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Pole + Dance In-Studio Retreats

You don’t need to travel halfway across the world for exceptional experiences that let you deep dive into the art and craft of creating buttery, beautiful pole flow.

We’ve got them right here.

We’ve tapped our talented instructor team to bring you affordable, luxurious, connection-centered intensives tailored to the specific styles or skills that you love the most.

Our teachers get to share their favorite concepts and flows. You get to learn what they’re most excited to teach you. In your favorite studio!

Plus, we’ll bring our pole friendships out into the real world to share great local food, outdoor adventures, and go out on the town together.

Portland Heels Retreat

Amy Bond / Melodie / Iris Sparrow / Shay
August 14-17, 2025

Let your heels flow flourish along with everything else in the PNW summer at this 4-day heels intensive featuring 11.5 hours of instruction with some of your favorite Portland P+D pole instructors. We’ll build gorgeous heels flow with workshops on threading, musicality, sensuality and freedance from Melodie, Iris Sparrow, Shay, and Amy Bond. Then, spice it up with kips, pole + chair flow, and edgework. 

We’ll get out of the studio for amazing, off the beaten path hikes and waterfall excursions, field trips to Powells (the largest bookstore in Portland) and legendary strip clubs such as Sassy’s and Kit Kat Club, and incredible meals from Portland favorites such as Jam, Ranch, and Luk Lak.

Upcoming Retreats:

Come be a tourist in your own city! After dancing our butts off, we’ll head out together to find secret hikes, the best hidden food hot spots, relaxing hot tub soaks and our favorite strip clubs.

These retreats have limited attendance space + will sell out!

Click the questions to the right to learn more about what’s included with your payment, what you’ll need to book separately, and all the fun excursions we’ve got planned!

The Details

    • Lunchtime meet and greet on Day 1

    • 8 deep dive workshops (12 hours)

    • Hikes + excursions

    • Group trip to locally renowned strip clubs (dancer tips not included)

    • 4 group meals out on the town

    • Snacks, tea, hydration in workshops

    • Flights

    • Accommodations

    • Alcohol purchases

  • All levels! Exact workshop curriculum will be customized to the level of the retreat attendees.

    All classes are taught in a progressive nature, starting with the foundational aspect of the movement pattern and building levels of difficulty on top of that. We like to think of the progressions as bus stops; you can get off on the one that challenges you!

    • Getting here: Alaska AS835 offers Thursday mid-morning flights at 11:11am to 1pm. This will allow you to check in to your hotel or airbnb with some downtime before our first session at 4:30pm on Thursday.

    • Getting home: AS1295 departing PDX at 6:55p and landing at 8:44pm into SFO gets you back in time for normal working hours without losing too much sleep.

  • There are many nice hotels in downtown Portland. Amy’s preference is The Nines though she prefers Airbnbs to PDX hotels.  The retreat is in NW Portland so we recommend staying in either the Pearl District or NW/SW Portland generally.

  • Due to the limited nature of the slots available for booking, we do not offer refunds for purchased  retreat slots. 

    If you need to cancel your booking more than 90 days before the retreat, we can offer you a credit toward a future retreat, less a $200 cancellation fee.

    If you need to cancel your booking within 90 days of the retreat, we can apply a 50% credit toward a future P+D retreat.

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