Post Valentine!

Hi all

Well I was spoilt on our Valentine's night. Steve and I had a lovely evening at Tanners - splashed out on some pink bubbly (cost nearly half the price of our meal again) but worth it and then finished the night off with a couple more drinks at Mo-funk at Annabel's to then arrive home to some beautiful red roses. A lovely relaxing evening, great food and of course with my perfect man. I definately think it was worth going out the night before and not be in the throng on the day plus the bonus of having a chilled morning together and a long walk in the sunshine along the estuary at Tamerton Foliot before I came to teach in the evening.

For those of you that came in last Thursday for my sequencing class - thank you - I had so much fun with you all and it was great to see your outfits. I've had great feedback from several of you both from Thursday's classes (see some of the students performing the routine in the photo) and my Exeter students on the Monday night (you got to test it on the Monday) -so I'm glad you all enjoyed it so much. People often ask about how they can work on the dance element of pole dancing so this was a good challenge for me to focus on this and bring it into a short sequence with a couple of basic tricks. Let me know if you'd like to do some more sequencing as i can maybe look at this as an option for a future master classes.

If you are keen on the dance element then in this month's master classes Nixi is holding a further body isolation/sexy dance moves class at 1.30pm on Sat 1st March. I am also holding a class this day at 12.15pm covering basic inverts/ improving inverting/ gemini/scorpio and mantis - so hopefully see a few of you there. All classes are £10 and if you feel brave enough (well she is the Lordette of darkness!!!) Jo is also holding an advanced/world class moves session at 2.45pm.

I had a busy weekend just gone. I was teaching a private class Friday night and then we had the studio open Day on the Saturday. I came in for a couple of hours to support Jo and Sam and we had a steady flow of people through the door which we were able to spend time with and demonstrate various skills and tricks we all have. I know Sam has taken several more bookings for the Inductions so a great success and boost to the business.

I then drove to Bristol to spend the evening from one of my closest fiends Julia. She is fabulous - 51 and still loves her dance music. I have a lot of respect for Julia - she actually used to be my old boss at BT several years ago (and i was scared of her!!) and we then bacame the closest of friends. We were out at the Syndicate with 4 others - Dave Pearce was playing - a bit heavy for most of us but none the less an enjoyable night. i also caught up with one of the resident DJ's there as we used to work together when i was dancing at destiny's in Plymouth. Of course we had a good girly gossip the next day and put the world's to right - well sort of!

Must sign off now and get some shut eye - not long been in from teaching in Exeter and have a long day tomorrow - travelling to Gatwick as away for a couple of days for a team meeting (lots of minutes to type up I sense!) See you soon or Thursday night if you are in.

xxxxx

Sexy Valentine's Routine Thur 14th February

Hi all

Well it's not far off to Valentine's day and as it falls on a Thursday night I thought it would be nice to put a sexy little routine together to teach you in my classes that night. The idea is to have a "Valentine's Spearmint Rhino night" - a bit of fun while we learn the moves and perform to a specific song. To help you get in the mood on the night it would be fab if you could dress up in something red - maybe a sparkly red top, some red shorts, a red hair band - something you feel nice and sexy in rather than your usual work out kit. Unfortunately we won't be able to wear heels though because of our lovely new floor - so you'll just have to imagine those 6inch stiletto shoes - just think of the work out your calves will get being on your toes! Both classes are only £10 and can be booked in the usual way - Look forward to seeing you there.

In case any of you were worried I wasn't going to get to spend some time with my man Steve on Valentine's all is well because he is treating me to a meal at Tanners the night before and we can enjoy an evening out together. We can then have a relaxing and lazy Valentine's morning as I have taken the day off work before coming in to teach. What dedication!!!
We were hoping to utilise the vouchers my brother gave us for our Xmas present (a hot stone massage) but they weren't able to fit us in. We'll save those for another time - maybe after an advanced class with Sam again!. If you've read Sam and Jo's blogs already - yes Sam beasted us on Saturday so the muscles were a little sore on Sunday. I'd already had a good abs work out from going to Nixi's sexy dance moves masterclass an hour before so I was properly aching!. Even as an instructor it is always useful to learn off each other as we all have differing strengths and weaknesses so i found it really useful doing the body isolation as it really made we focus on my abs more with some of the body waves Nixi got us doing. Nixi will be holding a further class so watch out for the next master class on this - might even see you there!

I'm in for my usual Thursday this week in our Plymouth studio so see you then and back in Exeter at Sweat and Stretch on Monday. We had a really busy class last night-only one space left so make sure you book your space for this coming Monday. Hello to all our new people that have joined - it's great to see new faces and hoped you weren't too sore . As you'll have seen though even when you get more advanced you still get the aches and bruises.

Ta ta for now

xxx