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Shoes: A Girl’s Best Friend
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | Just for Fun | 1 Comment
Six inch heels!
I scoffed at the idea originally. I thought, “Are you crazy?! I’ll break my neck!”
However a good pair of heels is essential if you plan to pursue pole dancing for fitness further. For starters, they make your legs look so freaking good and a million miles long. At Aradia Fitness, we begin wearing our shoes in Level 3 for pole dancing… however we introduce shoes into our Lap Dancing & Chair Dancing classes as well as the Chair-obics classes.
Dancing in heels is a whole new experience completely. It is a killer leg workout. Wearing your sexy heels also elongates all your dance moves and forces you to really slow everything down… adding even more sensuality to your routine. And to top it all off, once you begin to advance in your pole dancing you will need a good pair of heels or boots that will stick to the pole (important when you begin those advanced inverted tricks).
I am a Pleaser girl myself. Their shoes look awesome and they offer a variety of different styles. 4″, 5″, 6″… even 7″ heels. You can buy open toe/strappy heels, closed toes, ankle boots, knee high or even thigh high boots. Plus you can also look for a variety of platform styles (short, tall, see through, flashing!) and heel styles (stiletto, flared, funky). The best thing I like about Pleaser shoes is that they are affordable. My knee high boots were about $45 and my 6″ heels only $35.
The only thing about Pleaser shoes is that you have to track down an online retailer who sells them. I’ve had great success with Zappos and ShoeBuy.
Other shoes brands to check out include Demonia, Ellie, Devious and Lucious. Do your research and depending on what you are looking for, I’m sure you will find it! Seriously - these shoes are so FUN and you can find just about style, look, or fantasy-theme you can imagine
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Things to keep in mind when buying your dancing shoes:
- HEIGHT:
-If you are terrified of having a super high heel, you can offset this by making sure you have a 2″ or 3″ platform on the shoe. You still get all the height without killing your ankle in the process. Otherwise, get a heel height you can actually walk in… no matter if it is only 3″ or 4″. You got to be comfortable in your own skin otherwise it will translate into your dancing! Confidence is KEY!
- HEEL:
The type of heel you get is also dependent on how comfortable you are in heels. I can handle a stiletto up until about 3″… after that I’m tripping and sliding (lol). I always look for a thick heel or one that flares out at the bottom. However if you love a pointy heel and can’t live without, go for it girl!
- STRAPS:
I am the type of person who has to have the shoe attached to my foot or else I won’t stop worrying about it. I love a strappy sandal or a pleather/leather boot. I can do all my tricks and spins without having to worry about the shoe flying off in the middle of my routine! Some ladies prefer the slip-on shoe style and I’ve seen them do all the same things with no problem.
- DECORATIONS:
Preferably you want a pretty simple shoe free of glitter, jewels, hooks, etc. For example, some knee-high or thigh-high boots are lace up with a lot of eyehooks running up the side or front. If possible, try to find a boot or shoe free of these decorations (look for zip up boot). Why? Because they will SCRATCH your pole and pole scratches cannot be undone! Also keep in mind that a shoe free of distractions will provide you with more surface to grip the pole for your inverted tricks.
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Pole dancing for fitness is centered around feeling sexy and having fun. Finding the perfect shoe (or shoes!!) to bring into your pole fitness routine is a fantastic way to make yourself feel a little more sexy… not to mention through a little attitude into your dancing. So have FUN when you are shopping!
Happy shoe hunting ladies!!
March has flown by!
Friday, April 10th, 2009 | News | No Comments
March 2009 was an exhilarating month at Aradia Fitness!
Not only have we introduced several new workouts and events… but we’ve been delighted to meet all the new ladies who have come to us to “Meet Their Sexy Side”!
WORKOUTS
This past month we introduced our new “Beyond the Pole” workouts to the delight of our instructors and clients. The four classes on the schedule at this time (Booty Box, Bunny Bootcamp, Candlelight Stretch, and Sexy Butt & Abs) are each fun ways to strengthen, tone, and increase flexibility…. all with a sexy twist of course! Staying fit and healthy should never be a chore and our goal is keep you having fun while doing so!
EVENTS
On March 26 Aradia Fitness co-hosted a free “Naughty Girls’ Night In” event with Adam & Eve adult stores. Nearly 50 clients and friends visited our studio for an evening of naughty games, sexy demos from the Aradia Instructors, raffles and of course a little pole play time!
We were also excited that Raleigh’s own Naughty & Iced provided a delicious and fabulous looking Bustiere cake to keep theme with the evening’s festivities!
The Aradia Instructors also demonstrated a fun & flirty Chair Dance routine… be sure to check out the April Chair Dance workshop to learn a fun routine like this one for home!
Visit our MySpace page to view some of the photos from this fun event!!
The month of March also kicked off our fabulous Meetup.com events! This group of amazing women in the Triangle area visit our studio for special events at drastically reduced rates. We’ve hosted two great events in March and already have several more on the calendar for April and May!
This is the perfect way to check out pole dancing for fitness as well as meet other like-minded women in the area! If you haven’t already, join our MEETUP.COM POLE DANCING GROUP and come out to one of our monthly events… we’d love to have you.
MORE TO COME!
April is already shaping up to be another busy month for us! New pole dancing & sensual movement sessions began last week and we are looking forward to our Teaser classes & chair dancing workshop later in the month.
Be sure to look for Aradia Fitness at the April 19 bridal expo in Raleigh! We always have a great time at this event visitng with other wonderful vendors and meeting the beautiful brides-to-be!
We are also looking at opening a few new studios this year, particularly in the Wilmington and Greensboro area. We already love what we do and we can’t wait to bring this exhilarating form of fitness to a whole new community of women!
Stick with us ladies! We have a ton of new things in store for the spring and summer (including Striptease, Burlesque and Belly Dancing!)… and we can’t wait to share it with you.
Are you ready to Meet Your Sexy Side?!
Got Pole?!
Saturday, February 28th, 2009 | News | No Comments
If you haven’t met us already… girl, you are missing out!
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 :P) 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?!
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