Focus: Just Get Started

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

~Martin Luther King Jr.

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: The Power of You

“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” 

~A.A. Milne

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Positive Thinking

"Clear your mind of can’t." 

~Samuel Johnson

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Self Respect

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Cultivate a Strong Mind

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

 ~Mahatma Gandhi

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Body Acceptance

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Strength

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Be Yourself

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

~Oscar Wilde

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Confidence

“Confidence comes not from always being right, but not fearing to be wrong.”

~Anonymous

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Pole Dancer on National Television Show "So You Think You Can Dance"

This season on the popular dance competition show "So You Think You Can Dance?" there is a new and exciting contestant, Eliana Girard, who is a fabulous representative of the pole fitness community. A contemporary dancer, as well as pole aerialist, Eliana performed as a pole dancer in the popular Cirque du Soleil show. Take a peak at this awesome video depicting her and her fabulous pole moves:

My favorite part was when she explained how wearing minimal clothing is actually necessary because you need the points of contact to perform different pole fitness moves.

What do you guys think about this pole dancer on "So You Think You Can Dance?"

Will you be watching this season?

Focus: Body & Body

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." 

~C.S. Lewis

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Letting Go

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." 

~Hermann Hesse 

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Beginnings

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." 

~Publilius Syrus

In order to accomplish anything, you have to start where you are. Accept yourself and where you are in this moment, and then get to work. Remember that the first step is oftentimes the most difficult.

Each week has a focus, quote, and an intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Courage

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

There may be many times in pole (and life) that you are scared; there may be many times that you are not even sure that you can do whatever it is that you need to do and walk away from it still breathing! Feel the fear and do it anyway. Be courageous and be proud of yourself for trying.

Each week has a focus, quote and an intention. You can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Authenticity

"If you are able to be yourself then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence" 

~Barbara Cook

Comparing yourself to others is a distraction from your own growth. Get more interested in improving yourself. You are the only one who can do that.

Each week has a focus and intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string around your wrist this is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Beauty

"I've never seen a smiling face that wasn't beautiful" 

~unknown

Beauty comes from the inside and is expressed outward; it doesn't move in the other direction. Smiling is contagious. Share your smile in class and in the world. Show everyone the joy that you have inside.

You can keep PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Expansion

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" 
~Anais Nin

If you have kept yourself small, it is time to let go and allow yourself to expand. Challenge your fears by loving yourself enough to take the next step. Today is your day to blossom.

Each week has a focus and intention, you can keep PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence throughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.

Focus: Embrace Mistakes!

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than success." 

~Samual Smiles

Don't simply move past your mistakes, Celebrate them!

Have a little chuckle, keep a smile on your face, and be kind to yourself.

That way you will learn smoothly and move forward quickly.

Each week has a focus and intention, you can keep the PoleMoves weekly intention and focus in existence thoughout your week by posting the focus on your wall or wearing a bracelet, or string, around your wrist that is intended to remind you of the focus. You can also create a piece of art with the same focus and intention.