INSTRUCTORS
Coco a.k.a Rachel, is an award winning and internationally recognised professional pole dance performer, choreographer, and celebrated dance teacher. She is the owner of LOVE POLE STUDIOS in Sydney Australia and the creator of PODIUM GODDESS pole competition. Coco is renowned for her flexible shapes, musicality, intricate static rotations and alternative dance style. She is also known for her supportive teaching style and ability to adapt to the individual learning needs of her students. Coco has a passion for helping her students build strength through flexibility training and knowledge about their unique movement patterns. She loves to explore ways of expression and creativity through pole dance, and to connect with others through teaching and performing. Coco has trained aerial hoop, contortion and handbalancing with Circue du Soleil artist Olga Sidorova. She is studying a Masters in Applied Linguistics, and has undergraduate qualifications in Primary Education and Teaching English as an Other Language. Coco is also a qualified personal trainer with certificates 3 and 4 in fitness.
Titles and awards include:
-Miss Pole NSW (2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018)
-2nd Runner Up Miss Pole Dance Australia (2018/19)
-3rd Place Pole Classic Pole Expo Las Vegas (2018)
-Professional Comedy Champion, Pole Theatre Sydney, (2016 & 2018) with doubles partner Chilli Rox
-3rd Place in Flow Category Exotic Generation Bali (2023)
-Best Musicality Australian Pole Championships (2022)
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Pole Candy Semi Pro Doubles champion 2015
She was also featured pole dancing in Timomatic's music video, "Go To Work" 2016
Connect with Coco on Instagram, and view some of her winning performances on YouTube!
Xtina started pole dancing 5 years ago, and grew a passion for pole straight away. She is now a sucker for static tricks, as well as sensual and exotic flows. Alongside pole, She loves to train at the gym in order to maintain muscle strength and flexibility. In her free time, she loves to travel and see new cities. Christina continues to work on perfecting her style and aims to continue performing in competition settings. As a team member of Love Pole, she is excited to pass on the passion to her students by ageing dynamic moves and watching students flourish and progress in their pole journey.
Awards:
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Sponsors Choice: Hard Core Pole
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Championships 2021
Nikita is a trained ballet dancer and teacher. She started pole 10 yrs ago to get back into shape after having her son and has been teaching for 7 yrs. She has competed nationally and internationally and her proudest achievement was winning the title of Miss Pole Dance NSW 2015. She competed as a finalist in Miss Pole Dance Australia 2015, NSW Pole Championships 2015, Miss Pole Dance Asia Pacific 2015 and Felix Cane Pole Championships 2016.
Velvet Steel, a.k.a Renee has a background as a classical ballet dancer, spending 6+ years in a full-time professional training environment in Sydney and overseas. It is from this background where she began her career in fitness & health, leading into over 6 years of industry experience as a trainer, exercise physiologist, and dry needling practitioner.
Renee is passionate about helping pole-dancers excel as more high-performing and injury-resilient athletes. She discovered pole-dancing 4 years ago to experience first-hand the empowering and community-building atmosphere of pole, together with how athletic and creative it is as a fitness activity. Inspired by the art and the community - she has dedicated her expertise and professional focus towards helping pole-dancers via teaching pole classes, research-based strength & mobility training, as well as injury rehab and prevention.
QUALIFICATIONS
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Accredited Exercise Physiologist (BAppSc ExPhys, USYD)
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Mobility Specialist (FRCms)
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Pain-free Performance Specialist (PPSC)
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Certified Intro, Advanced, and Masterclass Dry Needling
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Cert III & IV in Fitness
POLE ACHIEVEMENTS
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Winner Podium Goddess 2019
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Competed in Miss Pole Dance NSW, 2019
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Best Musicality Hard Core Pole Championships 2021
Rita is an all-round sports woman. While leading an active life-style for most of her life, Rita has been instructing Pole Fitness for 11 years.
Continually developing and learning to assist her students to fulfil their fitness goals, through pole, stretch, fitness and conditioning exercises. Rita frequently updates her training, has competed internationally (IPSF) and incorporates new techniques into the training schedule.
Fifty, Fit and Fabulous - always love what you do and others will love it too. Just be you.
Training:
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Cert III in Fitness
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Cert IV Workplace Assessment and Training
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First Aid Certificate
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Aerial Fit Kids instructor.
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Punch Fit Instructor
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World Pole Sports Championships Finalist
Buweezy started pole in 2014 but quickly fell in love with lyra after her first class in 2018. Now her favourite thing to do is to create graceful flows and explore all the possibilities with lyra - ranging from dynamic transitions to backbending tricks. As an instructor, her goal is to help everyone fall in love with lyra, just like she did, and achieve their aerial goals. Hanh is thrilled to share her knowledge and empower her students to develop their own strength, flexibility and style!
Yungie is an experienced pole instructor and loves the sexy style of pole. She's been teaching for over 9 years and pole dancing for 11. Yungie's passion for pole dancing is contagious; her dedication to both teaching and training makes her an inspiration for students and teachers alike! You will leave her classes with a sense of achievement as she works you hard and strives to ensure all students understand correct pole technique.
Some of Yungie's credits include:
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Miss Pole Dance Australia Sponsor's Choice 2018
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Pole Theatre Classique Pro Winner 2018
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Pole Theatre Finalist 2016
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Miss Pole Dance Australia Finalist 2015/16
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Pole Theatre Finalist 2014
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Pole Theatre Finalist 2013
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Pole Candy Semi Pro Champion 2013
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Pole Candy Finalist 2012
Tanith aka Sacha is the newest talented edition to the Love Pole team!
Tanith began her pole journey over two years ago and rapidly fell in love with the sport. She loves flexy tricks and the combination of different moves to create a flowy dynamic. Also a huge fan of making fun routines, Sacha excels at engaging her audience!
She has a background in Olympic lifting, Swimming, and Crossfit. Currently Sacha trains in hair suspension, aerial straps, contortion, lifting, and more alongside pole!
Having taught as a group class instructor / personal trainer for 7 years, Sacha is in her element while teaching! Sacha loves helping people learn new skills, and witnessing the joy of the “I got it!” moment.
Hayley has been training as an aerialist in circus for over 10 years, specialising in Lyra and Static trapeze. She has trained at two of Sydney's leading circus schools with coaching from the likes of industry professionals, Cirque Du Soleil artists and international mentors. Hayley has experienced a range of mentors and instructors over the years to build her wealth of knowledge in her expertise and continues to do so. Hayley believes in leaning into discomfort to discover what we are capable of both physically and mentally and encourages her students to explore this area to develop their confidence and skills both on and off the lyra, all whilst having fun and laughing along the way.
Josh started dancing at the age of 6 as a way to get out of playing soccer, doing styles such as ballet, contemporary, lyrical and jazz. His passion for teaching began at the end of high school when the studio he trained at offered him an opportunity to teach jazz to the under 10 year olds, and hasn't looked back since. This experience inspired Josh to pusue teaching at a higher level, finishing his degree in Educations (specialising in dance and physical education) in 2016. It was that very same year that Josh went with his mum to his first ever pole class at Love Pole. He continued his training on and off until 2019 deciding this was something he wanted to pursue further, mixing his prior dance background and his new found love of pole. Going into 2021 Josh's new goals are to improve as much as he can and also help others discover their love of pole and be amazed at what they can achieve.
Qualifications:
-Bachelor of Dance Education
Achievements (pole):
-Winner Spin Society Advanced Pole (2019)
-Mr Pole Dance Australia Finalist 2020 & 2021
Lara began pole dancing with her best friend back 2014, and enjoyed it so much she decided to become a teacher only a few years later in 2017.
With her best friend by her side, she’s competed in several doubles competitions including the NSW Pole Championships.
Lara’s preferred dance style is fast, fun and flippy! Her love for dance has also made its way off the pole as she favours training in anything contortion and hand balancing.
Lara loves seeing how much pole dancing builds on the confidence and strength of all her students both inside and outside of the studio!
If she’s not training she’ll be spending time with her beautiful (but needy) dogs Bailey and Meeko.
Tash has performed since the age of 4 in gymnastics, cheerleading, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, hip-hop, modern, and heels, and started pole dancing as a 16 year old back in 2010. She also trains in aerials. Tash loves chair dancing and pole tricks! She started teaching pole in 2018 and absolutely adores sharing her passion with her students. She has oodles of patience, pays high attention to detail, and best of all loves to share good laugh in class!
Missii has been teaching pole for over 10years and her greatest love is basework and static spins. Her choreography classes blend these two loves together into a challenging and cardio workout. Missii has competed in a few comps over the years, *2nd runner up Exotic Generation 2020 *Winner Pro Floorplay 2017 *Competitor MPD NSW 2017 , 18, 19. * Competitor MPD Asia Pacific 2016
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Aurelia came across pole by accident in 2018 and now 5 years later… she has been in love with it ever since! She like the idea of teaching ever since she studied primary & childcare education and thought to apply the training in being a pole instructor. Aurelia has performed in cultural dances within her high school years; and now she has developed love for creating choreography that is sensual with elements of frame up dance. Recently she began competing and loves to make routine that are flexy and challenging. Not only does she love poling but she loves to fly on Lyra, go snowboarding, travelling, create paintings or solve escape rooms in her spare time.
Cindy started her pole journey in 2015 where every class she took was technique and skill based. She then was introduced to pole choreo in 2020 which brought out another side to her style. She loves strength training, bendy tricks on the pole, and importantly, the continual challenges and opportunities for learning that pole presents!
- Podium Goddess 2021 sponsor's choice
- Podium Goddess 2022 Semi Pro winner
- Podium Goddess 2023 Semi Pro 2nd runner up
Stasi has had a passion for dance from a young age. She stumbled across pole in 2019 when she was looking for something to keep up her fitness and get back into dancing and hasn’t looked back since. She enjoys the creative process of incorporating dynamic and soft movements together to share with students in choreo classes. She loves the time spent in class with her students dissecting tricks and combos to focus on technique and micro movements. Small wins makes big wins! She also enjoys building strength and flexibility at the gym and in yoga
Cilla started pole almost a decade ago, and began consistently training in the last four years. She loves static and spin rotations, and exploring new & unconventional shapes. Cilla has performed at a number of venues alongside club chrome, such as the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Town Hall, and Carriageworks. During the day, Cilla works in a medicinal cannabis research lab using her phd in neuropharmacology!
Join Cilla for groovy choreo and levelled pole classes!
