OTTAWA'S FEMININE EMBODIMENT POLE DANCING STUDIO

For years I was the queen of suppressing my emotions.

I started pole dance in 2009 and then soon after started performing and competing. For a long time, my relationship with pole was all about achievement. Getting stronger, fitter, more flexible, learning the next cool trick, and chasing that feeling of finally being “good enough.”

Honestly, so many of us do this, whether it’s in fitness, business, motherhood, relationships, or climbing the corporate ladder. We think, “If I can just get better, achieve more, look a certain way, then I’ll finally feel worthy.”

Then during the pandemic, my studio closed and I got pregnant. That pregnancy cracked me open. I felt like I completely lost my identity as a studio owner and pole dancer. Too tired to train, I felt disconnected from my body, from pole, and even ashamed of being a mother who tapped into her sensual side.

In working on myself, through therapy, life coaching, self-help books, embodiment practices, and just wanting to do better for my kids, I realized pole was never just about fitness or tricks.

It was about coming back into my body.

It was about pleasure, not as something sexual or performative, but as a way of releasing self-judgment, shame, and the pressure to constantly prove myself.

I stopped using pole to “get it for the ‘gram” and started using it as a way to move for myself.

In January 2024, after running my studio for 7 years (previously Iron X Fitness), I rebranded it to the what it is now, EmbodiPole Sensual Arts.

Today, I help women reconnect with their bodies, reclaim their self-worth, and feel safe expressing who they really are through pole dance, sensual movement, and embodiment work at EmbodiPole.