Pole retreats right in your backyard? We have that!
In-Studio Retreats + Intensives
You don’t need to travel halfway across the world for exceptional experiences that let you deep dive into the art and craft of creating buttery, beautiful pole flow.
We’ve got them right here.
We’ve tapped our talented instructor team to bring you affordable, luxurious, connection-centered intensives tailored to the specific styles or skills that you love the most.
Our teachers get to share their favorite concepts and flows. You get to learn what they’re most excited to teach you. In your favorite studio!
Plus, we’ll bring our pole friendships out into the real world to share great local food, outdoor adventures, and go out on the town together.
Previous Retreats:
Upcoming Retreats:
Retreats include workshops, group outings, shared meals, photoshoots, and opportunities to connect with fellow attendees!
Amy Bond / Tiffany Rose / Joshuah / Yoko Taketani / Sherman Yu / Atenea
July 23-26, 2026
Join us for four unforgettable days in the heart of San Francisco for pole, exploration, and community! This camp combines world-class workshops with our award-winning instructors at SF Pole + Dance with local adventures that showcase the best of the Bay Area.
You’ll enjoy 12 hours of pole, floorwork and flexibility instruction with our incredible instructors. Between classes, we’ll explore San Francisco’s iconic spots — skating at the Church of 8 Wheels, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, strolling through the Mission District’s famous murals, and picnicking at Dolores Park, which overlooks the whole city. Expect good food, good company, and plenty of laughter.
Shay / Cat / Iris Sparrow / Jena Lux / Amy Bond
August 13-16, 2026
Carve, slink, and slide your way through a gorgeous Portland summer vacay from August 13-16! This retreat offers it all for the heels lover: freestyle, edgework, choreography, flexibility and even a chair/pole hybrid workshop. In between, connect with your new friends while enjoying our favorites in Portland’s food scene, bookstores, epic vistas, and strip clubs. Cap off your trip and capture all the memories with a pole video shoot courtesy of the amazing Minerva Media!
Check out our schedule below!
Day 1: Flow Lab: Heels Edition freestyle workshop with Iris Sparrow, then dinner and hot tubbing at Amy Bond’s house to meet fellow attendees.
Day 2: Active Flexibility with Amy Bond, Drift State choreography workshop with Shay, Edgecraft workshop with Shay, then exploring Powell’s City of Books. Dinner hosted by Iris Sparrow, then visiting the Kit Kat Club, a renowned local strip club.
Day 3: Multnomah Falls trip with Amy Bond, lunch at Ranch Pizza, Chair + Chrome workshop with Cat, and Liquid Steel choreography workshop with Jena Lux.
Day 4: Pittock Mansion trip to view the epic Columbia Gorge vista, then a professional video shoot with Minerva Media!
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Upcoming Intensives:
Looking to finally understand how flexibility actually works in your body—not just copy stretches from the internet?
Spend a full 3-day weekend training with Micah Walters, a movement coach with 20+ years of experience in gymnastics, dance, yoga, and fitness. You’ll get a powerful mix of drills, technique, and nerdy-but-accessible theory so you know why each exercise works.
This three-day intensive runs from 2-5pm each day and covers full-body flexibility, backbends, and hip mobility. You won’t just be stretching all day, every day, either! Designed to appeal to everyone from beginning benders to contortion-level flexibility addicts, this intensive includes deep discussion of how your tissues respond to stretching. You’ll discuss fascia, the nervous system, active flexibility vs. passive flexibility, and how to structure your warmup for the best bending. Micah will explain how to understand the limits you feel when you stretch and how to work with those limits, and how to create a short, highly effective stretching practice that you can stick with.
Come be a tourist in your own city! After dancing our butts off, we’ll head out together to find hidden delights, classic must-see spots, and urban adventures.
Click the questions to the right to learn more about what’s included with your payment, what you’ll need to book separately, and all the fun excursions we’ve got planned!
The Details
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Retreats are a chance to learn, connect, and play! Our retreats usually include multiple workshops, group outings, organized meals, recommended local activities, and a meet and greet with fellow attendees. They’re about having a rich, holistic experience and meeting new friends.
Our intensives are for those who have a focused training goal and want a deep dive into specific material with a guest instructor. They usually include multiple workshops but don’t offer additional chances to connect with fellow attendees.
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Retreats:
12 hours of workshops in the local Pole + Dance studio
Planned group meals during excursions
Fees/costs for local outings (ie, entrance fees for parks, etc)
Intensives:
The full series of workshops with our guest instructor
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Flights
Accommodations
Alcohol purchases
Meals aside from planned group meals during excursions
Any additional outings or services you book during the retreat or intensive
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It depends on the retreat! Please be sure to read the prerequisites prior to booking. That said, exact workshop curriculum will be customized to the level of the individual retreat attendees.
Instructors at all our studios are trained to teach in a progressive nature, starting with the foundational aspect of the movement pattern and building levels of difficulty on top of that. We like to think of the progressions as bus stops; you can get off on the one that challenges you! -
There are many nice hotels in downtown Portland. Amy’s preference is The Nines though she prefers Airbnbs to PDX hotels. The retreat is in NW Portland so we recommend staying in either the Pearl District or NW/SW Portland generally.
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If you want to stay in a hotel by yourself, we recommend staying at either at Found Hotel Carlton in Nob Hill (for budget accommodations) or at the W hotel, close to Embarcadero BART station (for luxury accommodation).
If you would prefer to rent an Airbnb with other people, we will pair you up with other pole camp attendees within one month of booking - just let us know! Whether you book a Airbnb with other people or alone, we recommend booking Airbnbs in the mission District, Hayes Valley, And Noe Valley neighborhoods to stay in safe, fun, vibrant neighborhoods that are close to the studio in Soma district.
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Due to the limited nature of the slots available for booking, we do not offer refunds for purchased retreat slots.
If you need to cancel your booking more than 90 days before the retreat, we can offer you a credit toward a future retreat, less a $200 cancellation fee.
If you need to cancel your booking within 90 days of the retreat, we can apply a 50% credit toward a future P+D retreat.
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