Goddess Vallure

I started my pole journey at a very interesting time in my life. I had always been into spirituality and magic but as I entered my final year of grad school, there was something pulling me towards elevating and exploring my sensuality more openly. I am currently completing a Masters in Fine Arts in Dance with a concentration in Choreography. Dance has been the most consistent thing in my life and no matter how much I was exposed to I always had a desire to be more sensually and sexually expressive within my movement and lifestyle. However, I was consistently met with pushback from partners and even artistic collaborators and was met with this notion that I would not be “taken seriously” as an artist and dancer if I chose to divert away from anything that wasn’t modern or contemporary dance. I had been following Bee for a while and when I saw her rebrand, I was very inspired and encouraged to lean more into my curiosities. When she hosted Freaknique in Charlotte, I signed up to be one of the vendors at the event(I have a jewelry business @blvcklvght.co), and the rest was history. After the success of the event, I immediately started a membership at Blossom Pole Fitness, started taking classes, and booked my first set of privates with her. The classes I took were very nurturing for me.I found a lot of power and healing in being able to leave school and go into a space that was encouraging, intimate, and safe to explore different aspects of sex appeal and sensuality through movement.

  At the time, I was dealing with a partner who was not treating me the best, and oddly enough, it began to impact my progress in my journey of embracing pleasure as a catalyst for healing and expansion. I realized that the more I interacted with this person, the more my inner child/teen didn’t trust me. Without that trust present within myself, it made getting and staying on the pole extremely difficult because ultimately, I didn’t trust myself. The connection with that person was not worth me not being connected to myself, leading me to walk away and choose myself . With the inevitable ending of that situation, I experienced an intense depressive episode that got to the point where it became difficult to show up in different areas in my life, especially in dance and school.
I had taken almost a month away from the studio, trying to heal and hold space for myself while finishing up the semester. Literally the week I came back, the studio closed abruptly. Luckily, I still had some private sessions left with Bee and was able to continue training and I wouldn't have had it any other way. Training privately allowed me to hold myself accountable when it came to choosing and caring more for myself radically. I could immediately see an improvement in my strength and flow with pole the more I centered my pleasure and well-being in different aspects of my life. The more time we spent training together, the more things started to open up in my sensual art journey. Poling gave me an outlet to alchemize all of the hatred and discrimination I was experiencing at school. I learned to alchemize hate into sweetness and sadness into sexy. Without an outlet to explore my sensuality through movement I would’ve crashed out a long time ago.

In a short 6 months, Bee and I have begun traveling together for different shows and events; vending, performing and experiencing.And now I am preparing for my first pole showcase/competition and it wouldn't be possible without her constant encouragement  and support.

 I am so grateful for the way she has held space for me, encouraged me, and supported me not only on my pole journey but also in my journey as an artist. The love, support, and connection with a network of beautiful, powerful women have changed my life in such a positive and expansive way. I am excited to continue this journey and see where it goes. 

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