I am so fortunate to have an incredible team of franchisees surrounding me that bring their own ideas to the table and make this PhysiFamily even bigger and better than anything I could have ever imagined. …I still remember setting up those stages every week, and feel even more committed to this brand if that’s possible. Over 10 years later, a little girl who is now 7 and two boys aged 1 & 2, 15 international tours teaching and competing, and chasing my own goals and passion for being on the world stage has helped to shape PhysiPole in a truly unique way… Soon after that, I also opened the Ballarat studio where things really started to take off and I began getting interest for franchising. But the classes were going well and eventually we outgrew that space and I looked for a permanent location. Every Friday I’d drive from Melbourne to Warrnambool and along with my dad, brother and sister, we would transform the ‘karate dojo’ and set up 8 X-stages (if you’ve ever set up even one Xstage you’ll know that setting up and packing down 8 every week took a lot of commitment!). I often made the trip back to see my family in Warrnambool, and about 2 years into my own pole journey (2009) I was driving back on one of these trips and thought to myself ‘there’s nothing like this offered here, I teach dance already and I think my old karate instructor would hire out his space to me on the weekends! Let’s see how it goes!’Īnd so it began. I continued to become addicted and soon purchased a pole for myself at home and started exploring other studios around Melbourne. I was in so much pain, but I loved it and went back again the next week. I attended the US Pole Dance Championship in NYC this past weekend and our friend and teacher, Jenyne Butterfly, won the competition, Yay Her performance was absolutely amazing and beautiful The next performance is by Alethea who I had the opportunity to meet at LAs Be Spun a few months ago. In my first lesson I was taught a move that we now teach to level 3s…. Miss US Pole Dance 2009: Jenyne Butterfly.
But I managed to find a very small studio (and when I say small, I mean it was one girl teaching out of her garage with 2 poles), but none the less I went and was excited to learn some of the cool things I’d seen in pictures online (2007). (By then I was also teaching dance full-time in styles like hip hop and lyrical.) Pole dancing at the time was relatively new in terms of a fitness/dance class. Fast forward a few years and after working Hollywood performing in commercial/live and music video type of dance jobs I was looking to add some more aerial type skills to my resume when I got back to Australia. Overview of services and business portfolio.Īnd REP’s, Register of Exercise Professionals Kristy Sellars, founder of PhysiPole Studios and I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you the story of how it all began! I’ve always loved to dance, and when I was 16 I decided I wanted to train full-time and complete a Diploma in Performing Arts in Melbourne, rather than VCE at my high school in home town Warrnambool. Pole Passion is an endorsed and recognised training provider since 2008Ī pioneering company for polesport, dance and fitness since 2003. The courses and company is regulated every year by two european governing bodies SkillsActive Sector skills council for active leisure and learning. Pole Passion was formed in 2003 by Kay Penney, with the focus on ‘Empowerment Confidence Fitness & FUN!’ The aim was to share this challenging, yet rewarding, dance fitness and art form to make it accessible to all without the fear of being judged.
Leaders in Pole Fitness since 2003, Pole Passion are Accredited Training providers, ‘we train the trainers’! Pole Passion own and operate World Pole Sport & Fitness as well as Miss Pole Dance UK and Mr Pole Fitness UK which run at amateur,semi-pro and profesional level. We are passionate about training new pole fitness instructors and helping new and experienced students move up to a new level of confidence and knowledge. Our network of Instructors around the World offer Accredited Instructor Training through partnerships extending to Mainland Europe, Northern Europe, South Africa, Russia, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan.
Pole Passion is a global company in terms of our products and services.