I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again- if you’d like to truly embody your movements in what the pole industry has come to label as “sensual” pole dance, you will sooner or later get to a point where you’ll have to learn, and ideally practice how to sense and interact with your environment. Without any sexualised connotations and personal preferences, at first.
Again, you don’t have to, you can skip this approach. But it’s going to be so much harder to find sensual movement that’s natural to you, both physically and mentally. And even if this doesn’t seem like a priority to you now, it’s very likely to appear at some point later in your dance life.

Working with the senses may look like nothing. It may look boring as hell to you. But trust me – the lived experience is so much richer than the visual noise of rushing through movements and oftentimes emulating something that’s perceived as “sensuality”.
So before I go big with heels, the pole, skimpy outfits, and external influences, I simply start with what’s there – and that can be quite overwhelming if you go too big at first. So dare to go small, do less, listen more. It’s going to bring you much closer to yourself. And that’s quite a great starting point to dance and live from, isn’t it?

I promise that the small burbly movement is eventually going to make big waves, at its own pace.

“Sensual” pole dancing is something I take literally, and then spice up with style and sexualisation as I please (and feel like). If it was for labels and trends, I would have stopped pole dancing many years ago. However, my sensual approach has been helping me to go with the flow, possibly towards infinity.