So, I’m into the band BTS, and was watching some of their videos last year and in one of them they all go to Aerial yoga and I thought that it looked like so much fun, I really wanted to give it a go! Obviously I headed straight to Google and found Momentum 😊 You did some Aerial yoga at the end of last year but I couldn’t make most of the dates so grumpily resigned myself to have to wait for the next lot you did (which, hilariously I STILL have never managed to make – one day!) but then when the Momentum method program was announced for January 2023 it piqued my interest.
I’ve never enjoyed anything sporty much, ever. P.E was hell at school, I’m super uncoordinated, not very fit and had absolutely no upper body strength (it’s a dream to be able to do a press up one day). I’m 6ft tall, clumsy, and have always generally felt like one of those wavy armed inflatables that you get outside of car dealerships. Like I don’t have much control over my body and I just get in the way! I had friends who’d done pole in the past but didn’t want to try it myself as I heard from them how much it bruised and as I bruise like a peach I didn’t fancy it. But Aerial hoop looked a lot more doable, cool, and I thought it wouldn’t hurt or give me bruises.
On a very brave whim I signed up and eagerly awaited January and my first class.
Walking into Momentum for the first time I was really happy to see that everyone looked “normal” and although I was expecting to be the worst in the class, I didn’t think it would be embarrassingly so.
Well, I was wrong about the pain and the bruises wasn’t I! But it was all entirely doable, and I could do so much considering I could barely support my own bodyweight with my arms and hands. I had black backs of my knees from bruising for the next 8 weeks, as well as all the others, but I have never enjoyed a form of exercise as much as I LOVE this. I could see the gains in skill and strength week by week, and the supportive atmosphere of the class with celebrating hitting moves has never gotten old, not even 7 months later now that I go three times per week, have added in a bit of sling and silks, dabbled with pole, and can hold my own damn bodyweight at long last.
I now feel so much more in control of my body, feel powerful, actually have some upper body strength and my core is finally building back up, 4 years after giving birth and destroying it.
I love being able to tell people I do Aerial, I love the community around the studio, I still adore coming home at the end of a class and showing the pics and videos of what I’ve achieved, and I’m getting SO CLOSE to being able to straddle and it’s so exciting.
All thanks to watching BTS do Aerial yoga back in 2022.
Bonkers!

So, I started dancing at age 4 & immediately fell in love with it. Fast-forward 14 years & I’m studying it at university. Not sure what to do when I graduate, I start a PGCE in Secondary Dance in 2021 to train to be a dance teacher. This was the worst decision I ever made, I spent 1 year being, essentially, bullied by my supervisor, constantly being told nothing I do will ever be good enough & spent every day teeming with anxiety, absolutely dreading going to work where she would watch & criticise the lessons I taught, I felt physically sick & would cry all the time. I lost every single ounce of confidence I had left in myself (which was scarce to begin with) & developed overactive bladder syndrome due to the sheer stress of the year, & was already struggling with fibromyalgia. Somehow, I got through the dreadful year & qualified but once it was over I
decided that dance wasn’t for me anymore & it was time to leave it in the past, it had done far more harm than good in the past year & I’d fallen out of love with it…but I missed moving creatively & couldn’t fully commit to the gym, as I found it boring.
I researched starting pole as it’s something I had always admired & thought looked so beautiful & I found Momentum. I joined the Momentum Method for pole in September 2022 & it’s genuinely changed my life; pole has helped me become so much more confident & self-assured. I feel at home when I’m at the studio & movement has become a joy again rather than a chore – even if I do find it really hard still (lol). The whole community is so uplifting and kind & I honestly don’t know what I’d do without pole, it has become such a fundamental part of my life & I believe it’s the only reason I’ve been able to regain confidence after being an anxious mess with no self-esteem for so long. I’ve tried so many classes & everyone has been so lovely & welcoming. I do not know where I’d be without pole/Momentum & it found me when I needed it most. Thank you for such an incredible, safe & uplifting community, it means the world 💗