In this email: 2025 things of note + upcoming trainings I just slept for nearly 12 hours (thank you, jet lag) so i composed this monstrous and minimally edited year-in-review with a bad color palette 🧑🏼🎨many links in here are affiliate links - you’ll know because of this* 😶🌫️ STUFF I ENJOYED PUTTING ON MY FACE I know you're not on this list for my thoughts on skincare,but when thinking about a year in review, "stuff I put on my face" was the first thing I wrote. must be important??youth to...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
In this email: My trip to the International Fascia Research Congress, where I studied this year & upcoming eventsRead time: 3 mins TOMORROW, Dec 19 I’m rather amazed by how many years I yanked my pelvis to its extremes before understanding how it’s designed to move. 15 years ago. The days before I knew where my hip sockets actually were, and before some career-changing hip+lower back ouchies. In 🍑 Articulate Anatomy: Hips we’ll look at hip zones that are often misunderstood and turn...
2 months ago • 5 min read
What do pelvic action alternatives to crusty old movement class customs rubbing yourself all over the floor to give your brain a break and the science of smoothhave in common?me. and maybe you?Check out the new workshop drops below, and stay till the end for a little personal update. 🍑 Articulate Anatomy: Hips Hands up if you're interested in PELVIC POSSIBILITES?Dec 19 is my final session of the year inside The Freestyle Collective. Articulate Anatomy: Hipsis a $25, 75-minute anatomical...
3 months ago • 2 min read
I’m about to show you something no one has seen before: Inside my Instagram saves. Spin, static, and "I could try that with my pants on" pole videos are all kept separate. I save IG videos into folders so that when I need to show a student something, or the rare mood strikes to try some of these skills on myself, I know exactly where to find it.Plus, training gets confusing when acrobatic videos are mixed in with my #calligraphytips and #chilicrisprecipe saves 🌶️ Thinking back, studying other...
4 months ago • 2 min read
If your knees and elbows only cross your mind when they hurt, this 75-minute workshop will change that.This Thursday, I’m teaching a drop-in workshop inside The Freestyle Collective. 💪 Articulate Anatomy: Elbows & Knees 🦵 Transform vague body awareness into creative movement habits. 12 pm NYC/EST time Sign me up Two enticing anatomical fun facts: 🦵→ The kneecap doesn’t just glide up and down—it tilts, shifts, and even rotates slightly as you bend and straighten. Meanwhile, the thigh bone...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Many pole dancers train flexibility because they want more than just range of motion... They’re hoping stretching will change how they move. They see people whose pole work looks limber and precise, and say, “I want that. I really should stretch more". But I'll be real with you @Reader- I have never, ever met someone who moves with incredible continuity who says the #1 thing that made them great was… stretching. Isolated flexibility drills are about range of motion. They’re about training...
6 months ago • 1 min read
Have you ever been in a stretch class, holding and holding and holding a position... yanking parts of you in directions they don’t really want to go in? Your groin is crying, and you're thinking: This better make me look more flexible on the pole… ⬆️ That’s what it feels like to do training you hope will carry over to the way you move with the pole. Sure, stretching might possibly, help you hit deeper positions, but stretching alone does not unlock the kind of movement that stops people in...
6 months ago • 1 min read
👇🏼 Strange and delightful online workshops ➡ read time: 2 min max When was the last time you: A. Sensuously slathered yourself on an undecorated wall, causing you to feel stretches in places you didn’t know existed? inspo B. Read a chapter of a book about trigonometry and immediately turned your learnings into a hip movement exercise? on top of my to-be-read mountainget it on bookshop (affiliate link) C. Asked me your lingering questions about why so many adult dance classes are sucky and sad...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
In this email:👉 a nudge we all need🗓️ upcoming workshops and events➡ read time: 2-3 minutes Reader, You might not want to get up right now. You might not be in the mood to go outside or put on music. But on the other side of a little wiggle break is: “I needed that”.I know, I know, very inconvenient of me to show up NOW while your hands are occupied with email deletion to remind you that: ⚡️ We feel enlivened when we let ourselves move.You don’t need to change clothes.I’m not talking about...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read