast. Friday night was a little slow because of rapper Ice Cube who was perfoming just two streets down, but saturday was a huge success. It was a wonderful weekend and even though we all are sore from danceing almost 15 hours over the weekend it was well worth it! Thanks to all the dancers who came out!

Auditions!

After much thought and consideration we have decided to put together a performing group of Aerial Dancers with Pole Dancers. We are going to take the best of all forms of circus fitness and mesh them into one amazing group of talented girls! The date is February 12th and we are asking the girls to perform a routine on at least two different apparatatus. I'm super stoked to get this going, we have been talking about it for months and now it's finally in the making! We are anticipating a large turnout and a lot of talent, I'll be judging the auditions along with two other teachers. The group will be performing all over Utah, so watch for a new circus group out of Ogden! The name has yet been decieded, but we are considering a bunch of new ideas.

Featured Teacher!

I was the feature teacher of January at Studio Blue where I teach. Click on the link to read about it! Thanks Meagan and Studio Blue!

Studio Blue Featured Teacher!

Radio Interview

I was interviewed on the X96 "Radio From Hell Morning Show" on January 13th. Every week they bring on someone from different walks of life and callers can call in and ask any questions. I was featured on the "Ask A Pole Fitness Instructor". It was such fun expirence to meet them and share my passion with the listeners of Utah. I've posted the link where you can listen to the interview and some pictures from that morning. Thanks x96!

 PodCast Interview

Pictures

As promised I took some pictures this week at dance, I'm going to start with some beginner stuff and work my way up!

New Form of Fitness!

Hey everyone! Thanks for taking the time to read my new blog! You’re probably asking yourself “what does circus fit mean?” Well let me tell you what it means to me.

Circus-Fit- Fit for the Circus!

(I know, I know really original)

Two years ago I fell in love with a new form of exercise, and now I couldn’t see myself doing anything else. You may be asking yourself what the heck (we live in Utah "heck" is a word) is circus fitness?

Circus Fitness is using different circus type apparatuses’ in means of staying fit. So that means what exactly? The different objects we use are; Aerial Silk (two strands of long fabric), Aerial Hoop (big metal hula hoop), Aerial Trapeze, and Vertical Pole. I found after a few classes that traditional gyms weren’t doing it for me anymore, and that I needed to be challenged on a whole new level.

After six months of classes I was asked to become one of ADF's Pole Fitness instructor's. Currently I am teaching Vertical Pole Fitness, Routine Development, Vertical Strength, Chair Dancing, and Aerial Silks. This has become a addiction of mine, and I can't wait to share it with you!