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Calling All Polers

I was so psyched to find out that this year’s International Pole Convention will be held in Los Angeles. I immediately registered for a convention pass (prices here) and quickly signed up for the VIP workshops of two of my favorite dancers – Helsinki, Finland’s pride, Oona Kivela and from Bobbi’s Pole Studio in Sydney, Cleo the ‘Hurricane’. The VIP workshops are pricey at $120 each, but there are only 10 slots for each of these classes so that every student truly gets an in-depth, one-on-one attention of a private lesson. A convention pass gives you access to all free workshops (entry is on a first-come-first-served basis), the Showcase of Stars, and forums. There are also less expensive workshops (ranging from $50-$75) but those allow a maximum of 40 students with only 20 poles (yikes!) – meaning 2 polers will have to share a pole. Uh…no thank you.

(Update: Cleo’s VIP workshop on 6/23 is sold out! I am so glad I signed up early! Felix Cane’s VIP workshop is also sold out.)

For all you SoCal polers, register early!

Oona Kivela

Cleo

Jenyne Butterfly

Natasha Wang

Anastasia Skukhtorova

Hanka Venselaar

Alesia Vatzmitsel

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Posted by Joyce on January 23, 2012 in Dance, Events

Fatigued

19 Jan

I have been physically working myself to the bone these past several months. I do 4 pole and 2 ballet barre classes a week, and occasionally, I throw in a chickfit bootcamp class when I’m feeling up to it. (I have yet to join the burlesque class!). Most days, I feel exhilirated. My strength has developed in leaps and bounds (in advanced pole particularly, you must be able to lift your body weight in order to invert, hold a pose and do a combination of tricks) and the flexibility I’ve had since way-back-when has further improved. But these past couple of weeks have let me truly fatigued. My shoulders have been sore thanks to continuous practice of the shoulder mount-split-jacknife combo (tutorials found here and here), and my legs and arms are so bruised up that my usually unfazed mom has begun to worry. My overall sense of well-being is just not up to par and it’s frustrating! I don’t think I have ever felt this fatigued in a long time! Years of dance and fitness training has taught me to always listen to my body. SO… I will TRY to lessen my classes (by focusing solely on pole and giving ballet barre a brief break) … and pencil in sometime to refresh and rejuvenate. First on my list: a massage appointment!

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Posted by Joyce on January 19, 2012 in Dance, Fitness, Health

Reassessing

18 Jan

To all my dear readers, so sorry for not having posted in the last couple of weeks. I have been re-evaluating and re-assessing the whole purpose of this blog and why I created it to begin with. I initially wanted The World of Joyce to simply be an online diary. I imagined my content to be chockfull of ideas, inspirations and real-life musings in the realm of fashion, beauty, dance, culinary, and the like. But somewhere along the way, I began to struggle with the in-betweens…Random or well-thought posts? On-a-whim or planned-out photo shoots? While I enjoy perusing other bloggers’ sites, doing so often gets in the way of my own vision of how I want mine to be. This past couple of weeks of non-posting has allowed me the time to think about how I want to proceed and essentially, it came down to this: While I love photography, I miss writing and I would love if I could somehow find the time to put more into the writing aspect as opposed to simply posting photos. So to those of you who like the ease and voyeur-esque nature of viewing other people’s lives through images, I hope the upcoming changes, albeit subtle, will continue to spark your interest. I will, of course, continue to share photos, but please allow me to also share my voice. Until then…happy reading!

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Posted by Joyce on January 18, 2012 in Thoughts

Weekly iPhone Snaps

06 Jan

Heading to the west side can sometimes be an inconvenience with the consistent traffic that pretty much lasts all day. Although I could not resist visiting the Santa Monica Place mall over the holidays because I simply adore its revamped look. Here are a few snapshots I took that fateful day we stormed through LA traffic.

An aerial view of (a portion of) the Santa Monica Place mall…