Motivation

If there is one thing that motivates me in my day it's dance. I think about it all the time. How I can come up with new costumes or new moves. I love it when I have a dream of some crazy new pole trick and get so excited about how cool it is then I wake up. I realize it's humanly (at least for me) impossible for that trick to happen. But a girl can dream right? My motivation for teaching comes from my students. It's a true sisterhood. I enjoy each and every class. I love to laugh while learning, why should it be so serious anyway? I hear horror stories from students that come to me from other studios and it makes me angry.  I want to create an experience for my girls as if they are coming over to my place to have some fun pole dancing time. Less tension more fun! It's kind of like meditation for me. I like being in that place where nothing matters except what we are doing in class. When I'm freestyling I go deep into my emotions and play. It's like splashing water or rolling around in something soft. These are some of the things I try to get my girls to tap into. It's not about tricks for me it's about expression of emotion. Tricks are rad but where is the connection. What are you connecting too and why? How does it make you feel when you accomplish an extreme trick? I know how it makes me feel, I want to shout out to the world "Hey, I'm a badass"! I love that part. But not all the time.
I hope here my students can give some feedback about their pole dancing experience and I want to know what motivates you.