Sloane

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CONSCIOUS Unlearning - Embodied Resistance

Sonja’s approach

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Sonja’s approach to pole and erotic movement is informed by her academic research on the body, performance, gender, and sexuality, as well as her twenty-three years of experience in the fitness industry as a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor. The approach, therefore, gives equal attention to proper technique as it does to the broader implications of engaging in a practice that is heavily coded in terms of gender, sexuality, and labour due to its roots in the sex work industry.

Attending to the abstract theoretical considerations related to the ways in which bodies are disciplined to conform to normative gender expectations, Sonja’s approach encourages a conscious unlearning of internalized social and cultural norms through movement; an embodied resistance against corporeal alienation and its broader social and political ramifications.

SonjaSloane.com is a space where theory and practice/personal and political come together: where you can learn the movement vocabulary and technical skills you need to feel safe in fully inhabiting your flesh suit, and contextualize your dance practice within an intersectional trans/feminist framework.

THE MOVEMENT CATALOGUE

Learn from Sonja Sloane — pole technique, sequence breakdowns, erotic floorwork, conditioning and mobility workouts.

  • A woman with curly red hair dancing with a pole in a bright room, wearing a black top and gray shorts, with one leg raised and dressed in high-heeled boots.

    Flow fundamentals

  • A woman with long red hair practicing pole dancing in front of a mirror in a well-lit room, with houseplants and a wall decor in the background.

    Erotix

  • A woman with long hair is on a wooden dance floor, striking a pose with her arms extended forward and her head tilted down, wearing black clothing and high heels, with sheer curtains in the background.

    FloorPlay

  • A woman with long red hair practicing a split stretch on a pink yoga mat outdoors on a rooftop with a city building in the background.

    Conditioning & Mobility

  • A woman with curly red hair practicing pole dancing in a studio with wooden floors and white brick walls, wearing a black strappy top, black shorts, and gold high heels.

    Spins on Static

See Movement Catalogue
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A woman dancing with a pole in a sunlit living room.

ABOUT

Meet Sonja

Integrating twenty years of training and experience in dance and fitness with her academic expertise in performance, the body, gender and sex, Sonja Sloane’s approach to wellness is oriented towards repairing an individual and collective relationship with the body caused by various social, cultural, and economic processes. Her movement and teaching practice encourages the development of a balanced, caring and deeply compassionate relationship with a self that is in continuous evolution - the body weighing heavily in that equation.

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