A POLE DANCE AND MOVEMENT SPACE THAT CENTERS FREESTYLE.
A POLE DANCE AND MOVEMENT SPACE THAT CENTERS FREESTYLE.
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FACILITATORS OF The Freestyle Collective
Tracee Kafer
Creator of Finding Your Freestyle® and The Freestyle Collective
métier • Movement that is a deeper expression of who you are. Expanding your self-awareness, curiosity, and ultimately liberating you from shoulds, comparisons, right/wrong mindset, and over-identification with skills.
Marlo Fisken
Creator of Flow Movement®, Pole Flow & Floor Flow
métier • Helping you find more flow in athletic pursuits and pushing the edges of your skill.
Natalya Nightshade
Owner of Studio Nightshade
métier • Sensual expression, the art of performance, and the power in doing less.
Alisa Saric
Founder of Drehmoment Berlin
métier • Sensuality, but with sense! Feeling ones body, and dosing that feeling when you move in a way that doesn't overwhelm your system. Developing feeling for things that can't feel for us (like the pole). A niche focus in sensual pole dancing in heels.
J ALEX RAY
Performance Artist & Visual Creator
métier • Teaching and encouraging new movement pathways, whether you are looking to add more vocabulary or create from conceptual knowledge.
Jess, PhD
Somatic Psychologist & Faciliator of FYF
métier • Guiding movement journeys that evoke introspection and the art of slowing down. Fostering the ability of the body to express through movement what words cannot.
LINDSEY
Educational Designer & Freestyle Faciliator
métier • Helping you discover your movement style from a place of deeper authenticity and pleasure.
KristEn Nichole, PhD
Creator of Polecology, Community Psychologist & Pole Dance Artist
métier • Slowing down time to make your presence truly felt.
ILLAN RIVIÉRE
Creator of Neo Fusion & One Movement
métier • Through soulful, fluid motion, blending art and physical philosophy, I guide individuals through a transformative movement experience that unlocks authentic expression and creativity.
THE CHAPTER OF TAKING UP SPACE
MAY 2025
KRISTEN NICHOLE & NATALYA NIGHTSHADE
KRISTEN NICHOLE
Foundations in Expansion • Friday, 5/9
2pm EDT / 11am PDT / 8pm CEST (75 min)
DROP-IN ONLY? SIGN UP HERE
Seamless Expression • Friday, 5/23
2pm EDT / 11am PDT / 8pm CEST (75 min)
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NATALYA NIGHTSHADE
What Holds You Back • Thur, 5/15
12pm EDT / 9am PDT / 6pm CEST (75 min)
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Shamelessly • Thur, 5/29
12pm EDT / 9am PDT / 6pm CEST (75 min)
DROP-IN ONLY? SIGN UP HERE
SPECIAL BONUS: JESS, PHD
The Space Within: A Workshop On The Nervous System • Sunday, 5/18
1pm EDT / 10am PDT / 7pm CEST (75 min)
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What does it feel like to claim space with your body?
What limits - inside and out - keep you from fully expanding in your movement?
How do you take up more space physically, energetically, and unapologetically?
Join us in this chapter as we explore the reclamation of space, helping you to own your movement with more confidence and presence.
tools: the outdoors, the spine, expansion/contraction, breathing
tune in to: what brings more space to your body, mind, and creativity
release: self-imposed boundaries that you have outgrown
THE CHAPTER OF PATHWAYS
JUNE 2025
YVONNE SMINK, ILLAN RIVIéRE, & ALISA SARIC
OUR FIRST FREESTYLE NIGHT
Dance, Prompt, & Song Share • Monday, 6/2
7pm EDT / 4pm PDT / 1am CEST (60 min)
DROP-IN, PAY WHAT YOU WANT: SIGN UP HERE
ILLAN RIVIÉRE
Movement Research: Embodying Energy in Motion • Thur, 6/5
12pm EDT / 9am PDT / 6pm CEST (75 min)
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YVONNE SMINK
Pathway Play • Fri, 6/20
2pm EDT / 11am PDT / 8pm CEST (75 min)
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ALISA SARICMovement Research: Choosing Your Own Adventure • Thur, 6/26
12pm EDT / 9am PDT / 6pm CEST (75 min)
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What patterns or pathways does your body return to, and why?
How does shifting direction or focus change your experience of movement?
What new possibilities open up when you move beyond the familiar?
Join us in this chapter as we playfully navigate the infinite directions the body can travel—through space, sensation, and intention. Discover new movement possibilities as you trace, disrupt, and reinvent the routes your body instinctively follows.
RECORDINGS
THE CHAPTER OF DOING LESS
5 SESSIONS TO EXPLORE AS, WHEN, & HOW YOU LIKE
NATALYA NIGHTSHADE
(PART 1) THE WAYS WE LISTEN • (PART 2) BODY LANUAGE
JESS, PHD
(PART 1) WHAT THE BODY KNOWS • (PART 2) WHAT THE BODY HEARS
SPECIAL BONUS: ILLAN RIVIÉRE
DANCE AS AN ACT OF PRESENCE
What magic can we find when we make friends with the things we tend to avoid?
What can we learn when we slow down and ask our body what it knows?
Join us in our kick-off month as we explore sitting in, moving with, and squeezing every last drop out of our movement with this dive into doing less.
(NO POLE NEEDED FOR ANY OF THESE SESSIONS)
THE CHAPTER OF AWARENESS
5 SESSIONS TO EXPLORE AS, WHEN, & HOW YOU LIKE
ALISA SARIC
(PART 1) TRULY PRESENT • (PART 2) FINDING EQUANIMITY
J ALEXY RAY
(PART 1) TRACING REPETITION • (PART 2) SYSTEM UPGRADE
SPECIAL BONUS: MARLO FISKEN
ARTICULATE ANATOMY: HANDS & FEET
What new choices can we unlock in our freestyle when we bring awareness to our patterns; the ones we want to make and the ones we want to break?
Can we hold a deeper attention for what's happening while at the same time feel equanimity for what we create?
Join us in our second month as we explore how we can freestyle not from a place of tension, but from a place of geniune curiosity.
(POLE OPTIONAL FOR ANY OF THESE SESSIONS)
THE CHAPTER OF Voice
5 SESSIONS TO EXPLORE AS, WHEN, & HOW YOU LIKE
TRACEE KAFER
(PART 1) SEASONING YOUR MOVEMENT
(PART 2) WHERE DOES YOUR MOVEMENT COME FROM?
LINDSEY
(PART 1 & PART 2) ARTISTIC INVENTORY: VOLUME & TEXTURE
SPECIAL BONUS: MARLO FISKEN
ARTICULATE ANATOMY: THE SPINE
How can we infuse more of who we are into our freestyle?
What would it feel like to invite in more of our truth, our personality, and our journey into our moving voice?
As movement is our vehicle of communication, a space to play freely with our voice is vital to us as artists with a story to share.
Join us in our third month as we explore how we can use movement exploration and freestyle exercises to discover who we are in the music, in the moment, and in the movement.
(POLE OPTIONAL FOR ANY OF THESE SESSIONS)
