Our Classes

Want to climb into the sky?
Roll around on the floor?
Learn to flow like a pro?

We’ve got a class for you - no dance background required!

Our classes are low-pressure, high-joy. We laugh at ourselves and shake our butts. Come dance with us!

Pole Tricks

Pole Foundations is an intro level class for those new to pole. We'll build strength and technique to prepare you for climbing and inverting, then work on beginner level spins, sits, and floorwork. From there, we’ll create a short piece of choreography for you to try!
Recommended attire:
• Short shorts, sports bra, and tank top
There are no prerequisites for this class - first timers are welcome!
Curious about moving up to Pole L2 but want to ease into it? Or maybe you're already in Pole L2 but you know how important it is to keep refining the basics. This class is for you! In this class, students will begin to learn common Pole L2 tricks and skills such as jasmine, genie, figurehead, and apprentice. You’ll stay mostly upright and descend into all inversions. You’ll also continue working on pole sits and laybacks, forearm climbs and basic grounded movement.

Prerequisites:
• comfortably do an inversion prep crunch while lying on the floor
• climb to the top of the pole
• pole sit
In Pole 2, get ready to go upside down! Starting from the ground, you’ll learn new inversions like crucifix and work with classic, beautiful leg hangs. We’ll add variety into the shapes you already know with side climbs, teddy holds, and jasmines. This class will deepen your skillset, broaden your mental library of transitions, and help you build the strength for inverted combos.
Prerequisites:
• comfortably do an inversion prep crunch while lying on the floor
• climb to the top of the pole
• pole sit
Pole L2.5 is designed as a bridge between the more challenging L2 skills and the inverted combinations that students will regularly tackle in L3. This class centers aerial combos and spin pole work that uses L3 prerequisite skills like leg hangs, butterfly, and brass sit. Students will also work on fluidity, endurance, and control in all skills, to build confidence working up the pole.

Prerequisites
- Slow Inversion from standing
- Genie
- Jasmine
- Half Bracket climb
In Pole L3, your inversions will start to get fancy! We’ll work with impressive, exciting aerial skills like Jade Split, Brass Monkey, and Shoulder Mount variations. You’ll work on both static and spin, building longer combos with more challenging transitions. You’ll use a variety of grips, stay in the air for longer, and explore variations on movement you already know.
Prerequisites:
Outside Leg Hang
Inside Leg Hang
Superhero
Butterfly
In Pole 4, you’re ready to start working with handsprings! This class will build the strength and body awareness required for advanced skills including aerial shoulder mounts, brass monkey variations, and all kinds of handsprings. Your fundamental pole skills will become transitions as you incorporate dynamic movement, traveling contact points, and extended aerial combinations.
Prerequisites:
Reverse Grab
Caterpillar Climb
Shoulder Mount
Brass Monkey
Pole L5 is our pre-professional class. You’ll be working with advanced tricks, long aerial flows, and emphasizing movement quality. Your instructor will help you truly dance through the air and find your own expressive style.
Prereqs:
Aerial Shoulder Mount
Pole assisted handstands
No-handed leg hang transitions
Handsprings in all grips
In this Pole Inversions Conditioning class, you’ll build strength and endurance for all those aerial skills! Working with climbs, inversions and knee hangs in a circuit training style, your instructor will emphasize technique, breathing, and stamina. This class is often used as a bridge class between Foundations & L2 and is helpful for anyone who wants to build on their aerial basics.
Prereq:
Have taken at least three Pole Foundations classes

Pole Choreo

In this intro-level class, heels are optional. You'll get warm from head to toe, including the ankles! You'll begin building fluid, beautiful basic skills, like walking, pirouettes, and bodywaves. Then you'll learn one or two foundational skills. After that, you'll practice a short piece of choreography based around the skills you just worked with so you leave feeling like a movement master!
Heels optional but welcome. Kneepads required. Bring socks and wear whatever makes you feel comfortable! But no street shoes - anything you bring must not be worn outside the studio.

There are no prerequisites for this class - first timers are welcome!
Our Bay Area studios provide heel rentals, if you don’t have your own!
You're craving more choreo and ready to work in some "wow" moments. Find your favorite instructor (every class has a unique vibe) and settle in for full routines in their signature style. Each instructor’s class is different.

Heels optional, kneepads required. If you wear vinyl (shiny, sticky) boots, you will need to wear toe covers to protect our floors from scuffs.
Prerequisites: 3 Choreo + Heels or Pole Foundations classes
Now we're talking cardio! Start exploring fancy flourishes, more challenging tricks and even longer pieces. You'll play with musicality, and start developing your own style. Each instructor’s class will be different, with its own prerequisites and recommended polewear.

FYI: If you wear vinyl (shiny, sticky) boots, you will need to wear toe covers to protect our floors from scuffs.
Gravity? Not in this house. You'll work with advanced grips, level changes, complex transitions and intricate heelwork to create the illusion of weightlessness in these advanced classes. Each instructor’s class will be different, with its own prerequisites and recommended polewear.

FYI: If you wear vinyl (shiny, sticky) boots, you will need to wear toe covers to protect our floors from scuffs.
In Pole Freestyle, you’ll learn how to tease out your own dance style, get out of a movement rut, and smooth out those awkward “thinking” moments. Your instructor will guide you through a series of prompts and exercises to help encourage creative exploration. You may dance to new styles of music, focus on dancing with specific body parts, or interact with the pole in unusual ways.
Prerequisites:
3 Choreo + Heels Foundations OR Pole Foundations classes
Recommended Attire:
Loose pants, long sleeve shirt over pole attire. Socks and heels optional.

Aerial + Flexibility

In this Active Flexibility class, we will start opening up a deeper range of motion through the body by building muscle strength and creating joint stability. Each class is organized around a focus on either splits or backbends. This class is all levels but is not a restorative yoga flow. We will be putting in work! If you are an extra sweaty student, please bring a small hand towel to use.
***Note that this flexibility class is not appropriate for people who are recovering from spinal surgery, and is not a replacement for injuries that require physical therapy.***
Silks Foundations is for those who are new to aerial. At the beginning of class, you’ll work with the silks on the ground to build that killer core stability, beautiful flexibility and strength needed to move safely up into the air. You'll learn some basic climbs and wraps to begin taking you up into the air, and preparing to invert!
Recommended Attire: Leggings and a bodysuit/tight fitting top

Available in the San Francisco studio only.
Aerial Silks L2 will get you ready to really fly! This class is for students who are comfortable climbing to the top of the silks and putting on a basic footlock. You’ll invert from the ground and begin working with basic aerial movements like angel, catcher’s, and cross back straddle.
Prereqs:
Climb to the top of the silks
Basic footlock
Comfortable with basic foot lock shapes
Recommended Attire: Leggings and a bodysuit/tight fitting top
Available in the San Francisco studio only.
In Aerial Silks L3, we’ll take your inversions into the air! You’ll work with wraps involving eggbeaters, and dynamic movements like single star drop, saltos and hip keys. Silks L3 classes also emphasize buttery smooth transitions between tricks, and at the end of each class you’ll dance together as a group to practice turning your combos into fluid and expressive movement.
Prereqs:
Foot lock in the air
Inversion from standing
Angel and Catcher’s lock
Recommended Attire: Leggings and a bodysuit/tight fitting top
Available in the San Francisco studio only.
Have you ever wanted to try lyra, but didn’t know where to start? At the beginning of class, you’ll do some grounded conditioning to build the core stability, beautiful flexibility and strength you’ll need once you’re flying through the air. Then you'll learn some foundational movement in and around the hoop, creating a simple, short combo that you can build on as you advance!
Recommended attire: Yoga pants and a tank top that you can tuck in
Available in the San Francisco studio only.
In our intermediate Lyra class, you’ll continue developing your aerial strength and fluidity through dynamic movement, beats, rolls and rotations. We’ll also introduce drops and start working both above and below the hoop to add variety to your aerial skill set!
Prereqs:
Double knee hang with no hands
One pull up holding onto the top bar
Invert to top bar
Front Balance with hands
Star on the bar/ Straddle back balance
Recommended attire: Yoga pants and a tank top that you can tuck in
Available in the San Francisco studio only.

Weekly Class Offerings

SAN FRANCISCO

BERKELEY

OAKLAND

PORTLAND

All of our weekly classes are shared apparatus. Why?

Studio spaces are expensive to lease, we pay our instructors well, and we want our classes to be affordable for you. Shared poles allows us to do this!

Why do we actually love sharing poles?

Community: Sharing poles creates a community full of connection and camaraderie where we cheer each other on and support each others’ learning
Pacing: Experienced dancers (and well-established science) tells us that having a chance to rest and reset physically means better understanding and retention for all students
Inclusivity: Visual learners appreciate watching their classmates practice the movement and seeing it on a variety of body types and experience levels, not just their instructor

Still don’t want to share a pole?

Our series classes are all one student per pole. These include regular series classes as well as our performance series, which culminate in group or solo performances at our student showcases.

Specialty Classes

Specialty classes are one-time offerings centered around a theme, style of movement, type of music, or something else amazing that our instructors dream up.
These classes do not follow our standard curriculum, but you’ll see them on our
Weekly Class Schedule just like normal classes!

Previous Specialty Classes have included…

Let's Get Wavy, Baby

This class will start with an extensive warm-up to get the body warm and loose. After working through several skills and techniques to find your wave, we'll explore different freedance prompts to find your favorite waves on and off the pole~~~
This class is great for anyone who takes choreo class with Fifi because you know there's some kinda wave in every one of her dang choreos 🌊🤩
Stripper Academy

Stripper Academy is an all levels series geared towards creating confidence and stage presence through seriously sexy stage work inspired by, you guessed it… strippers!
A Stripper Bootcamp if you will.
The series will focus on elevating your sensual heels skills (moving effortlessly, creating sexy shapes, experimenting with weightlessness/softness), while developing your dancer's presence both on and off the stage—(exuding confidence, dancing with your hands, making eye contact, the art of flirting, and moving across the room).
On the Edge

Are you over always pointing your toes? Do you want to explore fun new ways to move around the pole?
During this beginner/intermediate edgework series we'll dive into elements of edgework including pirouettes and slides, discuss edge points and how to access them, and go over technical aspects to help you safely and sustainably explore edgework. We'll ultimately end up learning a choreography that utilizes multiple foundational elements with a twist of edgework.
Hairography

In this pole class we will learn and work on all kinds of hair flips, hair tosses, and neck movements to make your dance and climbs look sexy and fierce! We will incorporate what we learn into a mini routine emphasizing on neck and head movements!
No hair? No problem! You can still work on the techniques to make your head and neck movements more intentional and deliberate.