Defy Gravity and the Healing Movements workshop hosted and instructed by Athena. Defy Gravity is an amazing pole dancing studio in Urbana IL that I found and started going to over the summer to feel less alone and build a sense of community. I took this workshop in June for the first time and it was great then but I loved it the second time around because Athena made a requirement of having to take 3 classes of any pole level. I have been on fundamentals since this summer mostly because the fact of breaks from dancing due to traveling or school work just bogging me down.
This second time around I felt that I really needed to feel less lonely and loved that Athena was teaching it again. I had updated them separately as to what I was and am still going through at this time. At this time I am not comfortable posting about the blog or Instagram due to some issues I am having at school. The first time they had offered for the class to show off a freestyle dance to whatever music we wanted. I was not willing to do it the first time. This time around I asked through Instagram first if that was still going to happen and so it did. Everyone in the class did one! It was amazing!
I decided to record mine to help show how relaxing, reflective, and helpful this workshop was for me! The song I chose was Praying by Kesha. That is a deep and reflective song that I have danced to at home without people staring at me in a dance studio. I chose this song because it is helpful when I need to process something that I am going through that is deep and dark. This dance was a complete freestyle so I just let my body go with the flow which I don't usually like to do.
So please take a look at the video on Instagram if you haven't already! Thank you for reading my blog and I hope to write more soon!
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