✅ Start anytime. Drop-ins welcome. Attend as many Pole Tech 101, Intro, or Foundations sessions as you need with the Ohana KEIKI UNLIMITED Intro Series!

✅ We design the classes around your specific needs. Everyone is undeniably unique. Our training modules recognize and respect your individuality.

✅ Attend 1 or 2 of the Wednesday to Sunday classes. While topics may occasionally seem familiar, it takes months and even years to cover half the details, tips, cues, tools and exercises to uplift a movement practice. We’re here for you.

✅ Attend the Wednesday weekly conditioning & mobility program to for extra increased focus beyond just strength and flexibility.

Calendars are updated regularly so check every week!

Main weekly courses & pop-up schedules are posted here

Events, workshops, & jams schedules are posted here

💜 Quality of Movement & Mobility. Amplify your mind-body connection with progressive practices and your complex interactions with your apparatus: the pole, the floor, your heels, your nunchakus, the universe.

💜 Artistry Within. Unlock your creative fuel with cues and prompts in a safe, welcoming, chill, non-intimidating, non-judgemental space. Creativity is a practice.

💜 Core Awareness. Harness upper and lower body, pelvic, spinal (sacral, lumbar, thoracic, cervical) coordination to make space for fluidity.

💜 Basis of Support. Set yourself up for entries and transitions into freshly accessible movements. Surprise yourself!

🩵 Show up. Give yourself a chance to enjoy the experience.

🩵 Be mindfully curious. Let go of expectations. Allow yourself to absorb fresh skills.

🩵 Practice mindfully. Movement is a practice. Creativity is a practice. Take advantage of practice during class and afterwards with Workshops, Intensives, Playtime, Pole Jams, Ohana Creative, Circus Church and more.

🩵 Enjoy and appreciate your individuality. Allow your uniqueness to shine through in the playfulness, textures, hues, intentions, discoveries, progressions, variations and explorations you’ll discover at Ohana.

🩵 Do as you would in your favorite class, or as you learn a new language. Take notes, ask questions, practice repeatedly, ask for homework, do the homework, ask for feedback. Embrace novelty. Be teachable.

🩵 Embrace Ohana. Communicate before, during and after class. Have convos about your practice. If you miss a class, catch up with Ohana during Playtime, Pole Jams, and Community Pole sessions. Or just call/text us.

➡️ Towel, water, mat, socks, kneepads, kneesocks, comfy pants/leggings + attire for basework and up the pole flows

➡️ Optional heels, costumes, garters, small poi, fun outfits, fishnets, play clothes

➡️ Optional audio that ignites your movement imagination

➡️ Optional notebook/sketchpad

➡️ Curiosity and an open-minded readiness to learn

➡️ Wear comfy movement-friendly layers with snug shorts & sports bra underneath. Remove all body jewelry, accessories, oils, lotions, substances that may adversely affect your all-over grip on the apparatus

➡️ Indoor only, pole-specific heels. Outdoor footwear, dirty footwear is not used in our training areas.

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Prep your skin and attire. Avoid substances and accessories that may adversely affect your grip and movement around the pole.

Provide yourself with proper nutrition throughout your practice. Have sufficient rest and recovery periods.

🔹 Weekly programs with conditioning, mobility training and technique focus custom made for you alone

🔹 Movement combos with variations for diverse bodies and abilities

🔹 Free flow options at the end of class

🔹 Curated content collaborated amongst the Ohana team to give you a comprehensive connected experience throughout your coursework

🔹 Homework and exercises individualized to help you reach your own goals

🔹 Regular coaching, practice and training time (Ohana staff is on hand to answer any questions during practice)

🔹 Feedback and guidance when you need it, plus space for your mind-body connection to sort out your own movement (i.e., Get coaching and solo time.)

🔹 Access to in-house online physical therapy and physical training

🔹 Guidance and information on apparatus & equipment, competition track, performance track, preparing for video and photo shoots, stylistic options (classic, pole, heels flow, socks, hard style, sultry, athletic, etc.), artistic crossover opportunities and more!

✨ You are seen. You have agency. With Ohana programs, you don’t just get classes; you get curated programs to build comprehensive packages that make sense to your path.

✨ Active learning resources. We don’t just offer open studio; you get educated experienced certified staff supporting your Playtime. We curate activities to fuel your fire with pole jams, craft jams, competition tracks, performance tracks, Circus Church, and so much more.

✨ Long-ass classes, workshops & events! Nearly all our courses are equivalent to an entire workshop! You usually have the option to start 15 minutes early, and stay a few minutes late to make the most of your efforts.

✨ Fresh intelligence. Ask us about the last classes we’ve attended ourselves. We don’t just teach; we are perpetual students who share our pursuit of knowledge with you. If you like nerding out, we are your people.

✨ Connected sessions. Our programs build progressively on select themes throughout each session designed around you. Expect to find Pole Tech sessions that make sense to the goals and aspirations you’ve shared with us.

✨ Full-featured experiences. Expect more than just basic pole classes. Even if you are a seasoned athlete just passing through town, we challenge you to bring along your movement puzzles. Expect programs that offer multi-modal comprehensive packages with coaching, workshops, bonus courses, photo & performance opportunities, and personal projects for the ultimate learning experience. Learn what it’s like to be part of a community where you can be as involved or as solo as you wish. Benefit from the community’s talents, gifts and abundance. Understand how it feels when someone consistently makes space for you and shows up for you. Walk into a strong pot luck game. Swagshare at the polewear swap. Skillshare at the craft jams, community jams, showcases and Circus Church!

We accept cash, Venmo, Paypal, and credit cards. If you pay online but prefer cash, the tender can be adjusted in person.

• Dragonfly Brand polewear – Oh-so-soft, non-binding, long-lasting, easy to fit shorts and sports bras / tops with enough support for getting inverted. Low- to high-waist shorts with medium cheeky to full coverage available. Sizes XS to XXL.
• Girlie Grip pole solution – Excellent all around medium dry grip. A few drops go a long way and it has a light pleasant scent.
• Monkey Hands pole grip – Specialized athletic grip at various levels including Hydro, Classic, Sticky, Gluey and Black (for the extra sweaty).
• Pleaser USA stiletto heels for pole dancing – Available in sandals, ankle boots, and thigh high boots. UV-reactive and LED heels avaiable. Sizes 5 to 14.
• Primal Derma – A bioidentical, non-oily-feeling all-over skin moisturizer / lip balm sourced sustainably & kindly from small scale farms, and designed & created in the US by a Bronx-owned & operated amazing individual
• Stars & Honey protein bars with collagen – Soy, gluten and dairy free with 2500 Dalton collagen for optimum absorption. Every flavor is so yummy!
• Twisted Movement rave and party attire – Locally made leggings, bodysuits, and body cages from a small, highly inclusive, woman-owned operation. Sizes XS to 4X.
• More polewear brands: Cleo Polewear, CXIX, Fanna, Lunalae, Pole Addict, Poledancerka, Pole Hog, Polerina, Polona Polewear, Queen Polewear,, Rad Polewear, Riot Polewear, Sew Stuff, Simply Stella

Use Ohana sessions to zoom in on topics that sometimes take several sessions or even months to get through. Based on your needs and goals, we curate extra nerdy workshops and mini-intensives to supplement foundational themes.

We include extra detailed technique and individualized feedback on flexibility, mobility, strength, stability, climbs, spins, inverts, shoulder mounts, lever grips, reverse grabs, brass monkey grips, ayesha and handspring variations, and more.

The focus is on you– no videos or recordings come close to the live feedback you will receive.

🔹 It helps to be very flexible— In truth, mobility is more relevant to pole & aerial training that flexibility. At Ohana we strive to train mobility throughout every session. Mobility offers us support through many ranges of movement, making us nimble and agile (like ninjas!).

🔹I need to have a nice toe point— Without going too far down this anatomical rabbit hole, let’s simply acknowledge that we are all built differently. This means we all look different. Forget the toe point for now and join us in working on illuminating your entire movement and not just your feet! For those of you nerds who wish to go deep, the toe point is discussed in several lectures and our blog.

🔹Upper body strength is necessary– Coordination and body organization is even more important. Just like bouldering, rock climbing, skating, snowboarding and surfing, use of the entire body as a system gets us much further. Beyond physical strength of one region in our bodies, effective mind-body organization will sustain a radiant practice.

🔹I need to be in shape to do this– There is no better shape to start pole & aerial than the shape you are in now. The mind and body you have now did not happen overnight. It took a bit of time to get to this point. At Ohana Studios, we focus on adult learners, with adult bodies, your activity history, background, old & new injuries, hormonal and age-related influences, nutrition history, mental pathways, emotional history– all of which make us such unique individuals. In short, we meet you where you’re at.

🔹I’m supposed to follow dance steps and I’m no good at “dance.”— Unlike copy-paste dance classes where we mimic the instructor, we acknowledge that pole & aerial movement is so specialized that it shows up differently in each of us. We teach you how to sense your movement and how to access neural pathways to get you moving productively.

🔹It helps to have yoga, gymnastics, ballet, other dance, or weightlifting experience– While all types of movement are helpful, the neural pathways we need to develop in aerial practice are so different. Beyond the experience of yoga, gym, & dance, physics / engineering statics & dynamics AND the willingness to embody novelty are key to setting our limbs free and torsos afloat up the pole.