EMBODIED EXPLORATION — instructors
Mover, teacher, strength carried with softness and ease. Sea’s approach centers body awareness and breath, guiding movers with care, precision, and space for personal expression to emerge.
As the founder of Pole Dance Movement and a grounding presence behind PDM Pole Camp, Sea brings continuity, intention, and deep respect for embodied process to how this camp is held and shared.
sea’s WORKSHOP OFFERINGS
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This opening session is designed to help you arrive fully in your body, settle your energy, and gently connect with the camp community. Through grounding movement, restorative stretches, and playful partner exploration, we’ll awaken breath, tune into sensation, and ease into creative movement off the pole.
A nurturing and welcoming session to set the tone for the days ahead.
Open Level, Barefoot
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An inhale can offer expansion and lightness; an exhale can invite contraction and fall. Together, they inform not only so much of my own movement choices and movement quality, but also give rise to presence and emotional expression.
This workshop guides you to get in touch with your own internal rhythm and to notice how it can influence the sensation, texture, and quality of your existing movement vocabulary — offering new possibilities from within.
Open Level, Barefoot
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Using rolling weight transfers, this workshop explores sensory ways of connecting with both the pole and the ground. We’ll focus on efficiency over force as we move between grip points, deepening trust in the body and our relationship with our surroundings and apparatus.
From there, we will gradually incorporate layers of flow, making active choices of how each body part connects with another, with the possibility of allowing acrobatic elements to emerge organically from movement rather than interrupting it
Open Level, Barefoot
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This choreography-based workshop focuses on musicality, emotion-led movement, and dancing with intention. It serves as a space to integrate the tools explored throughout the camp — breath, sensation, and rolling weight transfers — as an experience of process in action, hence offering insight into choreographic thinking while leaving space for personal expression and interpretation.
Open Level, Heels Recommended
An artist and mover embedded in exploration, Toni moves across forms from heels to bare feet, from aerial to grounded practice. Guided by play and sensation, Toni has also been part of the creation of PDM Pole Camp, contributing as a consultant and collaborator in shaping its approach and structure. We’re honored to enter this chapter together.
TONI’s WORKSHOP OFFERINGS
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Class Description: Reverb is a dialogue between stillness and motion. Together, we’ll explore sequences that translate movement from static pole to spin pole and back. We will explore how each can echo and inform the other. Emphasis will be placed on slowing down, sensing weight and momentum, and tuning into micro-adjustments that carry through both. Students will study how spinning movements enrich static holds, creating a continuous flow of expression.
Open Level, Barefoot
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Class Description: Pivot & Carve introduces the foundations of edge work through awareness, control, and articulation. Using both bare feet and heels, students will explore how to merge the mind-body connection through drills that engage and dissect the rotation, activation, and micro-muscles of the foot. We’ll move through three key concepts and elements to understand how the floor becomes both resistance and release, learning to carve pathways and pivot through transitions.
Open Level, Heels Recommended
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Embodied explorations is a workshop that will take students through a series of exercises and prompts inviting space to connect to the senses. Using 1-2 shapes and transitions, students will be challenged to go deeper into those shapes rather than pass through them. We will explore subtle micro-details that will allow for expression of movement. Later in the workshop, students will be paired up for some partnered exercises. By the end of the workshop, the students will be split into 2-3 groups and will use the same concepts, exercises and ideations they worked through individually, together on a group piece.
Open Level, Barefoot
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Traces and Textures is a workshop that will breakdown the essence of touch through exercises and prompts that emphasize tracing, pressure and contrast. Students will be using the natural world around them, intuition and each other to echo and mirror an element they feel most connected to. Students will choose between earth, water, fire and air to pair with the tracing concept. Curiosity and exploration is highly encouraged here, the more you use the world around you, the better.
Open Level, Barefoot
A mover and teacher shaped by lived experience, guided by sensation, technique, and care for how movement is felt. For PDM Pole Camp, Allie has thoughtfully crafted workshops created specifically for this space shaping the intention and depth of the camp. We’re grateful to move and build together.
ALLIE’s WORKSHOP OFFERINGS
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In wabi-sabi movement we learn to honor what is imperfect, changing, unfinished - in the body and in the moment. In this freestyle workshop, we will focus on releasing limiting beliefs and control to achieve a flow state in movement.
Level: All levels
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A musicality and presence workshop. Ma is the absence that elevates presence. It is silence, stillness, emptiness with awareness - space that allows the audience to enter the dance. Class focus: Learning to trust silence to be better seen & felt.
Level: All levels
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A creativity workshop. A step by step exercise that helps keep one’s practice alive, humble and human over the years. A cycle of learning and unlearning and authentic embodied creation. Class focus: How to learn, rebel and elevate with respect.
Level: All levels
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A pen to paper workshop. Words carry a vibration, intention and consequence. Learn to tune into your inner voice, set clear intentions, and manifest the experience you desire. Class focus: Finding the language to describe your individual truth and manifesting through verbal guidance.
Level: All levels
EMBODIED EXPLORATION — operating team
RIRI: Marketing & resident badboi
AIKA: Sales & voice of reason
GAV: Logistics & professional smoulderer
