Pole + Dance’s Active Flexibility Teacher Training is a two-day teacher training that focuses on the two major areas that students who train flexibility seek improvement - splits and backbending.

Day one includes an Active Flexibility class centered around splits, followed by a discussion about the body mechanics, common mistakes, adjustments, and modifications for each of the individual exercises in that class.

Day two focuses on backbending, focusing on upper back and shoulders.

Included in this 2-day, 14 hour training is a 100-page electronic version of our Curriculum Manual.

Cost is $600; payment plans available!

Pole + Dance’s Pole Foundations Teacher Training covers a detailed breakdown of our Pole Foundations curriculum including how to effectively teach climbing, inversion preparation, spins, body waves, pole sits, and floorwork. We’ll also go in depth on how to plan and lead an effective warm up, discover who you are as an instructor, best practices for teaching, how to build community, and what we expect of our Pole + Dance Studios instructors.

This two day training intensive includes 14 hours of instruction over two days, from 10am-5pm each day.

Cost is $600; payment plans available!

The P+D Pole L2 teacher training is perfect for teachers looking to advance in their instructor journey, or beg/int dancers who want to deepen their personal practice.

In Pole L2, dancers are getting comfortable being off the ground and upside down. They are exploring various ways to get inverted for skills like leg hangs and butterflies, and working with traveling contact points for aerial combos.

In the training, we’ll cover how to build progressions from the ground up. We’ll discuss how to help students develop proprioception (where body parts are in space), build strength for aerial flows, and progress toward inverting. Trainees will also learn supportive spotting for any skill.

Dancers taking this training for their own personal growth will learn how to find accessible variations for their own body, identify gaps in their skillset, and understand how to build a well-rounded training program.

Cost is $600; payment plans available!

The P+D Pole L3 teacher training is perfect for teachers looking to advance in their instructor journey, or intermediate dancers who want to deepen their personal practice.

In L3, students will learn a wide variety of skills, including aerial inversions, shoulder mounts, brass monkey, extended butterfly, spinning static pole work, advanced static spins like reverse grab flare, dynamic movements like torso switches and drops, and floor handsprings.

In the training, we’ll cover how to break down these concepts and skills into progressions built from the ground up. This includes new variations of familiar skills that require more strength, active flexibility or proprioception. Teachers will learn how to talk about traveling contact points and dynamic movement, plus supportive spotting for any skill.

Dancers taking this training for their own personal growth will learn how to find accessible variations for their own body, identify gaps in their skillset, and understand how to build a well-rounded training program.

Cost is $600; payment plans available!

The P+D Heels Teacher Training is different from our other Teacher Trainings, in that it works with two apparatus - a pole, and a pair of heels.

You’ll get to know your main apparatus, the stripper heel. You’ll learn to think of choreography in terms of elements and flourishes, and how to break down any piece of movement into its components so you can easily modify your choreography for any student. We’ll work through how to communicate your choreography to your classes - not just in words - and explore exercises to encourage embodied, expressive movement. You’ll also learn how to create flows for mixed level classes, including how to build progressions for dancers of different levels, and how to safely spot the skills you teach.

Cost is $600; payment plans available!

In this 90 minute spotting workshop for current pole dance instructors, you'll learn and deepen techniques for safely spotting students in class. You'll learn how to efficiently and confidently use your own body to keep yourself and your students safe as you guide them through skills such as inversions, handstands, butterfly and more. We'll talk about spotting students larger than you, using the pole for leverage, dodging moving limbs, and what to do if a student slips. We'll also cover transitioning a spot safely from one body part to another, and common spotting principles that apply to a wide variety of skills.

Attending this workshop will help pole dance instructors feel more capable of safely guiding students into the air and teach them the basic Pole + Dance spotting methodology. Attendees will learn spotting theory and get hands-on practice using these techniques with each other during the workshop.

Available by request!

Our new virtual training, designed for any experienced pole instructor of any level. The course content will apply equally to a low flowing, sensual heels instructor AND to a L5 tricks instructor. How can that be true?

This course doesn’t teach you how to teach the step-by-step of pole tricks, like our in-person Pole Foundations or Pole L2 Teacher Trainings. This course covers everything beyond the step-by-step of teaching an inside leg hang or dip turn. If you want to learn how to teach pole moves, come to one of our in-person leveled trainings!

Instead, in this course we cover how to come up with an amazing class description, why prerequisites matter, how to break down any skill into its parts, how to cue for different types of students, how to guide pole sharing… and so much more. This course gives you the “soft skills” and teaching techniques that so many other trainings skip over. It’s the stuff that master instructors know, but that you won’t learn anywhere else.