A year and a half ago I left the Pilates studio I been working in for 8 years and opened a very small studio of my own. I have loved most aspects of being independent and running my own business. What I found what I missed most was daily interactions with a bunch of smart bitches. We could chew on our current obsession with glutes, confer on a challenging movement or talk through our own movement issues together.
Since then I’ve looked for a group of people who want to talk about about the shit I want to talk about. Basically I want to talk about movement, but I wanted to talk about it from the bottom up. I wanted to throw out ideas for exercises, have others try them and see how they felt on other bodies. I wanted to have a place to bring the challenging movement issues that I don’t understand and see what other perspectives were out there.
Ive searched extensively among the barefoot people. I found a lot of Bros. I loved the range of the groups I found, with many people from different arms of fitness coming together, runners, weightlifters, pilates, and yoga. ( yay! New perspectives!) But as I joined the communities online I found a ton of talk about shoes. (Important but pretty boring once you’ve found a good pair of shoes). I didn’t find a ton of people looking to engage about movement. I found some people who most definitely did not want to engage about their own privilege. (Boo.) I left those communities pretty quickly. And then, deep in the lockdown, I was listening to Violet Chachki on the Bald and the Beautiful podcast. Ms. Chachki was describing how she wasn’t seeing any of the glamorous, vintage drag wanted to see out in the clubs. She came to the conclusion that if she wanted to see it she had to create it. And it was fierce. So, I'm not seeing what I want to see in online communities. Im going to se if I can create a place to nerd out and talk about the body from the ground up. Come on in. But lets keep the shoe talk to a minimum.