You may know that one in eight women will be stricken with breast cancer in her lifetime.  What you may not know is that you can help these women and thousands of others in the fight against breast cancer.

On June 13, 2009, Aradia Fitness will be participating in the 13th Annual Komen NC Triangle Race for the Cure in Raleigh with a great team of dedicated people.

Join the fight by registering as part of our team, ARADIA FITNESS FLIRTY GIRLS! The Aradia Fitness instructors invite all our clients, family and friends to participate with us in the Recreational 5K event.  The Flirty Girls will be bold & beautiful at this event… help us make an impression!

Can’t make it on Race Day? Join us by registering to Sleep In for the Cure® or support our efforts by making a contribution to the team. Or drop off a donation in person to any of the Aradia Fitness instructors at the studio.

Click here to view the team page for Aradia Fitness Flirty Girls

The money raised through the Race will fund vital education, screening and treatment programs for underserved women in our own community and will also support the national search for a cure.  75% of the dollars raised by the Komen NC Triangle Affiliate go to our local Community Grant Programs for underserved women in need of education, screening and treatment services.  The remaining 25% supports the world’s largest private funding source for breast cancer research.

We need your support! Every step counts!

Thanks and we look forward to sharing this incredible experience with each of you! Please email Heather with questions regarding this event at [ heather@aradiafitness.com ].

Pole dancing for fitness has been taking the nation by storm the last few years! It is surprisingly HUGE in the UK and Canada… I guess we Americans are a little behind the curve on this trend.

Now I’ll be honest, I was one of those women at first… the Negative Nancy who thought this was as insane an idea as Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease. Of course, I was still coming into my womanhood at the time and had a hard time thinking of myself as “sexy”. That adjective was always reserved for the tall, skinny, perfectly-perfect golden-skinned goddesses that graced the covers of magazines and DVDs.

Now put yourself in my shoes for a minute.

Turn back the clock about oh, four years or so. You come home from college one weekend to see your mother raving about the latest episode of Oprah she just saw on TV. The one in which a pole dance for fitness instructor taught the queen of afternoon television how to shake her thang on a nine foot metal pole!

Stars above, but my mother was hooked from that moment on.

At the time, I never delved too much into why she was so incredibly intent on learning how to pole dance (I mean, this is my mother we’re talking about here! My mind refused to put “sexy” and “mom” together ) but I dare you to try and stop my mother from doing something once she’s put her mind to it. She practically grew up in her grandmother’s dance studio and competed in gymnastics throughout high school & college. The idea of this unique, new, and sexy form of fitness struck a cord within her… and even at 50 years old, my mom just knew she had a new calling in life.

Terri Kerr was bound and determined to bring pole dancing for fitness to North Carolina.

And in January 2007, she finally did.

My mother (Terri) became a part of a successful pole dancing fitness conglomerate called Aradia Fitness, which is based out of Canada. She flew up to Canada numerous time for classes and training before she opened the first Aradia Fitness studio in the United States. Right in here in Raleigh’s own backyard!

Since then, dear ole mommy has talked her wayward, skeptical daughter into helping with the business and successfully made a reformed woman out of me. Now I’m the one that wants to talk every woman I see into trying a pole dancing for fitness class out! I can’t believe that they don’t know what they are missing, because you gotta at least try it… just once!

Terri has since acquired a wonderful & vivacious group of instructors who each bring something unique to the women they teach. We’ve had hundreds & hundreds of women come through the studio doors, many shy & uncertain of what to expect when the enter… but its safe to say that 99% leave our doors with a bold new swish in their hips and a sparkle in their eye.

The thing that sets Aradia Fitness apart from other pole dancing for fitness studios, and even further apart from strip clubs, is the atmosphere we provide.

We strive to provide an environment that celebrates the female form and embraces the sensuality our bodies create in movement. We know that each and every female form is beautiful in its own way… we just have to get our students to see that in themselves.

Once you get there though, its quite the transformation.

So welcome to our humble blog. I hope you will follow along as we share the stories and news of the North Carolina division of Aradia Fitness. We are still thrilled to be sharing pole dancing for fitness with ladies in the Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill and Apex area… and we are excited about the possibilities of future expansion into Wilmington, Greensboro, Charlotte and beyond!

Stick with us ladies!

Are you ready to Meet Your Sexy Side?!