🪀 Toy Party, you're invited

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In this email:

🎳 Inviting you into my experimental event era

🗓️ Upcoming workshops

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I bet you have at least one.

a black painted cinder block gym wall with a rack of kettlebells, medicine balls, resistance bands and plates.

That thing you bought to “do your exercises" with.

That device that's supposed to help “get out knots.”

That contraption for "getting a quick movement sesh in.”

But, with so many ideas for what you could work on body-wise and not so much time available, are some of your toys...lonely?

a Naipo massage gun — who has one of these?

Here are the lesser-used items in my movement toy bin:

⚖️ A mini crane scale:

An orange crane scale in a vertical position on a white background — Allegedly, this is good for measuring isometric force output- if you have something VERY STURDY to attach it to. I feel my doorways cannot handle what I have planned (?)

🧱 This rubber lump pillow:

I grind my upper butt into it sometimes, but I hadn’t tried standing on it until composing this message.

What else might it be good for?

red rubber lumpy pillow — * affiliate link

🟢 TWENTY-FOUR identical small circular bands:

At one time, I used these while teaching group classes.

But if I keep 24 identical bands, I must figure out how to use them. ALL of them.

👀 This stupid thing

marlo appearing to run while her head is strapped into the Iron Neck

I want to love the “iron neck.”

I want to tell you that it makes me feel like I have the neck of an athletic young swan.

I want to tell you that an Instagram ad sold me something life-changing.

But the glide feels sandy, and it feels like I'm wearing a head bucket. Needless to say, I don't start each morning with my head strapped in.

(not that I've offered much of an endorsement, but if you want to experience it yourself, here's a link that pays me)

😏 Back to you!

Maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm wrong, and you use all your stretchy bands and rolly things.

No dusty weights, crusty bands, or sad poles in your movement space!

But...

if you are like most people I know, you have a bin, corner, (or garage full) of items that could use a good tinkering and a body that could benefit from it.

That's why I’m inviting you over to my Zoom house for a free-if-you-want-it-to-be event that is somewhere between a movement research party and a naughty study hall.

A black background image that says "Movement Toy Party" with a blue ball, two kettlebells, a rope, towel, and red rubber resistance band

Movement Toy Party:
Let's be people who use our equipment

A mix of brief socialization, creative prompting, and some on-your-own practice time.

We will:

Explore the joys of unintended uses
Turn generic exercises into sensory-dance experiences
probably LOL

Get your myofascial smooshers, your stretchy things, your cold weights or poles. Get to know your furniture in new ways.

Use anything you have, Reader.

If you have something that you don’t quite know what to do with, you’ll know by the end of this session.

Let’s play, shall we?

Hit reply and tell me what toy you are bringing.

PS: I’m hoping y’all can help me figure out what to do with 24 medium-weight small circular bands, a.k.a. “booty bands“ by myself in my bedroom.

💻 MANY MORE
Drop-in Online Events

$0-25 online sessions.

Yes, recordings will be available for most events.

Aug 23:
🪀 Movement Toy Party
this one will not be recorded because, frankly, I'm not sure I'll want evidence of what goes down floating about the web.

Aug 26:
📚 Wriggle + Read
Part "finally get that reading done," part body time. A movement study hall!

A library/dance space with big windows. the dream.

Aug 28:
🐍 Spine Time
A spine-focused online drop-in Flowbility session.

Sep 1:
❤️‍🔥 The Floor is LOVER
Passionate floor flowing.

STAY CONNECTED:
Sign up for my event calendar here

⚡️ In-person Events:

Aug 15:
🏜️ Phoenix, AZ
Pole at Beautiful Bodies

Aug 24:
🩷 Va Beach, VA
Pole at Rio's Twisted Fitness

Aug 29:
🟣 NYC
Linger & Trace at the brand new Full Circle Harlem

Linger & Trace: Super sensuous pole practices banner image

Sep 3:
🟣 NYC
Pole Groove at Full Circle Brooklyn

pole groove: dance practices to help you move image

Sep 4:
🟣 NYC
partner dance games↓ (not pole)
Partner. Play. Dance.
An all-styes, all-levels, partner-based movement experience.

partner.play.dance. image disco cherries

Oct 4:
🟠 Philadelphia, PA
Pole at Awakenings
Registration opens soon

Oct 11-13
🔵 Boston, MA
Fly Together
The only Pole Flow Immersion in the US this year!

swirl. slide. slink. A weekend to drop IN to grounded & aerial pole.

↓ FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT MORE DANCE TRANCES n' such IN THEIR LIFE...
October 25-27
💛 Boulder, CO
꩜ Flow Zone Weekend (Registration opens soon)

Flow Zone yellow swirly surreal promo image — Three days of multi-genre fluidity play.
Floor. Pole. People.
Theatrics & the Unknown.

🗓️ STAY CONNECTED:
Sign up for my event calendar here

💀 Special Event for Anatomy Lovers

If you want to learn about the human body, nothing compares to this.

There are two spots left in my October human cadaver dissection group with KNMLabs at the Institute for Anatomical Research.

We will explore integral anatomy all day with experts like:

Leslie Kaminoff (author of Yoga Anatomy) Lauri Nemetz (author of The Myofascial System in Form and Movement)

Then at night, we will lounge in a newly-renovated Colorado Springs mountain-view mansion.

📧 Hit reply to learn more.

Ways we can work together:

🪩 Private coaching for your movement skills

🧜🏼‍♀️ Career mentorship for movement educators

🤩 So many floorwork and pole dance courses

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Marlo Fisken

🪀 Toy Party, you're invited

💀 Special Event for Anatomy Lovers

📞 1-900-Hip-Play (tomorrow)

a heap of new training ops

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